# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Juni 1859_S186
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186 Literature.

believes on Jesus Christ our only Savior, and can yield his will to God's
will; he would then exhort him to persevere steadfastly in such faith
by the help of the Holy Spirit, and would offer
to pray diligently to God for the sick person.

When the sick then thanked him, Dr. Luther, and indicated
that they could not deserve it of him, that he had visited them, the Doctor
would answer: that this was simply his office and duty, and there was no
need for them to thank him for it; and he comforted them, that they should
conduct themselves well and fear nothing, for God was their gracious God and
Father, of which he had given them, for their assurance, good seals and letters,
namely his Word and the Sacraments; and that we poor sinners might be
redeemed from the devil and hell, the Son of God himself had for
us willingly given himself unto death, and reconciled us with God."

But the Lord will let none be put to shame who hope in him,
and will show himself gloriously to his own honor in all his saints.

R. Klinckenberg.

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Literature.

Dr. J. H. Kurtz, professor at Dorpat, has published a small work
under the following title: "The Marriages of the Sons of God with the Daughters of
Men. A theological investigation, toward an exegetical, historical, dogmatic, and practical
appreciation of the biblical account, Gen. 6:1–4. Berlin (Wohlgemuth),
1857. (100 pp., 18 Ngr.)"

According to this work, the angels have not only bodies, but also
the capacity to beget, and have indeed once mingled with the daughters of
men, from which a race of giants came forth.*) Kurtz likewise identifies
the angels supposedly mentioned in Gen. 6:1 in no way with
the originally fallen angels, but assumes a new fall of angels,
which was followed at once by punishment, while the
originally fallen angels still now, indeed until the thousand-year
kingdom, have power to seduce. Hengstenberg has testified against this old
enthusiasm. Kurtz has therefore published a work against him,
bearing the title: "Polemical Tract against Dr. Hengstenberg. The Sons
of God in 1 Mos. 6:1–4, and the sinning angels in 2 Pet. 2:4–5,
and Jude v. 6–7." In the announcement of this counter-tract it says:
"In that the author, from his decidedly church-believing (!) standpoint,
subjects a treatise directed against him by Dr. Hengstenberg,
in which, as it is said, ""as in a microcosm all that is objectionable in the exegetical,
polemical, and apologetic endeavors of the same gathers and
concentrates,"" to an unsparing, sharp examination, and
justifies his own interpretation of the relevant Bible passages anew, he is

*) Luther calls this assumption a foolish fable and fools' pleading. I, 673.
III, 200.