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MAGAZIN F UER Ev.-LuTH. HOMILETIK
THEOLOGICAL QUARTERLY-T HEOLOGICAL MONTHLY
Vol. xvrn September, 1947 No.9
CONTENTS Page
/ Luther's Text-Critical Study of 2 Samuel 23:8. Paul Pet"rs _________ 641
/ The Blessed Results of Justification. H. J. BOllman ___________ ._. _________ . 652
Outlines of the Nitzsch Gospel Selections _______ . __ . __ . ________ . _____ . ___________ . 660
Miscellanea ... __ ....... _. __ ._ ... _._ ............. _ ...... _ ...... __ ._._._ ... _._ ... _. ____ ....... _ ...... _ ....... 672
Theological Observer . __ ..... _ .... __ ...... _._ ..... ____ .. _. __ ... ___ ... ___ .... _ .... _ ... _ ... _._._ .......... _. 697
Book Review _ .. _ ..... _._ .... ____ . __ ._ .. _._. _____ .. ___ .. ____ .. _ .. _____________ ... ___ .... _ .._ .. __ . ____ .... __ ._ 712
E1n Pred1ger muss nicht alleln tDet-
den. also dass er die Schafe unter-
weise, wie sle rechte Christen sollen
seln,sondem auch daneben den Woel-
fen weh-ren, dass sle die Schafe rucht
angrelfen und mit falscher Lehre ver-
fuehren und Irrtum einfuehren.
LutheT
Es 1st kein Ding, das die Leute
mehr bei der Klrche behaelt denn
die gute Predlgt. - Apologie, Art. 24
If the trumpet give an uncertain
sound. who shall prepare h imselt to
the batUe? - 1 COT. 14:8
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652 THE BLESSED RESULTS OF JUSTIFICATION
year marks the fourth centenary of Luther's death, we have
an added incentive to do this very thing. In the Leichen-
programm of 1546 our attention is called to the fact that Lu-
ther, when he edited his translation of the Old and the New
Testatment, was even summoned by his co-workers to pass
judgment on certain Hebrew phrases. The words pertaining
to this interesting bit of news read: "Cum Rev. vir D. Martinus
Lutherus edidit Germanicam interpretationem scripturae
Propheticae et Apostolicae, adhibitus est et ipse, ut de phrasi
hebraea iudicaret." The Luther who entered the coUegium
biblicum, as it was called either by Luth~r himself or more
likely by Mathesius, was armed not only with his Latin and
his new German Bibles, but invariably with His Hebrew
Bible and with a new store of Hebrew vocables. Thus armed,
he was called in and consulted by the Hebraists of this col-
legium biblicum in order to gain his advice both in regard to
the reading and the meaning of Hebrew phrases. Let us also
not fail to seek Luther's advice in applying the art of textual
criticism to the Masoretic text. As Lutheran theologians and
scholars we emphasize with Luther not only the "buch-
staebische Sinn" of a passage, but as a very necessary premise
the "Buchstabe," the original letter, word, and phrase of
every text.
(EDITORIAL NOTE: This essay is an elaboration of a paper on the same
subject, read at the Lutheran Academy Convention in Chicago on Au-
gust 13, 1946, and published in The Lutheran Scholar, January, 1947.)
The Blessed Results of Justification
ROM. 5:1-5
By H. J. BOUMAN
In human affairs the results often are not in proportion
to the preparations. There the old saying "The mountain
labors and brings forth a ridiculous mouse" is frequently true.
It is never thus in divine affairs. There the results always are
commensurate with preparations, even though our limited
vision and understanding fails to see it. Let us remember
this as we study the blessed results of justification according
to Rom. 5: 1-5.
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