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unb I berweel)IeH ~aben unb in bet alten, unpunftierten 6el)tift >~N ftatt pN fd)tieben. glun ift aUerbings feit ber 6eptuagintaausgabc bes romifd)en ®e1e~rten \Jeanber man ~Ii, bon ber bann fpiiter ber um bie berfel)ie, benften ~usgabcn bes gried)ifel)en, Iateini\ el)en unb beutf el)en l8ibelte!;tes f 0 ~od), berbiente ~bet1)arb 91eftfe anongm ben borliegenben neuen~libtud beforgt ~at, fe~t fleiliig aUf bem ®eliiet bet 6eptuagintaforfd)ung geatlieitet worben; unb bie betannte fteunbfd)aftHcl)e ffiibafitiit, Die awi\el)en ben engIiinDifel)en unb beut\el), Iiinbi\d)en ®e1eljtten in beaug aUf bie ;re!;ttrittt bes 9leuen ;reftaments aur ;rraDition geworDen ift, l)at fiel) aud) aUf bie 6eptuagintaftubien erftredt. :;5n ~nglanb crfd)eint nad) manel)etiei anbern 6eptuagintaatlieiten befonbers bon ,l'Jatel) unb 6weet Die f ogenannte Cambridge Septuagint bon l8toote unb mc\Jean, ein ausgeaeiel)ncte§ lilletf; abet eiJ ift nod) liingft niel)t fettig, obwoljl fd)on meljr afiS flinfunbawanaig :;5aljre batan \1catbeitet wirb. :;5n ~eutfd)lanb ift bas grolie 6eptuagintaunterneljmen ber ®ottingct ®efeUfel)aft ber lilliffenfel)aften ins lilled gefett unter ber \Jeitung bon ~nfteb ffial]lfs, bet gegenwiirtig als eine ,l'Jaupt, autotitiit in ber 6eptllagintaforfd)ung gilt unb beffen "generous help" l8toofe offentliel) anedannt ~at; abet auel) bief es lilletf, bon bem etft ein3elne ;reHe etfcf)ienen finb, luitb nod) aUf :;5aljte f)inaus fetnet moUenbung ~atren mUfjen. 9laturgemiili finb bief e beiben lillede aud) aiemliel) foftfpie1tg. ,l'Jier aliet witb nun cine fur aUe praftif d)en Swede austeicf)enbe 6eptuagintaausgabe bargeboten, Die, wenn auel) nicf)t aUf ber ,l'Jol)e ber gegenwiirtigen 6eptuagintafotfd)ung fte~enb, boel) beftiinbig in ben 6tmotgpvlatten berbefjert unb nun 3um funften male auf, gelegt luorben ilt. ~aau tommen aud) 23 6eUen Epilegomena mit wertboUen mitteilungen unb \Jiteratutangaben, oliwoljl auel) ~ier bie l8e3ie~ungen aUf bie neueften i\'orfcljungen fe~len. ~er ;re!;t, ber 3ugrunbe geIegt ltJotben ift, ift ber fogeuannte 6i!;tinifcf)e ober matifanifd)e, bon bem in neuerer ,(leit auel) cine biplomatif d) genaue ~usgalie ~ergefteUt worDen ift, bie abet nicf)t weniger ars 720 ffieicl)smatf toftet. ~a hie 6eptuaginta auel) bie ~poft~p~en ent~ielt, fo finben fie ficl)aUd) in biefer ~.usGalJe: bas fogenannte brUte ~srabuclj', ;roDias, :;5ubit~, bie SUfate 3U ~ftl)er, lillets~eit, 6itaclj, l8atUd), bet l8rief bes :;5mmias, bas ®ebet ~fatiii, ber ®efaug ber brei miinner· im i\'euer, bie ®efcl)iel)te bon ber 6ujanna, bom l8el unb bom ~raclj.en 3U l8abel, brei l8ucl)er ber WiaUabiier 1mb bas ®ebet9J(anafjes. ~a man ofters meranlaifuug ~at, ben gtieel)ifel)en ;re!;t ber ~poftUp~en naclj3ufcl)fagen, fo fommi einem auclj babet Diefe ~an'oHel)e ~uilgalJc 3uftatten. Unb man fann bann auclj wieber mit e in e m l8lid er, fennen, was bie LXX aus bem ~\t~erliuel) gemael)t ~aben, inbem fie Die fanoni, fcl)en 6tude unb bie apoft~p~ifd)en SUfiite bermifcljten unb bas l8uel) fogar mit cinem apoftgp~ifcl)en .Rapitel beginnen Hellen, was filr \Jut~ets ~usfpruel)e uber bas ~ftl]erbucl) bon l8ebeutung ift. (mgL \Je~te unb lille~re, 71, 162: ,,\Jut~ers ~usfpriid)e uber bas l8ud) ~ftljet.") ~iu jungerer ~aftor unferer 6ljnobe, etwa awBlf lJiS fiinf3e~n :;5a~re im ~mt, fel)rieb mit gerabe an bem ::tage, an bem iel) Diefe ~n3eige 3U ~apier lirad)te, fDlgenbe lillorte: ,,:;5(~ f)abe aUf bem [oUege unb bem 6eminar immer Die 6vracljen bebotijugt uno ~abe feU oer Sett mit morlielJe ~!;egefe gettieben, obwo~r iclj me1)tete :;5a~re Book Review. - £lietatut. 731 biel au fal)ten gatte unb ein ~·af)t ®emeinbefcf)1.tIe (eigentlid) junior high school) geljaHen !;J ali e. stile ftenogtatJljifel)cn ~uheid)nungen, bie id) in ~ljten unb !lltof. !llatbiedll motlefungcn gemaif)t fJalie, fJalie lel) immet roiebet ftubiett. 