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LEHRE UNO WEHRE
MAGAZIN F UER Ev.-LuTH. HOMILETIK
THEOLOGICAL QUARTERT Y-THEOLOGICAL MONTHLY
Vol. III February, 1932 No.2
CONTENTS
P��e
FUERBRINGER, L.: Gedacchtnisrede auf Dr. Geo. liIezger 81
DAU, W. H. T.: The Meaning of CRlvary in the Minds
of Modernists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
MAYER, E. A.: "DaB Wort sie sollen lassen stahn."... . 95
LAETSCH, TH.: Die Schriftlehre von del' Verstockung .. , 108
KRETZMANN, P. E.: Christi btellvertretende Genugmung
als dll,s wesentliche Moment in seinem Erloesungswerk 113
LAETSCH, TH.: Studies in Hosea 1-3" . . . . . . . . . . ,. . . . . 120
LAETSCH, TH.: In Memory of Prof. George Mezger, D. D. 127
Diopositionen ueber die zweite VOll del' Synodalkonferenz
angenommene Evangelienreihe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Miscel' 'Illen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Theological Observer. - Kil'chlich-Zeitgeschichtliches. . 140
Book Review. - Litemtur .. . . . . , ....................... , '" 152
ri. r .1i�er mu" nicht sHein weidtm.,
:11';0 d;JSS er die Schute untrrwcisc, wie
e .. :h t e Cbr:'iten BOU('fl in, oondern
RI1(; n�ot!n den Woclfen wcl,,"cn, dass
sie ,He S�1afe nicht angreifen und mit
falg ',,:( Lf"hre verfuehren und IT' tum ein
fuchrcn. - Luther.
Es 1st lein Dino::, das die Leutc mehr
bei drr liirc!le bch!lclt den die gute
PrnJi;!t. - Apolorit, Act. ?4.
If tIe truli pel- t,riv �n uncertain sound,
"'j, J .hal! prcpnrc himself to the b3ttle?
1 Cor. 11,. 8.
Published for the
Ev. Luth. Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States
CONCORDIA PUBLISHING IIOUSE, St. Louis, Mo.
152 Book Review. - mtet:atut.
Sj.olje &eljitUet filt dmififJe SHtifJettfiltften. S\)et ".2u±lj. ~etoIb" aitiett
~ bem "WpoIoge±en" eine mitteHung, bie audj flit ung ljietauIanbe bon
ZSntereffe fein biitfte. }[Sit Iefen: "mit ~tftaunen Heft man bon ben
@5aIiiten bet tomifdj~fatljoIifdjen Sfitdjenflitften im ljeu±igen annen S\)eu±fdj~
ranb. S\)et ~ifdjof bon Dgnalitiid ljat ein ZSaljreggeljar± bon 101,000 mad
($25,000), bet bon !ittiet bon 140,000 mad ($35,000), bet ~ifdjof bon
miinftet 154,000 mad ($38,500), bet g:iitf±fJifdjof bon ~teglau 192,000
mad ($48,000) unb bet ~tafJifdjof bon ~oln 194,000 mad ($48,500).
s\)ie ~etten ttJoljnen iljten !itHdn unb ~infommen gemiifl in g:iitf±enpaIiiften,
in gtoflem .2u~Ug unb maumiifJetfIufl. ~ei ung in Wmetifa finb bie !8et~
ljiir±niffe bet tomifdjen Sfitdjenflitften jebenfaI& fJebeutenb giinftiget aIg
in '~utopa, ttJo unenbIidj bid ttJeniget @elb ift aIg ljiet. s\)ie ljoljen tomi~
fdjen geiftIidjen ~etren ljafJen in Wmerifa untet auggiefJigem @efJtaudj beg
mabiog in bet Iet±en 3eit ttJiebetljor± ttJarnenb bie @5±imme etljofJen aUt
WnfIage ttJibet bie fJef~enbe ~Iaffe, bie im ftlietfIufl fdjttJerge, ttJiiljtenb bie
Wtmen faum ~tot ljafJen unb faum einen ~Iat, ttJo fie bM ~aup± niebet~
Iegen fonnen. s\)ie WnfIagen finb fJetedj±igt. ~Ut vetiiljten fie e±ttJag
fonbewat aug bem munbe getabe foIdjet ~etten." mom regiett nidj±
umfonf±. ZS. !it. m.
Book Review. - £itetlltUt.
David, King of Israel. By William M. Taylor, D. D., LL. D. Richard
R. Smith, Inc., New York. 443 pages, 7% X4%'. Price, $1.00. Order
from Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo.
