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. . (t!nurnr~iu IDqtnlngirul 4nut41y Continuing Lehre und Wehre (Vol. LXXVI) Magazin fuer Ev.-Luth. Homiletik (Vol. LIV) Theol. Quarterly (1897-1920) -Theol. Monthly (Vol. X) Vol. II February, 1931 No.2 CONTENTS PIEPER, F.: Dr. Friedrich Bente ........................ . MUELLER, J. T.: Atheistic Propaganda in Our Country KRETZMANN, P. E.: Das Schicksal der letzten Koenige Judas .................................................. . KRETZMANN, P. E.: The Last Twenty-five Years of Page 81 87 95 Peter's Life ............................................ 105 LAETSCH, TH.: Sermon Study on 1 Cor. 1, 21-31.. . . . .. 115 Dispositionen ueber die von der Synodalkonferenz ange- nommene Serie alttestamentlicher Texte............... 124 Theological Observer. - Kirchlich-Zeitgeschichtliches ...... 131 Book Review. - Literatur .................................. 151 Ein Prediger muss nicht allein weiden, also dass er die Schafe unterweise, wie sie rechte Christen 80llen sein, 80ndem auch daneben den Woelfen wehr(J1l, dass sie die Schafe nicht angreilen und mit falscher Lehre verfuehren und Irrtum ein· fuehren. - Luther. Es ist kein Ding, das die Leute mehr bei der Kirche behaelt denn die gute Predigt. - Apologie, Art. 24. If the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle Y 1 Cor. 4,8. Published for the Ev. Luth. Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States CONCORDIA PUBLISHING HOUSE, St. Louis, Mo . II Atheistic Propaganda in Our Country. 87 llBod ex fo meiftetIidj gefefjd unb fo fiegreidj betieil:ligt ljat. Unb fein f±etoHdjet Eew witb xuljen, ban er auferf±elje am @:nbe bet ~age mit allen feligen st!inbetn ®otte£i in Sh:aft unb s)errIidjteit. llBir aOet oetragen in feinem s)ingang ben metIuft eine£i gronen Ecljtct£i, eine~ ljettIidjen jffiedseuge~ ®otte~, eine~ oewiHjt±en mufer~ im @Streit unb cine~ suoediiffigen Un±erweifer?, unfeter ±ljeologifdjen ~ugenb unb oitten an feinem @Sarge unfern Heoen ®ott, ban et Tort< faljten wolle, un?, !l3rofefforen oU neoen, Die mit 5treue unb ~IeiB unfere ±ljeoLogifdje ZSugenb un±erridj±en, bamit audj oei unfern iIlacl)fommen Die teine Eeljre unb \Betenntni~ be£l ®Iauoen£l oi£l auf bie ljerrfidje 8utunft unfer~ einigen @:rG.ifer?, unb @Sengmadjer~ ZS@:fu ~ljtifti burdj s)Hfe unb !Beiftanb be£i s)ciIigen ®dftc?' etljaHen unb fortge~fLanst werben moge. ~men. ~ie ±ljeorogifdje ~tlieit be~ (!;ntfdjlafenen iff bon foldjer \Bebeutung fUt unfere @S~nobe, fUr Die ganse [utljerifdje st!irdje, ja fiir Die ganse djriftHdje st!irdje, baB e~ am !l3Ia:l;}e ift, barauf nodj weiterljin surilcfau< lommen. ~. !l3 i e j.J e r. Atheistic Propaganda in Our Country. Dreary though it may be, the subject of atheistic propaganda in our country nevertheless demands conscientious study, especially by our pastors and all who are directly interested in the young people of our Church in order that ways and means may be round to safe- guard their spiritual welfare, in particular while they are attending colleges and universities. Only a short time ago we were horrified by the blasphemies or agnostic Modernists. To-day, however, we are facing a foe that is even more treacherous and pel'llicioU8. Modernism, with all its vagaries, at least endeavored to preserve some kind of religion and respect for God. But to-day an extreme type of atheism is attempting to destroy altogcther even the semblance of religion which Modernism has left. Its slogan is: No God and no religion whatever. This type of atheism is aggressively militant and employs the most effective weapons that can be found. To prove this statement, we shall publish in toto an article from the Sunday-school Times (October 18, 1930), which, under the heading "Atheism, Indecency, and the Magazines," offers the following startling news: - "The American colleges and universities were founded and cn- dowed chiefly by 011l'istian men as a basis for a Ohristian civilization. They have become nurseries of unbelief. The great publishing houses were of similar origin. Macmillan's was established by the Scotch Baptists, Harper's by Irish Methodists, Scribner's by Presbyterians, 88 Atheistic Propaganda in Our Country. the Oentury Oompany by New England Oongregationalists, Hough- ton, Miffiin by Methodists, and Funk and Wagnalls by Lutheran clergymen. How far at least some of them have slipped from the Ohristian point of view and Ohristian ideals can be quickly determined by a glance at their price lists 01' a cursory study of their magazine pu bHca tions. "In the Forum of March, Harpel' and Brothers, under the cap- tion