M F R A N Z D E L I T Z S C H

El m e mo r i a l ( tr i b u te.

V SAMUEL I ES CURTISS ,

P F E S S O R I N CH ICA T H E ICA E I N A Y R O GO OLOG L S M R .

E D I N B U R G H

. . C L A R K 3 8 O T T , GE R GE S T REET .

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N D N H AMI T N AD AM A N D C O . LO O , L O , S , D I E E H E E U N T . BL , G ORG RB R

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I N T Y A N D V S UD , RECREATION , CHRISTIAN SER ICE ,

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A A R R E N E R E Y D R PH , P R OF E S S O R C S P G G O , . ,

THIS SLIGHT TRIBUTE T O T H E MEMORY

OF OU R BELOVED TEACHER

IS DEDICAT ED

AS W E CLASP H ANDS ONCE MORE

V B I S G V O ER RA E .

PR E F A C E .

THIS Memorial was u nd e r ta ke n at the suggestion of m ! o f y friend , Professor Caspar Ren Gregory the

f s r o . Unive sity Leipzig It is not de igned , however , i n a ny w a y to forestall a large wor k which is

r i n r n A s s r e r e p omised Ge ma . eve al y a s may lapse

r r e n befo e that work can appea , it is hoped m a while that this little volu me may be welcom ed by those wh o n a nd r e r k ew loved P of sso Delitzsch .

no s i s It lays claim to completenes , although it based o n a n intimate acquaintance with h im which began i n 1 8 7 3 o n a car efu l examination o f original

u m e n no t vi s r a nd o n doc ts , pre ou ly b ought to light ; personal i nt e rviews with those who we re acqu ainted

r r a nd m r fo r with P ofesso Delitzsch his othe years , o ne of whom wa s a n Old schoolm ate at the Nicolai

u m Gymnasi .

h i s r n e n a nd While it does not contain co respo d ce , many detail s which would be so interesting to for mer

u s p pils , it may perhaps present some picture which may be helpful in giving at least a faint conception PREFACE . o f the noble personality which we associate with the name Franz Delitzsch .

If all o u r theologians could be animated with his s r di s pi it , debatable questions in theology would be

t r n cussed withou bitte ess , and childlike faith would

n b e combi ed with scientific research .

N o effor t h a s been made to suppress anything

r e f conce ning his arly di ficulties and struggles . The

o to whole st ry is told so far as it is known me . I can only believe that the more his life is studied

r o u r fo r the g eater must be admiration his industry,

- fo r his learning, his self denying labours , and his warm devotion to the cause o f Christ .

AMUEL ES URT S IV C ISS .

G F e br u a r 1 89 1 . CHICA O , y C ON T E N T S .

CH A P .!

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. K D E L I T Z S C s I S ETCH OF H LIFE ,

W II . THE LAST FARE ELL,

A S A N D G III . DELITZSCH TEACHER THEOLO IAN ,

D E L I T z s o H A S A N D Iv . AUTHOR FRIEND OF AUTHORS ,

V T H E OF . DELITZSCH AS FRIEND ISRAEL,

A E N D X P P I .

V I . ITA ,

G P Y II . AUTOBIO RA H ,

. P OF W K III ARTIAL LIST OR S ,

F RAN Z DEL I TZ S CH.

CHAPTER I .

’ SKETCH OF D EL ITZ S C H S LIFE .

' em e m e r : Th e n m Of e en s u fi e r eth e n e a nd th e R b ki gdo h av viol c , ’ t e itb r — v e nt e . D iol ak y fo c ELITZSCH .

m n n r e HE fa ily , whose name Fra z Delitzsch i he it d ,

o ne . e r was a very humble The name , how ve ,

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r o . as appears f om the records , was D litzsch The

n u u l father, who was born in Leisnig, a tow bea tif ly

u r e n wa s sit ated on the road f om Leipzig to Dresd , a

r i n s n - r e r deale eco d hand clothes . The g andfath , who was a gr enadier i n a regiment under th e com mand o f 1 r - n r L e co r n Majo Ge e al q, came f om We disch Luppa,

i n O a small place Saxony, near schatz .

n u e wa s His mother, whose maiden ame was M ll r,

m u n r fro Schke ditz , a town ear Leipzig, on the oad Y o' to Halle . oung D litzsch was married quietly on th e l s t 1 8 03 r of June , when he was a little ove

1 T h e fi gu r e s i n th e te xtr e fer to th e notes a tth e e nd of th e e rs chapt . 2 FRANZ DELITZSCH .

n o f twe ty years age . It is clear from the church records , which I have examined with greatest

r o f ca e , that both the families represented in this m a n arri ge were of pure Germa extraction , without a n o f y trace Jewish blood , as has sometimes been imagined . So far as we can learn , there was no r o f f uit this union until about ten years later, as will s oon appear. Some years ago Professor Delitzsch wrote regar d i n r e r g a discovery made by his colleague , P of sso

K o f abuis , a Magister Andreas Delitzsch , who was connected with the University o f Leipzig in the time f o the Reformation . In this article Professor De l itz sch fo r r to o says that nea ly ten years he , , was

n a know as M gister Delitzsch , and seems to wish that i n some way a connection mi ght be established between h im a nd the o ne whose name was thus ex h u m e d l from Ob ivion . With evident regret , however , he remarks that probably there is no connection b e tween the family Of D Ol itz sch and that o f Delitzsch o n o f ff o f account the di erent spelling the name .

l h n fo r But the Spe ling proves not i g , down to the present century the spelling o f names often differs

to according the sound , and the sound according to f provincial varieties o pronunciation . Thus we find

’ in duplicate records o f the baptism o f D e li tz sch s ffi father , that in the o cial record kept by the sexton 3 D Ol itz sch the name is written , while in the copy kept by the superintendent of the parish the name is

o f a o f Delitzsch , and in the record the marri ge his ’ K D ELITZ S CH S 3 S ETCH OF LIFE . parents at Schkeuditz the name is a lso written 4 Delitzsch .

i o f m No nob lity fa ily , however, could add any f thing to the lustre o his name . All who may hereafter bear it might well wish to prove that in some way their families were connected with his . He first saw th e light in a house which was then

N o 1 2 9 9 Gr im m a sch e o f . Steinweg, a continuation

G r im m a sch e o f Strasse , outside the ancient city

m 2 r 1 8 1 On 4th 3 d 3 . li its , February , the of March

m n i n ni i mediately followi g, accord g to the u versal custom of th e Lutheran Church at that time of

b u t allowing little delay between birth and baptism ,

z he was bapti ed in the Nicolai Church . It was a humble company which gathered around

h to t is babe , who was be one of the brightest theo

Of n u logical lights this ce t ry . The Mayor of Leipzig and the Rector o f the University mi ght well have

n a nd i n n bee his godfathers , Super te dent Rosen 5 m ii ll e r might have counted it a n honour to have

t r no t bap ized such a child . But as the wo ld did know what his future would be , he was baptized

u - o f by Magister R del , a sub diaconus the Nicolai

r Church ; and those who were present , acco ding to

“ : the church records , were as follows his father,

r e D Olitz sch - n Johann Gottf i d , second ha d dealer ; his m nn n u : n r other , Joha a Rosi a M ller the godpare ts we e ,

r r n n n F iedrich August Schlegel , jou eyma stocki g

° r a n n u n maker Ma ia Sophia , au t or co si from his

o f mother s native place in Schkeuditz , daughter a 4 FRANZ DELITZSCH .

deceased shoemaker ; and Franz Julius Hirsch , second ” t hand dealer, af er whom he seems to have been

wh o d w named , and was oubtless the intimate Je ish friend o f the family whom he mentions so gratefully 6 u in his A tobiography as Hirsch Levy , and with 7 n a - o f whom , as I have lear ed from grand nephew 8 Hirsch Levy, the family had their home . They l ived for years in the third storey o f a

i n . Gassch e n rear tenement Prussian Lane (Preuss ) , 2 4 1 1 which was then No . , now No . . The front

o f A O 1 1 1 house bears the date 7 . The tenement

o f o n consisted three small rooms , facing a court 1 2 about 2 6 feet by . If o u r supposition be correct with reference to the g o ne e w last named in the record of this baptism , J as well as Christian was represented . Certainly no Christian godfather could have been

u o f more mindf l his Obligation , nor more beloved by 1 0 wh o his godchild , than was Hirsch Levy, , late in

o f - life , at the age seventy eight , two years before his

i death , publicly acknowledged the Mess ah whom he

n n i n had lo g recog ised secret , and was baptized as

Theodor Hirsch . Some may be inclined to question whether it would be possible for a Jew under any circumstances to be a godfather at a ba ptism in a

Lutheran church . Doubtless such a case could hardly occur no w ; but at a time when Leipzig was R thoroughly poisoned by ationalism, as at the begin

o f e ning the present century, we may well believ that baptisms were performed in a rather perfu nctory ’ K DE LITZ S C H S 5 S ETCH OF LIFE .

. Th e r u way parish was ve y large , incl ding several

n r n thousa d people . It is ve y u likely that the sub diaconus could know mor e than was indicated o n the 1 1 slip o f paper which contained good Chr istian nam es

Or n - , if he happened to know the seco d hand dealer, he might choose to inter pose no bar rier to his pre

e n . m m s ce It must be reme bered , too , that at this ti e

s r n the Jews , who had no civil right , were d ive to all sorts Of subterfuges wh en they desired to enjoy ce r

r m n r tain p ivileges a o g Christians . It is therefo e easily conceivable that Hirsch Levy in his inter course

r e n with Ch istians , when it se med ecessary, assumed

o n r o f s the name which we find the reco d bapti m ,

n r m Fra z Julius Hirsch , d opping his last na e , Levy, as he did m any years afterwards at his o wn baptism ; and m th e m r S n this see s o e probable , i ce after the m ost careful search the name Franz Julius Hirsch is no t i n o r i o f to be found any civil church l st Leipzig, although o n the baptismal record Of the child D O li tz sch he is indicated as a resident of the city, and as engaged i n the same occupation as that followed by Hirsch Levy . Besides , the name Hirsch Levy had

n s been lo g on the list of those Jew who , while not

z n n r n o f citi e s, e joyed the p otectio Leipzig , because it 1 2 f r r was the place o thei bi th . We may well believe that while young Deli tzsch

n was an i fant , close observers could see the promise o f r r a remarkable ca ee . His mother told a friend, 1 3 n n o f still livi g, that as she was standi g at the door her house with her babe on her arm , during those 6 A FR NZ DELITZSCH . days which were SO fateful for Napoleon in connec tion with the battle of Leipzig, a soldier who was

d o n e passing stoppe , and , putting his hand the littl ’ “ l boy s head , said , Mamma , mamma, this child wil ” n r o e day be a g eat man . Concerning his boyhood we have very few parti u l r o f c a s . Although he speaks his childhood as a hard one , he was nevertheless a merry, exceedingly lively lad , and so zealous in gymnastics , that he 1 4 f no dangerously injured o ne o his eyes . It is t

wa s improbable that in the stall , which kept alter “ ” na te l b y y Uncle Hirsch and his mother, and which m was uch patronised by the university students , he

’ found abundant inspiration , and that here the foun dation was laid for his literary career .

’ He first studied in a boys school , then in the free

o f city school , which Plato was director and Dolz

- 1 5 vice director Here , under these leading spirits , he R 1 6 says that he became a complete ationalist . In

1 8 2 7 o f he entered the Nicolai Gymnasium , which

Dr. Nobbe was rector, and continued his studies 1 1 until h i s graduation in 8 3 . He must have wo n a high rank as a scholar . Professor Dr . G . A .

n o f o f Wi ter, a librarian the University Leipzig,

Of o ne w who was a member of the lo er classes , says it was a current report among his mates that at the final examination Delitzsch spoke Greek fluently 1 7 o ne o f with the examiners , Professor Grossmann , who had a great reputation for scholarly attain

o r ments . Whether this was an exaggeration not , ’ K D E LITZS CH S F S ETCH OF LI E . 7 th e younger stu de nts evidently considered him extr a 1 8 r n n r i n nn o dinary . At a ce te nial celeb ation co ec

n n m o f e n tio with the Gym asiu , he was one the sev

u n e e n n On p pils appoi t d to r prese t the i stitution . t n a n u his occasio he delivered o d e . At his grad a

n o n 2 3 r d m 1 8 3 1 n e tio , the of Septe ber , he prese t d a farewell poem ; and in the programme which wa s

s s i sued by the rector, and which contain poetical m r r u e emo ials by fo mer pupils , yo ng Delitzsch receiv s 1 s n a s ° 9 pecial recognitio , the following quotation shows

n o f n m n r I stead givi g a y othe specimens , the follow i n r n Ju l g poems by a pupil just graduating, F a z .

a r e ns v r Delitzsch , i erted , in which he gi es a p oof Of th e o ld n i n r o experie ce that classical culture , p

to o f in portion its thoroughness , is advantage the

Cu o f o u r o wn n ltivation to gue . He has happily

n m n u n a nd combi ed oder classic a thors with a cient , H O' lt ” has chosen y as a model of the former. While pr evious graduates who sec u r e recognition have o ne 20 m fi v e . poem each in the program e , Delitzsch has \Ve give some o f the stanzas Of the last poem without

r n n t a slation . Those who are acquainted with Germa

n o f will notice the significa ce the final stanza .

D E R D 21 M O N .

' e nn d a s S altr o th i n e su n e n W p h g k , Und d e r st e Ab e n ste r n ill d , m m e r ne r wi e e in F u n e n I gold , k , ’ Str ahlta u s d ii ster bl a u e r F e r n Sie hte s silbe r n d u r ch d e n Wald Und m ittau se nd kle ine n Ste r ne n z I std a s G e we ig e d ar in b e m alt. 8 FRANZ DELITZSCH .

D n ih m d e r m i tm e m Gl a nz cn a k , ild

’ D O L u n r te r ob t ich , a , do h . D e r d i e We lti n Re ig cntanz en Um d i e gr osse A xe d re ht; D e r s D em e fli ch t ich iad , A u s d e s Blitzes goldnen Str ahle n Und a ns d e s Ab en s sen d Ro licht.

Ih r d e r D i m m er er te n , dich v al Und so na h u ns l anz en asst g l , Dass d u u ns v o n se ine m Walte n Wu nde r h o l d e rz ah l te s t H asta u ch jungsti n voll er P r acht T r u tv o m E e n e s r e n a wig g p och ,

In d e s Johann e s h e ilg er N acht.

O gl e ich d e ine m Unte r gange D och der e instm e in Sting erto d ! ’ Sanfte r ble ichtd i r Au g u nd Wange Vo r d er nne M r enr t So o g o h . H e e nn m i r a m S ter b e t e il , w ag Vo r d er A u fe rsteh u ng so nne n tso wi e d ir d a s A u e br ! Sa f , , g ach

According to the last page Of the pr ogramme

o ne which I have mentioned , young Delitzsch was o f those who were proposing to study theology.

o f Speaking that time , however , he says that he

G o d o f felt himself drawn to , but that the person

n Jesus Christ was veiled in utter darkness . He we t to the university in the Winter Semester o f 1 8 3 1

3 2 to l e study philosophy and philology . Whi e se k i ng fo r truth he became absorbed in the systems o f

a the great German philosophers , and was especi lly 22 r c f att a ted by the idealism o Fichte .

Bu n tat le gth a great change came over him . A

- t u 3 gifted, pious fellow s udent , named Sch tz! who was

1 O FRANZ DELITZSCH .

. o f su bse life In the society kindred spirits , who quently became eminent as leaders o f the Sacramental t Host , among whom was Ferdinand Walther , af er

’ Of th e wards Missouri Synod , he passed the last three years o f his university course ( 1 8 3 2 which he 27 o f says were the most beautiful his life . He was a leader o f a little circle which met weekly fo r

e difi ca ti o n 1 8 3 5 1 8 4 2 Ou to f mutual from to . these 28 n Co mm u ni o n Bo ok h little meeti gs grew his , whic

passed through seven editions , and was richly blessed ,

L u th a r d t m hi s fu so that Professor re arked at neral , that perhaps he had more joy i n the knowledge that th is book had been a blessing to many souls than i n the fame which had come from all his learned 29 works .