This is one of the popular Taylor biographies, now reprinted in a new
edition as one of the Anvil Series of Dollar Religious Books. We have
always regarded Dr. William Taylor as a master hand at Bible biography;
and for an understanding of the Books of Samuel and their parallels as
well as for an appreciation of the background of the Davidic psalms we
know of no popular work of similar proportions which even approaches
this volume. At a time when David is pictured to us by modern biog-
raphers as an oriental sheik with all the paraphernalia of an oriental
harem, we can· best show our appreciation for such splendid books by
reading and assimilating their contents. W. A. MAIER.
!Jnnmn .2utljU. 5l)et j8a9nTJtecget djriftHdjer .l3ebensotDnung. ISdjtiften 3um
~ufbau ebangertfcget ISittltdjteit. [aHllet lSeteinsbuc99anblung, IStutt"
Gatt. 1931. 413 lSeiten 5 X 71'2, in .l3dnmanb mit 5l)ecfel" unb lRilcfentHel
gebunben. !l\reis: M. 5.
5l)ies ift nun fdjon bet 3meite j8anb bet bef onbeten ~usgabe aUs\1ema9!tet
!IDede .l3utgetS, fut bie @emeinbe bon geute bargeboten unb betbolmetfdjt, bie
mit ausfU9tltdjet im botigen ~a9tgang, im ~uguftgeft, IS. 634, befptodjen 9aben.
~udj 9iet finben mb; bie ISptadje .l3utgets bminfadjt unb in bie ISptadje bet
@egenmad ubedtagen, mogegen mit unf m j8ebenfen geautett 9aben; abet mit
finben audj gute S!::e!;tabteUungen mit paffenben ftbetfdjttften unb edlatenbe ~n"
metfungen, unb beibes ift bon nidjt geringem !IDett. 5l)en ein3elnen ISdjtiften
ift audj immet eine lSotbemetfung unb dne !J1adjbemedung beigegeben. 5l)ie
@5djttften, bie in biefem j8anbe bat\1eboten metben, ge90ten mit 3u ben metb
Book Review. - .\literatur. 153
bollften beutfdjen 5djriften .\lut~eriS, wie ber 5ermon lImon ben guten lilleden",
Die ,,~eutfdje ~uiSIegung beiS materunfed filr bie einfadjen .\laien", Die ,,~infadje
lilleife 3U beten filr einen guten trreunb", bie 5djriften lImon oRauf~anblung unb
'lilludjer", lImon welHidjer ,obrtgfeit", ",ob .!rriegiSleute audj in feligem 5tanbe
fein fonnen", ,,~n Die Utag~emn aller 5tante beutfdjen .\lanbe§, bafl fie djrifb
lidje 5djulen aufridjten unb ~aUen follen", ,,~afl eine djriftlidje merfammlung
ober @emeinbe Utedjt unb !madjt ~abe, aile .\le~re su urteilen", morrebe sum "Unter~
ridjt ber mifitatoren an Die !j:lfatt~men tm oRutfilrftentum 5adjfen" unb fdjltefllidj
"mon ber lSereitung 3um 5terben". ~ie '~u§ftattung ift muftergilrtig, ber !j:lreiiS
fe~r anne~mbar. .\l. tr il t b r i n g e r.
The Eastern Color of the Bible. By George H. Scherer, S. T. M.
Fleming H. Revell Company, New York. 122 pages, 4%,X7l;4,.
Price, $1.25.
The Bible is an Oriental book. While its message and appeal is
universal, its background is largely Palestinian. For the better under-
standing of the Scriptures, then, a wider and deeper appreciation of the
land and its people will prove invaluable. The author, the 9-eneral Sec-
retary of the Bible Lands Sunday-school Union for Christian Education,
has endeavored to present a popular summary of such background facts
with which the average Bible-reader is not familiar. Occasionally the
author goes too far. The Lord's Supper does not have the significance
of a blood covenant, as this term is technically understood by the author,
following in the footsteps of Robertson Smith. His explanation of Oriental
exaggeration is dangerous and leads him to explain the light that shone
from heaven on the Damascus road at midday as the summer glare of the
Oriental sun at noon. This is typical of the procedure in other sections.