91ael) unb nad) ljabe iel) mit eine gauoe ~n3a()1 ~ommentate anfd)affen tiinnen. 6tiidljarbts ljatte iel) f el)on aUe in 6t. 53outs. ffio Iietti ons ®tammatU ift mein fteter i8e~ glelier fUt bas 91eue ;teftameut unb ®eieniu~Htau\lfd)' fUt bas ~He. . .. \II u d) ljalie id) mir bot :;Sa!)ten dne 6qtuaginta mit roiittUcf)er eng Ii f d) e t ft be r f e tun g ban e ben a n g e f d) a f f t. . .. ®ott ift mit ie!)t gnabig geroeien. Cl:t f)at micl) nicgt nut ins ljeUige !lltebigtamt lietufen, fonbern meine ~ltbeit aud) fid)t1id) geiegnet. &t ljat mid) eine ®emeinbefd)ulc gtUnben, mid) a{§ mifitator ernenlleu unb unfetm StlifttUte aIS ®Ueb feinet i8e~ !)iirbe fUt d)tiftlid)e Cl:qiel)ung bienen laifen. ~ber fold)e i'rmtet mad)en es immer f d)roieriget, .8eit fUt bas gtUnbHd)e 6tubium au gelninnen. Stlesf)alb ftubiete id) immet meine !lltebigtte~te im ®tunbte~t unb leie oft ganse loci in ben StlogmatUern nad). Sffiit gefaUt bie Sffiet!)nbe, &/:egefc mit Stlogmatit BU bet~ liinben. Stleilf)alli ljalie id) mit @:!;Jemni\j' Loci unb De Duabus Natu1'is, ®cr!;Jatb, Ouenftebt unb ?fialtljets i8aiet gefauft obet bon mcinem matn aiS ®efd)cnf an~ genommen. 9lur miid)te id) nod) @:a1Obs Biblia Illustrata fJalien. 1I stier 6d)teibet meiu, mail gut ift, unb feine teiel)gefegnete ;tatlgfcit oC3cugt bcn 9luten fnld)es 6tubiums. 53. t\' ii t b tin g e r. @6ene5tr. i8ibelftunben Uber ben etften 'l.letruslitief Bum ®elitaud)e insoefnnbere fUt Stliafolliifenanftalten, titcI)1icl)e ®emeinid)aften unb bas d)tiftHd)e &jaus bon 'l.lfatrct cm. D. i8 0 t t mann, ~onigsoerg in 'l.lreuUen. metrag bon ~. i8ettelSmann, ®Uterslo!;J. 1933. 446 6eiten 6X9. 'l.lreis, gebunben: M.7.50. :;Sn bider &jinficl)t iit bies ein ausge3eicl)netes ?fiet!. stier metfaffet fJat bie fd)one ®alie, bie f)ettlid)cn ®ebanfen bes gilttlid)en?fioties in Harer 6.prad)c hliebet3ugelien unb babel fotuol)1 aUsu grote ~usfU!;Jt1id)feit roie bunne ~ua.p.p~ !;Jeit au betmciben. Cl:t f)alt aud) bas ted)te Sffiat in bet i8enutung bes gele9t±en IlljJ.paratil, beffen aU3u ljaufige~ &jetau3ie!;Jen fUt nid)t tgeologifd) geid)ulte &jotet unb 53efet erbriidenb roitft. Stlet ;ton liegt immet aUf ben &jau.ptibeeni biefe hlerben in cin f)eUes 53id)t gefett unb aUf bie f)eutigen 53efer angehlanbt. &in mieledei bon Cl:in3e1geiten roitb betmieben. ?fias t\'otm liettifft, ift bemnad) biefe \lIu~legung getabe3u muftetgiiltig, unb roet i8ibelftunben galt, tann giet lemen, hlie fcine motitage nutlitingenb geftaltet roetben tiinnen. :;Sn bet 53(1)te ift aUet~ bings nid)t aUe~ in Otbnung in biefem i8ud). ?fias bie :;S'tttumsiofigteit bet 6dJtift betri.fft, fn nimmt bet metfaffet fie an fUt &jcilStatf ad)en (" Stlie ~emge 6d)tift ift in iljret @nabentJrebigt feljHoglI i /lba ®nabengeljalt in ben ~uf3eiel)~ nungen ift intttmsiofe ?fiaI)t1)eit", 6.54). :;Sn bet 53ef)te bon bet &troaglung rebet er gan3 f~netgiftifd). ,,®ottes ~Uhliffengeit etfennt bon \lInfang an bie ?fiillensentf~1ietltng cines iebclt SJJlcnfd)en; nael) biefet?fiillen~entfd)1ieuung be~ SffienfdJen tid)tet ®ott bie Cl:rhlal)Iungi benn et fann feinen 6tiinifd),en, ?fiiber~ f.penftigen etroa!;Jlen, bet iljm aUf bie Stlauer roibetfteljt. Sffiit biefet gefttnben 53eljre ift aUe ?fiillftit unb aUe ~ngft bot bet ?fiillftit aligelnenbet. &jiet remen tuh: 9lad) ®ottes morlJerctfennen l)at et bie &troa!;Jlung gettoffen. Stlet menfcl)~ lid)e ?fiille iiffnet ober betfd)1ieut bas &jet3 fUr bie ®nabe. ®ott roill, bat a 11 e n ·Sffi e n f d) e n ge!;JoIfen hlerbe; aber leiber rooUen bag nid)t aud) aUe Sffi e n f :l) en; batum roirb bie eine ®tutJtJe etroa!;Jrt, roeH fie bie ®nabe aufnimmt, unb bie anbere gef)t betioten, nid)t etroa, roeH ®,ott fie nid)t etlval) len rooUte, 732 Book Review. - Xlitetatur. fonbem lneH fie fid) nid)t ethlii1)len 1ie~, fonbern in il)1:em l5iinbmfeben betl)artie, harin ftlittifc!) unh trotig bfteb," 15.15 f. G:ueniohlenig fiinnen hlit bem ll.ler, faiier in bet SUu5[egung bet lnidjtigen I5teIfe Jta\J. 3, 19 beiitimmen, hlenn et Die ~tebigt :;S&fu in bet &;JiiUe aLS ll.luilVtebtgt failt, beftimmt, l5ee[en 3um ®fanben l)inaufiil)ten, 16. 