of 'Man's Unending Battle against God,' advertised a coming article in Harper's Magazine. This is what the advertisement says of it: 'Many honest, thoughtful people are wandering -lost - in the debatable ground where the frontiers of science, religion, and morals meet. To all readers blcssed with inquiring minds, Elmer Davis's God without Religion will come as a revelation of integrity of thought, combined with lofty spiritual force. Mr. Davis's bold plea to discard the l'eligion that deceives us for our own comfort is an inspiration to the reader. It represents, moreover, the kind of reading that Ha1'per's Magazine gives you each month.' "Too true! What would Mr. Davis do? In his article in Ha1'pe/s for March, 1930, he writes that 'the bulk of the old-time religion is ineredible.' 'The Fall-and-Atonement drama, which is the core of traditional Ohristianity, has had to go overboard,' he tells us. 'The code of conduct that had been unwisely tied to an obsolescent theology fell with it; unless men lose heart and surrender themselves to the bishops, that particular Humpty-Dumpty [i. e., Ohristian ethics] can never be put together again.' 'There is no evidence of a God who pitieth His children. There may be forces in the universe friendly to man, hut the evidence is as yet unconvineing'. The whole seems at best indifferent, sometimes actively hostile; we slla11 get only what we fight for, and not all of that. The business of man is one long endeavor to thwart the will of God, that is, to correct the abuses and evils in God's world.' "And what about the individual? 'He is not worth tronbling about,' says Shapley [the Harvard astronomer], 'except as he eon- tributes by deed, thought, or progeny to the survival of the species .... Salvation, if any, is for the race. The individual who has so much ego in his cosmos that he demands it for himself had better sell his mind to the bishops, who will give him a gilt-edged assurance of eternal life.' And so on for eight 01' ten pagos! The American As- sociation for tlle Advancement of Atheism could ask for nothing more satisfaotory. "SC1'ibner's Jlfagazine, not to be outdone, publishes an article in the June [1930] issue by Henshaw Ward entitled 'The Disappearance of God.' This writer points out without apparent regret that 'it is tho friends of God who have made God incredible.' By the 'friends of God' he means professors in various theological seminaries whom he Atheistic Propaganda in Our Country. 89 quotes, such as Prof. G. 13. Smith of thc University of Ohicago, Prof. E. S. Ames, Prof. Doug'las O. Mackintosh of Yale, the former Baptist minister Dr. J. H. Randall. Mr. ~Ward calls attention to a 'collection of testimoniesgathel'ed by a man who was once a Baptist minister in Texas and is now an editor of the Ohristian Oentury. After I have read it, I can think of nothing' but the massacre of God that is being made by the best religious thought of the day.' This includes 'the God of fifteen well-known thinkcrs.' lIe later speaks of these men as an 'eminent band of specialists,' whose majority vote is that the God to whom I once said 'Now I lay me' has disappeared. "Turning to tho F01'1on, one finds a continuous flow of anti- christian essays. Some of these arc printed under the title of 'What I Believe,' the belief being in most instances a repudiation of Ohris- tian theism and the Ohristian rovelation. H. G. Wells, in the August [1930J issue, concludes llis llalJer with an appropriate 'Vanity of Vanities.' He says that we are 'face to face with the ultimate frustra- tion of every individual desire in age, enfeeblement, and death.' His only comfort is that, when we die, 'we shall never know that we are dead.' "Sir Arthur Keith wrote in the April Forum that he had come of a Ohristian home in Abcrdeenshire. Darwinism landed him in atheistic materialism. 'By the absorption of this new knowledge my youthful creed was smashed to atoms. My personal God, the Oreator of heaven and earth, melted away. The desire to pray -not the need - was lost, for one cannot pray to an abstraction.' For the peace of God Sir Arthur Keith thinks he has found a Stoic substitute. He tells us that he has 'an urgent craving' for immortality. That longing, which lies at the root of the Ohristianreligion, I look UpOll as a sin of the ilesh - one to b~l conquered and suppressed.' Such a suppression, instead of bringing consternation or despondency, gives 'a peace which only those who have felt it can l'ealize.' The apostle insisted that for those who had lost the resurl)ection hope naught remained but to cat, drink, and wait for death. Keith differs. 