W. A. MAlER.
g:lIrfdjungeu aUt @lefdjtdjte be~ neuteftamentHdjen Slaulln~ nub bet altfitdj=
Hdjen ~itetatut. BjerauiSgegeben bon :t ~ e 0 b 0 r ,8 a ~ n. VIII. %eit
Bjiftotif d)e 5tubien 3um Bjebriierbtief. ,8meite§ Bjeft: ~ i e fog e nan n ~
ten !m e ! dj i feb e f ian e r, mit Unterfudjung i~rer Ouellen aUf @e~
bnnfenin~n!t unb bogmengefdjidjHidje ~ntmicUung bargeftellt bon Bj e ! ~
m u t 5tod, lic. theol. ~. ~eidjettfdje met!ng§budj~nnblung (D.lillerner
5djoll), .\leiNig. 82 5eiten 6X9. !j:lreiiS: M.5.
~n Diefer ebenfo inteteffanten wie grl,inbltdjen unb ge!e~tten Unterfudjung
ift bnll !mnterin! aUf nmmengetrngen, ball fidj in ber altdjriftridjen .\literntut ilbet
bie fogennnnten !meldjifebefinnet finbet. ~et @elbmedjf!et :tgeobot, nm ~nbe
be§ aweiten ~agrgunberg !ebenb, bet begaulltete, !me!djifebef "fei eine fegt gtofle
.!hnft, er ftege ilbet jeber !mndjt unb fei grofler a!§ @;griftull" (5.26), gnt, foweit
wit wiffen, ben ~nfang gemndjt mit ben 51lefu!ntionen, um Die eiS fidj giet gnn~
belt unb Die biS tniS filnfte ~agrgunbert igre mertreter gatten. 9leben benen,
bie ba meinten, ,!meld)ifebef fei cine oRtnft @otteiS, gnb eiS .\leute, bie in igm ben
BjeHigen @eift (5. 35), nnbere mieber, bie in igm ben 50gn @ottell finben wollten
(5. 53). lillieber anbere fngten fur3meg, er fei @ott (5. 68), bniS geiflt, wit giitten
ign nf§ eine %geollgnnie nn3ufegen. ~Ile biefe merirrungen nngmen igren ~uiS~
gnng bom 7 . .!rnllitel beiS BjebriierbriefiS, mo Die lillorte, mleldjifebef fei ogne mater,
ogne !mutter, ogne @efdj!edjt unb gnbe weber ~nfnng ber %nge nodj ~nbe bes
.\lebenll, morHidj gebeutet wurben unb nidjt, wie ber merfnffet fie offenbnr ber~
ftnnben gnben mill, af§ lilliebergnbe beiS lSetidjts in @en. 14, info fern niimlidj
154 Book Review. - 13iteratur.
!meld)ifebef bod gana unbermittelt erfd)eint unb Itleber Uber feine @ebud nod)
Uber feinen :tob itgenb etltlall gefagt Itlirb. SNell ~mHd)e morbHb aUf unfern
B;)eUanb, ball im B;)ebrnerbtiefmit grolier lillnrme unll borgefU~tt Itlitb, ~at
offenbar in ber aUen Stitd)e bie @emUter mnd)Hg gefeffelt. SJJ1it Itle!d)em nad)"
a~mungllltlerten . ~ifer ~at man fid) bamalll in ein Hefell 6tubium ber B;)eUigen
6d)tift berfenft! !nur fd)abe, bali bie red)te !nUd)tetn~eit oft beifeitegelaffen Itlurbe.
Unfer merfaffer gint unll banfenllltletten llluffd)luli Uber hie OueUen fUr nn~m
~efanntfd)aft mit biefen 13euten unb Uber hie einfd)!ngige 13iteratut unb bef.ptidjt
bann bie oben furaerltln~nten q,lunfte aUllfU~rlidj mit bielen 3itaten, bie er immer
im Ude~t anfU~rt. 6ein eigenell UrteH falit er fo aUfammen (6. 81): "mon einer
,6efte' ber !meld)ifebefianer fann man nur bebingterltleife rebenj audj fd)eint ell
unll nad) bem bill~er botliegenben OueUenmateria! unmilglid), gnoftifdje ~inflUffe
fid)er feftaufteUen. mielme~r ~aben Itlir ell mit einer djtiftlid)en 6.pefu!ation, bie
burd) ben B;)ebrnerbtief angmgt ift, au tun. ~inma! genannt, beranlalite bie
m~fteriBfe @eftart !meld)ifebefll berfd)iebene @ebanfengru.p.pen, bie i~ren innmn
3ufammen~ang butd) ball gemeinfame q,lroblem er~ielten." lill. III r n b 1.