1 8 3 5 o n 3 r d o f In the year , the March , when he

ll - was sti in his twenty second year , he became doctor o f philosophy . The dissertation does not seem to be

u Vi ta in existence , altho gh in his , which has been f h 30 a o i s . preserved , we h ve some account studies During the following year a sore trial came in the

. d o f eath his father, who had the reputation , among

o f those who knew him, having been a dissipated man . Delitzsch simply tells us that he died in his

o n o f 4th o f 1 8 3 6 arms the night the April , at the

o f fi ft- m age y four . Fro other sources it is reported that he was entirely o u to f sym pathy with the life

o f so n no t and aims his , whose presence even was

agreeable to him , so that young Delitzsch was often

hi s compelled to withdraw to own room . After his ’ 1 1 SKETCH OF DE LITZ S CH S LIFE .

n x n e decease his son mour ed e ceedi gly for a long tim , because h e feared his father had died withou t hope ; but h e was fi nally comforted by a dr eam in which he

a nd appeared to him , told him that his prayers in his 31 behalf had been answered . He had already chos en the Old Testament depart

n H e u n n e r me t . laid a fo datio in H b ew at the Nicolai 32 n u a Gym asium , and began his st dy of Rabbinic l 33 s s n r Hebrew with the Jewi h mis io a y Becker, who

n r was in the habit of attendi g the fai s at Leipzig,

where many Jews were wont to congregate . I n after years he never allowed a n Opportunity to pass to perfect himself in the knowledge o f Rabin ni ca l Hebr ew a nd o f the cognate langu ages . His thirs t fo r knowledge was extr aordinary. He was fi TSta pupil a nd then a n intimate friend o f the

m u r r r n fa o s Arabic schola , P ofesso Fleischer , u til the

o f th e 1 8 8 8 Vo n Or e lli death latter in . relates that after Delitzsch retu r ned from E r langen to

n fi ft- r s Leipzig , whe he was y fou year of age , he

’ r n attended Fleische s Society with the stude ts . He told Professor Gregor y that he also took Arabic

n f n o . lesso s the American missio ary , Dr Eli Smith , and said that he owed more to him i n that language

o n fo r n than to any e else . He was years on i timate

n r . . . terms with the Jewish missio a y , Dr. J R J

m n . e Biesenthal , with Dr. Baer , and a y others Lik

n r the busy bee, he gathered ho ey from every flowe ,

and stored it away in his hive .

Y n s n ou g Delitzsch pe t seven y ears in quiet study , 1 2 D LITZ II FRANZ E S C . u ntil in 1 8 42 he became a licentiate o f theology a nd r iva t-( l ocent o f n a p , with the privilege lecturi g in the university . In the catalogue o f the Uni versity of Leipzig fo r the Summer Semester, M!agister! F . Delitzsch , theo logical licentiate , is advertised to give an exposition 34 o f r 1 8 3 4 the p ophecies of Isaiah . In he was

' r tr a o r d i na r i u s r o esso ex . made a p f Meanwhile , he was called as a regular professor to KOnigsb er g ; b u t he declined , because he was a strict Lutheran , and KOnigsb e r g combined the Lutheran and R eformed

Confessions in what is known as the Union . In 1 8 4 6 he was called to the University o f

R o n 2 7th O f 1 8 4 5 ostock . Meanwhile , the April , he had married Miss Clara Silber , the only daughter o f o ne a wealthy family whose three brothers , f o . after another, had died consumption Pro

’ fe sso r D e li tz sch s first famulus , Bernhard Caspari , is authority fo r the statement that Miss Silber found

o f her future husband by the bedside her brothers ,

m e e to who the young prof ssor was much attach d , and whom he visited in a pastoral way . He himself says that he became acquainted with her through

n o f the religious meeti gs which he was leader . Not

r r co n only her brothe s , but also her mothe , were

u verted thro gh his instrumentality . F o r information concerning his activity at R o s

K ni O . tock , I am indebted to Professor Eduard g While

e th re he was still engaged in laying broad foundations . When we remember that it was his habitfrom o ne ’ Z S C H S 1 3 SKETCH OF D ELIT LIFE .

’ e r r e end of the y a to the other to is at five o clock , a nd that he regar ded the ordinary vacation as a

s o f r m a nd wa te time , and that wo k was his eat

n ca n n t r u dri k , we understa d that hose were f uitf l

a nd a r e no t r e ff i n years , su prised at the vari ty o ered

u s e s o f n u n m n s his co r lectures , i cl di g ele e t of Syriac , 35 r n n. Arabic , Sama ita , and Persia N o r wa s his activity confined to the pr e par ation of

n n u O f lear ed lectures a d the purs it Semitic studie s . He had a part in founding a Hom e for the rescu e o f

n KOni aba doned children . Professor g writes that a series o f documents which he wrote as secretary still give testimony to the zeal which he developed i n

r n this b a ch of service .

1 8 5 0 n h e In he was called to Erla gen , where

b n r r la oured seve teen years , with kind ed spi its like

n T h o m a si u s Hofma n , , and others , in happy and useful

e r m activity . H e , as in Leipzig , he ade himself felt

n in Christia work . He was accustomed to gather the childre n togethe r ever y S u nday evening during

’ several years fo r a childr en s se r vice These meet n n n o f i gs were atte ded by the p are ts the children ,

u n as well as by iversity students .

On the 7th o f December 1 8 5 7 his beloved mother

r m s i n n -fi fth r o f h e r a e died in his a the seve ty yea g .

i u At the death of his father, as he was st ll a st dent ,

no he was table to support her. She th e r efore engaged as before in the s ale of second -hand books

o ld m n r jointly with the fa ily frie d Hi sch Levy , in 2 a . a st ll at No Neumarkt Strasse , on the west side 1 4 R E F ANZ D LITZSCH .

f o f Gr im m h o a sc e . the street , at the corner This business she continued after the death o f his foster

h i s father . Many a university student raised hands i n o n n surprise when , inquiri g the price of some book by Professor Delitzsch , he learned that the

r o f famous professo was her son . This condition h i m things , as he says in his Autobiography , pained exceedingly , but all entreaties were in vain . He

ff n o n to was seen at di ere t times , his visits Leipzig ,

o n tenderly to embrace her the street , and was heard to call her his dear, good mother, and to beg her in the m ost moving way to go with him . While she pre

r n fe red to be i dependent , he joyfully contributed to

Sh e her support . He gives her the testimonial that was respected a nd beloved by all who kne w her ; a nd l o d . in this all the citizens heartily join He writes ,

- She was a faithful cross bearer, to whom the words ” “ 4 . a . 7 Luke vii may well be applied He s id, She had little pleasure in this world , and was glad to go ” H e r o l d o h a nni s home . grave is in the J Church 36 yard in Leipzig. F o r seventeen years Professor Delitzsch continued at Erlangen . He seemed to have become rooted to

h a d the place . He become endeared to all at the university, which he had helped to raise to a high

f a nd tide o popularity , which was drawing students

n n from various foreig lands , includi g Greeks , Scots

. men , and Americans It did not seem likely, as he had declined several calls to other places, that he would ever leave this field where he had become so renowned . ’ 1 5 SKETCH OF D ELITZ S CH S LIFE.

Bu t L u th a r dt o f Professor , who was then Dean the Theological Faculty at Leipzig, had determined

r K a h ni s to m ake an e flb r tto secu e Delitzsch .

- l o f . hearti y approved the plan , but was faint hearted Ther e were two serious difficulties in the way of

obtaining him . The Faculty at Erlangen were deter m ined to keep him ; the Theological Faculty at

Leipzig, with the exceptions already mentioned , were

e e r f o r ith indif erent , because they regarded him as

to o r . st ongly Lutheran , Opposed to his coming The

- n Ol d m n i n well know Testa e t critic , Tuch , who was

n n t decli i g heal h , said , if he came at all , he Should

L u th a r dt come over his corpse . But , with the aid

o f K b a nd n a uis in the Faculty , with Tischendorf usi g

Vo n n all his influence with Falkenstein , the Saxo

n o f e n . Mi ister Worship , carri d his poi t The Theological Faculty o f E r l a ng a n were exceed

i n l n r g y sore over the matter, and ever really fo gave

L u th a r dtfo r o f r robbing them their b ightest jewel .

L u th ar dt , however, had told them that if they lost

u a n m a n Delitzsch , they co ld get Evangelical to fill h im his place ; but if he failed to win for Leipzig , it would be im possible to get a m a n i n sympathy with himself and K a h ni s to take the chair made

’ ’ n D e litz sch s vacant by A ger s death , that is , fame as a scholar and writer would secure a place for him at the University o f Leipzig which would not be Open to a man with the same religious opinions but less

distinguished . It was a proud day for L u th a r dt

Ka h ni m s . and when he ca e These three , who were 1 6 A D FR NZ ELITZSCH .

t hen in their prime , formed an incomparably attract

ive centre for theological study . But in the midst o f great successes he h a d great

s . o f orrows He was compelled , after the close the - 1 7th 1 8 7 2 Franco Prussian war , January , , to part

with his second son , who had served as assistant s r no t u geon , but who was able , through his untimely d o f eath , to become a member the Medical Faculty at th e o f University Leipzig, as he proposed .

o f Although he had the joy seeing his first son ,

wh o Johannes , gave great promise as a theologian ,

r o essor extr a or di na r i u s u become a p f in the niversity , and the husband o f the beautiful and accomplished

o f Johanna, daughter Dr . Baur, his joy was soon turned into profound grief by the decline and death

so n R 3 r d 1 8 7 6 . Of this at apallo in Italy , February , I Shall never forget the pathos with which he read for me , when we first met after this sad event ,

’ David s lamentation over Saul and Jonathan .

But he gathered strength and hope , and had

m so n n co fort in his Hermann , who is in a banki g house , and in his youngest son , Friedrich , born Sep

3r d 1 8 5 0 fo r tember , , who had become famous his

o f contributions to the department Assyriology . He

‘ was cheered o n his seventieth birthday by many congratulations and good wishes which were sent

o f him , not a few which came from foreign lands . “ m He wrote , And they sounded so sweetly in y e a r ; as sweetly as the cradle hymn sung to the child

n when it is rocked to sleep . He carried o his work

1 8 FRANZ DELITZSCH. l oved like an own son , to follow the doings of the I nsti tu tu m Ju d a tcu m a nd the publication Of the

l a r h i u D r . Jl essi ni c P op ec es ; and thro gh Lic . Theol .

n Dalman , upon whom the choice had falle to issue

o f the eleventh edition his Hebrew New Testament , he was enabled to make some contributions to that which he desired should be a permanent form o f the text . When he could not work he was cheered by the singing o f a canary and the presence o f a

o n pet dog which lay his bed . t His friends remembered him daily wi h flowers , the reception Of which he was glad to acknowledge 40 n O n 2 3r d whe he could . his birthday, February , so many were sent that his room was almost trans

flo we r - n r formed into a garde . His enti e family were

n n r gathered around him , i cludi g child en and grand 41 children .

r o f th e 4th He g adually failed , until the morning o f o f t March , the anniversary his bap ism , when the

ni n end came . At the usual mor g devotions , when his sons were present , as he was unable to read, his wife read for him , with sobs , a passage concerning the resurrection . His lips moved in an inaudible prayer , and finally he said , I am weary , and will ” 42 go to sleep . These were his last words . Turning his face , he sweetly fell asleep in Jesus .

Death was no surprise to him , he had been ready

n for years . He once wrote a frie d , in reply to con

“ : o u gratulations , something as follows I thank y my attitude Of mind is that o f waiting for th e Signal ’ K H OF D ELITZ S C H S 1 9 S ETC LIFE . w hich calls me to the eternal morning. At another

n time he said , With Christians everythi g should be

r n consec ated , eating and drinking , sleeping and resti g,

o u but y are not to look to m e ! for a model! . I do ” no t r u rep esent it, altho gh I ought to . It is the testimony o f several sextons that it was

o n n a n o n Often his custom passi g open church , even

- a week day , to go in for a season of devotion .

n The followi g prayer, which appeared at the end o f an article published by Professor Delitzsch o n the 3 incarnation o f G o d! only two mo nths before his death , might well have been his last, just before his 44 Spirit left this world : Lord JESUS help us throu gh the Spirit o f promise to recognise Thee and Thy Father whose name is in

h to T ee , and in faith to embrace Thee , and love Thee , although we do no tsee Thee with the eyes o f sense . H o w else could we return to G o d in o u r separ ation

’ from Him except through Thee Thou art the way.

H o w o f could we be delivered from the pain doubt , a nd o f o the instability human opini n , except as we hold on to the word o f G o d through Thy divine

’ h o w mouth ? Thou art the truth . And could we joyfully go into death if Thy pierced body were not,

o f 7 as it were , the rent veil the other world Thou

’ art the life . Thou hast overcome death and Hades .

Thou hast Opened heaven for us . We kiss in spirit

o f fo r the marks the nails in Thy body pierced us , a nd cast ours elves at Thy feetwhich were fastened

fo r in to the cross us , and pray to Thee as the 2 0 FRANZ DELITZSCH .

n car ate Love who hast Shed Thy blood for us , and cry with Thomas , treading all doubting thoughts

’ o u r beneath feet, My Lord and my God .

N O T E S .

1 i n n 2 l st1 56 He was born We disch Luppa , June , 7 , and was baptized the next d a y with the name Gott fried . As the name Johann does not appear in the register , he must have assumed it afterwards . 2 ta u H o t o o nm 86 . S 1 885 . f fi g , , p 3 r D Olitz sch 1 9th Johann Gottf ied was born April , 1 783 n o n , in Leis ig (not Leipzig), and was baptized 21 sto f the the same month . 4 Of I have a certified copy the marriage certificate , nd h r u a ave also ca ef lly examined the original . 5 h R o se nm ii lle r 1 8 Jo ann George (born December th , 1 736 1 4th 1 81 5 ; died March , ) was then superintend e nta nd o f pastor the Thomas Church , and was also o f f professor theology . He is not to be con ounded s o n n R o se nm ii ll er with his , Er st Carl Friedrich (born e l 0th 1 768 1 7th Decemb r , ; died September , n u der whom Professor Delitzsch afterwards studied . 6 D l ’ See e itz sch s Vi ta. and Autobiography in the

Appendix . 7 M . Gustav Meyer, a gentleman who knew Pro fe ssor fo r Delitzsch intimately years , and who remem n u bers his gra d ncle well , whose real name was Hirsch . f He was called i nd ifle r e ntly Hirsch Levy o r Levy o l d o f Hirsch , although in the directory the city his name appears as Hirsch Levy . 8 The following is a description o f the tenement i n f i which the amily lived . The first room after reach ng n 6 X 6 l the la ding was 5 feet ; the next , the fami y 1 0 X 1 1 a nd o f room , which was % 5 feet ; opening out wa 1 2 X 1 this s a dark chamber 5 3 feet . 9 f . e o M Meyer has no doubt , from his knowledg ’ Z H 2 1 SKETCH OF DE LIT S C S LIFE .

’ l to i wa s his granduncle s re ation his fam ly , that he r e n p se t at the baptism . 1 0 Y n oung Delitzsch, accordi g to M . Meyer, was ” r accustomed to call him Uncle Hi sch . 1 1 The ori ginal sli p Of paper from wh ich the record r - l i n i n was entered into the chu ch book is sti l ex ste ce , a nd l to o n o n fi e . , as is customary, is kept It , , has bee car efully examined i n connection wi th th e preparation o f r a r e this sketch . The names of the godpa ents r i n n w itten pe cil . 1 2 n r o f Accordi g to the reco ds the city, Hirsch n n a s Levy was bor i n Leipzig 1 776 . He was k own ” il - u s n - a Sch tz J de . He dealt in eco d hand books , as 24th 1 845 a nd wa s has been stated . He died May , , h nni r On buried in the Old JO a s churchya d . his tomb r i n r stone , which has disappea ed , stood this sc iption “ o d no w s u n L r , lette t Tho Thy serva t depart in peace , fo r n n th e e mi e eyes have see n Thy salvatio . In notic o f L ei zi er T a ebla tt z his death in the p g g , Leip ig, May 1 8 1 52 1 u 45 . 5 66 NO , p . , he is erroneo sly called a citizen ; but the descr iption given of Theodor Hirsch r r r o f r h co esponds enti ely with that Hi sc Levy, who di sappeared with the appearance o f The odor Hirsch . 1 3 n n o f n r Ama ue sis C . F. A . Rothe the U ive sity r Libra y . 1 4 ’ v o n Or ell i s i n D er Ki r eh en r eu nd See article f , 1 890 . 8 9 . Basel , p 1 5 Thi s school is not to be confounded with the

m h a s n m r . Nicolai Gymnasiu , as bee done by so e write s 1 6 S o o ta u H o itu n 1 890 1 48 . f j g , Leipzig , p . It is a n r K h l r i n N eu e Ki r ch D r . O e er or when Prof. . A , the li ch e Z ei teh r t 9 2 o f s 1 8 0 . 35 fi , Leipzig , p , speaks Plato di r r o f - r o f as ecto , and Dolz as vice di ector, the Nicolai l Schu e . 1 7 n f s o f Superi tendent , pro e sor theology, and pastor o f m r 9th 1 783 the Tho as Church (bo n November , u 29th died J ne , 1 8 u n n n o f His marks , as f r ished by the ki d ess h f . o Prof. Dr Adelbert Geb ardt the Nicolai Gym A 2 2 FR NZ DELITZSCH .

na siu m t wa s , indicate that at firs his standing not Y n high . ou g Delitzsch entered the third class in the - n r Gymnasium , and ranked twenty sixth amo g thi ty r - e t n th ee class mates . The rector has l f o record th e following remark : That information concerning him n h e is still too indefinite to form a judgme t , but that ” n 1 828 is cer tainly promisi g . In he was the twenty th e n - second in second class , numberi g twenty eight .

