# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_November 1859_S339
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New Literature. 339

...to entrust the future preachers of their congregations to an institution where, instead of the pure word of God, such a lukewarm, double-tongued compromise theology is taught. For woe to him who falsifies and denies the truth of Jesus!

New Literature.

I. The Epistles of St. Peter and St. Jude, preached and explained by Martin Luther, Wittenberg, 1523—'24. Translated with Preface and Notes. By E. H. Gillet. New York: Anson D. F. Randolph, No. 683 Broadway. 1859.

From the Luth. Obs. [Lutheran Observer] we learn that this English translation of Luther's exposition of the epistles of Peter and Jude has recently appeared. Not yet being in possession of the work, we hasten to report the fact to our readers. The price is $1.00 — postage included.

II. Delitzsch, Commentary on the Psalter. First Part: Translation and Exposition of Ps. 1—89. (675 pp. 3 Reichsthaler 14 Groschen.)

This newest work in the field of exegesis is announced by Münkel in his Neues Zeitblatt as follows: Delitzsch promises still more commentaries, in order to fill the undeniable gaps in ecclesiastical scholarship; for "if there is any substitute at all for love, it is surely the writing of books," he says, echoing another, to console himself in this loveless age. Whether buyers and readers of this substitute for love will be of the same opinion must remain an open question. The preface lists the peculiarities of this commentary, among them these two: that it rests on the distinction between the Jehovistic, Elohimistic, and Adonaistic Psalms, and that in the translation it strives for the first time to give an all-round presentation of the manifold artistic forms of the Psalms; the alphabetic acrostics, too, are not lacking; Selah appears rendered as "forte" set in brackets. Of the translation we will give a few samples. But first a brief digression. Ewald has proven that God is called Jahve; he too always calls him so. Delitzsch proves that God is called Jahawah; he too calls him so in the translation, though not in the notes. Beside D.'s Psalms there now lies on my table at the same time Hölemann's Bibelstudien, in one of which he proves that God is called neither Jahve nor Jahawah, but truly Jehovah. So now we have the choice — and the agony of it. Let scholars investigate such things in learned treatises, as is proper, and determine how much can be established; but when every scholar not merely proves something different to us, but forces upon us a different name of God, and, through a thick book, pesters and vexes the reader with his own name-giving — which is nothing more than the whim of his own conjecture — then the urge to mock fades, and vexation sets in instead. Does scholarship gain the slightest thing from this? Of an unproven