# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Juni 1858_S178
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178 Lutheran-Theological Pastor's Library.

not with the consuming of meals, but with wise contemplation."

Gregory of Nyssa († c. 400), De pauperibus amandis: "When we have laid aside the covering of this swiftly vanishing flesh and have put on immortality, we shall enter into the blessed life, which shall have no end, which is subject to no evil, which shall consist in the highest joys and delights, wonderful and here incomprehensible to us."

John of Damascus († 760), De orthodoxa fide II, 1: "After the resurrection time will no longer be reckoned by days and nights; rather there will be a single day without evening, in which the sun of righteousness shall shine brightly upon the righteous, but night shall fall to the lot of sinners."

Theophylact († 1107), on John 18: "Christ's kingdom is not of the world, but is supramundane and before time, and is not 'from here,' that is, consisting of earthly things; rather, it does indeed rule and reign here, but it is not from here, and does not consist of lower things.

Lutheran-Theological Pastor's Library.

Among the indispensable homiletical aids belong, as we have already noted, not only the Real-concordances, but also the Verbal-concordances. The best of the latter kind is the following: "CONCORDANTIAE BIBLIORUM GERMANICO-HEBRAICO-GRAECAE. German, Hebrew, and Greek Concordance Bible. Compiled by M. Friedrich Lankisch. Leipzig and Frankfurt, 1677." Folio. (2nd edition 1688.) The named author of this work was the owner of a considerable printing house and bookselling business in Leipzig, born 1618 and died there in 1669. After he had gathered, both in the philosophical sciences and in every branch of theology, an excellent store of knowledge at several institutes of learning and universities in Germany, he found himself compelled, by his frail bodily constitution, to give up his intention of serving the Church directly, and to take over his father's business. Renouncing entry into the so-called "clerical estate," he now served, however, nothing less than himself and the world; rather, he now directed the whole of his aim not merely to keeping his large, far-branching printing and bookselling business going, but solely to the advancement of the Kingdom of God — and he now also employed, to this end, the splendid talent he had gained, under God's blessing, through the studies he had pursued. The most important of his literary works of this kind is the concordance named above, the appearance of which came about in the following way. When Duke Ernest the Pious, with God's help, conceived the plan of a Bible to be published with a