# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_September 1862_S265
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Lic. Ströbel on the Revision of Luther's Bible. 265

can also be called parts of it, in that they live in its outward fellowship.

48. Quam multi lupi intus, quam multae oves foris! (Augustine.)
How many wolves are within, how many sheep without!

(The conclusion of this locus follows.)

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Lic. Ströbel on the Revision of the Lutheran Bible.

In the third quarterly number of the current volume of the Rudelbach-Guericke journal there is found a treatise by K. Ströbel on the subject named in its heading. The treatise takes into consideration the following writings: "Proposals for the Revision of Dr. M. Luther's Translation of the Bible. First Number. By Mönckeberg. Halle (Canstein Bible Institute) 1861. 70 pp., large 8vo. — Stier, Correction of the German Bible. Bielefeld (Velhagen and Klasing) 1861. 120 pp., large 8vo," as well as an essay by H. S.: "Against Alteration of the Lutheran Translation of the Bible," in the Evangelische Kirchen-Zeitung of 1861, Nos. 56 (supplement) and 57. — Ströbel's treatise falls into two sections: in the first the writer sets forth the general counter-arguments against the projected revision of the German Luther-Bible, and in the other he subjects to criticism the principles on which Mönckeberg, and especially those on which Stier, wishes such a revision to be conducted. Both sections are precious pieces of work, such as only a Ströbel produces. We cannot refrain from communicating at least the former to our readers. It reads as follows:

Concerning the intended revision, the Canstein Bible Institute states in its preface to the "Proposals," in substance, as follows: "After this matter had already earlier been considered at the conferences of representatives of various Bible societies held on the occasion of the Evangelical Church Congress, the assembly of the same held at Stuttgart in the autumn of 1857 passed the resolution that the Canstein Bible Institute should be called upon to take the work of revision in hand." This resolution the said Institute regarded "as a task set for it by the Lord Himself," and "therefore set to work with joyful confidence, for which it endeavored to win the most suitable men." "The Reverend Preacher Mönckeberg in Hamburg, who for years had devoted the most earnest study to the Lutheran biblical text and had turned the keenest interest to precisely this matter, declared himself ready to undertake the theological-critical part; Dr. G. K. Frommann in Nuremberg, in fellowship with Professor Rud. von Raumer in Erlangen, [declared himself ready to undertake] the linguistic part of the work." It was found necessary "to publish the principles which were to be followed throughout the work," and at the same time "to give an account of their application in particular instances. This