VIII–IX. Authority of the Creed
VIII. The authority of the Apostles' Creed is considered either as it was from the beginning, or as it was later explained on the occasion of diverse heresies.
IX. The authority of the Creed as it was from the beginning is altogether divine and equal to the other canonical Scriptures, for it is immediately from Jesus Christ our Savior (Matt. 28:19). Among juniors Luther, Melanchthon, Erasmus, Bullinger, Calvin, Chytraeus, Hemmingius, Ursinus, Olevianus, Piscator, Perkins, Alsted, and others have piously and learnedly expounded the sense of the articles.
CHAPTER ELEVEN follows, On the sacraments in general.
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VIII. Auctoritas symboli Apostolorum consideratur vel illius quod fuit a principio, vel illius quale postmodum occasione diversarum haeresum explicatum est. IX. Symboli quod fuit a principio auctoritas est prorsus divina & reliquis canonicis scripturis aequalis. Nam immediate est a Jesu Christo Servatore nostro, Matth. 28:19. Sensum articulorum fidei pie docteque enarrarunt e junioribus Lutherus, Melanchthon, Erasmus, Bullingerus, Calvinus, Chytraeus, Hemmingius, Ursinus, Olevianus, Piscator, Perkinsus, Alstedius, alii. CAPUT UNDECIMUM sequitur, De sacramentis in genere.