'If men believe, as I do, that this proseilt earth is the only heaven, they will strive all the more to make heaven of it.' Oertainly they ought to for logic's sake, but do thcy? "Then comes Prof. :[ohn Dewey, who has scrapped the idea of God. This with the related ideas of the soul and its destiny, of fixed revelation, and the lik(), has 'made it impossible for the cultivated mind of tho 'vVestcl'll world.' Dewey seems to regret this in a way, for with these spiritual losses has gone, too, the older 'philosophy of hope, of progTess,' and no 'new, coherent view of nature and man' has yet been discovered. "Mr. :l\Iol1cken's reasoned 'belief' is given in the September FOI'1£fn. lIe holds that the discoveries of Oopernicus proved that 'the 90 Atheistic Propaganda in Our Country. so-called revelation of God as contained in the Old Testamcnt was rubbish'; that the authors of the New Testament were ignorant and credulous men, who 'put togethcr a narrative that is as discordant and preposterous . . . as the testimonies of flix darkies in a police court.' So low has the Forum sunk! A future lifc is to Mr. :M:encken an absurd concept, for which there is as little evidence as for witches. He believes that religion is done for in America. 'Alone among the great nations of history we have got rid of Teligion as a seTious scourge - and by the simple pTocess of reducing it to a petty nuisance.' "James TTuslow Adams, wTiter of history, tells us in the Forum for May and June that he is not a member of any'Church and that he intensely dislikes Paul. Rut he feels the need of somc protection against tlle brcaking dikes. He thinks therefOl'e we should hold to Christ and Marcus Aurelius until a greater teachcr shall arise, not because of any confidence in the Bible, but because these two 'synthetized the moral experience of the race up to their own times.' ... This at least is faulty history. So also is an cxcursus Mr. Adams makes into present-day church history. 'The moral and social degra- dation of the Pacific races is,' Jle solemnly tells us, 'due largely to the insistence of the white man and his missionaries upon a too sudden change in the moral beliefs and codes of the natives.' Obviously he has never heard of Hall Young and Sheldon Jackson. "The latest novelty in the Forum is a serics of estimates by various writers in the public eyc of the twelve greatest dates in human history. Hendrilc Willem Van Loon leads off in the September issue. Van Loon's first date is 2200 B. C., when Hammurabi formulated his Code of Law. vVhy ~ Because 'without him Moses, ten centuries later, would never have been able to present his followers with those Ten Commandments which became the ultimatc standard of conduct for the Western World.' The fifth date is the birth of Christ. Mr. Van Loon believes He was the son of Joseph and Mary. 'I need waste no words,' 11e writes, 'upon the importance of this occurrence. Were it not for the strictly formulated ethical code of the young Syrian prophet, ... the Roman Empire would probably have survived much longer, for it was the deterioration from within which followed upon the pacifist teachings of Jesus that, quite as much as anything else, allowed the barbarians to destroy this immensely strong' bulwark of civjlization.' And ~Ir. Van Loon professes to teach history in an American college I "These extracts are perhaps sufficient to classify certain maga- zines as purveyors of atheism, magazines that go into college reading- rooms, Y. M. C. A.'s, public libraries, and American homes. But there is another phase equally dark. There are certain things which the apostle insisted should not be once named among you as saints. The Atheistic Propaganda in Our Country. 91 magazines are following the current mode of shouting them out from roof-tops. There is an old Jewish professor dying of cancer of the tongue in Vienna. It is he who has set the cancerous tongues a-wagging' in tlw psychology courses of our colleges during the past decade, the graduates of which are now displaying their psycho- analytical wisdom in the magazines. It is not desirable to quote from the numerous notes taken. The FMum for May llad an article, 'Polygamous Women,' which ought to drive the Forum from the tables of all Christian homes. Scribner's gives entry in its pages to a woman whom it describes as a 'daring writer.' Certainly thc ad- jective is quite as applicable to the editor and circulating manager; for such articles, not many years ago, would have cost the magazine thousands of subscribers; perhaps they do even to-day. A