I n 1 829 he was the twelfth . During the fir st parto f 1 830 i n he was the twentieth in the first class , and o f n I n the last half the same year the fourtee th . 1 831 r n h , when he graduated , the e were one t at had a o ne r higher rank than himself, except that was bette wa r . n s I n in Heb ew In co duct he not quite perfect . 2 Hebrew and mathematics his marks were good , r n 1 in the other b a ches very good . 1 9 38 r . . . See P ogramm , etc , p 2° 1 “ The titles are as follows : . Als mein Finke i m a 2 “ 3 gestorben war M rz . . Ad aviculas . . Hoel r a e sa i e nti s r e ddi tu m teii mortem p g carmen Latine . “ ” “ 5 n . 4 som nu m . . . In Der Mo d 21 4 . r . 0 P ogramm , p 22 ' i ci m a i str t 1 82 6- 50 Pa ne r . : gy g , Lips Q uam in A ca d em i a m d i sce ssi sse tRi ch te r i scholis ad philo ” h i a m xcita tu s i ch tii m e u S O e . p , F idealismus a pl x s est 2 3 i n D a h e m v l r i o . 4 Z Ockl e . . 36 say s , the , xxvi p , S ch ii tz m e that this , who beca e a t acher, is neither to be co nfounded with the philologist Christian Gott so n r S ch ii tz S ch ii tz . fried , nor with his , Ca l Julius 24 “ ” Z u r E r r iner u n r g an F anz Delitzsch , in the 4 6—438 3 . D a h ei m . . . , vol xxvi pp “ 25 KOh l e r h i s a r o n n , in ticle Fra z Delitzsch , N eu e Ktr eh li ch e Z ei tsch r i t n f , Erlange und Leipzig , 1 236 : Vo r o 890 . , p , says allen auf die F rderung und V n ertiefung seines i neren Lebens bedacht, trat er in K K n e i n einer reis gleichgesinnter ommilito en , darun te r der nachm alige Fuhrer der lutherischen Synode f B r . H e r von Missouri Ferd Walther, erner g , Brohm ,

'

L Ober ur brin er S ch i e fe d ecke r . a . , F g Geier, u , welche ’ 2 3 SKETCH OF D EL ITZ S CH S LIFE . sp ate r ebenfalls Pastoren i n d e r lu ther ischen Kirche d a m r ik r o r e a s n n n u e h . N wurde . Mit ih e st dierte die h d m n u nd e r f e n Sc rift , die og atische ask tischen Sch i t d e r r n K u nd r n r luthe ische irche , ve se kte sich so imme ” e i n A nsch a n n ih r B k nntni s ti fer ihre u ge und e e s . 26 He was editor i n chief o f the Z ei tsch r iftfi tr d i e esa m m te l u th er i seh e T h eolo i e nnd Ki r eh e 1 8 63—1 878 g g , , a nd was associated a nd had a par t i n th e book reviews 1 84 from 3 . 27 Since writing th e above I have re ceive d v o n ’ Or e lli s a n D r r D er Ki r ch en rticle o . F anz Delitzsch in r eu nd s 1 89 0 9 9 8 m i r d e r u r e r . 7 f , Ba el , pp , Was the Lehrer v o r 23 Jahr e n unter s ein Bild geschrieben hat h Or t m m a u f so u n e n die Liebe ni er , doch die Weissag g a u tr e n wer den u nd die Sprache n a u tr e n we rde n ’— u nd die Wi ssenschaft a u t r e n wird d a s steht m it

' F u n n ni KOh l e r g u d Recht u nter sei em Bil d ss . says o f : n n nn e n l n him Sei ga zer Si war auf Helf , Hei e , ” F Ord e r n gerichtet . 28 a td n H nnn 0 1 50. S e o 1 89 . f fi g , Leipzig , p 29 I bi d 4 1 1 . . p . 30 V n n w F li r st See his i ta . It is i teresting to k o that is r epor ted finally to have said to Delitzsch I cannot

teach you anythi ng m ore ; you know as much as I d o . 31 h r n . wa s u e n . T is repo ted to Ama sis C . F A Rothe ’ o f the University Libr ar y by D e litz sch s moth e r. 32 A s r f Th e I nd e end entsu D . . o W H . Ward p g g ests : we m ight be i nclined to s u ppose that Delitzsch fir st lear ned Hebr ew from h i s Jewish fr iend a nd this u h h e n G m is possible , altho g me tions the Nicolai y

na s iu m as the place where he acqu ired the r udim e nts . 33 T h e fi rst tr e atise which he r ead in Rabbinical

r w Or leeth or eb n . Heb e was , Light at Eve ing 34 His cou r s e s o f lectures at Leipzig be fore b e r e m : u m m e m e oved to Rostock were as follows S r se est r , 1 842 s u r m s e : n e m e r I aiah , fo ti e a w ek Wi t r se ste , 1 842—43 a m s s r m m r e , Ps l , four time ; g a atical inte pr ta n Of u S u m m r 1 843 s m s tio Habakk k , once e , , P al , twice ; Z h n s ephaniah, wit grammar, o ce Winter seme ter, 2 A 4 FR NZ DELITZSCH .

1 843—44 m 1 844 , Genesis , four times Sum er semester, , w m o n Z W nt Hebre gram ar, based ephaniah , twice i er 1 844—45 d A u fe r semester, , Psalms , twice ; Lei ens und ste h u n s - : 1 845 g Geschichte Jesu , twice Summer , , O f u n Nahum , once ; Philosophie der f enbar g Oder n s e cu l a ti v e n t : n Gru dlinien der p Dogmatik , wice Wi ter 1 845—4 6 E r klar u n e n d e r l v o n semester, , g , Psa men , v r u h i kte n r i n d n . o a s e s c e PS xlii . an mit g P olegomena D i s u ta to ri u m Psalter, three times ; p zur Besprechung Z kirchlicher eitfragen , twice . 35 He began in the Ol d Testame nt department with Genesis and Z ephaniah : then followed thr ough o f R the rest his activity at ostock , Messianic Psalms ; o f h n first part Isaia ; seco d part , five hours a week u fi v e n (later four ho rs) ; Job , times ; introductio to Ol d d n two the Testament , four times , exten i g through semesters ; Ps alms of Asaph and Korah ; selected passages from Jeremiah and Ezekiel ; history o f th e r o f S ix p ophets and the prophetic writings , times ;

o f n . u Song So gs , twice D ring every semester he lectured o n the N e w Testament five times a week R n n Hebrews , omans , Matthew , Joh , Galatia s , and a n u s James . He also lectured o n the Orient l la g a ge “ n a nd em n o ti o ni s as i dicated above , , one s ester, de to r a ni m o r u m u h l r e s su te o o i co . e organici g g Moreov , n r e he co ducted eve y semester exeg tical exercises . 36 The following is a transla tion o f the inscriptio n “ o n the headstone : Under this gr ave -stone rests in n R th God Frau Joha na osina Delitzsch , died on the 7 1 85 4 R v : . 1 . 7 . 7 e . Of December Luke vii , vii 7 At her funeral her son requested that only passages o f r u Scriptu e sho ld be read . 37 r Fleische , the celebrated Arabic scholar, died 1 888 o f - n , at the age eighty seve , and retained his r mental vigour and powe to teach almost to the last. 38 D r o bi sch 1 802 n was born , is still livi g , although d he oes not lecture any longer. 39 He once said he smelt the love o f God in the flowers ; and more beautifully still he remarks in the

R CHAPTE II .

E T H E LAST FAR EW LL .

I n m e ines H e r z e ns Gr u nd e ’ D e in N a m u nd Kr e u z all e i n F u nkel tall Z e itu nd Stu nd e ” D r au f kann ich fr olich se in.

u n r th e Pa u l i ne r K o r HE f e al was held in irche ,

n r o f r the U ive sity Church , Leipzig , Satu day ,

’ h P M r 8t . March , at two O clock It was lite ally attended by Jews and Greeks , as well as by the

n r u o n ordi ary Ch istian audience . After a vol ntary - the or gan and a funeral hymn by the University

r m u n Cho al Society , a hy n was s ng by the co grega

n h a d a tio , which been selected by the dece sed

Val e twill ich d i r geb e n D u r e s h e IVe l t a g , fal c ; D e in s undli ch l) os e s L e b e n u r h a m i r t f D c ns nich ge allt. Im H m m e i st u t ne n i l g woh , H i nau f ste htm e i n Begi e r ; D a wir d Gotth er r lich t ne n

D e m d er ih m e nt e r , di allhi .

R a tm i r n d e ne m H e r e n ach i z , O Je su tte s S Ol I n , Go

a u e n m e r e n Soll ich j d ld Sch z , H m i r H e rr r st n ilf , Ch i , davo 26 2 7 THE LAST FAREWELL .

Ve r ku rz m i r es L e d e n all i , Star k m e I ne n blode n Mu t; L ss s e m s e e n a lig ich ab ch id , S e tz m ich i n d ein E r bgu t!

I n m e ine s H e r z e ns Gr u nde ’ D e in N a m u nd Kr eu z alle in F u nk e ltall Z e itu nd Stu nde r u n D a f kann ich fr Oli ch se i . E r s chie n m i r i n d e m Bild e ' Z u m T r sti n m e ne r N o t o i , Wi e d u H e r r S O m e dich , ild G e bl u tethastz u T o d !

The addresses which follow were delivered by

T r nz sch l n . . . a e his pastor and co fessor , Rev F G , by Professor L u th a r dtin behalf o f the Theological

a nd n E ckstadt o f Faculty, by Cou t in behalf the Evangelical Lutheran Centr al Society fo r Missions among Israel .

D BY R EV T RAN ZS C H EL OF AD RESS THE . F . G . , PASTOR

A THE JOH N N I S KIRCHE IN LEIPZIG .

T er e r e m netter r r e s h f Am e n o . h ai h h e fo e a ttte p e ople O God .

n u — I n Beloved mourners dear sympathisi g Ch rch ,

n — no w r — o ne this fatal wi ter , too , this sac ifice of the most painful which the Chur ch militant yields to

r n n n the Chu ch triumpha t . Ma y shining ames have paled i n the last m oons in the heaven of the Church — genuine standard -bearers o f the banner Of th e cross o f o u r Lord Jesus Christ in a tim e o f great

n o f n t world commotions . A feeli g loneli ess mus take possession o f an ar my engaged in conflict

to o o ne . when leader after another falls Now, , this N H 2 8 FRA Z DELITZSC .

star has set . Beaming in the first magnitude , and

e t i n t y twinkl g so mildly , he has shone over almos m half a hemisphere , not only in the acade ic circle

m o f as an orna ent German learning, but also in the Church ; not only in the Lutheran Church o f the

n German natio , but far beyond the sea , even to

England and America . The most prominent theo l o gi a ns of the various Churches of Great Britain have been among his most enthusiastic pupils and

no t admirers . Indeed, only in the Christian , but also in the Jewish world the name o f Delitzsch has

F o r f shone . he was at home in the literature o the

R n abbis as none other among the livi g, and perhaps as none before him . We may well say , The truest

o f ! friend Israel is dead . A great man has fallen in

Israel, although he was small of stature . If we would speak o f the blessing with which the

Lord graciously crowned this long life , so rich in

th e o f activity , we must make use of words the

k o f o ne Boo Job , which the dear departed was inclined to consider the greatest book in the Ol d

“ 1 9 r Testament (xxix . My seed sp ang up by

n the water, and the dew remai ed upon my harvest .

wa s w My glory continually rene ed in me , and my bow improved in my hand . They listened to me and were Silent , and waited for my counsel . When I came to their affairs I was compelled to take the

n n chief seat , and dwelt as a ki g amo g his servants ,

o f since I comforted the m ourners . I was a father ” 1 o f . the poor , and rejoiced the heart the widow THE LAST FAREWELL . 2 9

There a r e thousands who have been secr etly aided

n by him with rare ge erosity. His pupils also are to

n n h i s be recko ed by thousa ds , who have fed upon

n e m o f s me tal gifts , who all bl ss the me ory thi righteous o ne . With a broa d sweep this so wer o f

n the Church has cast oble seed . That which he ” 2 n t r i n sowed wa s o me ely Sown hope . Many a n

h a s e n m n acre planted by him he s e beco e gree ,

r although i n after ye a s . Even he himself has

m n already been per itted to reap where he had sow .

i n o l d th e But now , a good age , he has come to

r n grave like a shock Of co fully ripe .

m u n i n — f Beloved o r ers the Lord , Be ore I alluded to your affliction I S poke o f the affliction Of th e

no t w Church . Were you al ays accustomed ! to find!

I n e r the case of the d a departed , that he belonged

h i s more to his work , to science , to the Church of

u r ? Lord and Savio , than to his home Above all ,

r n n w h o w thou mou i g wido , I know many sacrifices o f thy lonely ho u r s are connected with the r ichly blessed work of the tirele s s professor ! H o w m any hours which were d u e the e fr om h i m hast thou spared him that the rich tr eas u res o f his knowledge

’ mightnot r e m ain ungath er ed ! Those a r e women s ff sacrifices which are O ered in secret , rewarded by

a n — sa cr ifi ce s o f u nse lfi sh ne ss o f the Lord lo e, , full understanding fo r the high calling and the r are

’ o f th e n n n s gifts husba d , such as o ly oble women

o r n Bu s hearts are able t b i g . twa not your living together for more than for ty -fi v e years all the more RA 3 0 F NZ DELITZSCH .

o n genuine , pure , and happy because it rested such u ncommon virtues ? How thankful he always felt — i n thy debt loving debtor ! Even on his death bed thy care was still most welcome to him . And

o f how happy as a child , forgetful his work , he

n could be , when he had o ce laid down his pen for

o r o u n days weeks , and when y together could e joy . o f o r the times recreation in the mountain , on the

h R o f o r o n te . sea , beautiful hine He , the man the

Old t o f Testament , who of en spoke in the language Ol d the Testament , to whom it was a pleasure to put the present even in relation to the Ol d Testa

o f ment , was nevertheless the man the most manifold interests . Whatever was important in the domain o f e r no t to lit ratu e did remain unknown him . “ i t Whatever was lovely , or sounded well , whether was a virtue , whether it was a praise , he meditated ” r fe w upon it . He , a f iend of flowers , like , had

o f beheld the lily the field , as if he would follow

o f i n t no t the command the Lord the wides sense ,

o f wh o only with the eyes the gardener plants it ,

o f not only with the eyes the child who plucks it , no tonly with the eyes of the naturalist who analyses

