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LEHRE UND VVEHRE
MAGAZIN FUER Ev.-LUTH. HOMILETIK
THEOLOGICAL QUARTERLY-THEOLOGICAL MONTHLY
Vol. IX July, 1938 No.7
CONTENTS
Page
A Course in Lutheran Theology. Th. Engelder . _______ .... _ .... _____ . __ .. _. __ .____ 481
Kleine Danielstudien. L. Fuerbringer ______________________ . __ . __ .. __ .. ___ ... . __ __ ... ..... 495
Sermon Study on Acts 5:34-42. Th. Laetseh ._ . . _ .... .. _ .. _ ...... ____ ._____ 506
Miscellanea __________ ._ . . ___ . ____ . _____ . ____ .._____ . _______ .. _____________________ . __ . __ . ___ __ .. _ .. _. __________ .. 519
Theological Observer. - Kirchlich-ZeitgeschichtIiches . . ____ ._ ._ .. _ ._. ____ 530
Book Review. - Literatur _ . _________ .. ______ .. _. ______ ... ____ . ______ . __ . .. .. ... . _ .. _____ . 553
BIn Predlger mUSII nleht aDeln lOel-
den, also d888 er die Schafe unter-
welle. wle s1e reehte Chr1lten 80llen
RIn, IIOndem auch daneben den Woe1-
fen lOeh1'4m, daM s1e dle Schafe nlcht
ansreifen und mlt faIscher Lehre ver-
fuehren und Irrtum elnfuehren.
Luthn
Es 1st keln Ding, das dle Leute
mehr bel der KJrche behaelt denn
die gute Predlgt. - Apologia, An. 24.
If the trumpet give an uncerta1D
sound who shaD prepare himself to
the batUe? - 1 COT.14, B.
PnbIisbed for the
BY. Loth. Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States
CONCOBDIA PUBLISIIIN'G BOUSE, St. LouJs, Mo.
.ARCI:I V
Book Review - 2itetatut 553
Book Review - 2itefatuf
Novum Testamentum Graece. Cum apparatu critico ex editionibus et
libris manu scriptis collecta. @5tuttgatt, !l\tibilegierte !!BUttembetgifd)e
mibefanj'taH.
~ud) an biefet @5teUe mad)en wit wiebet aUfmedfam aUf bie ausge3eid)neten
~usgaben bes neuteftamentrid)en :te;ttes, bie bief e ~a~r3e~nte ~inburd) bon bet
!l\tibHegierten ~Urttembergifd)en mibefanj'taH ~etausgegeben wotben finb. !!Bo~f
bie meiften unfmr 2efer ~aben biefe ~usgaben fd)on bide ~a~te ~inbutd) ge~
litaudjt. Untet ben neueften ~uffagen finb befonbets 3U nennen bie 15., bie audj
in 3e~n :teifen aU ~aben ift, unb jebet :teH eignet fid) fein SUt ~itna~me aUf
lReifen, wie 3. m. bie (\fpiftef em bie lRomet obet bie ein3efnen (\fbangefien. )))ie
neuefte ~uffage, bie lRe3enfent eben in feinet .ltlaffenatbeit gebtaud)t, nimmt me3ug
aUf bie neueften ~unbe in 5l!g~pten unb ij't affo boUtg up to date.
!l\. (\f. St t e t man n
~ie lBriefe an bie :t~effllronidjef. ftbetfett unb ausgelegt bon Lic. ®et~arb
!l\utttammer. ®aftab @5d)fiibmanns mer!agsbud)~anblung, 2eip3ig unb
S)ambutg. 88 @5eiten 5lhx81f4. !l\teis: Stattoniert, RM.1.70, gebunben,
RM.2.50.
~n biefem weitmn manbe ber IIlSibel~ilfe fUr bie ®emeinbeu ~at bet met~
faffer benfefben @5tanbpunU innege~aUen, bet aud) in ben anbem lSiinben bet
@5etie im gtoflen unb gansen 3utage tritt. )))ie ~usfegung, bie fid) eng an bie
neue ftbetfetung bet mtiefe anfd)lieflt, ift witHid) etbaufid) unb wenbet bas !!Bort
®ottes aUf bie gegenwartige @5adjfage an. ~iit einen 2ut~etanet finb aUerbings
bie ~usfU~tungen 3U 2' :t~eff. 2 faum genUgenb, ttotbem bet metfaffet aud) et~
wti~nt, bafl man in bet lRefotmations3eit o~ne Umfd)wdfe biefes .ltal'itef aUf ben
!l\allft unb fein lReid) gebeutet ~at. Unb fo mag mand)em, bet dne boUftiinbige
(\f;tegefe aUet !!Bortet unb @5atteile fud)t, biefe obet jene ~usfU~tung nid)t ge~
niigen. )))abei bleibt abet wa~t, bafl bie ~utegung bes mud)es aud) bem etfa~~
teuen (\f;tegeten bon gtofltem ~ed fein witb. (\fs finben fid) in bet ~uslegung
immet wiebet @5ate, bie aud) in unfem Stteifen lSetiidfid)tigung finben fomen.