~nbb~1t nnb ~~tiftd. ~in mergleidj Bltlder grolier lilleUreligionen. mon
q,lrof. D. theol. B;) i I f 0 lill i arb 0 6 dj 0 mer u ll. B;)aUe~6aale 1931.
~ud)~anblung bellWaifen~aufell. 91 6eiten 5% X9%. q,lreill: M.3.50.
IDie aggreffibe B;)altung berfd)iebener falfd)er !Religionen, fonberlicl) aud) bell
~ubb~illmull, tritt in ben letten ~a~ren fe~r ftatf ~erbor. lillie ber !mo~am~
mebanillmull, fo ~at aud) ber ~ubb~illmull bie Dffenfibe ergtiffen, unb altlar
aud) gerabe mit lllbficf)t aUf bie @ele~ttenltlelt. IDall q,lroblem ber lllbltle~r mag
aud) an unll ~erantreten, fonberlid) Itlenn bie leb~afte q,lro.paganba bell bergangenen
~a~rae~ng fid) aUf ben amerUanifdjen Uniberfitnten unb - t~eologifd)en 6emi~
naren nod) etltlall me~r ~ingang berfcf)afft. !mit immer grBliem IDreiftigfeit
trW man fUr @leid)bmdjtigung ber berfdjiebenen !Religionen dn. Unb Itlenn
hiell nid)t ber iraU ift, fo btingt man 6tubten, hie Itlenigftenll ein nte~r ober
Itleniger ftatf f~m.pat~ifd)ell @e.prnge adgen. iraft ~ntten Itlir gefagt, bali bas
botliegenbe ~ud) aur letter en Stlaffe ge~Brt, obgleid) ell nadj IDarfteUung bell mer~
legerll eine .peinlid)ft objefiibe unb gmd)te IDarfteUung bes ~ubb~illmus bieten
Itlill, unb Bltlat aUf @runb bon bier irragen, aUf hie ber merfaffer dne lllntltlort
geben Itlill: liller ift ~ubb~a, unb Itler ift ~~tiftUll1 Weld)ell finb i~re grunblegen~
ben lllnfd)auungen Uber @ott, fiber bie lillelt unb Uber ben SJJ1enfd)en 1 lillas
ltloUten fid lillie glaubten fie bas, Itlall fie ltloUten, etteid)en 3U fBnnen 1 IDer
merfaffer ~at anetfennensltlede IDienfte geleiftet, aber ldber ift ell i~m nid)t gana
gelungen, ben eigentlid)en B;)au.pt.punft ber d)tiftlid)en !Religion, bon ber fteUber~
tretenben @enugtuung ~~rifti, abaquat baraufteUen. ~n jetiger 3eit, Itlo ber
!mobernillmull aUf ber ganBen irront borriidt, genfigt es nid)t (um es gelinbe
aull3ubriiden), Itlenn gefagt Itlitb: ,,~~tiftUIl ~at aud) felbft feinen :tob am Streuae
aIll einen fUr unll ·!menfd)en au i ~ rem ~ e ft e n etlittenen :tob angefe~en."
(6. 85.) lllud) Itlall Itletter gefagt Itli.b fiber ben 6d)ulbd)arafter ber 6finbe unb
Uber hie :tatfad)e, bali ~~riftull bie 6finbe aIll 6d)ulb mit aUen irolgen aUf fidj
na~m, etteid)t nid)t gana hie B;)B~e ber boUen lut~etifdjen IDarfteUung, nnmlid)
bali a u b em :t rag e n ball ~ b t rag e n f a m unb bali hie objeftibe !Red)t~
fettigung burd) ~~tifti :tob unb ~uferfte~ung aIll boUenbete :tatfad)e bor ber
6Unberltlelt liegt. IDurd) biefen 3ufat Itlfirbe aud) nod) ftlitfer aum ~ullbrud
gebrad)t, bali ball ~~riftentum nid)t lebiglid) bie befte ber iett befte~enben !Reli~
gionen ift, fonbern fd)led)t~in hie abfolute !Religion. q,l. ~. oR ret man n.
Book Review. - £ttetatut. 155
Social Progress and Christian Ideals. Edited by Wm. P. King. Cokes-
bury Press, Nashville. 360 pages, 6X8. Price, $2.25.