N O w n it. , he had ove a religion and a poetry in his

o f G o d learned understanding, as only a child can

o f live in the domain nature . And the last of all

o n his labours , which he completed his dying bed in “ ” his last days , had reference to the yellow hyacinth , in order finally to find the golden yellow-flo wer and w its history , ith which Luther compared the colour THE LAST FAREWELL . 3 1

o f - ell o w h v a cinth i ne w the red v precious stone , hich may have been shown him by his fr iend Spalatin i n

n u . e Alte b rg Whil earlier, blue hyacinth was the

o f o f colour the precious stone (sapphire) , and the

u e w flower (larkspur) , Luther p ts in place of it y llo , so that ninety -six passages i n the Ol d Te stament i n th e e n n o f u s d sig atio colo rs mu t be changed . What a m e ntal inspiration the intercourse with

u r n se ! s ch a rich spi it , even in domestic i tercour W m hat a happy ti e , when his household was not

n o f r yet darke ed with the shadow death , that pe iod

o f n n h his life at Erla ge , w en his house was a social centre for pr ofe ssor s a nd students ! But then he

wa s t Jo b n ested like . He saw two sons Sink i to

h i m o ne nn the grave before , Joha es , who was already

rOfe sso r r p of theology here in Leipzig ; the othe ,

r n r o f E st , Shortly before his promotion as a membe

d r e n the Me ical Faculty , after he had se ved as surg o o n th e m ilitary staff Sixteen months in the w a r

i n r n 1 o f aga st F a ce 8 7 0. Then came an hour mourn

fo r ing the father , when here in Leipzig he appeared before his stude nts i n the lectur e - r oom with the sigh : I am a poor m a n ! But God did no tsuffer h im m S to b e co e poor . The rich gifts of his pirit

r and heart r emained intact. He was pe mitted to see the r ich happiness o f both his sons who are still

I n a nd n l r e . living , of his ine grandchi d n all the r e o f wa s lations life in which he placed, he showed

m o f n himself the a iable , approachable man learni g,

n - as the ma y sided fine theologian , above all as the 2 3 FRANZ DELITZSCH . li v ing Christian by whom the care of h is own soul

o f was considered as the highest importance . It is t r ue that the r esults Of new investigations in th e Old Testament department , which was the scientific

domain to which he gave special attention , seemed w to bring about an overthro Of former views . And although this great departed Old Testament theologian did not remain entirely u ninflu e nce d by the changes which the new period had made i n the traditional

n h views , nevertheless he took his positio as c ampion of the fait h o f revelation with all the fire Of h i s Spiritand with all th e splendour Of his scientific

n attainments . He recognised a deep gulf betwee 3 o l d s the and the new theology . He saw him elf standing among the Old Testament scholars Of o u r

o ld day, solitary as a torso , as an forester in a

vacant clearing. But to his last breath he remained in his theology

r w a decided Lutheran , although without any nar o

n N o t o f ess . as if mere orthodoxy was the highest

o n importance . He insisted Spiritual life , on personal

o n w t Christianity, personal fello ship wi h the Lord ; no tas i f he had found i n mere scientific work the

fo r o f chief blessing the kingdom God . He feared that mere intellectualism without unction would

r i n o u r d a esult from the development of theology y . And how full Of unction was the work o f his life ! Even in the most exact scientific argumentation he

o f used a consecrated language , the deepest tones his

n Ye a believi g heart were ever heard . , when thou

E 3 4 FRANZ D LITZSCH .

the first sheet o f the revised edition o f his Hebrew — Testament , the final edition . After he had seen H i this Sheet he read nothing more . s Hebrew New Testam ent was the most effective missionary a mong the Jews Of the East . He was the soul of

missions among Israel in all Christendom . Can we think that th e vacancy made by his death can ever be filled ? God gave him a rare power o f work ; even at th e a g e o f seventy -seven fo r the greater

f n part o the year he rose before the sun . The daw

Ol d found this industrious , youthful man at his work .

o f He had no other conception Of life than that work .

o f Indeed , he could not conceive the rest which

o f remaineth for the people God above in light , with o u t w o f G o d work , ithout activity for the glory ,

o ne without progress from splendour to another .

As he Spoke to me once concerning his end , when he

th e was still in health , he gave expression to hope that Go d would preserve him from a time o f weak

n . ess , when he should be compelled to be inactive

An d God granted the suppliant his request . To seventy -seven years of health He added only half a

o n h l i - H o f . S year sickness Indeed , even S ck bed e gave him strength so that he could prepare writings t for the press , lit le leaves which he jestingly called ” white and blue butterflies . He was eve n able to

examine some candidates who sat about his b e d . I tis true that he had to experience the patience

o f o f h i s wa s e Job . The conclusion life the tim of t the Passion . But he endured it humbly and patien ly . 3 5 THE LAST FAREWELL .

Go d gave him a little strength , he said to me finally , but God will also be satisfied with this small degree o f n w stre gth . And from the passage with hich I blessed

o u t his end he singled , There remaineth , therefore , ” d I n a rest to the people o f G o . many a letter by h im which I had occasion to read he wrote at the

o f r Yo u se e close , in view his g eat age , will soon o ld Delitzsch no more but at th e throne o f the Lamb

N o w i n n we shall meet again . he is there gree

a nd r W n i pastures by fresh wate s , hither the lo g ng Of h i s Ou r x e soul was directed . Sa on Church celebrat s

- K r i e el ei son n i n its fast day by his bier . y resou ds

o u r d . r the conflict Of ays Protect Thy lonely Chu ch ,

O o f r a nd l . Lord , Thou Lord g eat sma l Let us not be orphans ! Let th e sparks and the fire o f Thy Seven -armed candlestick not be extinguished amo ng us ! From Thee are all gifts . Thy Church is not

u o r e fo nded upon men , but stands falls with The

C ru cifi e d One alone , Lord Jesus , the and the Risen , Thou Lord o f the living and o f the dead ! It is well that this is o u r comfort ! With this comfort

o le r o u r r . we call after the dea departed , Fare

o f u well , thou fearless confessor Jes s Christ , thou

o f a nd great master science , thou splendid teacher

o f u father the Church , tho good Samaritan to Israel ,

f d u o f thou fatherly rien , tho humble child God . “ r There remaineth , the efore, a rest to the people o f n r a s God . We plant thee in the wi te field ” n oble seed o f an eternal spring ! Sown in hope !

Amen . 3 6 FRANZ DELITZSCH .

Y R ADDRESS OF THE PRIV CHU CH COUNCILLOR , PRO

L UT H ARD T A F ES S OR D R . , IN THE N ME OF THE

Y THEOLOGICAL FACULT .

o f In behalf the Theological Faculty , as the senior

a nd o u r member Of it , as a friend of departed

l to co league for many years , I am dedicate a word of

m n e to h i m reme bra ce here at his bi r, and call after w o u r . o n o n last farewell Blo blow , loss loss have

n o u r v befalle Faculty during the last years , as ha e s carcely ever befallen a Faculty in such frequency

a nd . T o Ka h ni s in so short a time Wold , Schmidt, ,

a nd no w Lechler, Baur, Franz Delitzsch is added as

t o u r n o u r fo r the fif h , or ament and boast ; none Of u s o wn n , beyond his special departme t , embraced so

o f n wide a circuit manifold lear ing , and through the s plendour o f his name carr ied the reputation o f o u r

n Faculty so widely beyo d the sea as he .

i n Here Leipzig , his home , he began his scientific

o u r n i t course at university, and here he e ded , after he had belonged to Rostock and Erlangen in 1 8 6 the intermediate period beyond 1 8 4 6 and 7 .

a to Aw kened in his youth religious belief, and de c i d e dly i nclined to the Confession o f the Lutheran

o f Church , he undertook all his work in the service

m o n the Church , and in aking a religious impression

. o hearts It was , perhaps , a greater jy to him that h i s Co mm u ni on Book was instrumental in blessing m any souls than the fa me o f his entire literary career . THE LAST FAREWELL . 3 7

In the first period o f his scientific activity fell the movement which was opened in the treatment o f th e Scriptures by Hofmann o f Erlangen in his epoch

Pr edi cti on a nd F u l l m ent th e making work , fi , in

o f o f beginning the fourth decade this century, whose views many Of us who were then young theologians

r r n greeted and eceived as a gospel of freedom . F a z

’ D elitz sch s learning trod th e path here indicated i n

n ta nd u r an indepe den helpf l activity, and thus we e produced the rich bloss oms a nd fruits which h e

i n u yielded his theological lectures to his p pils , and in a ser ies o f scientific works o f a systematic and

o f especially an exegetical sort , to the scientific world

as well as to the members Of the clergy. That moveme nt came to an end thr o u gh th e lively I ntere st which was dir ected to th e critical questions

i Old n concern ng the Testament, and which si ce then

n has chiefly moved the mind a nd heart . Worki g

‘ u without rest , and keeping himself open to all q es

o f n n n tions his departme t , he did not decli e to e ter upon these questions o f literary and historical criti

ci sm r Of . In the cou se time he gradually modified

n n his earlier position in many ways . But o e could be farther than he from finding in the Holy Scriptures only an object of cr itical o r in general

o f e r w merely scientific inv estigation . They w e al ays

to u r o f n n him the sacred so ce Divi e revelatio ,

u n i n which he approached with pio s revere ce, and which he at all times found the nourishment f o his soul and a fruitful source Of meditation . He 3 8 FRANZ DELITZSCH .

always sought to imbue the hearts o f his scholars

with this feeling . Although his industry was so untiri ng from early t morning, and al hough we must exceedingly admire

o f him , and recognise in him a man comprehensive learning, the thing which should be most emphasised h im regarding was his power as a teacher, and his

personal relations to his pupils which none , perhaps , had cultivated with more sincere sympathy than he . Nothing gave him gre ater pleasure than to know that his pupils were pursuing good courses , and nothing caused him more pain than to see a de v iation from

a n the right way, and perhaps estrangement and

n o f coldness o the part his scholars . He Shared with

o f them his fulness without grudging, and devoted himself with self-sa cr ifi ce to their work in the ex

o f amination and correction their exercises . He n o tonly served those who wer e nearest hi m in a

-sa cr ifi ci n self g way , but he also enlarged his circle , a nd for m any years gathered young Englishmen and Americans about h i m once a week fo r scientific discussion . While such an activity extended itself through the Christian Church , both that which was near and r emote , there was connected with it , at the same time , the effort to serve the non - Christian Israel in a missionary way , which went like a scarlet thread ff through his entire life . He o ered the greatest

o f a nd sacrifices time strength in this service, and no unpleasant experience could make him err from it . THE LAST FAREWELL . 3 9

He devoted the work o f a lifetime to the translation m of the New Testa ent , as well as to its revision and correction . A nd so I could continue to speak for a long time o f a nd his rich tireless work , which did not even end

t o ld a nd wi h age , which was always seeking to learn ,

fo r as a model us all . But if in that which I have hitherto said some things may perhaps be less known

o ne o f to or the other his colleagues, nevertheless all knew h im who were associated with him as the m e o f o f od st man learning, and as the most amiable

m n colleagues , Who one could dislike , and with whom n obody could be displeased , but whom all must love

fi ne - n as the stru g man , possessed of tender feelings and genuine sympathies , who found it hard in the bii sine ss Of his office to suffer his personal sympathies to give way to the cold business aspects o f the affair ; a nd no t o f , to omit this , not the least as the friend

r flowe s , who was not often seen without a flower

i n th e o r . his hand , upon street upon the platform

' Flowers and colours were not only the darlings o f

s o f his heart , but also at the ame time the Objects

u . fo r thoro gh study This interest a flower , the

n yellow hyaci th , is connected with his death . It led

a nd o n him to Holland and Haarlem , that occasion he allowed him self to be enticed into taking that unwise bath i n the cold North Sea which resulted in a serious illness ; and although its evil consequences

o f were transiently removed , it probably laid the germ his death , which seemed to be so far away from his 4 0 FRANZ DELITZSCH .

On h i s - otherwise sound constitution . sick bed he

was still occupied with that flower , and dedicated to

o f it a treatise which , apart from the revision his

N e w Hebrew Testament , and apart from a preface to

o n Messi a ni c Pr o h eci es his book the p , in which he sought to embody the fruit o f his theological work i n Old the Testament department , was the last which

o r , he wrote dictated . The last completed advanced sheet o f the Messi a ni c Pr op h eci es was laid o n his bed

O o f the day before he died . nly the end his life

ended the unwearied work o f this man .

S O he was ours , and as such he was taken from

o u r o u r o u r us , from university , Faculty, Church and

theology, the scientific world , and the Christian world in general— and I may perhaps be permitted

to add, he was also taken from me , since I was K b closely bound with him for years , and with a uis ,

who went home before him . Now they have both

h o u r t . o u r n lef me When u iversity , w en Theological

u Faculty , mourning , lays its palms pon his bier,

o f and when the Theological Faculty Erlangen , to which he belonged seventeen years in most fruitful

u S — activity , unites with , this is the only thing which

remains for us in order to honour and thank him . But h o w little that is in comparison with what we are indebted to him ! Never will his memory and the gratitude to him in o u r hearts be extinguished ;

o u r and theological youth , as we hope , will take pains , in grateful devotion to his memory , to learn from him

. o f and imitate his example Thus we take leave him ,

4 2 FRANZ DELITZSCH .

o f S a a ta u H o nu n the magazine f fi g (Sown in Hope) ,

- which last January began its twenty seventh year ,

n ador ed with his name . Delitzsch , however, with

o f for his heart full burning love Jesus , was the creative and propelling power o f the work which

n fi was thus begun . He never reli quished his rst love .

All the while more glowing , it burned with an enthusiasm and a manifold activity which mocked o l d i t wo n o f age . Through he and warmed by means

I nsti tu ta Ju d a i ca v the , which have been re ived since 1 8 8 0 , and through the Missionary Seminary , friends ,

co - and youthful pupils , and workers . His love was not mere feeling . It ripened into permanent fruit . In the clear persuasion which rested upon the “ O ’ i t” Lutheran Confession , nly God s word does , he placed his masterly command o f the Hebrew language at the service o f a translation o f the New

n w o f tra nsl a Testament i to Hebre . By means this

o f tion , which has attained a circulation more than

u copies , Delitzsch put an instr ment into the

o f hands the Jewish Mission which , as the hammer t l tha dashes in pieces the heart like a rock , wi l never be blunted .

F o r i this , the greatest work of his l fe , the Lutheran

Church Should never be wanting in thankfulness . This thankfu lness many have already bestowed upon

o f him , who , desirous salvation , have read the New

a d Testament , n who have turned to the Shepherd and m Bishop o f their souls . Here the thanks cul inate

o which t day we utter by his bier. 4 3 THE LAST FAREWELL .

t r n Attacked wi h mo tal ill ess , he completed his

Messi a ni c Pr o h ecies i n H i sto r i ca l S u ccessi on last work , p , which he expressly indicated as a legacy fo r the ! workers in the Jewish Mission . May it bear fruit Thus Franz Delitzsch has ass u r ed his memorial i n the Jewish Mission a nd among the people o f the Old Covenant .

R a nd m a s n est in peace , y the everla ting light shi e upon y o u !

’ At the conclusion o f Count Vi tz th u m s address the following hymn was sung by the University Choral

’ Society Of Saint Paul s

NVe nn e nm s s e e n ich i al oll ch id , SO s ch e ide nichtv o n m i r ; We nn d e n T o d s e e n ich oll l id , S o tr ttd nn h e r fur i u da .

' We nn m irs a m a l l e r bang sten W r u m d a s H e r e s e n i d z i , SO r e iss m ich a u s d e n A e ng sten Kr a t e ner n s n e n f d i A g tu d P i .

The remains o f this gr eat master i n Isr ael no w

r o f repose in the South Chu chyard Leipzig, in the

o f n immediate neighbourhood the place where Napoleo , in the year that Professor Delitzsch was born, saw his star going down at the battle of Leipzig . He

’ awaits the morning when God s people , both Jews and Gentiles , shall be gathered together to meet their Lord . 44 FRANZ DELITZSCH .

N O T E S .

1 ’ This passage is given ac cording to Luther s ver

r 1 3 1 5 . sion , cf. ve s . and 2 There is an allusion here to the magazine which was published by Professor Delitzsch in the interest o f s e S a a ta u Jewi h Missions , and which was call d f u n H ofi n g . 3 The re fe rence here is probably to theology as i h represented by the school of R tsc l . 4 “ r The literal rendering is , Whereve a flickering wick under the ashes o f servitude to the law fought o f the conflict faith between life and death , to him ” everything turned from the Jewish world . CHAPTER III .

A AN D DELITZSCH S TEACHER THEOLOGIAN .

W m t nn n enen — D o i ka ich Ih en di ELITZSCH .

