- Admittedly, Zinzendorf held the Augsburg Confession to be a suitable document of the Lutheran-Christian faith only if a "scalding sore" were poured over it (as he expressed it in his repulsive terminology). Because his language, which dissolves ideas in a sloppy brew, has an even worse effect than the "christo-turpentine" so wretched in the writing of F. Thomas Vischer (see his polemics on the Munich "christo-turpentines"), to read him is an act of penitence.