publica- tion that discusses without circumlocution perversities of the 'Cities of the Plain type' should be subjected to a rain of fire by indignant readers. "Naturally those who write, and those who publish, articles em- broidered with Freudian allusions resent restriction, and one is not surprised to find in SCl'ibne1"s a sCUl'rilous account of the life-work of Anthony Comstock. Mr. Comstock, no douht, made mistakes and had his limitations, but he was a man of courage, who faced death in behalf of public deccncy. To hold up such a man to puhlic ridicule but disgraces both wI'iter and publisher. Those who believe in clean living will not soon forget the unchivalrous article 'Comstock Stalks' in Scribne1·Js for April." We have reprinted the article in full because it affords tlw reader an excellent insight into the kind of pabulum which our "best" high- brow magazines are offering their subscribers. As the Sttnday-school Times observes, they have become purveyors of atheism and of the perversities of Sodom. The harm they do is all the greater since they, because of their former reputation as superior periodicals, enter our homes, public libraries, church libraries, colleges, universities, etc. Many readers who harbor an incomparable dislike for the pulp maga- zines with their blood-and-thunder-stories, their lewd and perverse sex cmphasis, and their other glaring faults and vices win not hesitate to study and place into the hands of theil' friends and families these so-called "better journals." Aggressive atheism certainly made a wise move wlwn it engaged in its vicious service the magazines which hitherto have enjoyed so enviable a reputation. It is high time for our pastors, teachers, and guardians of the young people to acquaint themselves with what these magazines offer their constituents and to find out how many of their young people are reading them. Unless we know what our young poople read, we shall never understand their temptations and doubts, nor shall we be able properly to wal'll and enlighten them with regard to the difficulties arising from their 92 Atheistic Propaganda in Our Country. destructive reading-matter. In order to discover this, it is not neces- sary for the pastor to subscribe for the various mag'azines in question since excellent "digests" of their contents may be obtained in the periodical markets. However, the matter is much worse than the foregoing article suggests. In a previous number the Sunday-school Times had pub- lished a news item under the heading "The American Anti-Bible Society." The item reads: - "The American Bible Society is in the old Bible House on Fourth Avenue. Not far away, on East Fourteenth Street, is the AmOl'ican Anti-Bible Society. 'If it's against the Bible, we have it,' is the an- nouncement of this 'Headquarters for Anti-Biblical Litcrature.' 'Oatalog Free on Request.' - The legal representative of the Soviet gov'ernment in the United States sought incorporation for this society. The spirit of Moscow is seen in the announced purposes of the society: to bar the Bible from the public school; to dislodge it from the guest- rooms in hotels; to discourage its use at governatorial and Presi- dential inaugurations; to remove it from the witness stand; to check and ultimately stop its unsolicited distribution among soldiers, sea- men, patients, and prisoners; and to counteract the work of societies circulating it as the Word of God. "'The American Anti-Bible Society,' we are told, 'offcrs a broad platform, upon which Modernists, higher critics, Unitarians, evolu- tionists, rationalists, freethinkers, agnostics, and atheists may unite to discredit the Bible as an infallible book. . .. Liberals of cvery shade are eligible for membership.) These people desire 'the names and addresses of students preparing for the ministry. Oopies of current catalogs of preacher factories will be gladly received.' This is obviously a move to break down or remove the future leadership of the Ohurch. They continue: 'Most denominational schools are hot- beds of heresy, as it is impossible for an educational institution to maintain any degree of dignity without teaching evolution. Higher criticism produces slceptic8. Whoever accepts evolution should stop preaching Ohristianity. The descendants of apes don't need a Savior. Ohristmas is more and more being celebrated without reference to Jesus.' The call is sounded to establish forums wherever possible (that is, wherever atheism can be popularized). It is noticeable that among the vice-presidents of the :Freethinkers of America are Prof. Ellen Hayes of Wellesley