# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Juni 1858_S180
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180 Irvingism.

Sir. 26:23 he who has a constant mind (Gemüth). e.
3 Macc. 4:16 turns himself with his mind (Gemüth). g.
Matt. 22:37 to love God with all one's mind (Gemüth). a.
Mark 12:30. a. 33. b. Luke 10:27. a.
Rom. 7:23 in my mind (Gemüth) wars against. c.
", ", 25 I serve with the mind (Gemüth). c.
2 Cor. 8:11 how there is a willing mind (Gemüth). d.
", " a willing mind (Gemüth) be to do it. *
Eph. 4:21 be renewed in the spirit of your mind (Gemüths). c.
1 Pet. 1:13 gird up the loins of your mind (Gemüths). a.

It would be superfluous to point out the great and manifold benefit that a preacher can derive from the use of such a concordance, especially in preparing his sermons and in his Bible studies. This benefit is obvious. We recall that the famous grammarian Winer kept our Lanckisch lying open before him again and again in his study, because this work was indispensable to him for daily use.

Besides a Real- and Verbal-concordance, a pastor also absolutely needs a Topical concordance, if he is not often to lose much precious time searching for a saying whose beginning he remembers, but whose exact wording and context he no longer has present to mind. Here it is precisely a matter of having as complete an alphabetical compilation of Bible sayings as possible, if one is not often to lay aside, in vexation, the book that has left the searcher in the lurch. The best Topical concordance, as regards suitable arrangement, completeness, and a usable selection of sayings, is, in our experience, the following one, composed by a layman — but a connoisseur of the Bible without equal —*) "Johann Kamprad's Complete Biblical Hand- and Topical Index. Dresden and Leipzig, 1727." Octavo. The author was a stocking-weaver in Leissnig in Saxony. As a great lover of God's Word, he had first compiled the index solely for his own use, but at last, on request, handed his manuscript over to the press. His pastor, the then superintendent at Leissnig, Siegfried Beck, adorned the little work with a fine preface. It comprises no fewer than 2,176 pages in compressed print. (To be continued.)

Irvingism.

In the periodical published by Rudelbach and Guericke, in the second quarterly number of this year, there is a critical sketch of the above-named phenomenon of our time, based in the first place on three Irving-

*) Kamprad was called in to assist Lankisch in preparing the concordance; for the sake of his contributions to it he alone read through the whole Bible forty times.