,{lu 2 :t~eff. 3, 2 bemedt bet metfaffet fd)on in feinet ~infU~tung: lI)))as gilt bon
bem ®fauben, bet gan3en (\fruft mad)t mit bet g an 3 e n !!Ba~t~eit bet mibel,
aud) mit i~tem fetten !!Bott, bon bem ®lauben, bet ,Stomm, S)(\ftt ~(\ffu!' beten
(Dffenb. 22, 20) unb ein fej'tes ~men ba3u fpted)en fann./I (@5. 12.) lI~n feinem
~iffionsbetid)t ~anbeU es fid) alfo nid)t um Hrd)lid)e 6tatij'tU unb um bie ~inan3~
fage, fonberu um ben ®faubensftanb./I (6. 34.) Stein mibelforfd)et witb bies
mud) o~ne 6egen fefen. !l\. (\f . .It t e t man n
The Lamb, the Woman, and the Dragon. An Exposition of the Revela-
tion of St. John. By Albertus Pieters, D. D. Zondervan Publish-
ing House, Grand Rapids, Mich. 383 pages, 51f4x7%. Price, $2.00.
Although the subtitle designates this volume as an exposition of the
Apocalypse, it is not a continuous exegesis of the book but rather a
series of 24 chapters dealing with the important points and visions of the
Revelation of St. John. Seven chapters of Dr. Pieters's exposition are
devoted to introductory questions: Who Wrote the Apocalypse, and When;
Other Apocalypses; God's Picture-book; The Historical Interpretation;
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The Futurist Interpretation; The Principles of Interpretation; A Bird's-
eye View of Revelation. The author accepts the Johannine authorship
and believes the book to have been written during the last decade of
the first century, under Emperor Domitian. Chapters VIII to XXIV are
devoted to a fairly detailed discussion of the book, the author himself
stating: "This is not a commentary in the ordinary sense of the word.
It is rather a discussion of some of the outstanding problems in the
book of Revelation. Verse-by-verse exposition is not attempted." (P.5.)
This part of the book contains much interesting material, which, how-
ever, is not always convincing. Apparently the author did not go into
the extensive Lutheran literature on the Antichrist, his conclusions at the
end of chapter XVI being, among others: "That it is highly doubtful
whether the Antichrist of St. John and the Man of Sin of St. Paul are the
same. . .. That the words of St. Paul do most probably refer to the
coming of some great religious leader, a renegade Christian, who will be
the head and front of a great apostasy in the Church, immediately be-
fore the second coming of our Lord, but contain no ground to attribute
to him also political power." (P. 205.) With regard to the thousand
years, the author, at the end of chapter XXII, states: "Allow me now
to summarize this Preterist interpretation, which is the one I commend
to the reader." Pastors who are making a special study of the Book of
Revelation may consult the book with benefit, but will do well to com-
pare many of its statements with those of good Lutheran commentaries.
P. E. KRETZMANN
The Peril of Modernizing Jesus. By Henry J. Cadbury. The Macmillan
Company, New York. 1937. 216 pages, 5xH'2. Price, $2.00.
