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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.
6 entries under bekenntnisschristen.
2. auch alle beiläufig darin ausgeſprochenen Leh⸗ ren. — Dieſelben werden in ſpäteren Bekenntniſſen oft als Beweis angeführt,
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2. also all doctrines expressed incidentally in them. — These are often cited as proof in later confessions,
vol a, printed page 341 · scan: bub_gb_3EAUAAAAYAAJ/n0341
3. in rebus und phraſibus. Trak. 22. Kon. 21.
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3. in rebus and phrasibus [in substance and in wording]. Trak. 22. Kon. 21.
vol a, printed page 341 · scan: bub_gb_3EAUAAAAYAAJ/n0341
4. alle richtigen Schlußfolgerungen. Wer * der richtigen Schlußfolgerungen Verbindlichkeit aus der Augs. Konfeſſion nicht anerkennen will, iſt ſ. Schlußfolgerungen. kein wahrer Lutheraner. Anm. a. Nimmt man vom Bekenntnis aus, was man I. ſo treibt man Heuchelei und die Bekenntniſſe hel⸗ Wer eine Lehre des Bekenntniſſes füir muns gar nichts. Anm. b. ſene Frage erklärt, bricht ein Loch in die Mauer. c. Die Verpflichtung bezieht ſich nicht auf Anm. inge, die in das Gebiet der menſchlichen Wiſſenſchaft hören, z. V. 1. daß der Autor einer Schrift Ambroſius oder ö Auguſtin ſei. Melanchthon führt eine Schrift Leos als die des Ambroſius an. 2. daß die Obrigkeit die aus dem Lande jagen tönne, die den Katechismus nicht lernen wollen. 3. daß die Art der Beweisführung manchmal an⸗ Man darf die Glaubensartikel ders ſein könnte. auch mit andern Worten, aus andern Schriftſtellen und mit andern Argumenten beweiſen. 4. daß an Form und Faſſung der Worte nicht hier und da gebeſſert werden könnte.
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4. all correct inferences. Whoever will not acknowledge the binding force of the correct inferences drawn from the Augsburg Confession is no true Lutheran. See Inferences. Note a. If one takes from the confession whatever one pleases, one practices hypocrisy, and the confessions are of no help to us at all. Note b. Whoever declares a doctrine of the confession to be an open question breaks a hole in the wall. Note c. The obligation does not extend to things that belong to the domain of human scholarship, for example, 1. that the author of a writing was Ambrose or Augustine. Melanchthon cites a writing of Leo's as being by Ambrose. 2. that the government may drive out of the land those who will not learn the catechism. 3. that the manner of demonstration could sometimes be different. One may also prove the articles of faith with other words, from other Scripture passages, and with other arguments. 4. that the form and wording of the words could not be improved here and there.
vol a, printed page 341 · scan: bub_gb_3EAUAAAAYAAJ/n0341
5. daß in jeder Schriftauslegung, obwohl keine — gegen die Analogie iſt, unmer und jedesmal der vom Geiſt intendierte Sinn getroffen ſei.
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5. that in every interpretation of Scripture, although none is against the analogy [of faith], the sense intended by the Spirit has been hit upon always and in every instance.
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6. daß die Zitation nach der unrichtigen Vulgata geſchehen iſt, Dies
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6. that the citation was made according to the incorrect Vulgate,
No citation printed with this thesis.
vol a, printed page 341 · scan: bub_gb_3EAUAAAAYAAJ/n0341
7. dau die Papiſten Eſel genaunnt werden. alles berührt die Lehre der Schrift nicht. Anm. d. Ein Übelſtand wäre es freilich, wenn Bibel⸗ tellen in den Bekenntniſſen falſch ausgelegt oder falſch mgewendet worden wären, aber derartige Eregeſe wird nder Konkordia nicht offenbar. Anm. e. Wir haben auch das Semper virgo (on. 90/, das elauſo utero. (Kon. 668), den Traducianis⸗ nus (Kon. 579) mit unterſchrieben. Wer das nicht mmerſchreiben will. kann das vorher anzeigen; e in demſelben Sinn, wie ſolchen die Worte mit ſich bringen. Wer die Symbole zwar unterſchreibt,‚ bnen aber hier und da einen andern Sinn unterlegt, ü kein treuer Lutheraner. Anm. a. Wie ganz anders legen Papiſten und Refor— mierte das avoſtoliſche Somholum aus. Anm. b. Die Bekenntniſſe werden von vielen in einem ganz andern Sinn unterſchrieben. So wollte unter⸗ ſchreiben 1. Arius das nicäniſche Symbolum,
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7. that the papists are called donkeys. None of this touches the doctrine of Scripture. Note d. It would indeed be a defect if Bible passages in the confessions had been wrongly interpreted or wrongly applied, but no such exegesis is evident in the Book of Concord. Note e. We have also subscribed along with the rest to the semper virgo [the perpetual virginity] (Kon. 90), the clauso utero [the closed womb] (Kon. 668), and traducianism (Kon. 579). Whoever does not wish to subscribe to these as well may state so beforehand; e. in the same sense that the words themselves carry. Whoever indeed signs the symbols, but here and there gives them a different meaning, is no faithful Lutheran. Note a. How very differently the papists and the Reformed interpret the Apostles' Creed. Note b. The confessions are subscribed to by many in an entirely different sense. Thus wished to subscribe 1. Arius, to the Nicene Creed,
vol a, printed page 341 · scan: bub_gb_3EAUAAAAYAAJ/n0341
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.