285. 150 leibet biefc~ Iffietf, lnenn wit aUf bie batin gefiil)tte £lel)te acf;ten, an fcl),hleten lffiiin\Jeln, bie wit hltgen feinct fonftigen ll.lot3ilgIicl)feit mit (ltoilem ll.lebaltern nam1)oft madjen. ~n. SU t n b t. What Shall We Say of Christ? By Sydney Gave, D. D., President of Chestnut College, Cambridge. 241 pages, 4% X7. Do Dead Men Live Again? By V. F. St01'r, M. A., Archdeacon of West· minster. 254 pages. Is Sin Our Fault? By Stewa1't A. McDowall, B. D., Chaplain and Senior Science Master at Winchester College. 320 pages. - Fleming H. Revell Co., publishers. Price of each, $1.50. We bring these books to the attention of those of our readers who have an idea that the liberal theology might be an improvement on the old Biblical theology. These books exemplify its futility and pernicious in- fluence. "The Westminster Books," the series to which these volumes be- long, "deal with some of these questions of ethics and religion which are arousing interest or causing perplexity to-day in the minds of many. This ~ge, and especially perhaps the younger generation in this age, wants to know what it can really believe about God, the soul, immortality, and the like, in face of all that is being said by natural science, psychology, com- parative religion, and Biblical criticism. . .. The writers belong both to the Church of England and the Free Churches." (Editor's preface.) The three volumes under Teview will not remove, but can only increase, the perplexity of the disciples of this school of theology. "What shan we say of Ghrist?" Is He "very God and very Man?" Yes. "'Very God and very Man'-no words seem so apt to Christian faith to describe the dignity of Christ." (P. 19.) "Paul's words assume that He who became truly man was one inherently divine." ,(P.73.) But these words must be understood correctly. In what sense is Jesus very God? The last page of the book gives the answer: "He is the ChTist, the Messiah, in whom God's saving purpose for the world found full ex- pression. He is our Lord, the Master of our lives, to whom we owe an obedience no man may claim. He is the Son of God, knowing God with a knowledge we can fully trust. He is the ';Vord become flesh, God reveal- ing Himself in human form. So we, too, may use the great words of the Nicene Creed - He is very God and very Man. But in using these words, we are not saying only what He is, but wha.t God is. Our faith in Christ is one with our faith in God. It is in Him that God reconciles the world unto Himself. God's glory has been seen in the face of Jesus Christ, the glory of the Father's holy love." Dr. Cane will not say categorically that Jesus is true God in the full sense of the term. If his young pupils ask what to make of the statements of the New Testament and of the first Christians to that effect, he answers: "They naturally spoke of Him in terms which belonged to the world of thought of their age." (P. 27.) And we may use these terms, but we must give them a meaning which Book Review. - mteratur. 