# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Mai 1855_S132
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132 Lutheran-Theological Pastors’ Library.

tropical figures of speech, such as epizeuxis, climax, anaphora, etc.; paronomasia; antanaclasis; logismus; dialogismus; amplification. Finally, the sixth book presents biblical logic. — Buddeus writes of this work that our own scholars and those outside our church have vied with one another in praising it. And indeed, it is an ornament of our church. It is a reference work for resolving biblical linguistic difficulties like no other. With the aid of the accompanying index of the Scripture passages cited and interpreted, a fairly complete biblical commentary can be extracted from it. Naturally, it cannot occur to us to deny that our own age has made very significant contributions to the interpretation of Holy Scripture, especially in linguistic matters; but the more frequently the results of linguistic research are now exploited to misinterpret the divine books, the more important it is for a young theologian to possess a work such as the Philologia sacra of Glassius, armed with which he can make proper use of more recent scholarship. *)

2. In the second row of the section for exegesis, we place works on biblical philology, namely the lexicons for the Hebrew and Greek texts.

a. Among the Hebrew lexicons, the following still maintains its place: Christiani Stockii Clavis linguae sanctae Veteris Testamenti. The author of this work was most recently professor of Oriental languages at Jena and died on February 4, 1733. When, still a young man, he left the Gymnasium he had attended in Gera in Reuß, he had already advanced so far that, as Jöcher reports, “upon his departure he was able to deliver a public address in German, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Chaldean, Samaritan, Arabic, Persian, and Ethiopic”; this in itself is one of the proofs that our Lutheran Church still has no reason to be ashamed of this great philologist who was educated within her fold, even when more recent linguistic scholars are placed beside him. The aforementioned Hebrew-Latin lexicon first appeared in 1717 and was subsequently issued repeatedly in corrected and expanded editions, partly by Stock himself and partly by others (e.g., J. F. Fischer). Almost every biblical passage in which the word in question occurs is cited here and placed under the appropriate heading, with the word’s various meanings indicated. This dictionary can therefore also serve as a Hebrew biblical concordance.

*) We declare here once and for all that, although we review almost exclusively older works, we by no means intend thereby to suggest that a Lutheran pastor should take no notice of more recent literary and theological productions. Rather, our conviction is that everyone should first lay a firm foundation of pure knowledge through the study of the older writers, but then, guarded against the poison of false doctrine found in more recent writings with few exceptions, should also seek to appropriate and gather the fruits of present-day labor in the fields of theological scholarship.