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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 fasten.

Faſten

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Anm. b. Zwar beſteht die Vorbereitung auf das Abendmahl nicht in Faſten und Sich-mäßig⸗halten, doch iſt auch rechtes Faſten eine feine äußerliche Zucht. Anm. c. Wenn jemand über ſeine Sünden von Herzen erſchrocken und betrübt iſt, ſo iſt ihm Eſſen und Trinken von ſelbſt zuwider. Anm. d. Fließt das Faſten nicht aus demütiger Geſinnung des Herzens, geſchieht es, um ſich damit ſehen zu laſſen, oder ein verdienſtliches Werk zu tun, ſo iſt es ein Greuel vor Gott. Jeſ. 58. 4—5. Jer. 14, 12: Ob ſie gleich faſten, ſo will ich ihr Flehen doch nicht hören. Anm. e. Das rechte Faſten iſt ein geiſtliches Fa— ſten, da man das Herz vor Gott beugt und demütigt und ſich von Sünden enthält. Jeſ. 58, 6. 7: Das iſt ein Faſten, das ich erwähle: Laß los, welche du mit Unrecht verbunden haſt.

AI translation · machine

Note b. To be sure, preparation for the Lord's Supper does not consist in fasting and self-restraint, yet right fasting, too, is a fine outward discipline. Note c. When someone is heartily terrified and grieved over his sins, eating and drinking are naturally repugnant to him. Note d. If fasting does not flow from a humble disposition of heart, if it is done in order to be seen for it, or to perform a meritorious work, it is an abomination before God. Isa. 58:4-5. Jer. 14:12: Though they fast, I will not hear their cry. Note e. Right fasting is a spiritual fasting, in which one bows and humbles one's heart before God and abstains from sin. Isa. 58:6-7: Is not this the fast that I have chosen: to loose those whom you have bound unjustly.

Luth. 56, 354 margin
Ka. 97, 10 margin
Stöckh. N. T. 98 margin

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2. Geſchichtliches. a. Der einzige Faſttag, welcher dem Volk Gottes im alten Teſtament verordnet war, war der große Verſöh⸗— nungstag. 3 Moſ. 16, 29: euren Leib kaſteien. b. Gefaſtet haben im A. T. David, 2 Sam. 12, 16. Eſther und die Juden zu Suſan. Eſth. 4, 16. Daniel. 9, 3. c. Allgemeine Faſten wurden zu beſondern Zeiten aus— geſchrieben, z. B. Joel 1. 14. 2, 15. Jer. 36, 9. Jona 3, 5. RNeh. 9, 1. 1 Kön. 21. 9. d. Chriſtus hat 10 Tage gefaſtet, um unſere Uppigkeit zu büßen. Matth. 4, 2. Luk. 1, 2. e. Gefaſtet haben Hanna, Luk. 2, 37. Kornelius, Ap. 10. 30. Die Heiligen zu Antiochien. Ap. 13, 1. 2. f. Die Phariſäer legten auf das Faſten großes Gewicht. Luk. 18. 12: zweimal in der Woche: wollten vor den Leuten ſcheinen mit ihrem Faſten Matth. 6, 16; hielten ſelbſterwählte Faſten und ſuchten darin ihr Ver— dienſt. g. Die erſten Chriſten pflegten manche Tage zu faſten, um in der Stille ihr Herz zu prüfen. Chryſoſtomus, Auguſtin. h. Die vierzigtägige Faſtenzeit vor Oſtern wurde erſt von Gregor dem Großen um das Jahr 600 feſtgeſetzt. Doch welcher Mißbrauch wurde bald damit getrieben! Anm. a. Alt iſt auch die Sitte, ehe man in die Faſtenzeit eintrat, ehe man dem Fleiſche Lebewohl (carne vale) ſagen mußte für etliche Wochen (Carneval, Faſtnacht), ſich ausgelaſſener Freude. Freſſen und Saufen zu ergeben. Anm. b. Luther hat auch die Faſtenzeit von den ein— geriſſenen Mißbräuchen reformiert, ſodaß bei uns dieſe Zeit vornehmlich der Betrachtung des Leidens Chriſti ge— widmet iſt. i. Das papiſtiſche Faſten iſt kein Faſten. An Stelle des verbotenen Fleiſches treten andere Speiſen, ſodaß niemand zu darben braucht:

AI translation · machine

2. Historical notes. a. The only fast day prescribed for the people of God in the Old Testament was the great Day of Atonement. Lev. 16:29: afflict your souls. b. In the Old Testament, David fasted, 2 Sam. 12:16; Esther and the Jews at Susa, Esther 4:16; Daniel, 9:3. c. General fasts were proclaimed at special times, for example Joel 1:14; 2:15. Jer. 36:9. Jonah 3:5. Neh. 9:1. 1 Kings 21:9. d. Christ fasted forty days to atone for our excess. Matt. 4:2. Luke 4:2. e. Anna fasted, Luke 2:37; Cornelius, Acts 10:30; the saints at Antioch, Acts 13:1-2. f. The Pharisees laid great weight on fasting. Luke 18:12: twice a week; they wanted to be seen by others with their fasting. Matt. 6:16. They kept self-chosen fasts and sought their merit therein. g. The first Christians used to fast on certain days, to examine their hearts in quiet. Chrysostom, Augustine. h. The forty-day fasting season before Easter was first established by Gregory the Great, around the year 600. Yet what abuse was soon made of it! Note a. Also ancient is the custom, before one entered the fasting season, of having to say farewell to meat (carne vale) for several weeks, and so of giving oneself over to unrestrained mirth, gluttony, and drunkenness (Carnival, Shrove-tide). Note b. Luther, too, reformed the fasting season of the abuses that had crept in, so that among us this time is devoted chiefly to meditation on Christ's suffering. i. Papist fasting is no fasting at all. In place of the forbidden meat, other foods are substituted, so that no one need go hungry.

R. Pi. Kat. 3 margin
Stöckh. A. T. 119 margin
Stock. 373 margin
Schulb. 27, 251 margin
Schulb. 27, 251. 252 margin
Stock. 374 margin
Stöckh. N. T. 78 margin
Stöckh. N. T. 78. 98 margin
Luth. 38, 25 margin
Luth. 38, 25 margin
Stock. 375 margin
Theol. 3, 98 margin
Luth. 38, 25 margin
Luth. 38, 25. 26 margin
Luth. 60, 55 margin
Luth. 60, 55. 44, 45 margin
Stock. 372 margin

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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.