733 agrees with the thought-forms of the present age. That applies also to the work of Christ. "Ve cannot accept Vicarious Satisfaction. "Wrath, too, St. Paul regarded as having emanated from God. . .. These concep- tions are derived not from St. Paul's Christian message, but from the world view of his age." (P. 55.) We are to "see in Christ's life and death and resurrection the revelation of God's holy and forgiving love." (P.28.) A theology of this kind cannot create assurance. It will tax the credulity of the pupils to the utmost to ask them to believe that the terms true God, wrath of God, etc., did not mean two thousand years ago what they mean now and that only after the lapse of centuries their true meaning was unfolded. And these "young people, conscious of their maturity," whose "allegiance is no longer held by the sentimentalized Christ of some popular hymns and much popular preaching" (p. 188), will be mature enough to argue: since the thought-forms of to-day have displaced those of yesterday and brought us a new theology, the thought-forms of to-morrow will destroy the theology of to-day, - who can be sure of the truth? "Do dead men live again?" Archdeacon Storr accepts the doctrine of individual immortality. "The Christian expectation of immortality is more than a hope or guess. It is, as we have seen, an assurance based on grounds eminently reasonable and corrfirmed by the teaching and resurrec- tion of Christ Himself." (P.187.) The weakness of his position, however, lies i~ this, that he stresses the reasonableness of this belief. "Neither religion nor philosophy can demonstrate the fact of human survival. What they can do (and it is very much) is to show the inherent rea- sonableness of the belief that death does not end a man's life." (P. 70.) And the appeal to the teaching of Christ is not based on the consideration that the article of immortality is an article of faith because Jesus clearly taught it, but on the consideration that Jesus taught it because it was reasonable. "If we ask why Jesus was so sure that there was a life beyond the grave, the answer is to be found in His experience of fellowship with God, a fellowship which He wished His human brethren to share." (P.182.) Refraining from making the simple statements of Scripture the chief ground, yes, the first and last ground of the Christian's assurance of im- mortality, but operating with the reasonable character of this doctrine, our author has fOTsakeu the good ground and is expending his energies on submarginal land. His arguments will not strengthen the faith of his young readers. Nor is his dissertation on the resurrection of the body going to help them in their doubts. "It is impossible for us to-day to believe in any resurrection of the body buried in the grave. That crumbles into dust. . .. It may ultimately help to make grass or plants. Sheep eat the grass, and we eat the sheep, so that we may have devoured what was once part of a ll1unan body." (P.137.) But Scripture teaclles the resurrection of "a body," he says, and offers a solution of the difficulty, "which is, of course speculation, but speculation which is, I think, in line with some of the tendencies of modern thought. . .. May it not be that we are now making our future bodies out of this finer matter, which exists probably not only as a projection from our bodies, but in the inter- stices of the particles of our bodies? . .. Soul makes body. Soul, or the animating life principle, creates for itself a physical organism through which it expresses itself." (P.143.) The endeavor to strengthen the faith 734 Book Review. - ~itetatut. of the doubter by offering him "probabilities" of such a character and substituting for the resurreotion of the body the creation by the soul of its future body is certainly engaging in profitless labor. Again, dealing in uncertainties: "The idea of an eternal fixity of condition, whether for weal or woe, does not appeal to us." (P.209.) Yet, Scripture teaches it, and we must believe it "if we are basing our argument upon the meaning of special words." (P. 229.) Nevertheless "the problem [concerning eternal damnation] must be left as a problem beyond our power to solve." (P. 231.) So, after all, the doctrine of individual immortality is accepted only with reservations. "Is sin our fault?" Professor McDowall is working submarginal land almost exclusively. He discusses the question not