E LI TZ SCH was a n attractive lecturer from the

i s very beg nning. He po sessed in an emi nent degree the qualities which inter est students

u m n n n s a nd genius , enth sias , lear i g, fresh es , origin i al ty . “ Whatever criticisms may be m ade regarding a

o f n o f r e n lack exact scie tific method p sentatio , he h a d thatwhich is the most important characteristic

a — of a gre t teacher the power to inspire his pupils . This is o f more v alue than th e ability to beat into

A n a them certain dry details . y ped gogue can do

a n m a n r that . But if y could take his heare s up to the third heavens and show them ‘ things which were b l unuttera le, it was De itzsch He prepared himself fo r his lectures as if it were

n . the o ly work which he had to do His pupil ,

KOh l er n n , professor in Erla ge , tells us that his

o u t t lectures were wrought , in respec to style , with

u the greatest pains , and that he so ght to attain the 1 fi ni sh utmost . But as Delitzsch himself assured me , 45 4 6 FRANZ DELITZSCH .

they never became stereotyped . He was not like

n n the o ce eminent American professor, who wo dered why the students had ceased to enjoy his lectures , since they were the sam e which he had delivered for

- twenty fi v e years . Delitzsch loved new forms Of expression ; he was always acquiring new stores o f

e h i s knowledg , and it was his earnest desire to serve

n n stude ts i the best way .

n i n Whe he first began to lecture Leipzig , in

i va t-d o cent n 1 8 4 2 r . , as a p , he had good audie ces 2 l n His first famulus re ates that , whe he reached the

o f e account the Fall in Gen sis , his room was crowded

l a w e with and medical students , who had com to

r h a d n hea what he to say about Sata , and make

wa s r n n s port of it . He wa ed before he e tered , and those who came to mock were not rewar ded for their

n pai s .

I n 1 8 7 3 n , I was i formed that it was his custom to begin i n o ne o f the smaller lecture -rooms at the

n Ope ing Of the semester, but it was soon necessary to seek a larger room .

u Until the last he had large a diences . This is

n n certainly a remarkable testimo y to his power, whe

r we remember that Ewald , in his old age , could co n

“ ” 3 n o f a nd th e ma d only a handful auditors , that

T h o l u ck o f brilliant , in the last years life , became such a mental wreck in his pu blic e fforts that he

n te n could not comma d more than students , and even they probably attended his exercises o u tof respect ! But no such melancholy spectacle greeted A s 4 DELITZSCH TEACHER AND THEOLOGIAN . 7

n the eyes o f his former stude ts . His bow abode in strength .

Ba u di ssi n Count has well said , that although opinions might be d ivided regarding his books and

o ne n r his lectures , there could be but opi ion rega d 5 n r r n . wa s ing his i te cou se with stude ts It charming .

b u t o ne e It was not only fatherly, when was alon with him it was even brotherly in its affectionate ness . Surely none who ever went to drink a cup o f

ff Bo no r a nd o r a n e r co ee with him at the , in y oth

e o f place , could forget the d light and inspiration his

n prese ce . In the earlier days h e is r eported to have gone to the rooms Of poor stu de nts to take them with

n him to get a cup o f coffe e . He ofte visited them

a nd m u in sickness , is said at ti es to have taken usef l 6 . n e remedies He was a physicia Of souls as w ll , a

u h o w faithful and successf l pastor, who knew to speak to the heart with a n eloqu e nce born Of the

n o f a nd convictio Of the truth what he was saying ,

u h e n o f love for the so l which was seeki g to help .

e m e n The . smil Of welco with which he greeted e w

n s r students , the kind es with which he inqui ed about

m e n r n a nd their ho s , is eve to be forgotte ; the kiss and embrace with which he som etim es welcomed

e n those who wer nearest him , must have se t a thrill

to their hearts . I may be per haps pardoned fo r giving a few

th e o f 1 8 personal reminiscences . In spring 7 3 I 4 8 Z FRAN DELITZSCH .

found myself in Germany , without having previously

thought that I could pursue a course Of study there . I was finally compelled to set o u to n a voyage o f

o f o f discovery, as I knew nothing the merits the

respective German universities . I finally reached

o n Leipzig , and called Professor Delitzsch . When

o f he learned the object my errand , he said slowly “ 7 in English , Are you willing to study in Leipzig My heart at once answered the question in the

a ll affirmative . After he had drawn me to Leipzig,

unconsciously to himself, he drew me to his depart

ment , and when I did not find teachers that suited ff I t me , amazed me by o ering me his services . was

fo r certainly not the compensation , for that was very

moderate . He took me with a very elementary

o f w knowledge Hebre , and coached me in grammar

and in reading at sight . He was kindness and help

o f fulness itself, from the beginning to the end my

stay . I am sure many could bear similar testimony t o his wonderful kindness and condescension . The amount o f work which he did fo r students in propos i n fo r g themes investigation , and in correcting their

exercises , is beyond computation . It was enough

o f largely to occupy the time any ordinary man .

Besides this , he was helpful to his students at a later

o f stage . If any them sought promotion in the

o r philosophical theological department , and came to fo r him advice , he at once became deeply interested

in their success . He was sure to suggest some

R E 5 0 F ANZ D LITZSCH .

o ne o r for some else , have them do something for him .

His kindness , as may be inferred , extended to all

u classes Of students . Altho gh he was a strict

o f Lutheran , men all confessions found an open

a he rt and a sympathizing friend . To multitudes

o f who were once within the circle his influence , the f world seems poorer o r his absence . He had no ambition to found a ny school He did what is far better : b e inspired many to noble

i . a ms in life , and to seek the highest success If a full list could be prepared o f those who have been

o r under his instruction , , at least, under his influence , 8 o f i twould be surprisingly large . In the hearts his pupils his memory is certainly secure . It remains briefly to consider him as a Biblical theologian . He stood firm as a rock in his adherence Ol d to orthodox Lutheranism . In his views of the

Testament , however , he seemed to undergo a great change in the last ten years of his life . But it is clear to a ny o ne who carefully examines his writings , and who is familiar with his critical principles , that the change between his former and his more recent views regarding the origin and strue

o f ture the Pentateuch and other critical questions ,

o f was not the result a sudden impulse . F o r years he contended for perfectly u nbiassed n investigatio . His standpoint was always different

o f K from that Professor eil in this respect . Almost

- 9 thirty eight years ago he admitted that there were , As E E 5 1 DELITZSCH T ACHER AND TH OLOGIAN.

ff at least, two di erent sources in the Pentateuch .

’ Evidently Stah elin s Unter su eh u ngcn made a deep

r o n h i s m n imp ession i d . But he then hoped that conservative scholars would be able to prove the 1 0 o f Mosaic character the Pentateuch . f He also maintained , and in this he dif ered

a nd n radically from Drechsler Stier, that Divi e

o f t revelation was a progressive character, tha it was conditioned a nd limited by those for whom it was designed and through whom it was mediated.

Hence, that we are not forced to take the New Testa m ent interpretation as representing the thought o f the ancient writers , or of the people to whom their

n writi gs were addressed . He contended strongly 1 1 t for the primary historical application , al hough , at th e m same ti e , he believed , for example, that the first David in his doing and suffering was typical of

n the seco d David .

o f His views the Pentateuch were for a long time , as is well known , moderate . He held , at the very

o f u beginning his p blished Opinions , that certain

Of r parts the middle books we e Mosaic in fact , and

m a n that all was Mosaic in spirit , since a like

’ o f Eleazar was author the Priests Code , and a man

o f like Joshua the Jehovistic portions , while he held that Moses was author o f a larger or smaller part Of 1 2 Deuteronomy . This view was rather the result o f o ne o f his happy guesses than o f any exact investigation . He arrived at his results usually rather throu gh intui 5 2 FRANZ DELITZSCH .

tions than through long painful processes , although

he could make detailed investigations . But the time came when there were two D e litz sch e s

struggling with each other . Some who were nearest

him had occasion to observe the conflict . It might seem as if there were an inner and an outer circle

among his friends and pupils . To the inner circle

o f u there were hints new views , the o ter were none

the wiser . To a superficial observer he perhaps at

times seemed vacillating . F e w have been call ed upon to pass through a

o n more trying experience . To put the Torah the critical dissecting - table gave him almost as much pain as Abraham feltwhen he bound his son to

the altar . His religious nature rebelled against

the process . It was not so much that he feared the

o f n ff inconsistency cha ge , as that he feared the e ect o f these views . His spirit bowed with the de epest

reverence before the Scriptures . To him they were

fli a nt - like a sacred sanctuary . A pp and half profane

- criticism made hi m heart sick . When he looked at the evidence which was presented by th e critics he

o ne n was borne to side , and when his mi d was ocen pied with the conclusions which were drawn by them

he veered to the other. It was not weakness , for he coul d stand firmly when he felt sure o f his gr ound ; nor was it weariness because o f the blows that fell upon

b e him , those he could have endured until death . But

Of o f s neither felt sure the truth these new position ,

o f nor the trustworthiness of his Old Opinions . 5 3 DELITZSCH AS TEACHER AND THEOLOGIAN .

I had occasion to see the change that came over him . He was much impressed with the epoch 13 o f o f making book Graf, and the companion book K 1 4 ayser . These books raised questions in his mind for which he sought solutions . He suggested various subjects fo r investigation to intimate and advanced

r n o n pupils bea i g these questions . The results were no tsuch as to enable him to breast the storm which

’ broke upon him with the publication Of Wellh a u se n s

om ena o wn . He finally published his investi ’ 1 5 a i o n r g t s in L u th a r dts Z ei tseh ift. The result was n o tsurprising to a ny o ne who knew his state Of mind .

i n The conflict was ove r. It would be a great justice to a great man to say that in this he was merely a follower , that he lacked critical insight , a nd that he gave way under the weight of a dv a nc ing years . Undoubtedly his forte was not minute

r c iticism ; and yet , at the same time , he had a quick

r n n n pe ception a d a clear i sight . Without changi g his principles o ne whit regarding free investigation

fo r a which he had held years , he dopted the new theories regarding the origin o f the Pentateuch because he deemed them to be true .

o f I saw both sides in this struggle . Speaking an interpretation which he had set forth in Isaiah , he said

a n subst ntially , The Church is exceedi gly sensitive in

regard to these matters . I have received a letter from a missionary in which he th inks the view that I have ” set forth !regarding a certain passage! is dangerous . A 5 4 FR NZ DELITZSCH .

K At another time he said to Professor autzsch , a

Yo u former pupil Of his , will have to change your ” views regarding the Pentateuch . He said to me in 1 8 7 7 “ , If I were in your place , I would not put forth that theory as to the unity o f the authorship “ ” o f o u Isaiah But , I replied , Professor, y defend ” Ye s that view . , he said , with emphasis , I am ”

o u . w an Old man , but y are a young man After ards some o f his o l d pupils were surprised to find in his

L ectu r es on Messi a ni c Pr o h eci es p , which appeared in

o f o f indications a change views , especially

f XL—IXV o I. concerning the authorship Isa . The change was made in all honesty and sincerity . It certainly was a remarkable spectacle , but entirely in harmony with the character Of the man that, after he had

a a e o f re ched the g nearly threescore years and ten , he

r should have the courage to change his c itical views . It came from an earnest desire to hold that which

Bu t he deemed truest and best . notwithstanding this great change in his views , he remained the same sweet, consistent Christian he had ever been .

N O T E S .

1 h r i t 1 Z ei tsc 89 . 241 N eu e Ki r ch li ch e 0 . f , Leipzig , p 2 o f Bernhard Caspari , a Jewish proselyte , brother

f o f r o f . Pro essor C . P . Caspari the Unive sity Christiana 3 f . . O n the authority o Professor S D F . Salmond ;

4 . Th e E x osi tor 1 886 . 57 see p , London , p A s A ND A 5 5 DELITZSCH TEACHER THEOLOGI N .

4 I have n e ver seen a more melancholy example o f a gr eat m ind i n decay than whe n a ttending one ’ o f Th o l u ck 1 8 Professor s lectures in 73 . Although i n he was still bright and instructive conversation , b e continually lost the thread o f thou ght in h i s th lecture . When I asked one o f e students why he “ e Ou t s so attend d he replied , of re pect for Profes r Th o l u k c . 5 Th eo lo i sch e L i ter a tu r zei tu n 1 890 . g g , Leipzig , col 1 2 6 . 6 Vo n Or e lli D er Ki r ch en r eu nd 1 8 0 9 . , f , Basel , pp “ 1 03 1 04 Und wi e e in , erstaunt war so junges S tu d entl e i n w n e h wii r d i e v o n e n der g Professor, der e h Or t lOtz li ch r seinen Unwohlsein g hatte , p in seine ‘ ’ Bude erschien u nd ihm ein probates Mittel mit A n r u n r r i ch t beredter p e s g ii b e e e . 7 “ ” n o u ? He mea t , Wollen Sie , do y intend 8 The following i s a par tial list o f his pupils wh o — are p r ofessors i n Germ an u ni v e r siti e s z Ba u di ssi n C o r nill KOni sb e r Buhl (Leipzig) , ( g g), Ewald V n e o n K n ( ie na) , Gr g ry (Leipzig) , Hommel (Mu ich) , afta ' n K K m K Ko (Berli ) , autzsch (Halle), loster ann ( iel) , nig KOh l e r r n n u (Rostock) , (E la ge ) , Loofs (Halle) , M hlau r Or ell i s R ssel Z S ch ne d er m a nn (Do pat), (Ba el) , y ( urich) , S ch ii r e r n S (Leipzig), (Giesse ) , Stade (Giessen) , track ' r n Vo l ck Z Z Ockl e r (Be li ), (Dorpat) , ahn (Leipzig) , r w (G eifs ald) . T o these may be added the names o f the following Am ericans who a r e professors in theological semi e — r nari s Bissell (Hartford) , Cu tiss (Chicago), Gilbert a O r n (Chic go) , Foster ( be li ) , Mitchell (Boston) , Price r e u a (Mo gan Park) , Schodd (Col mbus), Scott (Chic go) , m n n S ith (La e) , Welton (Toro to) . These are a few Of

those whom I have been able to recall as his pupils . This li st does not include those in England a nd Scot l n and who have studied u der Delitzsch , nor those in Germany wh o have at least for some time come within h i s the circle Of special influence , although they did r not listen to his lectu es . 6 5 FRANZ DELITZSCH .

9 ' Z ei tsch r iftfur d i e gesa mm te lu th er i sch e Th eo logi e

u nd Ki r eh e e 1 85 3 . 544 . , L ipzig , p 1 0 1 84 4 — hi 3 . 1 5 1 4 I d . , Leipzig , Part iv pp 7. 1 1 2 “ 2 1 . 1 I bi d e 1 85 . . , L ipzig , p 7 It is erroneous that exege sis does no thave to d o with the meaning o f r o f the p ophet, but with that the Holy Spirit which caused these thoughts to be expressed i n this definite r n o f fo m . The meani g the Holy Spirit which effects proph ecy is absolutely the sam e as the perso n

Of the Holy Spirit Himself, and has in view , whether o r u He makes use Of Joel , John , the a thor Of the n Revelatio , as an instrument , nothing less than the entire contents o f the eternal Divine decree and of its t historical realisation in ime and eternity . Through this absolute meaning o f the Holy Spirit every

prophecy has indeed an endless depth . Its first germ o f infolds within itself the entire tree salvation , and th e first lineaments are the sketch o f the picture which history unrolls from o ne end in this life to the a r e other end in the next . But ,therefore , germ and s a nd n u topmost twig , ketch executio , identical Wo ld r r i n there be a histo ical p ogress in prophecy and ,

general , in revelation , if the Holy Spirit did not gradually reveal the limitless contents Of His know d n r a nd le ge , comprisi g time and ete nity , did not com m u ni cate it in measure And in what way would it otherwise be possible than that He should enlighten h no ta ll uman Obscurity , at once , that only little by t little He should remove human limita ions , and should bring the rel a tive character o f human knowledge step by step nearer the absolute Prophecy is a divinely o f th e d o f wrought interpenetration ivine and human , o f that which is bounded and unbounded , human s - hort sightedness which is not removed , and of divinely - media ted far sightedness . 2 “ . It is erroneous that the exegete should be u nder Obligations to hold that as the direct meaning ! o f the Old Testament! without any further effort ” r which the New derives f om it .

I V CHAPTER .

A DELITZSCH S AUTHOR AN D FRIEND OF AUTHORS .

We nn e s ii b e r h a u te in u rr tfur d i e L eb e btso i ste s p S oga i gi , e s n a B h h r ei e n — s u r d s ii c sc b . D g wi ELITZSCH .

T is a wonder to a ny one who makes some com p u tation of the work accomplished by Delitzsch w here he got the time for all his var ied occupations .