The preface informs us that here there are submitted lectures which
were delivered in 1935 at King's Chapel, Boston, under the auspices of
the Lowell Institute. That the material was gathered to be presented in
lecture form undoubtedly helps to account for the vivacious style. What
the author sets out to accomplish can be deduced in part from the head-
ings of the seven chapters: Anachronism in Thinking of Jesus; The
Cause and Cure of Modernization; The Jewishness of the Gospels;
Jesus and the Mentality of Our Age; Limitations of Jesus' Social Teach-
ing; Purpose, Aim, and Motive in Jesus; The Religion of Jesus. Notes
and an index enhance the usefulness of the work. The author is a thor-
oughgoing Modernist, and much that he says fills us with grief and has
to be rejected. But he wields a two-edged sword. While he in many
a sentence wounds the sensibilities of those who believe in the deity of
Christ and the redemptive value of His work, he causes a good deal of
havoc among the ideas which his fellow-religionists have fondled and
nurtured. As the title indicates, he opposes the tendency to ascribe
modern ideas which many churches of the twentieth century are proud
of to Christ. He particularly annihilates the notion that Jesus taught
what is now known as the social gospel. To ascribe to our Lord the
sociological tenets which often are now praised as the essence of the
message of Jesus he calls an anachronism. He complains there are many
of them, and he is induced to speak of an experience of his own in
Jerusalem. "I will admit that as a sightseer in the churches of Jeru-
salem I must have passed over many a glaring anachronism, until one
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day, in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, 1 saw a real wrist watch on
the arm of a statue of the Virgin. That at least was an innovation one
degree too much. Anachronism there was blatant and absurd. To see
a modern timepiece on a modern Arab is strange enough; how much
more so with the first-century Palestinian peasant woman!" (P.7.)
In outlining how different the teaching of Jesus was from that of the
modern social gospel, the author points out that Jesus rarely, if ever,
dealt with social institutions as such; that He furthermore did not
"know" class interests, class consciousness, class ideals; that He dealt
with individuals as their own situation demanded rather than to consider
the interests, privileges, rights, or duties of the other parties, and that
in His teaching there is lacking the appeal to social motive. It seems to
us that, if Modernists read and studied Cadbury, they would be deterred
from making Jesus the champion of their sociological messages. The
point of view of Dr. Cadbury, who, by the way, is Hollis Professor of
Divinity at Harvard University, throughout the work is historical. He is
not necessarily out of sympathy with the social gospel, but he does not
hesitate to call it a historical error to attribute this message to Jesus.
Thus, though the theology of the author is altogether subversive, he
furnishes excellent historical material for the proper understanding of
the teachings of Jesus. W. ARNDT
Prophecy's Light on Today. By Charles G. Trumbull. Fleming H. Revell
Co., New York. 191 pages, 5X7%. Price, $1.50.
One of the most harmful features of the chiliastic delusion is its
perversion of the Christian hope. Scripture fixes the hope of the Chris-
tian on the bliss of heaven, millennialism on the mythical reign of Christ
on earth during the millennium. In reading the glorious promises con-
nected with the second coming of Christ, the consistent premillennialist
can see hardly anything but the glamor of a fabled earthly reign of
Christ. The book before us ("most of the chapters of which appeared
as a series of articles in the Sunday-school Times during 1937") is a case
in point. The passages Titus 2:13 ("looking for that blessed hope and
the glorious appearing of the great God and our Savior Jesus Christ"),
John 14:2,3 ("I will come again and receive you unto Myself"), Heb.9:28
("Christ shall appear the second time without sin unto salvation"), Job
19:25-27; Eph.1:15-23; PhiL 2:10, 11; 3:20,21; 2 Tim. 4:8, etc., etc., are
unhesitatingly and persistently applied to a coming of Christ for the
inauguration of a millennial reign on earth. "So many Christian people
are rejoicing today in 'that blessed hope' of the Lord's personal, visible,
bodily return to establish His kingdom on earth and bring in the mil-
lennium of His personal reign" (p. 36). "'That blessed hope' of the
believers, waiting for the Lord's return, when He will establish His
kingdom on earth. . .. Eden conditions will be restored; wars will
cease. . .. The throne of David is still empty; but it shall be occupied,
here on earth, by David's greater Son. . .. From Armageddon the King
will move on in triumph until He establishes again the throne of David
and reigns over the whole earth" (pp.26, 32, 160). "1 Cor. 13:13 tells us
of three precious things that abide: faith, hope, love. 'Faith believes
that the Bible is the whole Word of God,' believes it 'from cover to cover';
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and that is Fundamentalism. 'Hope' is the blessed hope of the Lord's
return, or premillennialism. So we may read: 'And now abideth funda-
mentalism, premillennialism, love, these three'" (p.155). Dr. Trumbull
has no intention, of course, of denying or even minimizing the bliss of
heaven, but under the spell of the chiliastic delusion he cannot find
time to stress it. He mentions it twice, perhaps three times. On page 58
we find the bare statement: "'They shall hunger no more, neither thirst
any more.' And why? 'For the Lamb that is in the midst of the throne
shall be their Shepherd and shall guide them unto fountains of waters
of life; and God shall wipe away every tear from their eyes,' Rev. 7:17
(R. V.)." And on page 69 heaven is barely alluded to: "The second
coming of Christ, being His personal, visible, bodily return to establish
His kingdom on earth and to reign over Israel and the world for a
thousand years, after which will come 'a new heaven and a new earth,'
Rev. 21:1, is the goal, climax, and consummation of Bible prophecy."
