Concerning the Term: Sacraments (2)

Those of our readers, who did not do like the Scotchman referred to in our former instalment on this subject, will remember, no doubt, that we now stand in our discussion of the term Sacraments (sacramentum) before two questions. They are: 1. How is it to be explained, that our fathers began to speak of Holy (Baptism and the Lord’s Supper as Sacraments, since the term Sacraments nowhere ap­pears in the Scriptures, and since this term already had received a very paganistic content and color?...