This book consists of four parts: I. The Perspective of Social Progress,
by James Myers, Industrial Secretary of the Federal Council of Churches;
II. Obstacles to Progress, by Alva W. Taylor, professor in Vanderbilt Uni-
versity; III. Conditions of Social Progress, by William P. King, Book
Editor of the Methodist Episcopal Church South; IV. A Forecast of
Social Progress, by Howard E. Jensen, professor in Duke University. There
is a good deal of factual information in this volume, and one will be grate-
ful for this much. But the fundamental weakness of this book is its failure
to define correctly the concept of the Kingdom. It is, in everyone of its
parts, a paean of praise to present-worldliness. Statements like the follow-
ing are characteristic of the book: ''In His great picture of the Judgment
Day, Jesus again makes it clear that those are saved who live brotherly
lives. Brotherly living is salvation." (P. 30.) "Women have gained
higher status wherever Christianity has spread, although many of the
ecclesiastical bodies at home have not yet acknowledged the equality of
woman or her right to minister or hold office in the Church itself."
(P.I09.) A large section of one part of the book is based upon the social
creed of the Federal Council of Churches!! P. E. KRETZ MANN.
The Philosophy of Religion. By Rudolf Otto. Translated by El. B.
Dioker, M. A. 231 pages, 5lh X 8%,. Richard R. Smith, Inc., New
Y or k. Price: $2.50.
The author is professor in the University of Marburg and has written
earlier volumes notable for their polemics against prevailing mechanical
conceptions of life, especially of human life. In this volume he treats the
philosophy of religion on the basis of Kant and Fries, with consideration
also of De Wette and Tholuck. The volume requires an understanding
of Kant's system. While this revival of Fries indicates how far the pen-
dulum has swung away from materialism, there is no approach to the
traditional faith of Christendom. TH. GRAEBNER.
Josephus and the Jews. By F. J. Foakes Jaokson, M. A., D. D. Richard
R. Smith Inc., 1930. XVI and 299 pages, 5~X8lh. Price, $3.00.
Under this title the well-known and widely read author, professor of
Christian Institutions at Union Theological Seminary, now in his seventy-
second year, offers a semipopular discussion of Josephus and the period of
church history on which his writings throw such helpful light.
It may be said that Foakes Jackson presents a much-needed antidote
to the biography of Josephus by Bentwich, issued before the World War
by the Jewish Publication Society of America, in which the almost in-
stinctively Jewish disparagement brands the famous recorder as "pusillan-
imous and subservient," "vain and obsequious, servile and spiteful, pro-
fessing candor and practising adulation, prolix and prosaic," with "few
qualities either literary or personal and many that repel." The present
historical appraisal of Josephus, the contemporaneous religion, and the
history of the Jews as he explained it in his four well-known books is
treated sympathetically and yet, on the whole, with strict objectivity.
Of course, the theological background is modern and liberal. One of
156 Book Review. - mtetatut.
his theses maintains that, by studying the sources and literary composi-
tions of Josephus, we can come to a deeper insight into the literary
methods and sources of the gospels and the Acts.
We noticed several inaccuracies. For instance, on p. 23 we are told
that but for Josephus, Berosus (misspelled for Berossus) "would to all
appearance have entirely perished." This position quite overlooks the de-
tailed statements of Eusebius concerning Berossus (who probably received
his Berossus fragments through the medium of Alexander Polyhistor and
Apollodorus). Neither is it true that without BerosBus we would never
have known about the Babylonian legends of XiButhrus and the Flood;
for it has been recognized that in the mutilated cognomen of Deucalion we
have the survival of the original Hellenized Xisuthrus.
One is naturally interested in the eminent author's opinion of the
Testimonium Flavianum j but nothing new is offered. The Slavonic edi-
tions are printed in an appendix, practically without comment. His state-
ment, concordant with the cautious skepticism of our day, is to the effect
"that Josephus would naturally be expected to say nothing about Jesus;
but that he might well have inserted the Testimonium in the awkward
form in which it appears in the Antiquities to oblige some friend or
patron who was interested in Christianity." (p.279.) W. A. MAIER.
~irdjHdje~ ~a~r6udj fur bie ebangelifdjen 2anbe~firdjen 'l)eutfdjfan~ 1931.
~in 8)ilfsbudJ aUt .RitdJenfunbe bet ®egenlllatt. ~n bet !nadJfoIge bon
D. ~o~annes SdJneibet ~etausgegeben bon Lic. 8) e t man n S a f f e.
58. ~a~rgang. iltud unb metlag bon Ir. metteISmann in ®Utetsro~. 549
Seiten 6X8Y2, in ~einlllanb mit ®oIbtiteI gebunben. !lJteis: M.19.
!llmt~larenber fur ebangelifdje Q.lciftridje. 1932. Ir. metteISmann