# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_April 1856_S115
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"In, With, and Under." 115

and planted from these into the Christian Church. Only after the downfall of the [Jewish] people, in 71 A.D., did a falsification of the Hebrew text become possible, which many church fathers and disinterested Arab authors allege — for example Augustine, Syncellus, Julian of Toledo, Abulfeda, Abu'l-Faraj. The falsification was undertaken by the Jews, because according to old traditions held by all the ancient authors, even in the prophets, the Redeemer of the world was to appear in the sixth millennium after the Creation, and Christ had accomplished the work of redemption in the year of the world 5903, on the day of Creation. The Jews hoped in this way to be able to prove that Jesus Christ was the false Messiah, for world history was shortened by 1500 years, so that Christ would have come 1500 years too early, before the promised time. Only in the year 1810 had the last term for the Messiah expired, which is why the Jews in the Orient at that time quite generally expected him. *)

(To be concluded.)

"In, With, and Under."

The "Reformed Church Gazette" of Chambersburg, Penn., edited by Mr. Samuel Miller, in its issue of March 15 takes friendly notice of the article "Consubstantiation and Impanation" in the February number of "Lehre und Wehre." In an article of that periodical on the "Consensus and Dissensus of the Reformed and Lutheran Church," the editor writes, among other things: "The real distinguishing doctrine, as it was at that time" (at the time of the drafting of the Heidelberg Catechism, 1562) "asserted by Lutheran theologians over against the Reformed, and

*) Luther, too, holds the Jews suspect of falsifying the Hebrew text, and occasionally relies on the Greek translation of the Septuagint against the vocalization, accentuation, and punctuation as found in our [Masoretic] text. He writes, among other things, in his exposition of the prophet Isaiah: "It seems as though the points had been wrongly placed under it, in that for Vayyiqqare in the passive they have written Vayyiqra" (Isa. 9:6: "he is called" or "he shall be called," instead of "he shall call"). "For the letters, whether read with or without the points, are the same, and the grammar agrees quite well with that. But the Jews, that most harmful people, very often falsify the sayings of the prophets with their points and distinctions, and their points — though these are but a recent invention — are supposed to count for more than the plain, genuine sense that rightly agrees with the grammar. Since, then, the Seventy translators and the Chaldee [Aramaic] translator agree with us that this text is to be understood of the Messiah, and that these names are names of the Messiah, we have no reason to be so anxiously troubled about the points in this one word. We can content ourselves with the fact that even the Chaldee translator and the Seventy hold with us on this."

The Editors of Lehre und Wehre.