and Prof. H. E. Barnes of Smith. Both collcges were founded by Ohristians with specifically Ohristian purposes." So fur the quotation. Let the reader subject the contents to a close scrutiny in order that he may fully understand the far-reaching influence which this ungodly society hopes to attain. For here is the center of the aggressive atheistic movement which now confronts Atheistic Propaganda in Our Count~·y. 93 Ohristianity in our country and which evidently has its origin in Moscow. The fertile field which the atheistic blasphemies find at our public institutions of learning is well shown by the following news item clipped from the SundcLy-school Times (September 13, 1930). We read: "I recently talked with a judge of the United States Oircuit Oourt who had just gone back to his alma mater for a visit, the first since his graduation. He was received as an honored guest, a famous 'old grad,' and was made to feel at home. He spoke a few words in the assembly, words of faith and trust. After the assembly he dropped into a science class and was in time to hem' the professor make some facetious remarks about 'the old fossil who had talked in chapel.' The professor's remarks were so well received by the class that he felt encouraged to go 011, and he sneered at the virgin birth of Jesus Ohrist, called Him a martyr who died for a foolish ideal, scoffed at His resurrection, and l'ud(~ly jested about His return, The old judge rose in indignation to defend the Lord Jesus, and the class jeered him to silence, He said he was so amazed that he went on a tour of investigation and found that the 'faith, manners, and morals' of the student-body were gone." Similar rcports of the spread of atheism in our colleges and universities appeal' quite frequently in the relig- ious press and prove the perils to which all are Bubject who attend the schools of our country. The consideration of this dreary topic, of course, raises the ques- tion, What can the individual pastor do to safeguard the youth of his church? In answering this query, we do not intend to attempt an extensive reply, Oonditions differ so much in the various parts of our country that much will depend on the pastor's own initiative, But in general, we believe, the following points deserve attention, First of all, tho ministry to-day calls for greater watchfulness on the part of the pastor, If ever, the minister of to-day must be a shepherd of his flock, a true Seelsorge1', who endeavors to find out what his young people are doing, and especially, what they are read- ing, The ministry of the Gospel has always been difficult, but it is more difficult to-day because the attacks of Satan are so multiform and insidious, For this reason the pastor must first of all wateh over -the souls entrusted to his spiritual care. In the sec~nd place, the pastor must have personal contact with his young people, especially with those who are attending schools where atheistic influence may be suspected. For such contact our Walther League has paved the way and affords excellent opportunities, which no conscientious pastor dare neglect. No matter how busy he may be, he ought never to leave the direction and supervision of the societies of his parish to others, This is especially true of the in- struction in doctrine which they receive, Wherever Bible classes 94 Atheistic Propaganda ill Our Country. exist, these deserve the vastor's own attention, and it ought not to be delegated to anyone else, since in the final analysis the pastor is responsible for the wel:fare of his young people. Again, theI'e must be adequate indoctriltation, especially in such congregations as are exposed to atheistie propaganda. Sometimes those very things which we prcsnppose most are least understood by our people. If Luther had to continue the study of the Oatechism during his whole life, how much more ought our people to do so, as they are surrounded by so many foes of the Ohristian faith! Such fundamental doctrines as the inspiration of the Bible, the deity of Ohrist, His vicarious atonement, the Biblical plan of salvation, the doctrine of justification by faith, thc Ohristian Ohurch, heaven and hell, the means of grace, the Ohristian life, etc., must never be neglected, but treated again and again from different points of view, so that the young people become thoroughly familial' with them. In addition to this the pastor may also, as time permits, treat such special topics of Ohristian apologetics as the present-day propaganda of atheism makes necessary, showing how the enemies of divine truth pervert history, misrepresent