Surely there is no interpreter of Jesus Christ's words as faith and sure as the Lord Christ Himself. He understand best His words and His heart and opinion. He is the wisest and most knowledgeable for explaining them. He does not use allegory to make His last will and testament and His ever-abiding covenant and union. He does not use allegory elsewhere in presenting and confirming all articles of faith, and in the institution of all other signs of the covenant and of grace or Sacraments (e.g., circumcision, the various offerings in the Old Testament, and Holy Baptism). He does not use allegorical words, but entirely proper, simple, believable, and clear words. In order that no misunderstanding can take place, He explain them more clearly with the words, "Given for you," "shed for you." He also lets His disciples rest in the simple, proper sense, and commands them that they should teach all nations to keep what He had commanded them, the apostles.
~FSD, VII, 50-51
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