In the first place, our faith ought to lay hold on Christ as God and man in that nature by which He has been made our neighbor, kinsman, and brother.

Martin Chemnitz (November 9 1522 – April 8 1586) was an eminent second-generation Lutheran theologian reformer churchman and confessor. He is commemorated as a pastor and confessor in the Lutheran Service Book of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod on November 9.