CORRIGENDA IN NO. I.

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Page 198 at the close.-Later information enables us to state, that Freytag's Arabic
Lexicon is to be completed in three parts or volumes, and that the retail price of the whole
work in Germany is 20 rix dollars, or between $14 and $15, payable on the delivery of Part I.
NOTE.-The mark (°) was prefixed to the titles of several works in No. I. to denote that
they are in the Library of the Theol. Seminary, Andover. This plan was afterwards aban-

doned.

CONTENTS

OF

No. I.

ART.

I. THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION IN GERMANY

By the Editor.

Introduction

Part I. German Universities

II. INTERPRETATION OF PSALM XVI

By Prof. Stuart.

Introductory Observations

Translation

Commentary

III. GRAMMATICO-HISTORICAL INTERPRETATION of the

SCRIPTURES

By Prof. Hahn, of Leipsic. Translated by the Editor.

Introductory Notices

Hahn on Interpretation

IV. REMARKS ON HAHN'S DEFINITION OF INTERPRETA-

TION, AND SOME TOPICS CONNECTED WITH IT

By Prof. Stuart.

V. GRAMMATICAL ACCURACY OF THE WRITERS OF THE

NEW TESTAMENT

160

By Prof. Tittmann, of Leipsic. Translated by the Editor.

VI. THEOLOGICAL LITERATURE AND EDUCATION IN

ITALY

177

By Prof. Tholuck, of Halle Translated by the Editor.

N. B. The mark (°) is prefixed to the titles of several books, to indicate that they are
in the Library of the Theological Seminary at Andover. The plan, however, has not been
carried through, and will hereafter be abandoned.

THE

BIBLICAL REPOSITORY.

No. I.

JANUARY, 1831.

ART. I.-THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION IN GERMANY.

INTRODUCTION.

IN commencing a work like the present, designed to promote a spirit of ardent and judicious inquiry in the wide field of Biblical literature, the Editor supposes he cannot render a more acceptable service to the great body of his readers, than to lay before them some information on the subject of theological education and the general character of the clergy in Germany. The history of that country for several centuries is an object of intense interest to the theologian, as well as to the politician. That assemblage of nations comprised under the general name of Germany, has long been, what it still is, a people of comparatively little practical energy, but of vast intellectual exertion. Broken up into a multitude of larger or of petty states, without a capital to serve as a centre of laws or of religious effort, and living under governments essentially despotic, their moral and mental energies have had no outlet in the ordinary channels of civil life and practical utility, which exist under free governments; and have therefore been able to display themselves only in the walks of literature and theoretical science. But in all that regards intellectual labour and intellectual excitement, and in all that serves as sustenance to these, the Germans fall at least behind no other people; in many things they have been far in advance of all other nations. The art of printing, with all its mighty results, owes its birth to Germany. Here too was engendered that spark, which kindled and spread with the rapidity

of lightning over northern Europe, and produced at length the clear and steady light of the Reformation.

It is singular to remark, however, that in all the fierce discussions of the time relative to religious liberty, which formed the very basis of the Reformation, and in the violent rejection of the papal authority in matters of faith and religious practice, there was no direct or at least no efficient application of the same principles to civil rights. The governments continued as despotic as before; and the question of any possible political reform does not seem to have been seriously agitated. But in England, the more practical tendency of the people produced, in time, the natural results of a struggle for liberty of any kind. The same principles and reasonings that led men to burst the shackles which ecclesiastical tyranny had imposed on them for ages, led them also to call in question the validity of that civil tyranny, by which they were deprived of their natural rights. It is thus that the Reformation in Germany, operating also upon England, and there extended to the kindred question of political liberty, may be regarded as the great ultimate cause, which led to the settlement of this western world. It is the great principle of liberty of thought, suggested to the mind of the Monk of Wittemberg, and by him spread out before the world, and in England coupled with the great kindred principle of liberty of action,-that has lain at the foundation of all the mighty movements of succeeding centuries. If it were right to refer to a single individual that which was but the expression of the spirit of an age, we might thus ascribe to Luther not only the Reformation in Germany and England, but also regard his exertions as the germ, from which have sprung all the great political events that have since astonished and convulsed the world; the revolutions of England and of France; and with happier results, the foundation of a new empire in a new hemisphere; with the revolution by which this last threw off the pressure of a foreign yoke, and founded, on a basis unknown in history, institutions of freedom which will bear the test of experience, so long as virtue and intelligence shall be the characteristics of the people; but which, it requires not the power of prophetic vision to foresee, will be surely swept away, whenever ignorance and irreligion shall become predominant in the

land.

The light of the Reformation has not yet departed from Germany; although its glory has been obscured in these latter days, by urging to an extreme the fundamental principles on which it