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Augsburg Confession

The chief confession presented at Augsburg in 1530.

Augsburg Confession

Article XVII: Of Christ’s Return to Judgment

Concordia Triglotta, 1921 English text

1 Also they teach that at the Consummation of the World Christ will appear for judgment, and

2 will raise up all the dead; He will give to the godly and elect eternal life and everlasting joys,

3 but ungodly men and the devils He will condemn to be tormented without end.

4 They condemn the Anabaptists, who think that there will be an end to the punishments of condemned men and devils.

5 They condemn also others who are now spreading certain Jewish opinions, that before the resurrection of the dead the godly shall take possession of the kingdom of the world, the ungodly being everywhere suppressed.