' ’ We have seen that he r o se a tfive O clock in the m i n orning the year around , and worked until late

n the eveni g . He hardly ever took a vacation with o u thaving had an important interview with some

r r learned man , or without visiting some lib a y , or 1 r r having secured some rare lite a y treasure . His wife was called upon to make sacrifices i n behalf o f r theological science , and to surrender hou s to the 2 e learned world which rightfully belong d to her. And yet whether we contemplate him as lecturer

o f o r r and friend students , as autho and friend of

’ h i s n authors , or in relatio s to God s covenant people , the monuments which he has leftbehind him in each

“ o ne department seem to bear this inscription , This thing I do . He was richly endowed by nature and education 58 A s 5 9 DELITZSCH AUTHOR AND FRIEND OF AUTHORS .

o f o f for the work authorship . He was possessed

ul u a nd o f what is v garly called geni s , also the

r genius for wo k in an uncommon degree . Work 3 a nd o f . was his life, the hope work his heaven He possessed no ordi nary skill in the extremes o f

o n authorship . His essays the Complutensian Poly glott and others o f a similar sort show the most exact investigation . Nor need we be surprised to

n o n th e find him writing sacred roma ces , based

r n most ca eful investigations , but possessi g all the

n charms of fictio . Nor was he denied th e joy Of clearing up a mystery thr ough the discovery of a manuscript . In finding the codex of Reuchlin he was enabled to establi sh the fact that the tea ms r ecep ta s o f the New Testament ou ght to be supplanted by a critical

n text , Since Erasmus had not o ly prepared it in a

bu t careless and slovenly way, as his Greek manu

no t i n script did contain a certain passage Revelation , Delitzsch showed how he had supplemented his Greek

n text by translating from Lati into Greek . Delitzsch was like an exquisite harp o f many

a nd o f strings , was possessed a Semitic fancy which enabled him to travel through the Holy Land with o u t n i ts o r e ever havi g seen , that he could pictu

n 4 m to himself Lake G e e sse r e t. He had a sy pathetic power o f imagination which at once made h i m a

o f v a nd a nd o f companion Da id Isaiah , Jesus Him

. se e self He could not only them, but see with them . 6 O FRANZ DELITZSCH .

o f He was a poet , hence to him the poetry the Ol d Testament no tmerely consisted o f so many

h x m r e nta m e tr e s e a e te s . p , , etc ; but it was music i n his soul , which had passed far beyond the mere analysis .

As an expositor , therefore , he was not so much engaged in analysis , in counting and classifying the number o f bones in the human anatomy o f Scrip ture, but he was a divine painter, who often caught a seraphic vision . It may be that, like the works

n Of the great masters , his painti gs were not so exact in detail , but he sought to make them so . It is certainly a wonderful combination and variety which we find in his writings , and withal to the end a modesty and self-criticism which was equally 5— wonderful a desire fo r accuracy and fidelity which

h i s ceased only with last breath , an aspiration to give the very best from which all personal ambition

n to shi e seemed to be banished . His life in rela tion to every department o f his activity was the embodiment o f the question with which he greeted “ Wo mi tka nn i ch I h nen d i enen ? his callers , How can I serve you ? His literary performances are

o f certainly open to criticism . The very opulence his learning and the structure o f his mind led h i m to strow treasures where they did no talways belong ; but in judging o f his performances we are not to contrast him with the o r dinary interpreter wh o con tinnes to analyse and dissect until nothing is left b u t

’ dead men s bones . Each man has his mission , and AS AND OF 6 1 DELITZSCH AUTHOR FRIEND AUTHORS .

Al Delitzsch certainly had his . lusion has already been made to the pains which he took with his style i n r o f r the p eparation his lectures , how in the ea lier years certainly they wer e polished and elegant to th e

n o f last degree . A fine specime his style at th e beginning o f his career may be seen i n o ne o f his

1 8 4 0. o f first articles , published in In brilliancy imagi nation and i n literary finish it is an excellent 6 f r n o f - performance o a you g man only twenty seven .

N o t l e the least task which his biographer wi l hav , will be to discover even the names of all the pro 7 d u cti o ns o f his fertile pen .

hi s o f n He began literary career at the age eightee , and continued it fi fty - nine years with increasing

n - n si x renown until after he was seve ty seve , within days o f the end . His literary activity had its roots i n his activity as Christian , as professor , as editor, and as the friend

f H i s o . n Israel Book for Communicants , as has bee

s r r o f stated, was the precipitate of tho e p ecious hou s

n quiet devotion which he led for seve years . In his commentaries o n books of the Old a nd N e w Testa

Bi bli ca l Ps ch o lo S stem o ments , in his y gy , his y f

Ch r i sti a n A olo eti cs jll essi a ni c Pr o h eci es p g , and his p ,

’ we have the ripe fruits Of his herculean a nd well directed studies as p r i va t- d ocentand professor fo r nearly forty-eight years ; and i n his les ser writings we see how the way was prepared in his capacity as editor and reviewer ; and o u tof his love for Is r ael

o f came the great work of his life , the translation 6 2 FRANZ DELITZSCH .

w n the N e Testame t into Hebrew . All the while he was an extensive reader. Nothing which had a ny important bearing o n his department escaped

a v him . In his biographical cti ity , and in another sphere which I shall shortly mention , he saw into more men ’ s minds than perhaps any other scholar living or dead . He read books as few do , and he read men in the unpublished and published maiden efforts of h i s pupils and friends which ca m e under his

o r eye for suggestion revision as perhaps no other. He had a memory which is said to have retained

Bu t all that he had read for years . he did not trust

n r n to it alo e . He never ead anythi g which bore upon his investigations without making a note of it . He had his commentaries printed with wide

r margins in qua to . They stood in one corner o n the upper shelf of his bookcase . If he found any

n o f i o r n o r thi g mportance , which was i teresting

b e l o f curious , mounted his steps with the agi ity t a young man , took down the appropria e volume ,

o r wrote down the quotation , any thought suggested in reading , and at once returned the book to its place . Is it any wonder that a man with such

habits was constantly rewriting his lectures , and that his ne w editions were almost like new books ? He was wont to say that each had an individuality

n o f its o w . He was not ever harping on the same

o r o l d w o f string beating over stra , but to the end life was acquiring new knowledge . Perhaps his mode o f making annotations gave opportunity for A 6 3 DELITZSCH s AUTHOR A ND FRIEND OF AUTHORS . r eferences to the dissertations and works o f his

u i p pils . How many have sm led as they have found some quotations by this distingui shed scholar fr om m f their aiden ef orts . One o f hi s most remar kable tr aits was in his f riendship for authors and publishers , both Old and 8 n H e e n you g. kept in most intimat co nection with

i n the heart Of the learned world his department . He k new per s onally or stood in cor respondence with almost every Semitic scholar whose acquaintance was

r n worth having, if he was inclined to be f ie dly, and

n sometimes worked in part ership with him .

a nd r n s no As editor f ie d of author , thief could have attempted to pick his pock e ts when h e went o u tafter dinner to a caf! without finding in o ne o f

r o r a them eithe proof dvance sheets . He read proof

n almost as if it were his only occupatio . Authors ,

o l d i n m n both and young , Ger a y, Switzerland , Scan

di na v i a n h im , Great Britai , and America , looked to

f r a nd o criticism suggestion . He was their trusted

s a nd - advi er as few would be , stood in most intimate

r e n elations with publishers , especially r gardi g works

bearing o n the Ol d Testament . His recommendations 9 commanded confidence o n both side s .

n o f m a n i n Thi k a , addition to all his labours

r -i n- o f for others , who was edito chief two quarterly

n o f publicatio s, not to speak his contributions

a nd - o i o ne to several periodicals magazines , for

-fi v e o f twenty years and of the other for fifteen, both

c whi h he edited contemporaneously for eleven years . 6 4 A FR NZ DELITZSCH .

It was perhaps because o f the social element which was developed in him to a wonderful degree , t as well as from his desire to help o hers , and to produce the very best result for the world o f

n scholars , that he entered into so many part erships i n One o f literary labour. his first joint literary ff e orts was in connection with Dr. Moritz Stein

n - n schneider , who was the a fellow student u der

l r F eischer, and who is now the g eatest living authority in Hebrew bibliography . He certainly received sug gestions from all his literary friends , including even

o n the youngest , but the whole he gave far more than he received . I n the same way in which he loved to help for ward his worthy students , he delighted to bring

o u o f young and promising authors t Obscurity .

r He found Dr. Bae , then a Jewish pedagogue , who had laboured assiduously fo r twenty ye ars in Masso

o reti text criticism , who was recognised by leading

Jewish scholars as a man of great promise . He not

a only found him , but introduced him to Christi n

n scholars , by superintending the publicatio of his T exts of the Old T esta m ent(including the reading Of

o f the proof) , to each which he wrote learned prefaces , and also secured for him the degree of Doctor o f f o . Philosophy . His story of the discovery Dr Baer is as follo ws “ In the year 1 8 5 2 there appeared a treatise

o f written in Hebrew, considerable size , concerning the accentual system o f the the n so -called metrical

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forth the studies Of this learned man to the light .

The sequel is well known to Old Testament scholars .

’ He read all the proofs Of F ii r sts Co ncor d a nce

n - o l d before he was twe ty seven years , besides , doubt

n less , furnishi g the Latin definitions and the preface . If any o ne wishes to get an impression o f the ma gni

o f m C o n tude the undertaking , let him exa ine this o r da nce c . His services in all these directions were

e not slight ; whatever he did, he did with his whol heart .

’ He made important contributions to G e se ni u s

L exi co n Mii h l a u Vo l ck , edited by and , and read all the proofs .

Indeed, it would be almost safe to say that no important work was published o n the Old Testament i n no t m Leipzig which did co e , more or less , under hi s eye a nd hand .

’ v Bi e se nth a l s Com m enta r o n th e H ebr ews He re ised y , and read all the proofs 1 3 He was also instrumental in securing the degree o f Doctor o f Divinity from the

University o f Giessen for his Old friend . As Gregory

o u r and I had also had share in the matter , we all

’ three drove to Bi e se nth a l s house o n the occasion o f his eightieth birthday to convey to him the joyful intelligence , and to present him with the diploma . Professor Delitzsch read to the o l d Jewish missionary o f the London Society a beautiful address , engrossed

o wn o n with his hand paper with a silver border, in w hich he called him his beloved teacher. Biesenthal was completely overcome, and sobbed like a child . A s A 6 DELITZSCH AUTHOR AND FRIEND OF UTHORS . 7

’ Cheyne has mentioned Fleischer s contributions

n o f n to his comme taries . They were exceedi g value .

r r It was as g eat a pleasu e to Fleischer to give them , a s it was for Delitzsch to receive them . Without

Delitzsch they would never have seen the light . It wa s a rar e s pectacle to see the se two gr ey-headed m e n together i n the simple study o f the great

s n ff Hebraist , their face beami g with mutual a ection

a nd t r and admiration , hei eyes flashing like rare gems

m Or a s n i n fro the ient , they discussed i tricate points

e l Arabic grammar and tymo ogy . It was quite another scene when Professor Keil i appeared, with whom Professor Del tzsch stood in close connection as author and collabor ateur in the f K s o Ol d . is ue the Testament series eil, dry and e r xact as his commentaries ; Delitzsch , b ight and

: o ne s n animated repre e ting the prose , and the other the poetry of exegesis . Delitzsch never rested with a low ideal of author s ship . Humbly recogni ing his faults , as we have

u m to th e seen, in an almost nexa pled way very end , he sought perfection , even if it cost him his life .

N O T E S .

1 KOh l e r N eu e Ki r ch li ch e Z ei tsch r i t See , f , Leipzig

2 f T ra nz sch el 2 o 9 . See funeral address Pastor , p . 3 i b 4 . i d Cf . p . 3 . 6 8 FRANZ DELITZSCH .

4 He told me once he had only to shut his eyes to I t see . 5 ’ D er F lu el d es E n els 1 4 8 0 . y g , Dresden , p iii to m Finally, I beg the reader overlook any hard and n o f obscure things in my ma ner writing. I know that the highest sim plicity o f style is at the same time the highest beauty , and that through wise and beautiful f n word s the cross o Christ may be made o f one effect . H o w gladly I would understand h o w to learn to speak o f the simple , modest, and chaste language wisdom ifi c i n . m o r t a to from above I perceive , with great , that ” o f ff I am yet very far from the goal my e ort . In the preface to the last edition o f his Co mm enta r y “ o n I sa i a h 1 889 : , Leipzig , he says Complaint has been m n ade agai st my commentary, in its earlier editions , a that it cont ins too much that is etymological , and to o ri a n much that is cu ous , which is remote from

x . r no t u e egetical work The rep oach was unj stified , and I have taken pains that it cannot be raised against i n the commentary its new form . 6 R u d el ba ch Z ei tsch r i t ur di e C c und Guericke , f f

sa m m te L u th er i sch e Th eo lo i e u nd Ki r ch e 1 840. g , Leipzig In the first issue o f this Review is a n article by o n u N e u l a u b e Delitzsch Unglaube , Gla be , g , Ein Beit ” n —1 5 0 0 . rag zur Christliche Psychologie , pp . 7 7 See Appendix III . 8 An affectionate correspondence was kept up by him until his death with the junior partner o f the firm who publish this work, resulting from the kindly friendship formed in the early youth o f the latter when he was connected with a publishing house in

Leipzig . 9 o ne th e o f He was the who , with approval L u th a r dt R ! Professor , recommended Mr . Caspar en ’ H i nr ich s s ch e Gregory to the J . C . Buchhandlung as the proper person to prepare the Prolegomena to the f ’ eighth edition o Tischendorf s Greek Testament . 1 ° Z ei tsch r iftfur di e Gesa m m te Intth er i sch e Th ea lo i e 9 f 4 f. 1 863 . 0 y , Leipzig , pp 6 9 DELITZSCH As AUTHOR AND FRIEND OF AUTHORS .

1 1 L i br o r u m S a cr or u m Veter i s T esta m enti Conco r d a nti a e H ebr a a e a d i i c e a tu Ch l a i ca e L si a e . . q , p , p xii 1 2 Vo r wor tzu r neu nten A u a e 1 883 See fl y , Leipzig ,

v . 1 3 See D a s T r ostsch r ei ben d es Ap ostels Pa u lu s a n ' d i e H ebr aer kr i ti sch wi ed er h er estelltu nd s r a ch li ch , y p ,

’ ' a r ch ao lo i sch u nd bi bli sch -th eo lo i sch er lau ter t y g , Leipzig 1 8 8 x 7 , p . . CHAPTER V.

DELITZSCH AS T HE FRIEND OF ISRAEL .

Und wenn e s m e in L eb e n koste n s ollte di e Ar b e ita m N e u en ” e sta m e ntm u ss eth a n er e n — D T g w d . ELITZSCH .

E L I TZ SC H never forgot the debt which he owed

no t to his benefactor. He was only accus to m e d to visit his grave and adorn it with flowers when he came to Leipzig from Rostock and Erlangen , but while his foster-father lived he found an inspira tion and Object in his efforts fo r the Jews in seeking

n o f the conversio Hirsch . So far as I know , he was his first convert .

Delitzsch never ceased to love Israel . This is

r evident from the whole teno o f his life . The teacher whom he esteemed most as a young man ,

n and for whom he took the la ce , was the Jewish

t n ff ii r s . scholar Julius F His maide e ort , so far as I a m - — no t n aware , in book making to mentio some — “ pamphl ets was a learned treatise o n the History o f o f Jewish Poetry , from the conclusion the Holy Scriptures o f the Ol d Covenant until the most

. h e recent times , in which mentions over four

n hundred Jewish poets a d poems . If he read these 70 A s T HE N 7 1 DELITZSCH FRIE D OF ISRAEL .

in the most superficial way, this would be a remark able performance for a young m a n o f twenty three ; but it bears marks o f careful reading and study . The most cherished companion o f his student days i n the university, with whom he says he lived like a

o ne . . dove in nest , was C P Caspari , now professor in

a m u lu s Christiania . His first f , as has been remarked, was also a Jewish proselyte , Bernhard Caspari, brother

o ne Of the just mentioned .

wa s His purse ever open to the poor outcast Jew.

