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88	Der Kirchenjammer in Hessen⸗Darmstadt.

meine Natur nach dem Fleisch den Vorzug des himmlischen Sitzes erlanget hat. Du hast gesehen, daß der HErr JEsus nach der Wirkung der Gottheit, sich selbst alle Dinge kann unterwürfig machen. Nun lerne, daß nach dem Fleisch ihm alles unterworfen sei, wie geschrieben stehet: Welcher in Christo gewirket hat, indem er ihn auferwecket von den Todten, und gesetzet hat zu seiner Rechten im Himmel, über alle Fürstenthümer, Gewalt, Macht, Herrschaft, und alles, was genannt mag werden in dieser und zukünftigen Welt und hat alle Dinge unter seine Füße gethan. Also ist ihm alles in Ansehung seines Fleisches unterworfen, nach welchem er auch vom Tode erwecket worden;“

Hieronymus 1): „Wenn uns jemand vorwirft, daß auch wir an den glauben, welcher saget: nun suchet ihr mich zu tödten, einen Menschen, der ich euch die Wahrheit gesaget; so geben wir ihm die apostolische Antwort: ob wir gleich Christum vormals nach dem Fleisch gekannt haben, so kennen wir ihn doch nun nicht mehr. Und eben dieser Apostel schreibet an die Galater: Paulus, ein Apostel, nicht von Menschen, auch nicht durch Menschen, sondern durch JEsum Christum, der ihn auferwecket hat von den Todten. Wenn denn der Tod verschlungen ist in dem Sieg; warum sollte nicht die Niedrigkeit des Fleisches, welche wegen des Heils der Menschen angenommen worden, der Majestät der Gottheit theilhaftig worden sein, so daß er aus beiden eines gemacht habe, und wir nicht das Geschöpf, sondern den Schöpfer anbeten, welcher gelobet ist in Ewigkeit?“

(Fortsetzung folgt.)

(Aus dem Freimund.)
Der Kirchenjammer in Hessen⸗Darmstadt.

Wir dürfen uns billig stets vor dem HErrn betrüben, wenn wir sehen, wie es im Herzogthum Sachsen⸗Coburg aussieht. Wie einst Julianus Apostata das Heidenthum wieder aufrichten wollte, so will der dortige Herzog den jüngeren Bruder des Heidenthums, den Rationalismus aufrichten. Aber es

vinitatis. Disce nunc, quod secundum carnem omnia subjecta accipiat, sicut scriptum est: Qui operatus est in Christo, suscitans eum a mortuis, et constituens eum ad dexteram suam in coelestibus, supra omnem principatum, et potestatem, et virtutem, et dominationem, et omne nomen, quod nominatur non solum in hoc seculo sed etiam in futuro, et omnia subjecit sub pedibus eius. Secundum carnem igitur ei omnia subjecta traduntur, secundum quam et a mortuis suscitatus est.

1) Commentar. in Jeremiam Cap. XVII. Tom. V. Opp. p. 255. Quod si nobis oppositum fuerit, quod et nos credamus in eo, qui dicit: Nunc autem quaeritis me interficere hominem, qui veritatem vobis locutus sum. Respondebimus illud Apostolicum: Et si Christum secundum carnem aliquando cognovimus, sed nunc iam non novimus. Denique idem Apostolus in principio Epistolae suae scribit ad Galatas: Paulus Apostolus non ab hominibus, neque per hominem, sed per Jesum Christum et Deum Patrem, qui suscitavit eum a mortuis. Si enim mors absorpta est in victoria, quare non carnis humilitas, quae propter humanum salutem assumpta est, in divinitatis transierit majestatem, ut fecerit utrumque unum, et non adoremus creaturam, sed creatorem, qui est benedictus in secula?

88	The Grief of the Church in Hesse-Darmstadt.

-mon nature according to the flesh has obtained the privilege of the heavenly seat. You have seen that the Lord Jesus, according to the working of the Godhead, can subject all things to himself. Now learn that, according to the flesh also, all things are made subject to him, as it is written: Who wrought in Christ, raising him from the dead, and set him at his right hand in heaven, far above all principality, power, might, dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world but also in that which is to come, and hath put all things under his feet. Thus all things are made subject to him with respect to his flesh, according to which he was also raised from the dead;"

Jerome 1): "If anyone reproaches us that we too believe in him who says: now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth; we give him the apostolic answer: though we once knew Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know him so no more. And this same apostle writes to the Galatians: Paul, an apostle, not from men, nor through man, but through Jesus Christ, who raised him from the dead. If then death is swallowed up in victory, why should not the lowliness of the flesh, which was assumed for the salvation of mankind, have become a partaker of the majesty of the Godhead, so that he made one out of both, and we worship not the creature but the Creator, who is blessed forever?"

(To be continued.)

(From the Freimund.)
The Grief of the Church in Hesse-Darmstadt.

We may rightly always grieve before the Lord when we see how things stand in the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg. As Julian the Apostate once wished to restore heathenism, so the duke there wishes to set up the younger brother of heathenism, rationalism. But it

[continued from the previous page:] You have learned, then, that he can subject all things to himself, according to the working, as it is written: Who wrought in Christ, raising him from the dead, and setting him at his right hand in the heavenly places, far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world but also in that which is to come, and hath subjected all things under his feet. According to the flesh, therefore, all things are delivered to him as subject, according to which he was also raised from the dead.

1) Commentary on Jeremiah, chap. XVII, vol. V, Opp., p. 255. [If it should be objected to us that we too believe in him who says: But now you seek to kill me, a man who has spoken the truth to you — we shall answer with that word of the Apostle: And though we have once known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know him so no more. Finally, the same Apostle writes at the beginning of his Epistle to the Galatians: Paul, an apostle, not from men, nor through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him from the dead. For if death has been swallowed up in victory, why should not the lowliness of the flesh, which was assumed for the sake of human salvation, have passed over into the majesty of the Godhead, so that he made the two into one, and we might not adore the creature, but the Creator, who is blessed forever?]