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Eckhardt's Homiletisches Reallexikon, 1907–1917

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 allegorie.

Allegorie

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b. vom Ausleger in die Schrift hinein⸗ getragen wird, z. B. Der 1. Die Geſchichte von den 10 Ausſätzigen. Ausſatz iſt die Sünde, Chriſtus reinigt uns und weiſt uns zu den Prieſtern, zum Amt des Wortes. 2. Das Schifflein auf dem Meer, ein Bild der Kirche. 3. Die Arche Noahs iſt die chriſtliche Kirche, die Tür zur Arche das Wort, dadurch man in die chriſt⸗ liche Kirche kommt. Anm. a. Der Zweck ſolcher Allegorien iſt: die Wahr ⸗ö heit, nachdem ſie aus klaren Stellen erwieſen, durch eine Geſchichte zu veranſchaulichen. Anm. b. Stark gemißbraucht wurde die Allegorie oft von den Alten, Origines, Hieronymus, Auguſtin, den Scholaſtikern. Anm. c. Luther gebraucht ſie noch oft in ſeiner Kir⸗— chenpoſtille um ſeiner Zuhörer willen, in ſeiner ſpäteren Hauspoſtille iſt nichts davon zu finden. Anm. d. „Die Schrift auf mehr Weiſe und Verſtand auszulegen, achte ich nicht allein für gefährlich und zu lehren unnütz, ſondern es verkleinert auch und ſchwächt den Namen und Anſehen der Schrift.“ Luther.

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b. Is read into Scripture by the interpreter, e.g., 1. The story of the ten lepers. Leprosy is sin; Christ cleanses us and directs us to the priests, to the ministry of the Word. 2. The little boat on the sea, a picture of the church. 3. Noah's ark is the Christian church; the door of the ark is the Word, through which one comes into the Christian church. Note a. The purpose of such allegories is to illustrate, by means of a story, a truth already established from clear passages. Note b. Allegory was often heavily misused by the ancients — Origen, Jerome, Augustine, the Scholastics. Note c. Luther still often uses it in his Church Postil for the sake of his hearers; in his later House Postil nothing of it is to be found. Note d. ‘To interpret Scripture in more than one way and sense I hold to be not only dangerous but useless to teach; it also belittles and weakens the name and authority of Scripture.’ Luther.

Ma. 2, 314 margin
Ma. 16, 288 margin
Loch. Epi. 296 margin
No. 67, 42 margin
Loch. Epi. 296 margin
Ma. 20, 74 margin
No. 67, 36 margin
No. 67, 36. 37 margin
Ma. 16, 288 margin
Pi. Hom. 53 margin
Pi. Hom. 53. 54 margin
Quart. 1904, 137 margin
No. 67, 41 margin
Pi. Hom. 53 margin
Pi. Hom. 53. 54 margin
No. 67, 37 margin
L. W. 13, 105 margin

vol a, printed page 113 · scan: bub_gb_3EAUAAAAYAAJ/n0113

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3. Regeln über den Gebrauch derſelben. a. Man brauche ſie ſelten und ſuche nicht bei allen Geſchichten eine geiſtliche Deutung. b. Die Allegorie muß, wenn man ſie brauchen will, we⸗ nigſtens 1. ſchriftgemäß, dem Glauben ähnlich, 2. nicht gezwungen und unpaſſend ſein. c. Der myſtiſche Sinn iſt nicht beweiskräftig, wenn er nicht vom h. Geiſt ſelbſt angezeigt iſt.

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3. Rules for its use. a. One should use it rarely, and not seek a spiritual interpretation in every story. b. If one wishes to use an allegory, it must at least 1. Be in accord with Scripture, in keeping with the analogy of faith, 2. Not be forced or unfitting. c. The mystical sense carries no probative force unless it is indicated by the Holy Spirit himself.

Loch. Epi. 295 margin
Ma. 16, 288 margin
Ma. 16, 288. 2, 314 margin
Ma. 2, 413 margin
Loch. Epi. 296 margin
R. Pi. 212 margin
Ma. 20, 73 margin
Ma. 20, 73. 74 margin
Loch. Epi. 296 margin

vol a, printed page 113 · scan: bub_gb_3EAUAAAAYAAJ/n0113

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.