"No one can understand the 'comforting and highly necessary' article of faith regarding the church, as the Apology calls it, who does not know that the fellowship of the church is a fellowship with the saints of all the millennia. There is not only a spatial, but also a temporal, catholicity of the church. The Lutheran Confessions speaks of this where it confesses the faith and the doctrine of the church of the fathers, the faith of the apostolic church and the doctrinal decisions of the ancient councils. This consensus of the church not only binds together the living, but also the living generation of those who have believed and confessed before us."
Hermann Sasse
(Translated by Matthew C. Harrison and printed in Mysteria Dei - Essays in Honor of Kurt Marquart)
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