# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_September 1861_S264
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264 Chiliasm.

...is truly man, born of the Virgin Mary, and also truly almighty God, begotten of the Father in eternity, Lord over angels and all creatures; likewise, so he rightly believes and teaches concerning the Holy Spirit, concerning baptism, the sacrament, good works, the resurrection of the dead; thus he walks simply in faith, does not dispute or quibble over God's Word, and stirs up no wrangling or doubt. And if anyone comes who attacks one or more of these articles, a Christian can defend himself and strike them back; for he has the true Master (the Holy Spirit), who alone reveals this article from heaven and is given to all who hear and accept this Word or preaching of Christ. Therefore such a one will not let himself be led astray into heresy and error, and even if he sometimes fails or stumbles, yet, so long as he does not fall away from this, he soon comes back onto the path; for this light consumes and drives away the clouds and darkness and again directs and sets him upright. But if he loses this light, there is no helping him. For where this knowledge is gone, it takes everything with it, and one may thereafter profess and confess all the articles (as the papists indeed do), but there is no earnestness or right understanding in it, but rather as one gropes in the dark, and as a blind man hears and talks of a color he has never seen. That is what those do who are the best and most pious among them." (Luther on John 16:3.)

75. "This article suffers no error alongside it; the Holy Spirit is present with it too, and those who believe it tolerate no error. But if they are led astray, that is a sure sign that they have not understood the article. Had they grasped it rightly, they would not have been deceived." (Luther.)

76. "From this article one can yield or give way in nothing, though heaven and earth fall, or whatever else will not stand. For there is no other name given to men whereby we can be saved, says Peter (Acts 4:12), and by his wounds we are healed, Isaiah (53:5). And upon this article stands everything that we teach and live against the Pope, the devil, and all the world. Therefore we must be entirely certain of it and not doubt; otherwise everything is lost, and the Pope and the devil and everything else keep the victory and the right against us." (Smalcald Articles.)

Chiliasm.

In the third quarterly issue of this year's Rudelbach-Guericke journal there is a review, by Lic. Ströbel, of Flörke's work "The Doctrine of the Thousand-Year Kingdom." After reproducing the confessions Flörke makes in his introduction, the reviewer adds the following:

"I have diligently excerpted at length the candid explanations and confessions of the esteemed author, not in order to criticize them with hostility,