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Excerpt from Annotations on the Gospel According to St. Matthew, Vol. 1: Matthew I-XV
The Lutheran Church was saved, however, from the full consequences of the later development by two cir cumstances. One was the expository mode of preaching that prevailed, based generally upon the pericopes of the Church Year. That this mode is capable of abuse from the temptation afforded by a vast mass of material made ready for the homiletical purposes of the preacher, is un doubtedly true. Any mode of preaching, that is not accompanied by constantly fresh study of the Holy Script ures, and the stimulus of new discoveries, on the part of the preacher, of riches hitherto hidden from him in the Divine Word, must become lifeless and mechanical. Never theless where the pericopes are followed, or other lessons from the Scriptures are explained according to an estab lished order, the mind of the people is brought in a peculiar way, to the sources of spiritual life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