Heaven is barely mentioned; all the glorious passages quoted above and
all the rest "are plain predictions of a glorious future for God's chosen
people here on earth, of the earthly millennium, or Golden Age, which,
the Scriptures tell us, can come only when Christ comes again" (p.31).
And the introduction by Dr. Howard A. Kelly contains this paragraph:
"Is it not a great, obvious, important truth that we cannot grow into
a living apprehension of more advanced truths until we have fully
apprehended the antecedent underlying basic truths? First, the virgin
birth of the Son of God - Son of Man; then His sacrificial life and
crucifixion; then His resurrection and ascension; to be followed by His
glorious return, to reign with His saints, to the world where He was so
dishonored." There it stops. The basic article of eternal life - which
Dr. Kelly, of course, accepts-is not mentioned.
We are in agreement with much of what is said in this book, a fun-
damentalist writing. Much, too, of what is said concerning the signs of
Christ's second coming - one of these signs being the emergence and
spread of Modernism - is Scriptural and timely. But parts of this sec-
tion and the tenor of the entire book are unscriptural. Scripture tells
us, and we must tell the world and the Church, that Christ is coming
again, personally, visibly, etc. The premillennialists are doing that.
But while Scripture tells us that Christ, at His second coming, will at
once judge the unbeliever and take the believer with Him to heaven, the
consistent premillennialist is fixing the hope of the Christian on a
chimera. TH. ENGELDER
What Is Lutheranism? By Wm. Dallmann, D. D. Northwestern Pub-
lishing House, Milwaukee, Wis. 38 pages, 4lhx7. Price, 10 cts.;
in quantities, 8 cts., plus postage. Order from Concordia Publishing
House, 3558 S. Jefferson Ave., St. Louis, Mo.
To Dr. Dallmann, God indeed has given a long and blessed writing
ministry, the present tract being the 53d among the titles listed for ad-
vertisement, and among these are very large volumes, such as Jesus
(third edition), Paul, Peter, John, etc. In the brochure before us
Dr. Dallmann shows the Christian character of Lutheranism, and he does
this by adducing testimonies from non-Lutheran sources. The topics
Book Review- £itC1:atur 557
around which the subject-material is centered are: The Gospel, Faith,
the Church, Justification and Election, and the Holy Communion. All
these fundamental doctrines of Lutheranism, as the non-Lutheran wit-
nesses attest, are truly Scriptural. Here, then, is a tract of great value,
which ought not only to be spread among non-Lutherans, but also to be
carefully studied in Christian day-schools, Sunday-schools, catechumen
classes, Bible societies, etc., since it sets forth distinctive Lutheran doc-
trines, and these as witnessed in their Biblicality by scholars of inter-
national prominence outside the pale of the Lutheran Church. For the
sake of the common people a glossary of proper nouns and theological
terms might be added (Duns Scotus, Peter d'Ailly, Calvin, Transubstan-
tiation, Lateran Council, etc.). On page 20 the alii, alii non might be
explained more fully and the general expository truth be added that
those who are saved are saved solely by grace, while those who are
damned are lost through their own fault. The difficulty of the alii prae
aliis arises only if we compare "one with another." We wish that
Baptism, so much in controversy today, could have been added to the
subjects treated in this brochure, which ought to receive special pub-
licity in our papers in this centennial year when Lutheranism will be
brought to the notice of millions by the mere fact of our ocean-to-ocean
celebration. J. THEODORE MUELLER
Who Is the Holy Spirit? A Study of the Word of God Concerning His
Person, Office, and Work. Fleming H. Revell Co., New York. 124
pages, 51f4X7%. Price, $1.25.
In the Foreword the author writes: "The Holy Spirit is the neglected,
if not the almost forgotten, Person of the Holy Trinity, and the obligation
is upon all of us to make Him known." This he attempts to do by pre-
senting in so many chapters the Holy Spirit's Personality, Office, Sov-
ereignty, Limiting (He does all things in due time and order), Baptism
(he discusses this mooted subject with much sanity), Filling, Sanctifying,
Empowering, Objectives. A graduate of Princeton Seminary, in its prime,
Dr. Frost everywhere shows himself a thorough, painstaking, scholarly
theologian, and his firm fundamentalistic attitude makes his book a joy
to every Christian believer. For many years he was connected with the
China Inland Mission, and (a voluminous writer) especially his "Medi-
tations on Important Truths," About the ora Faith, published years ago,
won for him many friends in America and Great Britain. Although his
presentations are not always in accord with our Lutheran Confessions
(denial of private confession and absolution; millennialism, Calvinism),
his monograph makes interesting and instructive reading also for Lu-
theran ministers, especially since he invariably goes back to the Bible
to support his declarations. There is a winsome spirit of deep spiritual
devotion running through the entire treatise. J. THEODORE MUELLER
Reconciliation and Justification. By Rev. Theo. Dierks, S. T. D. Concor-
dia Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo. 173 pages, 6X9. Price, 90 cts.