None that was worthy ever sought his help in vain . It i s certain that not a few who were unworthy enjoyed

F o r -fi v s his bounty . twenty e year he conducted a m i n n f agazine the i terest o Jewish missions . Within

the last decade , when fanaticism was at white heat , a nd o f th e it was not popular to be a friend Jews , he entered the li sts in their behalf with all the treasures o f h i s Talmudical learning and a n eloquence born o f

r o n n love . The literary wo k which he spe t nearly

t o f ten fif y years study, which has passed through editions , and has had a circulation of was the

New Testament translated into Hebrew . The two works which especially engaged his attention during

Messi a ni c Pr o h eci es his last illness were the p , which

o f was published in the interest Jewish Missions ,

a nd o f the eleventh edition his New Testament ,

to which he hoped be able to complete , even if his ff life were to be shortened by the e ort . The two who had ready access to him during his last illness 7 2 FRANZ DELITZSCH .

were the Jewish missionary, Pastor Wilhelm Faber , whom he wished to see daily to learn about the progress o f the I nsti tu tu m Ju d a i cu m and any items

f L i . . o e . interest in the Jewish work , and theol Dr

o f Dalman , editor the Hebrew New Testament . The last proof that he ever read was half o f the fi r st f revised sheet o the New Testament . Surely these facts show where his heart was . And Faber well says : Ou r glorified father and friend now raises his hands in prayer in the triumphant Church . We o f the militant Church are sure o f the blessing which will go forth upon those who are contending for

’ Israel s salvation .

Prof. Delitzsch first received his introduction to Jewish missions through the missionaries Becker and

Goldberg , who were wont to visit the fairs in Leipzig, where many Jews were accustomed to congregate . But while the flame o f love burned ever brightly in

o wn ff i n his heart , Jewish missions su ered a decline

n the Lutheran Church . In order to kindle these dyi g “ S ou 'n i n H o e embers into a flame , he founded p ,

o f a magazine for the mission the Church to Israel , issued in quarterly numbers by Professor Delitzsch l r i o h a nn s l 8 6 3 . and Pastor Becker . Fi st number (J , ) Organ of the Evangelical Lutheran Missionary Society ” - v for Israel in Saxony and Bavaria . For twenty fi e years he d evoted time without stint in preparing i articles for this magazine and in edit ng it . His S pirit may be seen from the preface to the first “ number : But we are persuaded that not a single

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In the translation o f the apostolic hymn o n love 1 ” C o r . i ( xii ) , I gave a specimen . He di d no tundertake this version in any contro v e r si a l : spirit, for he writes We shall work for that

which is best , but in quiet , and with the constant wish for peaceful co -operation with all the friends Of ” 3 o u r missionary cause . In 1 8 6 5 he reports that the work o f translating the New Testament into Hebrew is making constant

o f o f progress . The translation Matthew, the

o f Epistle James , the Epistle to the Hebrews, and the R evelation— since these books were to be under — taken first according to o u r programme has been

n n fi ished , and there is only lacking the final revisio

o f and polishing. If the honourable committee the

co - no t society , whose operation we need , do become

i o f weary, it m ght be possible to extend the work

translation further to all the New Testament books , and perhaps to publish the whole in the course o f a

n n e year . The u dersig ed ntertains the hope that he may be permitted to survive the conclusion o f this

o f fo r work , which is the highest importance the ” 4 o f . cause missions , and also for science At the annual meeting o f the Central Society

for Missions among the Jews , held in Leipzig, May

2 8th 1 8 74 : o f , , it was reported The translation the

New Testament into Hebrew is ready for the press ,

and before it is given to the printers , only needs

a final revision by Professor Delitzsch , who intends to devote the year 1 8 7 5 entirely to the labour Of 5 DELITZSCH As THE FRIEND OF ISRAEL . 7

r printing this work . As prog amme, and at the same

time example , Of this new translation , he issued in 5 the year 1 8 7 0 the Epistle to the Romans The

' firm Of D Orffli ng and Franke has undertaken the ” publication . The history of this translation for the next three

r e co ll e c years cannot be distinctly traced . It is the ! tion of Professor Caspar Ren Gregory, who composed

the letters to the British and Foreign Bible Society, that Professor Delitzsch had entered into a ver bal i understand ng with Perthes , the publisher at Gotha , h 1 8 5 during is visit to the Spring Fair in Leipzig 7 .

u nsu c Gregory dissuaded Delitzsch , who had been c e ssfu l in his correspondence with the Br itish and

Foreign Bible Society , from giving the Hebrew New

o f Testament into the hands an individual publisher,

n as , in that case, the circulation would be o ly

co r limited . He himself undertook the necessary

o f respondence, determining the form the letters

(which were signed by Delitzsch) , with happy results ,

n as the negotiatio s were completely successful . Thus Professor Gregory was directly instrumental in se cu r ing a mu ch wider circulation than would otherwise

no w have been possible . I give the narrative as

e i n it was written by Prof ssor Delitzsch himself,

n E glish . I was quite familiar at the time with the ff e orts which he made to secure a perfect translation . “ Many years I sou ght fo r a publisher o f the

o f whole, who would take upon himself the expense

publishing, and provide for its circulation . At last 7 6 FRANZ DELITZSCH . the British and Foreign Bible Society lent me its

n n helpful ha d , and havi g obtained such a powerful and generous protection , the new translation went G ’ through the press , and forthwith enjoyed od s

u wonderf l blessing . It was completed in the Spring o f 1 8 n 7 7 . The text followed there is substa tially that Of the Sinaitic codex , with the principal

o f textu s r ece tu s Bu t variations the p in brackets . I soon felt that a text formed by myself al one could not be exempt from individual arbitrariness , and that i twas more natural to base the translation o n the r ecep ta s and to supplement it with critica l rem arks .

After half a year a second edition became necessary , which I based o n these principles ; it bears the d ate

1 8 7 8 . O 1 8 8 0 Of nly two years later, in , a third edition appeared in a larger form Even the copies o f i n this third were quickly exhausted , and already ,

O o f ctober the same year, I prepared , at Berlin , with

- - - my never to b e forgotten friend the late Re v . Palmer

Davies , a fourth electrotyped edition . The text had now to be definitively settled , and the work demanded redoubled care . I revised it a third time ,

R v e . R and was successfully aided by the T . . Driver,

’ now Pusey s successor as Professor o f Hebrew at

O . o f xford Each these editions represents , as I d hope , a new egree of approximation to the ideal ,

no w which even , in the fourth electrotyped edition o f 1 8 2 8 . wa s , is still not attained Therefore , I agreeably surprised when Mr . James Watt , the successor of the late Mr . Davies , informed me that HE DELITZSCH AS T FRIEND OF ISRAEL . 7 7

five thousand copies o f the fourth edition were

t . Go d sold, withou any remaining In truth , has

o u r abundantly blessed work . Far from priding

o n myself, I acknowledge , the contrary, the merits

o f my fellow labourers , among whom are also

o f r no ta small number Jewish f iends . We have

o u r ne w a cause to say , that transl tion has con tributed somewhat to bring the N e w Testament

n r ea er to the Jews , as a prominent work Of their ” 6 literature.

no w r th e ‘ l a st I pass ove several years , to that he ever wrote o n this subject

The Older I became , the more it seemed to me a

duty to give my scientific labours , as far as possible ,

A nd a practical aim . in the great vineyard o f God it‘ f was the mission among Israel , the winning o

the Jewish people for Christianity, which attracted

me most . Therefore I was inspired with zeal to co -operate in the building up Of the ne w missionary literature which was called into life by o u r Leipzig

I nstitu tu m Ju d a i cu m . 1 8 8 6 n But, since , the mai

contribution with which I wished to close my life, was the completion o f a fresh revision o f the Hebrew N e w Testament m ore thorough and complete than

r r eve before , cor esponding to the high ideal which

- a I had placed before me, final edition , the utmost which my intellectual power and length Of life would

permit. After describing his physical condition, he

“ s ays , What will be the end Will God make me riper fo r eternity through a long mortal confinement 7 8 FRANZ DELITZSCH .

o r to my bed , does He intend to remove me suddenly

o f o r to through the gates death , does He propose give me a little season for co nv a l ese nce ? I do no t

d 2 9 th o f 1 8 9 0 yet know to ay, the January , but I

we h o Him unceasing thanks , that He has hit erto

preserved my mind clear and fresh , and not only

desirous Of work , but also , although in a limited

o f way , capable work ; and to what task should I devote the remnant o f my life and power o f work

a s ff o ne an o ering beside the I have indicated above, as the ideal aim o f my life It remains briefly to add a quotation from a letter

. m received from Dr. Dalman It was the ost ardent

wish of his heart, without a doubt, to finish the

revision Of the New Testament, for which he had

n made preparations , as the keysto e of more than

’

. o f fifty years labour But at the end January, as the firm which had been engaged to undertake the

to publication pressed make a beginning , he saw that he must sacrifice this wish so natural to the decree

o f G o d . Those who know with what peculiar pains he was accustomed to watch the printing o f his publications can form some conception o f what it

a cost him to see others t ke his place , even if he had

o f been permitted to survive the completion the work .

o f He asked me whether I was ready , with the aid K the Jewish savant , Israel Isar ahan , who since 1 8 8 3 had gone hand in hand with him in the revision and correction o f the editions o f the Hebrew New Testament which had appeared since 9 DELITZSCH AS TH E FRIEND OF ISRAEL . 7

that time , to make the revision , which he had pre

fo r r pared , ready the printer, and to car y it through the press . After I had given my consent , although

o wn not without hesitation , he gave me his copy, provided with a great quantity o f notes ; and then began through the last month o f his life continual

u n conferences , in which I had Opport nity to Obtai from him in the preparation o f the Gospel o f

w i n n n Matthe , which I had taken ha d , his directio s a nd wishes in doubtful cases , and also to establish

o f s fo r this work the principles procedure . To thi

s activity he devoted his la t strength . Here he did not spare himself. He turned aside entreaties th at

- he would not over exert himself, and that he would remember the sleepless nights which were occasioned ‘ : by the revision , with the brief words And if it

o n should cost me my life , the work the New Testa

’ ment must be done . Every other consideration had to give way. Meanwhile the printing had

On o f l sto f begun . the evening the March I was f able to gi ve him half o the first proof sheet . The

following day the last Sunday that he lived , and the last day o f completely undistu rbed con scio u sness -these were the leaves which he took again and

n again in hand, which he read again and agai , and

to r which , finally , he handed back me with a rema k

concerning the grammatical contents , which he

n T O himself had written o the margin . see this work really in progress was his last pleasure ; the examination o f its leaves the lastwork o f this 8 0 FRANZ DELITZSCH .

u m a n nwearied , who now lay with waning spirit and ” n o n - wa ing body his death bed . The end has already been described in the sketch o f his life ; but it is evident that his last illness and h i s dying hours were devoted to the people whom he loved , for whom he had prayed , and to whom he had l consecrated some of the best energies of his ife . May this love and devotion no tbe lost in the days to come .

O N T E S .

1 u n Z ei tsch r i tu r d i e Mi d r S a a ta f H ofi nu g . f f ssi on e l c I sr a e e t. 1 863 Ki r ch e a n . , , Leipzig 2 See Appendix III . 3 ta H o nu n 1 864 ii a i . S a . uf fi y , Leipzig , part pp — 2 tu di en u nd K r i tilsen 1 1 S 86 5 . 6 1 5 9 6 . , Gotha , pp 4 6 1 .

4 H o nu n 1 865 S a a ta u . 6 1 f fi y , Leipzig , part i pp . ,

5 Pa u lu s d es Ap ostles Br i ef a n d i e R om er a u s d em Gr i ech i sch en Ur teecta uf Gr a nd d es S i na i - Cod ex i n d a s

' H ebr a i sch e uber setz u nd a u s T a lm u d u nd Mi d r a sch

' e r la u ter tuon F r a nz D eli tzsch !Mi tei nem R itchbli clc a uf d i e Ueber setz u ny sy esch i ch te u om er sten bi s i ns Ja h r h u nd er t 1 neu nz eh nte 8 0. ! , Leipzig 7 6 Th e H ebr ew N ew Testa m entof th e Br i ti sh a nd F o r eig n Bi ble S oci ety : A contribution to Hebre w 1 883 Philology Leipzig .

8 2 APPENDIX .

B Y 1 AUTO IOGRAPH .

th e 23r d o f 1 81 3 I was born in Leipzig, February , and was baptized the 4th o f March i n the Nicolai 2 Church . My father, who was from Leisnig, had at s o l d that time , and during my childhood , a busine s in - so m . things , a called erchandise booth He lived in

s . traitened circumstances , and I had a hard youth My 4th o f 1 836 fi ft- father died the April , in the y fourth year o f his age . My benefactor from m y youth was a Jew named r a nd Levy Hi sch . He lived with us in one house, dealt in books . Without him I should never have f bee n able to enter upon a course o study . First

I attended a school for boys , and was later received into the city free School , in which Plato was then - rector, and Dolz vice rector . Here I became a com n pl ete Rationalist . I i deed felt an ardent desire for God ; but the person o f the Saviour was veiled for me in thi ck darkness . At the university I studied

first philology and philosophy . Longing for truth , I buried myself in the systems o f the great German

. e philosophers Fichte especially attract d me . One o f u e S ch ii tz my niv rsity friends , named , l laboured unceasingly to bring me to be ief. I n w resisted a long time . But even o I can poin t o u tthe place upon o ne o f the stre ets o f Leipzig !not far from the former Grimma Gate in the Goethe o f G Street , near the corner rimma Street! where a fla sh from above placed me in the condition in wh ich

1 T s fi r st e r e i n th e N r e n Ilf i ssi ns Bla d or I sr a el hi app a d o w gia o f , M tr ns tn wa s m a e h r n n e 1 883 . 5 1 . r m te e m r e r , p ff y a la io d f o G a d i n r e r e b str W e m F b e r a e re i n S a a t g p pa d y Pa o ilh l a , which pp a d ' — a nu n L 1 890 . 1 4 1 t u H o e . 7 5 1 . A n E n s tr ns n f fi q, ipzig pp gli h a la io o f th e N or we gian wa s give n by Pr ofe ssor H il p r e ch ti n th e Old T esta

t 2 9 . m entS tu d e n 1 887 . 0 ff , , p 2 e tn t r e r r r N o tL e i s r . ipzig, which c ai ly a y pog aphical o APPENDIX . 8 3

“ h e Thomas found himself when cried , My Lord and ” m ! n n y God He ceforth I became a theologia . I sought int e r cour se with stude nts who were awakened ’ r through God s g ace , and cultivated the acquaintance o f n a believi g f mily circles in Leipzig. The years — 1 832 1 834 e , my last years at the university , w re the m most beautiful in y life . They were the days Of my - e o f m r first love , the spring tim my te po al life . I came into com m u nicatio n with the Jewish m s r e r i i siona ies Goldb g and Becker, who v sited the r i n m w fai s at Leipzig order to work a ong the Je s . Both these m e n fir st taught m e to love the people r u r r f om whom the Savio r sp ang acco ding to the flesh , a nd taught me to p ray for their conver sion to the

Christ whom they had rejected .

