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it in the shape in which it had actually been delivered, Melanchthon issued
the Confession both in German and Latin. The German was printed from
his own manuscript, from which the copy had been taken to be laid
before the Diet. It reached Augsburg, and was read and circulated there,
while the Diet was still in session. Melanchthon issued it expressly in view
of the fact that the unauthorized editions were not accurate.
The first authorized edition, the Editio Princeps, coming from the
hand of its composer, and presenting not only in the nature of the case the
highest guarantee for strict accuracy, but surrounded by jealous and
watchful enemies, in the very Diet yet sitting, before which it was read,
surrounded by men eager to mark and to exaggerate the slightest
appearance of discrepance, was received by Luther and the whole
Lutheran Church. Luther knew no other Augsburg Confession in the
German than this. It was received into the Bodies of Doctrine of the
whole Church. It appears in the Jena edition of Luther's works, an edition
which originated in the purpose of having his writings in a perfectly
unchanged form, and was
on abuses, also from this edition. The Unalt. Aug. Conf. New York, 1847, do. 1848. Phila. 1855, for the
Lutheran Board of Publication.--The Christian Book of Concord. New Market, 1851. Second edition revised, 1854.
The Confession was translated by Revs. A. and S. Henkel, for the first edition, and revised by C. Philip Krauth, P.
D., for the second.
D. Combined editions. Cf. Weber ii. 193-206. Köllner 351.
I. Latin. Fabricii Leodii: Harmonia Aug. Conf. Colon. 1573, Fol. It contains 1. A text claiming to be the
original. 2. The variata of 1542. 3. Various readings from the 4to edition of 1530, and the 8vo of 1531. Cf.
Corpus Reformat. xxvi, 225-229.-Corpus Doctrinae, Lips. 1563. 1. The Confess. of 1542. 2. The 8vo of 1531.
Translation: An Harmony of Confessions, Cambridge, 1586.
II. German. Chytrmeus: Historia (1580.) 1. The received text from the archives. 2. The text of the Editio
Princeps where it differs from the other.
III. German and Latin. Nothwendige Vertheidigung des Aug. Apffels. Leipz. 1619. 24-223. Editio princeps
of Latin, Textus recep. of the German. Reineccius 1708. Do. 1730. Walch 1750. Miiller 1848. Do. Tittmann 1830,
Editio princeps of both. TWOSTEN 1816. 1. ed. princ. of Latin and German. 2. German of the ordinary edition.
IV. Greek, Latin and German (Dolscii) ed. Reineccius, 1730.
E. Versified. -Augspurgisches Lehr-lied. The Doctrinal articles only. In Greek and Latin verse (Rhodomann)
1730. There is also an English versification of the Doctrinal Articles in the oldest Moravian Hymn Books.