# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_December 1864_S365
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Proposal and Specimen for the Preparation of a Bible Commentary etc. 365

2.) God has condemned such presumption about the future, and such
disregard of God, in many places, as at Luke 12:16, 21. Therefore he
also, in the Lord's Prayer, has taught us to ask for no more than our
daily bread, to be given us today, so that we should live and act in
fear and know that we are not certain of a single hour, either of life
or of goods, but must expect and receive everything from his hands, as a
true faith does. L. 10, 1101.

3.) Let me (says God) remain hidden, where I have not revealed myself
to you, or you will be the cause of your own eternal ruin, just as Adam
fell terribly, for whoever searches into difficult things, it becomes
too difficult for him. Prov. 25:27. Sir. 2:22–23. L. 2, 259.

4.) So too God knows, without any doubt, and has appointed for
everyone the time and hour of his calling and conversion; but because
this has not been revealed to us, we are commanded always to hold fast
to the Word, and to leave the time and the hour to God's command.
Symb. B. p. 231.* B. A.

Verse 8.

But you shall receive the power of the Holy Ghost, which shall come
upon you (which he explained to them he would fulfill through the
sending of the Holy Ghost on the tenth day thereafter, 7, 477), and you
shall be my witnessesᵃ (not witnesses of Moses, but of the grace that is
in Christ, marg.) in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and unto
the ends of the earth.

Note. a) What one bears witness to, one does not see, but only hears,
and it must be believed; therefore a testimony is nothing other than
God's word, spoken through an angel or a man, which demands faith.
L. 6, 3385.

Verse 9.

And when he had saidᵃ this, he was taken up before their eyes, and a
cloud received him out of their sight.ᵇ

Note. a) Christ lifted up his hands and blessed his disciples, Luke
24:50–51. He did not bless them the way we commonly do, when one gives
another good night, or takes leave of him; rather he wished them good
fortune and salvation for the office which he had at that time committed
to them. L. 13, 1319. — I believe that Christ pronounced over his
disciples a blessing like that of Numbers 6:24–26, or Ps. 67:8, as he
ascended into heaven. L. 10, 2761.

b) Here one must consider the miracle, that the Lord in a wonderful
manner rises up from his disciples into the height, like a bird, and
vanishes into the air; for to fly up into the air is, for men, an
unusual thing, indeed an impossible thing. A man's body has by nature
the property that, like a stone or some other heavy thing, it [tends]
downward [illegible]. Now, however, Christ after his resurrection has a
true body, which has flesh and bone, as he himself says at Luke 24:39,
and which lets itself be touched; and yet it is such a body that, as far
as its nature is concerned, it can just as well go upward and rise on
its own as go downward. L. 13, 1308.

c) A refutation of the Sacramentarians, who maintain that, because
Christ has ascended into heaven with his body and dwells there bodily,
his body therefore cannot be in the bread at the Holy Supper. But Christ
has ascended above all the heavens, that he might fill all things,
Eph. 4:10, and thus fill both heaven and earth. Also