Compiled with Loving Diligence
The fourteen-page index to Lehre und Wehre was not made by its editors. A footnote in six-point type says who made it, and why the editors called his work loving.
The Lector Returns
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Lector is Latin for reader, from
The Public Reading of Scripture
The words “public” and “of Scripture” are in every modern Bible at 1 Timothy 4:13. Neither is in Paul’s Greek — a history of the phrase, from a Wittenberg classroom in 1528 to the English Bibles of 1901–1946 to the convention floor of 2026.
A Rebuke of Conscience
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On Sunday, July 21, 1861, the
Grace, Set Upside Down
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Sometime in 1845, in a print