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Lehre und Wehre (Vol. LXXVI)
Magazin fuer Ev.-Luth. Homiletik (Vol. LIV)
Theol. Quarterly (1897-1920)-Theol. Monthly (Vol. X)
Vol. II October, 1931 No. 10
CONTENTS
Page
FUERBRINGER, L.: Dr. F. Pieper als Theolog. 721
DAU, W. H. T.: Dr. Francis Pieper the Churchman ...... 729
ARNDT, W.: Paul as Citizen ... '" .. . ...... '" ... " .. 736
KRETZMANN, P. E.: Wann und wie kam Luther ZUl' Er-
kenntnis del' Wahrheit? .......... . 747
KRETZMANN, P. E.: The Inspiration of the New Testa-
ment ........ . 754
LAETSCH, TH.: Dr. Pieper als Prediger .................. 761
Dispositionen ueber die von del' Synodalkonferenz ange-
nommene Serie alttestamentlicher Texte............... 771
Theological Observer. - Kirchlich-Zeitgeschichtliches. . . . .. 777
Book Review. - Literatur. . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . .. 793
Ein Prediger muss nicht allein weide1lJ
also dass er die Schate unterweise, wie
sie rechte Christen sollen sein, Bondern
auch daneben den Woelfen wehren, dass
Bie die Schafe nieht angreifen und mit
falscher Lehre verfuehren und Irrtum ein·
fuehren. - Luther.
Es ist kein Ding, daB die Leute mehr
bei der Rirche ber..a::;lt d~nn die g'.lte
Predigt. - Apologie, Art. !4.
If the trumpet give an uncertain sound,
who shall prepare himself to the battle?
1 Oor. 4,8.
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754 The Inspiration of the New Testament.
The Inspiration of the New Testament.
(Oonclusion. )
Our fourth reason for accepting the inspiration of the New
Testament on a level with the Old Testament is found in the internal
evidence offered by references to earlier writings in the later books
of the first century, that is, those contained in the convolute of the
New Testament as we now have it, as well as those which indicate
that letters or treatises were to be kept, thus acquiring canonical
standing in the Ohurch. To begin with the latter point first, we
have such passages as Luke 1, 1--4, in which the writer expressly
makes the claim that his gospel would give men the certainty of the
things in which they had been instructed, that is, in the way of
salvation. In 1 Thess. 5,27 the Apostle Paul charges the recipients
of the letter that it should be read to. all the holy brethren; and in
001. 4, 16 he writes: "When this epistle is read among you, cause that
it be read also in the church of the Laodiceans," words which clearly
indicate that he intended his message to have authority, not only
among the congregations to which his individual letters were imme-
diately addressed, but among other Ohristians as well. The conten-
tion repeatedly made, in these later days especially by Deissmann,
that the New Testament letters are mere Gelegenheitsschriften, is not
borne out by a close study of the writings themselves. - An interest-
ing passage is 1 Tim. 5, 18, where St. Paul writes: "For the Scrip-
ture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn;
and, The laborer is worthy of his reward." Now, the first of these
quotations is clearly taken from the Old Testament, from Deut. 25, 4.
But the second is not found in that form anywhere in the corpus of
the acknowledged Scripture of the Old Testament. It is found, how-
ever, in Luke 10, 7, and we are practically obliged to conclude, both
that the gospel of Luke was in existence before the year 64 or 65 and
that it had the standing of "Scripture" among the early Ohristians,
specifically in the eyes of Paul. Just as important in this connec-
tion is the passage J as. 4, 5. 6: "Do ye think that the Scripture saith
in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy? But He giveth
more grace. Wherefore He [or it,· for the antecedent may well be
the Scripture] saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto
the humble." The first quotation seems to be a free restatement of
Gal. 5, 17, which alone would be valuable enough in this connection;
but the second offers the thought of Matt. 23, 12 as contained literally
in 1 Pet. 5, 5, a fact which clearly points to the use of earlier books
of the New Testament by later writers. We have an an