theologically, but philo- sophically - applying, at that, the philosophy of evolutionism. Here is his definition of sin: "To act in accordance wit.h the single appetite or with anything less than the purpose of the whole personality is to set oneself in opposition to the element of purpose in the universe. . .. To sin is to oppose the purpose of God, to doubt His nature, to reject His love, to do despite to the Spirit of Grace, to prefer chaos to cosmos by counting a moment's isolated appetite as of higher value than harmonious activity, to toss freedom away. . .. Sin is preference for low standards and an attitude which the race has outgrown." (Pp. 213. 220.) On the basis of these considerations the author comes to the conclusion: "'Is sin our fault 7' What answer is possible but 'yes!'" (P. 320.) No doubt the argument of the book will force this conclusion on the mind of the reader, but it leaves the heart and consoienoe untouched. It fails to bring home to him the enormity of sin and its damnable character. It knows nothing of the wrath of God. True, sin is all along described as sin against God, but assured that the doctrine of God's wrath against the sinner is a de- lusion and a lie, Professor McDowall's pupils will make light of the entire matter. Sin needs no atonement. The concluding chapter of the book treats of the atonement - in this way: "Rightly or wrongly, we resent the idea of anyone suffering instead of us. . .. We' simply cannot believe that God would accept, let alone plan, such an arrangement. . . . vVe turn down at once the horrible idea of an angry God. . .. It is in- human, and it puts the divine below, not above, humanity. . .. The idea of fair play lies very deep in the Englishman's mind. . .. ~ or does he see that it is fair for Christ to suffer innocently in order that he himself may be let off when he does what he knows is wrong. . .. What, then, is forgiveness? Many things; but above all the restoring of a right rela- tion and the recovery of freedom by the reintegration of the personality .... Cannot man do away with it [the barrier erected between man and God by sin] by his own action? The at-one-ment must be an act of man as well as an act of God." TH. ENGELDER. Filled with the Spirit. How to Live a Spirit-filled Life. By H. G. Ran- dolph. The Lutheran Bible Institute, Minneapolis, Minn. 64 pages, 514X8. The author is teacher at the (intersynodical) Lutheran Bible Institute of Minneapolis. He rejects the idea, prevalent in denominations that foster revivalism, that the "gift of the Spirit," baptism of the Holy Ghost, is Book Review. - 53itetatut. 735 a special endowment, conferred in response to prayer and striving; all believers have the baptism of the Holy Spirit. On the other hand, he looks upon being filled by the Holy Ghost as a special gift, possible to all be- lievers and intended for all, but only acquired by those who fulfil the con- dition of close association with the use of God's Word. In the power of this gift the follower of Christ has "guidance," is "definitely led by the Spirit," an experience which does nOL require consciousness in feeling and which proceeds from the Word of God alone. Nevertheless the believer may also in our day "surely know the Spirit's fulness as a daily abiding blessing as well as to be specially filled for particular needs" (p. 39) . The purpose is empowerment for a holy life and for service, "is indispensable to every Christian and for any service of the Lord Jesus" (p. 51). Inas- much as the author makes the idea "filled with the Spirit" something dis- tinct from sanctification in the ordinary sense, - he demands as a con- dition a definite and conscious act of surrender, by which the believer "truly purposes to be wholly and finally given to God" (p. 60), - the reviewer is unable to fit this conception of the author into his own theology. THEODORE GRAEBNER. English Deism. Its Roots and Its Fruits. By John 01'1', A. B., A. M., B. D., Ph. D. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., Grand Rapids, Mich. 289 pages. Price, $2.50. There are several WOl'ks in English on English deism; for instance, by Leland and by Farrar. But none of them give an adequate treatment to the subject, not as adequate as the Germans Lechler and Noack. What was wanting is a tracing of English deism back to its roots, an objective description of its development and doctrine and an indication of its in- fluence upon later thought. These three things Dr. Orr undertakes to supply in this book, which, in its first two parts, constitutes his Ph. D. dis- sertation at the University of Pittsburgh. The investigation of English deism (18th century) is of great impor- tance for the understanding of the present general defection from the religion-revelation concept. For this deism does not merely make definite assertions as to the relation of God to the cosmos, it offers not only a "philosophy about God"; its main sad significance is that it has built up an effective system for natural religion and paved the way for the modern philosophy of religion. The general development in which deism has a place is not yet fully cleared up in all its connections. Yet Dr. Orr's theories as to its roots are plausible and, to some extent, offer new light; e. g., his reference to the Mohammedan invasion of Europe. However, though my contention that the real root is the semper eadam natura hominum omni divinae revelationi inimica may seem trite, it is true never- theless, and other "roots" are in reality merely the oooasions and oppor- tunities in the condition of the world for ratio naturalis to assert itself. In the second part of the book the English deists pass in review, from Herbert of Cherbourg to David Hume. It is quite in order that also such men are included as are not deists in the accepted sense, yet show the same principles of epistemology. Of course, there is a good deal of repeti- tion in the statements of ideas of this or that deist. But that will be tiresome only to the superficial reader, not to the student of this period. 736 Book Review. - ~iterCltur. The serious reader will be glad to have a complete picture of each man's thinking. In placing Toland on a level with Origen because both were in favor of allegorizing, Dr. Orr omits to point out that Toland suggested allegorical interpretation of the miracles in order to remove the mysteries while Origen allegorized in his effort to create greater mysteriousness. However, it may be that both, in the last analysis, are in the same boat. Then the illl1uence of English deism upon the deistic movements in France, Germany, and America is shown (Rousseau, Voltaire; Moses Mendelssohn, Lessing, Reimarus, Kant; Franklin, Jefferson, Thos. Paine). Finally the antichristian agitators Stephens, J. M. Robertson, Hazlitt, Ingersoll, Darrow, Fosdick, are characterized in their attitude toward deism. The delineation of Lessing's attitude is given with greater assur- ance than this sphinx of a controversialist warrants. III Mendelssohn's case I should like to see attention directed to the fact that he practically was the founder of New Judaism. - Two very welcome parts of the book are an index and a six-page bibliography. The reader will find no magazine of ammunition against deism on these pages. The author is entirely objective and cool, entirely different from Leslie Stephen, the agnostic, who in his Hist01'Y of English Thought in the Eighteenth Oentury ponrs vitriolic sarcasm upon the deistic argu- ments. Wben an author gives me a correct picture of the past, I dis- pense him from giving a judgment on it; I reserve that for myself, anyway. RICHARD W. 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