# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_August 1857_S242
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242   Lutheran-Theological Pastor's Library.

liches Concordienbuch mit historischen Einleitungen J. Georg Walch's. Jena 1750," in large octavo. Further: "Concordia Germanico-Latina. Studio M. Christ. Reineccii. Lips. 1708," and in a second edition of 1735 in quarto. Among the editions giving the bare German text, the following deserves special mention: "Concordia — — with Heinrich Pipping's historical-theological introduction to the symbolical writings of the Evangelical Lutheran Church. Leipzig 1703," in quarto. Against the Nuremberg edition prepared by Detzer a warning must be given, on account of the many alterations occurring in it and the interpolated and often perverse explanations of words. Whoever seeks nothing but the bare text will find full satisfaction in the edition brought out by Heinrich Ludwig in New York. At the same time, however, we here call attention to the English translation of the Book of Concord that has proceeded from the bosom of the Lutheran Tennessee Synod: "The Christian Book of Concord. Newmarket, Shenandoah Co., Va. Published by Solomon D. Henkel and Brs. 1854." This is the second edition of the one that first appeared in the year 1851. It is complete except for the subscriptions and contains at the same time the above-mentioned historical-theological introduction of the most recent German editor, Pastor J. Tob. Müller. The price of a copy, elegantly bound in leather, is $2.50.

Important and desirable as it now is that here in America in particular every Lutheran pastor should have as complete a collection as possible of the symbols also of the heterodox communions with which our Church here comes into contact, we nevertheless think, for the sake of the very limited means at a pastor's disposal, that we may name only a few as absolutely necessary for a Lutheran-theological pastor's library. As regards the Roman Church, we name here only the decrees of the Council of Trent and the Roman Catechism. The best and cheapest edition of the first-named symbol is: "Canones et decreta SS. oecum. Concilii Tridentini. Lipsiae sumtu C. F. Koehler et B. Tauchnitz 1837." Octavo. Besides the text of the Tridentinum, this edition contains all the papal ordinances and decrees cited in it and bearing upon it, including the "Professio fidei Tridentina," which, as is well known, likewise carries symbolical authority. Another very commendable edition is: "Des hochheiligen etc. Concils von Trient Canones und Beschlüsse. With the Latin text opposite, in a faithful German rendering by Dr. Wilh. Smets, canon in Aachen. With the approval of high ecclesiastical authority. Bielefeld, at Velhagen and Klasing, 1851." This edition too contains the supplements of the Leipzig edition, e.g. the bull of convocation, the relevant constitutions of the old law, the conciliar decrees and bulls against Wycliffe, Hus, Luther, Baius, Jansenius, Quesnel, and against the Synod of Pistoia; also a historical sketch of the council from the Roman point of view, and an index of