Now, when they call me a celebrated Hebraist , it sounds almost strange that m issionar y Becker gave me th e fi rst instr uction in Rabbinical H e brew ; b u tso e d it is . I had brought some knowl ge of Hebrew with a nd me from the gymnasium , this language was my r u m R i favou ite st dy. I ade the beginning in abb nical “ th e Or leeth er eb Hebrew with treatise , , Light at ” n n m e Eve i g, which issionary Becker r ad with me . One object Of my missionary activity was my bene i n factor Hirsch . My test mony co cerning Christ to h im On l th . 0 brought forth late , but ripe fruit the o f 1 843 t wa s May my beloved benefac or baptized . r n Two yea s later he we t home in peace . F o r 1 835—1 842 n seven years , , I led the devotio al n r o f meeti gs in a ci cle of believing friends . Some m the members still live , and when we eet we confess o u r h that anc or still rests upon the Old ground . o n Employed in this practical way, I devoted myself the other hand entirely to Hebrew and Old Testament o f R o se nm iil l e r studies . These led me to the school , where I was brought into conne ction with Fleischer a nd ul O u r my dear Pa Caspari . aim was the same ; and di ffe n although we were very re t , we loved each other, and were very intimate . Now, when I see my friend 8 4 APPENDIX . among the representatives o f the Norwegian Church ’ d and Mission , I praise God s gracious gui ance . r S h e wa s I have not yet mentioned my mothe . u o f the da ghter a musician , in a little town between a nd Leipzig and Halle . As she became a widow , was sh e m a s alone in the world , an ged a small busines in books and when I was professor my mother was l f still engaged in the sa e o old books . This contrast gr ieved me very much ; but she desired to be

n o ne fo r . indepe dent , and no could blame her that

She was a good woman , respected and beloved by all

i n . who knew her . She had little pleasure this world n i n m 1 7 1 857 Whe she died y arms , December th , , she a m wa s glad to be able to go home . I not the only one who visits her grave from time to time . She was a - 4 . true cross bearer , to whom Luke vii . 7 well applies I have been asked many times for a sketch o f my li fe . I have never been so communicative before as no w to my Norwegian brethren . k My later life and activity is quic ly described . In the year 1 842 I received permission to lecture in Leipzig by m e ans o f a treatise o n the Prophet o mm u ni on Bo le Habakkuk . My C o originated in the n e difi ca ti o n meeti gs for which I held . In my youth ful m enthusias for Jewish literature, I wrote my book o n o f s - the History po t Biblical Jewish Poetry . In the 1 846 R 1 85 0 year I became a professor in ostock , in 1 867 in Erlangen , and in in Leipzig , where I hope to remain until my blessed end . In Erlangen I 1 863 founded , in the year , in connection with the

Bavarian Jewish Mission , the missionary magazine , S a a ta u H o nu n w f fi y (Sown in Hope) . My Hebre r 1 8 New Testament , which fi st appeared in 77 , is now a m l being printed in the fifth edition . I not east o f r indebted to the generosity the Norwegian breth en , wh o o f have made the issue this work possible . I became acquainted with my wife through o u r devotional meetings . Her mother and h e r brother 4 . 2 th 1 8 5 . confessed Christ We were married April 7 , 0 APPENDIX .

f n o . The fruit this u ion was four sons The eldest , n f extr a or di na r i u s o f Joha nes , died as a pro essor 3r d 1 8 6 u theology, February , 7 , j st as he had finished ’ e n m boli le u n - diti g Oehler s Sy . He fo nd his resti g place i n On 1 th the Evangelical Churchyard at Genoa. the 7 of January 1 872 his brother Ernst had already gone - n r home . As assistant surgeo he had pa ticipated in - r r n nd N o t the Franco Ge man war f om begin ing to e . u ntil long after the conclusion o f peace wa s he able “ n fo r i to come home . After he had bee sickly qu te r n n r awhile , he fell a p ey to acute p eumo ia . His g ave

s n . is in Leipzig. My two younge st o s are still alive r n The elde of them , Herman , has a position in the A ll e em ei ne n a n a nd g Deutschen Credit B k , the younger , d 3r d 1 850 Frie rich , born September , , is professor er tr a or di na r i u s o f a nd no w n Assyriology, is e gaged r h o f n n at the B itis Museum Londo , where he conti ues his studies preparatory to the issue of a Ba byl o ni o ri Assy an Lexicon . On the 23r d of Februar y I completed my seven ti h u n e t . year Altho gh I hate all ovatio s , I had

. n t n more than I like Ma y congra ulatio s , especially u o f m e w o tside Germany, were sent , hich I received 0 a nd gladly, they sounded so sweetly in my ears , as s weetly as the lullaby sounds to the child when it is

rocked to sleep .

PARTIAL LIST OF B OOKS AND PAMPHLETS BY

PROFESSOR DELITZSCH .

! D na s en. N OTE . esig tes su ch books by D eli tzs ch a s I h a ve note

1 831 .

! 1 v o n n i st u n . Ein Lied dem Ei en , das noth , ges gen Br ii d er n i all seinen deutschen , insonderheit se ner 8 6 APPENDIX .

1 8 1 3 . Of. lieben Burschenschaft, Leipzig the con te m p tu o u s reference to it in his Vita .

1 83 6 .

Z u r ii d isch e n e v o m 2 . Geschichte der j Po sie Abschluss der heiligen Schrifte n Al te n Bundes bis Z tv o n r auf die neueste ei F anz Delitzsch , Leipzig f 1 st 1 836 . e Pr ace dated May , hence the work which mentions over four hundred and fifty Jewish poets and poems was prepared before he was twenty -three years o ld .

1 838 .

h u m n K u d e nt . 3 . Wissenschaft, unst , J Schilderu gen

K v o n m 1 838 . und ritiken Franz Delitzsch, Gri ma This is the book i n which he gives a specimen of a new translation o f the N e w Testament in his render

1 . ing Of Cor. xiii 4 I e su r u n C o nco r d a ntia s . sive Prolegomenon in Ve te ri s u e r stio Testamenti a Julio F editas Libri Tres , a u to r -z h i r im m a 1 d c e sc o G e 838 . Francisco Delit , De i f l ca te d to Fuerst . This is a wonder ul y learned work o f -fi v e : for a young man twenty , in which he treats f th e (Bo o k I . ) o history of the Hebrew languag e from

O Fii r st I I . n rigen to ; (Book ) the origi , nature , and f n o f dignity o the langua ge ; (Book III . ) the excelle ce r F ii r w s n u the Sansc it language . st a u just eno gh to i h is u d a ica write concern ng this book in Bibliotheca J , 4 — 4 “ 1 8 9 1 . 2 d m 5 . 0 : e Leipzig , i p ausgezogen aus ” “ f C o nco r d a nz n a . , taken rom the Co cord nce Stein r n i schneide , in his Bibliographisches Ha dbuch , Leipz g 1 8 4 5 9 . 0 , p , remarks that Delitzsch considered himself o n r d a r as a collaborator the Conco ance , and F st devotes about half Of the pr eface of the Co ncordance ’ “ to a description and praise o f D e l itz s ch s Pr ol eg o ” w menon , and concludes with the follo ing acknow “ d : d rn e t le gment Hoc voto u concludo ita peroro , n r a tnm a ni m u m non possum , qui publice g meum APPENDIX. 7

F D i t i . r te stifi ce r r . el zsch o D . n , Phil , adolescenti doctri a d i sci lina u e r a e sta ntissim o u lite r a r u m p q p , cuj s vivo amore e tadjutr ice consuetu dine no n p a u ca e de dis qu i siti o nibu s meis i nte r i or ib u s ac r e co nditis matur er Pr a e l r a e u s l ite r i s bibl i ci u i unt . c a j in s ac j d a i c s e r u diti o co m l u r i bu s o er ib u s t u , quam jam p p sa is luc co m r o b a v itcu m r u th e o l o i ci s lente p , , quamquam in eb s g r o r s u s di sse nti e ntem s o ci u m u u p a me , atq e adjutor m m u nx it li te r i s r a bbini ci s ta l m u di cis ihi adj , quem in ac n a u dito r e i n e tdi s ci u l u m h a b u i sse r t l o r i r a tea p me i o g o . u n n i nsinu a v e r i t a Q a tum se in me tem meam , quant s a ga cita te in i nti m o s di sciplina e m e a e r ecessus pene tr a v e r i t u e r r o r e ssu s no n m , q am prosp e p g meos solu ' e r se cu tu s fu r e r s tu d ne r it p e it, sed etiam promov e ,

te sta ntu r eju s i n h a s C o nco r d a nti a s Pr o leg o mena . u i u r m e u co r r e cto r i a cce tu m r e fe r r e H ic git pl s , quam p fa te o r ; h ni c i n hoc ipso m aximo i nd u str i a e d o ctr i n a e qu e m e a e ope r e quod ad p o ste r o s p e r v e ntu r u m r m e r ita s d e bita s u e u m r a e mi u m Spe o , q gratias, tanq a p n l O s r l volu ta te mea m u tminu publice p e so v o .

1 8 9 3 .

5 L u th e nth u m u nd LU e nth u m . Ofi e ne s . g Ein Beke ntni ss beim R e fo r m a ti o nsju bilau m d e r Stadt 1 83 n ne r 9 . Leipzig , G imma A plea for strict and ge ui s m Lutherani .

1 840.

u d r D e r F lii l n . n a s e 6 . ge des E gels Ei e Stimme IVii ste i m vierten Jnh el - Fest-Ja h r e der Buchdrucker 1 84 n th e s e 0. kun t , Dr sden Mai tains that Lutheran Chur ch sh oul d have a part in the ce l e br ation o f this n r fes tival . It should o tappea as if its belief had e m Ol d e u b co e , its conf ssion d mb , and that its literary ” h and symbolical confessor s have di ed o u t. In t is book he b e gs the reader to overlook m any obscure

things in his ma nner of writing . 8 8 APPENDIX .

1 841 .

Mi i o nsre d e . arm: ss 7 Eine , mit Bezugnahme a u f u d e nv e rfo l u n e n z u R die J g g Damaskus und hodus , 1 841 gehalten Dresden . 8 A ne kd o ta . zur Geschichte der mittelalterlichen Scholastik unter Juden und Mo sl e m e n aus hebra ischen nnd arabischen Handschriften der Stadt und Uni v e r si tatsbiblio th e k z u KOni l i ch e n Leipzig, der g Biblioth eken z u Dresden u nd Mii nch e n und d e r W nh n i z 8 1 a i se a sb bl io th e k u e 1 4 . Halle , L ipzig o n wa s He found the MS . which the book based as o f he catalogued the Hebrew MSS . of the city library 1 83 Leipzig in 7 . He was aided in the work by a r y oung Jewish schola , Moritz Steinschneider , and also h i t s s f . by teacher, Pro essor Fleischer After fif y page o f Prolegomena, the rest is in Hebrew, except twenty o f seven pages Arabic , etc . v n 9 . Philemon Oder das Buch o der Freundschaft B k nne r n d e s in Christo . Den zerstreuten e e Herrn zur Belebung und Regelung ihrer Gemeinschaft ge wi d “ m n r G. v o n e t d e a . , ! Aufzeichnu gen Fr ulein S Klettenberg und ihres Freundes Kreises Leipzig 1 8 1 4 . 1 8 8 ; third ed Gotha 7 .

4 1 8 2.

h z k 1 0. S c a t a stl e i n geistlicher Sinngedichte und R e im s r ii ch e d e s a h r e s w p auf alle Tage J zur Er eckung , Ue b u ng und FOr d er u ng des mit Christo in Gott n n verborge en Lebens . Gesammelt , a geordnet und b e v o r wo rtt D 42 e 1 8 . von Franz elitzsch , Dresden 1 1 r ndli ch e . Wer Sind die Mystiker ? Eine g ii n ti M i i Belehru g ber das was y stc s m u s ist und nicht ist . n 1 8 2 Z 4 . Gege die Sprachverwirrung unserer eit, Leipzig 2 1 . H a b a cnci Pr o h a e ta e d a ncti o r e t De p , etc . E itio e m e nd a ti o r Li i 8 2 s a e 1 4 . , p

1 4 8 3 .

1 3 . 1 843 . Der Prophet Habakuk, ausgelegt, Leipzig

9 0 APPENDIX .

1 849 .

1 Vo m 8 . K h Hause Gottes Oder der irche . K a te c “ H a u tstii cke n 1 849 T h e ismus in drei p , Dresden evangelical independence with which the official r e o f e a rang ments the Apostolic Church are r presented , according to their very diffe ring value for the kingdom ‘ o f Go d i d no t nd n , and wh ch are eclared to be a bi i g ’ ne w law, stands in edifying contrast with the Popish zeal o f many Protestant contemporaries who seek to a ostoli se a nd no t a nd p the head hair, but the flesh ” f - o S r5 be l . blood Christianity . t 1 85 1 . 1 9 . e e Das Hoheli d unt rsucht und ausgelegt, Leipzig 1 85 1 M h . aintains t at it is a drama in six acts , and e o f n a nd that the id a marriage is that Of Ca ticles , h hence that te mystery o f m arriage is its mystery .

1 852 .

5 20 b ndm a h l s m e i nsch a fts . Die bayerische A e ge r r 1 8 2 5 . f age , E langen 2 1 v o n . Die Genesis ausgelegt Franz Delitzsch , 2 wo Leipzig 1 85 . Maintains that there are t docu n i n th e n me ts Pentateuch , which are to be disti guished n : o ne by the use of the divine ames the is Mosaic , th e f n t o . other is from the ime Joshua Second editio , 1 853 1 868 1 2 8 . third , ; fourth , 7 ! 22 z u n . Anweisung heilsamen Lesen der heilige R e l n Schrift . Sieben eg e gepredigt am siebenten 1 852 a h r e sta n Sonntag nach Trinitatis , ! J g der Erla ger

e l n 1 852 . Bibelges l schaft! , Erla gen 1 853 23 . Neue Untersuchungen uber Entstehung und d h n e r . Anlage kanonisc en Evangelie , Erster Theil D a s u 1 853. Mattheus Evangeli m , Leipzig 2 ! 4. u n d Das Geb e t d die Heidenmission . Pre igt u b ti n a . . 1 2 1 3 e Mi ssi o ns fe s er vi , g halten am b ii r n e r 21 1 853 ii rnbe r 1 853 . N g den Juni , N g 9 1 APPENDIX .

1 855 .

25 e e . System der Biblisch n Psychologi , Leipzig 1 8 1 86 1 o f 55 ; second ed . A System Biblical P s 1 8 9 . ychology, Edinburgh , second English edition, 7

1 857 .

2 o m m e ntar H r i 6 . C zum Briefe an die e br ae m t A r ch a o l o gi sch e n u nd Dogmatischen E xcu r se n ti ber n h das Oper und die Ve r sOh nu ng . Comme tary o n te w v o l 1 86 8 Epistle to the Hebre s , Edinburgh, . i . ;

1 8 0. vol . ii . 7 1 —1 85 9 860.

2 r nd r n 7 . s u Die Akademische Amt t acht ihre , Fa be 1 859 .

2 8 o m m n r . C e ta . . uber den Psalter Erster Theil — r tz u n n i . U e b e se v o n . g und Auslegu g Psalm lxxxix , tz u n 1 85 Z . Ue b e r se Leipzig 9 . weiter Theil g und — u n . n A slegu g von Psalm xc cl . Nebst der Einleitu g i n den Psalter und vielen Beilagen m a sso r e th i sch e n a cce ntu o l o i sch e n n s 1 860 s n und g I halt , Leipzig ; eco d — 883 h 1 . . 1 86 td 1 8 3 4 . ed 7 ; ed . 7 7 ; fourth ed l - n i . . o n th e m . Bib ical Commentary Psal s , vols iii , Edi u r 1 8 1 r n b gh 7 . T anslated from the second Germa r n edition . Also a t a slation Of the fourth edition , i - ii — i . 1 8 . . 8 89 . vols , London 7

1 861 .

29 n n s : . Ha dschriftliche Fu de . Er tes Heft Die E r a sm i sch e n Entstellungen des Textes d e r Apo ka l se a u s V r r tn y p , Nachgewiesen dem e lo en Geglaub e e R e u ch l ins n t n e Cod x . In co nection wi h his am as u s ts a r e n a thor of thi work , all his ti le give , which is l w e u e u ti quite unusua . eites Heft : N St dien ber ’ d e n Codex R e u ch li n s u nd neue te xtgesch i ch tli ch e A ufsch l ii sse ti r a v o n be die Apocalypse . Mit Beitr gen T r ll e . Y S . P . ge es ear u nknown . 9 2 APPENDIX .

1 86 3.

ti r K b . 30. F und wider a uis

1 864.

1 C o m m e nta r ti 3 . Biblischer ber die poetischen h Bii h r . : c e des Alten Testaments II . Band das Buc 1 4 1 8 6 86 . 7 . Job , Leipzig ; second ed Biblical Com

m o n . n entary the Book of Job, first English ed Edi 8 n 1 68 . burgh 1 866 ; second E glish cd . New edition o f n m in course preparatio , with any alterations and n f addi tio s by Pro essor Delitzsch . Practically a third

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s o f a li t his Talmudical studies , which appeared in ’ Guericke s Z eitschrift fii r die g e sa mm te Lutherische K 1 840— 1 878 Theologie und irche , Leipzig , in his “ appendix to The Hebrew New Testament o f the

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fe . 37 also re rs , p , to articles which appeared in Saat a u f ffn a nd r n o n Ho ung , which have a bea i g his N w translation o f the e Testament . Other articles ’ w e r e p u blished in L u th a r dts Z eitschri ft fii r Kirchlich e n a K n 1 880 Wisse sch ft und irchliches Lebe , Leipzig , ’ i n Pl itts R -E nc kl o adi e etc . , Herzog and eal y p , and in ’ r Ri e h m s H a nd wOr te r b u ch . In ecent years articles n have bee given to En Oglish readers in the Expositor Tim e s i and the Sunday School . NO mention s m ade r o f o f he e any the works which he edited, as , for

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