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which ab<strong>and</strong>ons the faith, <strong>and</strong> is ashamed of its apostasy. It does not<br />

propose a single new point. All its issues were long ago made <strong>and</strong> met. It<br />

is, in part, Zwinglianism tricked out with rhetoric; in part, Calvinism<br />

reached by circuitous by-paths; in part, a reproduction of the weak point in<br />

the Syngramma Suevicum--in short, a clumsy appropriation <strong>and</strong> fusion. of<br />

exploded views, which yet assumes the air of original discovery. It<br />

distributes, after the manner of a huntsman, alternate lashes <strong>and</strong> morsels to<br />

Zwingli, Calvin, <strong>and</strong> Luther; but certainly has this merit, that it would unite<br />

them so far that they would perfectly agree that such a view, on such<br />

grounds, is untenable. Such of the points made by Kahnis as have not<br />

been anticipated in the previous part of our discussion will be taken up in<br />

what follows.<br />

1. “Is.” De Wette, <strong>and</strong> others.<br />

It will be noticed that KAHNIS takes the true view of the necessary<br />

force of "is;" <strong>and</strong> in this is in complete conflict with the mass of<br />

rationalizing <strong>and</strong> rationalistic interpretation from Zwingli to this hour. <strong>The</strong><br />

last refuge of this interpretation has been in the word which Kahnis<br />

surrenders.<br />

Thus, DE WETTE'S note on e˙sti is this: "In these contested words<br />

the e˙sti (which, in the Aramaic denah hua gyphy, was not expressed) is<br />

the bare logical copula, <strong>and</strong> can, in itself, just as well amount to a real is<br />

(so Luther) or a symbolic is, that is, signifies (so Zwingli). But, in fact, the<br />

latter sense alone is admissible; for the discourse <strong>and</strong> transaction is<br />

symbolical, like that in John xx. 22 (He breathed on them, <strong>and</strong> saith unto<br />

them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost), <strong>and</strong> in this instance, at least, the actual<br />

body of Jesus could not have been the subject of discourse. Eivnai has the<br />

latter sense in<br />

"Luke xii. 1. Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is<br />

hypocrisy."<br />

Heb. x. 20. Through the veil, that is to say (touß esti) (id est, das<br />

ist), His flesh.<br />

"John xiv. 6. I am the way, the truth <strong>and</strong> the life: no man cometh<br />

unto the Father but by Me.<br />

"John xv. 1. I am the true vine, <strong>and</strong> My Father is the husb<strong>and</strong>man.

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