This is a thorough and instructive study of the doctrine of recon-
ciliation and Justification as taught in Scripture and the early Christian
Church. Originally a doctor's thesis, it is now offered for larger use and
wider dissemination in book form. First the author presents the doctrine
558 Book Review - mteratur
as taught by Christ and the apostles and then as it was confessed in the
Christian Church, in the first century after the apostles, by such men
as Clement of Rome, Ignatius, Polycarp, Justin and Irenaeus, and in such
writings as the Epistle of Barnabas, the Didache, the Shepherd of Hermas,
the Second Epistle of Clement, and the Epistle to Diognetus. His "finds"
he presents in the "Conclusion," in which he points out that most of the
Church Fathers did not hold fast to the objective reconciliation and
justification as an accomplished fact, so that in the course of time also
the doctrine of subjective justification became easily corrupted by the
infusion of work elements. A very fine bibliography is added for refer-
ence, while a very helpful synoptic index will aid the reader in quickly
orienting himself in case of reference requirements. We heartily recom-
mend this learned but limpid treatise to our pastors. Hasn't the doctrine
here presented become a sort of doctrina incognita also to some of us?
J. THEODORE MUELLER
Reaching Upward, or Man's Age-Long Search for Truth. By C. D.
Whiteley. Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids, Mich.
182 pages, 5xH'2. Price, $1.50.
This book is directed against the theory "that religion has been
a gradual development and that it came up through animism and
polytheism." The author, a Presbyterian minister in Albemarle, N. C.,
surveys the leading pagan religions and shows that in man's search for
God there is no trace of a gradual development, but rather that in all
pagan and naturalistic religions there has been a marked and gradual
degradation. Dr. Whiteley includes a chapter on Modernism, which is
the most recent effort "to find God apart from supernatural revelation"
(p. 97) and is nothing more than "the naturalism of all past ages dressed
in present-day finery" (p.96). The two concluding chapters deal with
God's revelation to man in the Old and the New Testament. The book
was not written for scholars. The author's interest is that of the pastor
who wants to safeguard the youth of the Church against the vagaries
of the pseudo-anthropologists, who in the name of psychology, philos-
ophy, or history deny supernatural revelation. The author's style and
his approach to the problem, which is distinctly Fundamental, prompt
us to recommend this book. It should prove helpful to those of our
laity who have been disturbed by the theories of naturalism.
:!Ier Q$ottcflgeilanfc in net: Weft. inon ~aul \Ro~rbad).
lBerfin~~eml>e~of. 263 e:eHen 5%X7lJ4.
F.E.MAYER
~ans~lBott~inerlag,
:!let inetfaffer ift ein bcfannter e:cf)riftfteUer :!leutfd)Ianb~, ~atte eine t~~o~
fogi](~e lliusbHbung genoffen, ~at bann aber, tuie cr im inortuort fcf)reibt, "bem
t~eologifcf)en 13e~ramt bor balb bier ~a~r3e~nten ent]agt, tuei! mir bortueg ber~
tuel:)l:t tuurbe, gegen ben lBetenntniS3tuang au luirten. e:o tuanbte icf) micf) 3ur
'Utbeit fUr ben beutfcl)en @ebanfen in ber lllieIt; aber icf) ~abe nie aufge~iitt, bie
d)riftricf)e \Refigion fUr cine ~auvttuur3el gefunben bBffifcf)en :!lenIms aU ~arten".
~n Illia~r~eit be!iimpft er bie cf)riftricf)e \Religion, befUmvft bie incrbafinfpitation,
bie mo]aifcf)e Iliutorfcf)aft bes ~entateucf)s, nennt bie e:cf)tiften IliUen unb lJl:eucn
~eftaments ,,(,\'r3cugniffc 3cUriel) unD in~almcf) boneinanbet bcrfcf)iebener rerigiBfcr
inotfteUungstuerten". (e:. 208.) wtan tuirb