facts, and blaspheme the Oln'istian faith because in the end their animosity against the Word of God flows from their hatred of God Himself. Russia to-day supplies us with a startling illustration of what atheism is and what it accomplishes where it is free to do as it pleases. From conditions prevailing there the pastor may draw a graphic picture of what our own country will be if the American Association for the Advancement of Atheism suc- ceeds in its nefarious objective. Let our young people learn also that atheism has always attacked the Ohurch and boasted of ridding the world of God, but that Ohristianity continued by the power of God, while unbelief destroyed itself by its own folly and fury. Atheism is willing to devote time and money to the destruction of the faith of our youth. Should we pastors, to whom God has entrusted those whom His Son has purchased with His blood, not con- sem'ate our time and strength to the preservation of their faith ~ What we need to-day is more time for private study, for our sermons, for the indoctrination of our people, and for that personal contact with the doubting and the tempted and the weak in faith which our own beloved Savior employed so advantageously. When the wolves are endangering the flock, the shepherd dal'e not sleep. Just how he must meet the wolves depends largely on his own ingenuity and the circumstances under which he labors. Only let him watch and pray and testify I The rest God will providc as the conscientious minister applies himself faithfully and diligently to his holy task. In conclusion we may caU attention to foul' "do's" which Dr. L. S. Keyser in llis helpful little work A System of Ohristian Evidence Bug'gests with regard to tlw right treatment of doubters. His direc- 95 tions are as follows: "1. Treat them kindly. If you would win some to the Ohristian faith, you must be winsome. 2. If you can, convince them by sound reason. Perhaps you can thus remove some of tlleir intelleotual difficulties. . .. Only we must be careful not to usurp the office of the Holy Spirit, who alone can regenerate the soul and give assurm{ce of truth. 3. Let your dominant motive be to win them to the truth. ':1:. Pray earnestly for doubters." It is well for us to observe these points, f01' sometimes we easily become impatient, as the fruit is slow in ripening. From our Savior's method of spiritual warfare we may learn also the strategy which the present new foe of aggressive atheism makes imperative. JOHN THEODORE MUELLER. @j§ iff ein oemerfen§11letier unb ocoeidjnenber l1nterf djieb atuif djen liio£ifdjer ®efdjidjie unb lj3rofangefdjidjtc. ~ie in ber ~emgen @5djrift ent~aHenen ~iftorien finD eo ipso ablofute )fiaf)rljcit, tuiiljrenb aUe ®e~ fdjidjtf djreioung aunerljalo ber @5djrift relatibe lffialjr~eit ift. l1ttb tuenn in tuertricljen @5\'ljtiftfteUern fidj @"::ri\iiljfungen bon ffiegebniffcn j1nben, bie auclj in ber @5djrift cniljarten finb, fo finb biefe nUt in bem ®tabe aI§ unliebingie lffialjrfjeit anauneljmen, in tucfdjem fie mit bem @5cljrift~ tebt ftimmen. ~(nbeterfeit§ ljaben aUe gefdjidjtridjen )tatfadjen, bie ur" fprUngHdj in einem menf djHcljen ®efdjiclji§tuetf au finben tuaren unb hann bon ben ~etfaffern bet fjiftorifdjen mUeget ber @5djrift mitauf~ genommen wUtbcn afi3 ein ~eH be§ inflJirieden ~ebte§, elien burdj bicfe 2!ufnafjme ben @5tempe! bet boUen )fiafjtfjeit erljarten. ~ie§ girt a. ffi. bon ben lJeireffenben ~pifoben im "muclj bon ben @5treiten bei3 ~@jrtn", 4.9.nof. 21, 14, im "ffiud) be§ ~rommen", ~of.10, 12-14, im "mud) be§ @5eljer§ ®ab", 1 [fjron. 29, 29, unb bon bie!en anbern @5teUcn, fonbetriclj im 2!r±en ~eftament. @5obal1lt finb abet audj mit ben in ber ~emgen @5djrift aUfgeaeidjneten gefdjidjtndjen @"::reigniffen Iiefonbete, bon ®ott in±enbtede .2eljren berounben. lffiiiljtenb e§ tuafjt ift, ban bie IDSege unb ®eridjte ®nttei3 im aUgemeinen audj aU§.! ber lj3tofangefcljid)te erlannt werben {onnen, f 0 ljaben wit bodj in beaug aUf hie @5djrift bie aUi3btiictndje (§tWhung ®otte§, ban ba§, "tua§.! aubor gefdjrieiJen ift, uni3 aur .2e()te gefdjtieben ift", mom. 15,4, WO baiil )fiott (faa eben arr~ gemein genug ift, famtliclje )teHe befJ 2!r±en ~eftameng mHeinau~ fdjUeBen, fotuie ba§ "aUe @5cljrift, bOil ®o±t eingegeoen", 2 ~im. 3, 16, tuoran bel: Ungfauoe l:letgebficlj gerilttert fjat, bcnn feine metuei§fraft riiBt ficlj eoen nidjt aofdjtuiidjen; bet 2!ufJbrucf na.<1a YQUrp11 ih6nY6V<1fOr; fteljt au getuartig bet. SDiefc ~alfacljen tteten bem ffiibefforfcljer mit oefonbetet @5tiide cnigegen in ben berfjiiHni§miiBig futaen meridjien Uoer bie leiJ±cn ~iinige