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A cumulative subject index to seven Missouri Synod periodicals, compiled by E. (Ernest) Eckhardt (1868–1939) and printed at St. Louis between 1907 and 1917. Under each headword it sets numbered theses, and beside each thesis the places where the periodicals had treated it — by volume and page, running twenty years past the last of Der Lutheraner's own registers. Where the archive holds the volume a citation names, the citation below is a link to that page.
The alphabetical run is here in full, Abendmahl through Wunder, assembled from five scans: two archive.org items, a pair from Google Books that closes what had looked like a gap in the middle of the alphabet, and the archive.org tail. With it are the Beichtreden appendix, Eckhardt's own printed Register, and the separate 1913 treatise Die Schule, bound in with the later volumes and kept here under its own heading.
Headwords are spelled as Eckhardt set them, so the filter folds the differences that would otherwise hide them — Sklaverei finds Sclaverei, Konkordienformel finds Concordienformel. What you see listed is always the printed spelling.
4,478 entries under 828 headwords, carrying 129,203 citations and 2,331 fragments too damaged to read · built 2026-09-16. uncorrected OCR
The German below is machine transcription of the 1907–1917 print (tesseract, Fraktur model) and has not been proof-read against the page. Read it as a finding aid: the citations are what it is for, and a garbled word is a defect of our OCR, not of Eckhardt.
2 entries under bibellesart.
g. Samaritaniſcher Pentateuch. Anm. In letzter Zeit ſind verſchiedene Evangelienfragmente auf ägyptiſchen Tonſcherben gefunden worden.
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g. The Samaritan Pentateuch. Note. Recently various fragments of the Gospels have been found on Egyptian potsherds.
vol a, printed page 402 · scan: bub_gb_3EAUAAAAYAAJ/n0402
15. Lesarten. Daß durch vieles Abſchreiben ſich ganz unabſichtlich auch Fehler einſchlichen, wundert uns nicht. Kein Buch iſt fehlerfrei. Anm. a. Die Lesarten ſind entſtanden entweder unabſichtlich oder abſichtlich. Unabſichtlich ſind entſtanden Auslaſſungen (beſonders wo ſich dieſelben Worte wieder⸗ holen, z. B. 1 Joh. 5, 6. 7. Drei ſind, die da zeugen). Verwechslungen ähnlich lautender Worte (3. B. 1 Moſ. 36, 40 Alwa und 1 Chron. 1. 51. Aliah). Verwechslungen von Synonyma, Jeſus für Chriſtus. Elohim ſtatt Jahve. Abſichtlich ſind entſtanden Korrekturen von Städte⸗ namen, z. B. Bethania und Bethabara. Joh. 1, 28. Korrekturen zur Beſeitigung vermeintlicher dogmatiſcher Schwierigkeiten, z. B. Luk. 2, 33. „Joſeph“ an Stelle des „und ſein Vater“. Mark. 13, 32. Auslaſſung der Worte: auch der Sohn nicht. Da Kirchenväter die Schriſtworte oft nicht wortgetreu in ihren Schriften wie— dergaben, iſt mitunter die ſo veränderte Form ſpäter mit in die Bibel übergegangen. Randgloſſen ſind in den Text ſelbſt hineingezogen worden u. ſ. w. Anm. b. Die allermeiſten Lesarten verdienen den Na— men Lesart nicht. Von 150,000 Lesarten, die man zählt, haben nur 400 einen nennenswerten Einfluß auf den Sinn, nur 50 von ihnen ſind von Wichtigkeit. Anm. c. Durch keine einzige Lesart wird die Lehre geändert, ein Beweis für die Unverletzlichkeit der Schrift — auch nicht eine Stelle enthält Unſinn. Traktat von Willkomm: Bibel. Lutherbibel u. ſ. w. 18. Anm. d. Die verſchiedenen Abweichungen ſind von der Kirche je und je geſammelt und an den Rand ge⸗ ſchrieben worden. Die urſprüngliche Lesart iſt alſo noch vorhanden, nur können wir nicht immer genau beſtim— men, welches dieſelbe iſt. Einwand 1. Warum hat Gott die verſchiedenen Lesarten zugelaſſen? — Hätte Gott die verſchiedenen Les-— arten verhindern wollen, dann hätte er beſtändig müſſen Wunder tun. Einwand 2. Dies ſei ein Grund gegen die Wortinſpiration. — Gott hat die Schrift, nicht aber die Abſchreiber inſpiriert. Anm. e. Verſchiedene Lesarten kommen auch in den Schriften heidniſcher Schriftſteller vor. Anm. f. Die rechte Lesart ſoll man ſo viel als möglich feſtzuſtellen ſuchen. Textkritik. Regeln darüber: 1. Die einzelnen Codices ſind nach ihrem Wert und Zuverläſſigkeit zu vergleichen. Zuverläſſige ſind den unzuverläſſigen vorzuziehen. 2. Die älteren haben den Vorzug vor den neue— ren.
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15. Readings. That through much copying errors also crept in quite unintentionally does not surprise us. No book is free of errors. Note a. The readings arose either unintentionally or intentionally. Arising unintentionally were: omissions (especially where the same words are repeated, e.g. 1 John 5, 6. 7, "There are three that bear witness"); confusions of similarly-sounding words (e.g. Gen. 36, 40, Alvah, and 1 Chron. 1, 51, Aliah); confusions of synonyms, "Jesus" for "Christ," "Elohim" instead of "Jahve." Arising intentionally were: corrections of place-names, e.g. Bethania and Bethabara, John 1, 28; corrections to remove supposed dogmatic difficulties, e.g. Luke 2, 33, "Joseph" in place of "and his father"; Mark 13, 32, the omission of the words "neither the Son." Since the church fathers often did not reproduce the words of Scripture verbatim in their own writings, the form thus altered sometimes later passed over into the Bible itself. Marginal glosses have been drawn into the text itself, etc. Note b. The vast majority of readings do not deserve the name "reading" at all. Of the 150,000 readings that have been counted, only 400 have any noteworthy influence on the meaning, and only 50 of these are of any importance. Note c. Not a single reading changes any doctrine — a proof of the inviolability of Scripture — nor does even one passage contain nonsense. Tract by Willkomm: Bible, Luther Bible, etc., 18. Note d. The various divergences have been collected by the church from time to time and written in the margin. The original reading is therefore still present; only we cannot always determine exactly which one it is. Objection 1. Why has God permitted the various readings? — If God had wished to prevent the various readings, he would have had to work a continual miracle. Objection 2. This is said to be an argument against verbal inspiration. — God inspired Scripture, not the copyists. Note e. Various readings also occur in the writings of pagan authors. Note f. One should seek to establish the correct reading as far as possible. Textual criticism. Rules concerning this: 1. The individual codices are to be compared according to their value and reliability. Reliable ones are to be preferred to unreliable ones. 2. The older ones take precedence over the newer ones.
vol a, printed page 402 · scan: bub_gb_3EAUAAAAYAAJ/n0402
A citation shown like this names a volume the archive does not hold — most of Der Lutheraner and Lehre und Wehre past Jahrgang 10, and the five other series Eckhardt indexes, none of which are here. Those references are printed as Eckhardt set them rather than hidden: the reference is the useful thing even when we cannot serve the page. Page images of the Reallexikon itself are not served in this build; the scan note under each entry gives the item and image index in the archive.org copy.