# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Februar 1856_S48
# AI translation — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

48 Lutheran-Theological Pastors' Library.

with the truths of reason, especially with regard to the doctrine of spirits; 3. with the truths of natural theology; 4. with the truths of mathematics and natural science; and 5. with natural law. The sixth and seventh parts contain 1. the vindication of the honor of the holy persons praised in Holy Scripture, and 2. the vindication of the honor of the prophets, of Christ, and of His apostles; there follows next, in the seventh and eighth parts, 1. the resolution of the chronological, 2. the geographical, and 3. the genealogical knots of doubt in Holy Scripture, and 4. a defense of the miracles of Holy Scripture in general. The ninth through eleventh parts defend 1. the miracles recounted in the Old Testament, 2. the miracles of Christ, 3. the resurrection of Christ together with the miracles of the Risen One, and 4. those of the apostles in particular. The twelfth part establishes 1. the truth and reliability of the history of Holy Scripture of the Old Testament in general, and then gives 2. the resolution of the knots of doubt in the most ancient world history. In the thirteenth and fourteenth parts is then found 1. the resolution of the knots of doubt in the history of the people of God of the Old Testament, and 2. in the history of the Israelite kingdom down to the deportation of the ten tribes. Concerning the last two parts, the fifteenth and the sixteenth, we regretfully cannot report accurately, since we have not so far been able to obtain them, and since they are also lacking in our institution's library. From the outline given in the first part, we gather that the last two continue the resolution given in the 13th and 14th to the end of the biblical books, and then conclude the whole with the proof of the divine origin, inspiration, and integrity of the entire Holy Scripture. A supplementary volume then gives addenda to the first four parts. What makes the work very valuable is that the author (who possessed as thorough a knowledge of the modern as of the ancient languages, and who, as overseer of a very significant and select library, had the rarest books at his disposal) quotes verbatim, therein, the relevant passages from the writings of the enemies of the Bible whose refutation is at issue. Among the notorious hostile writings from which Lilienthal gives excerpts, and whose attacks he beats back, belong, among others, those of Benedict von Spinoza, Herbert of Cherbury, Thomas Hobbes, Charles Blount, John Toland, Anthony Collins, Thomas Woolston, Matthew Tindal, Bernard de Mandeville, Thomas Morgan, Thomas Chubb, Lord Henry Bolingbroke, Samuel Clarke, William Whiston, the Earl of Shaftesbury, Samuel Parvish, David Hume, Voltaire, d'Argens, Peter Bayle, Franz. Filibin. Puccius, Albert Radicati di Passerano, Giordano Bruno, Giulio Cesare Vanini, Balthasar Bekker, Hugo Grotius (especially as concerns prophecy), Clericus, Dippel (called Christianus Democritus), J. Chr. Edelmann, Lorenz Schmidt (translator of the notorious Wertheim Bible), and so forth, and so forth. Even the ancient assailants of Christianity — a Lucian, Hierocles, Porphyry, Celsus, Julian, and others — and the rabbinic