But our opponents, clever men that they are, pick out garbled sentences to put something over on the inexperienced. Then they add something from their own opinions. It is necessary to consider passages in their context, because according to the common rule it is improper in an argument to judge or reply to a single passage without taking the whole law into account. When passages are considered in their own context, they often yield their own interpretation.
-- Apology of the Augsburg Confession, Quatro Edition, Article IV, Paragraph 280 translated in The Book of Concord the Confessions of the Evangelical Lutheran Church. ( ed. Theodore G. Tappert;Philadelphia: Mühlenberg Press, 1959), 149.