WE call on Thee, O Lord, in the day of our trouble, that Thou wouldest give us the increase of faith and hope, to the end that we may come to the everlasting inheritance of love; through Jesus Christ, Thy Son, our Lord, who livest and reignest with the Father and the Holy Ghost, ever one God, world without end. Amen (Oremus, 1925, p.54).
Monthly Archives: September 2021
Divine Service for Trinity 14 on Sunday, September 5, 2021
Order of Divine Service I, p.136 Lutheran Worship
Hymn “From God Can Nothing Move Me” LW 409, TLH 73
Readings: Proverbs 4:10-23, Galatians 5:16-24, Luke 17:11-19
Hymn “I Will Sing My Maker’s Praises” LW 439, TLH 25
Sermon
Communion Hymns: “Blest the Children of Our God” LW 370
“How Lovely Shines the Morning Star” TLH 343, LW 73
“Oh, that I Had a Thousand Voices” LW 448, TLH 243
“Now Thank We All Our God” LW 443, TLH 36
–Michael D. Henson, Pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church (Herrin, IL).
Service Bulletin: Trinity-Fourteen-Divine-Service-for-Online-9-5-2021.pdf
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Picture: “Das Neue Testament Deutzsch: Wittenberg” – Title Page of Luther’s first edition of the New Testament in September 1522. (“Luther’s Bible Translations – 1522,” The Gruber Rare Books Collection, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. https://gruber.lstc.edu/luthers_bible/1522.php
Luther’s Bible Translations – 1522 Das Neue Testament Deutzsch
The “September Testament” / “December Testament”
In September, 1522, Luther published the first edition of his translation of the New Testament. He had begun that during his stay at the Wartburg, in eleven weeks from December 1521 to February 1522, but it was revised in collaboration with Melanchthon and others after he had returned to Wittenberg. Some 3-5,000 copies were printed and by December, 1522, a second edition, called the December Testament had to be published. The price was one guilder, which corresponded to two months’ salary for a schoolmaster. By the time Luther published the complete Bible in 1534, 87 editions of his New Testament had been published in High German and some 19 in Low German. More than 200,000 copies had been sold.
Luther’s translation was based on the second edition of the Greek text edited by Erasmus in 1519. He put Hebrews and James at the end of the testament, with Jude and Revelation, to underline what he considered as the secondary character of these books. A marginal note at Matt 5:19 refers to those who break the commandments rather than following them as “Papisten hauff” (a heap of papists). 21 illustrations from the workshop of Lucas Cranach the Elder show that the language of the book of Revelation is to be taken metaphorically. The whore of Babylon (the anti-Christ) is equated with the Pope.
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Miriam’s Sunday School, Class #44: on September 5, 2021
Today’s class will study “Isaac is Born” (Geneses 21:1-7) and “Hagar and Ishmael” (Genesis 21:8-21)
Handout 1: Text-for-Genesis-21v1-34.pdf
–Michael D. Henson, Pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church (Herrin, IL).
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Picture: “Das Neue Testament Deutzsch” 1522 – Luther considered the translation of the Bible into German his greatest achievement and his only publication that should outlive him. Recognizing that the Bible’s authority was to be found in the original texts–Hebrew for the Old Testament and Greek for the New Testament–Luther became proficient in both languages. The final publications, however, were not the work of Luther alone but the collaborative achievement of a gathering of scholars in Wittenberg. Their efforts, focused on creating a new German Bible translated from the original languages, rather than from St. Jerome’s Latin Vulgate, proceeded in stages between 1520 and 1534. (Southern Methodist University, Bridwell Library, Perkins School of Theology, Dallas Texas https://www.smu.edu/ Bridwell/SpecialCollectionsandArchives/Exhibitions/Luther/Bibles )
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#54 Why Suffering? 2. To Prove God’s Strength Against the Devil
The second reason is this, that even though God does not want to assault and torment us, the devil does, and he cannot abide the Word. He is by nature so malicious and venomous that he cannot endure anything which is good. It irks him that an apple should be growing on a tree; it pains and vexes him that you have a sound finger, and if he were able he would tear everything apart and put it out of joint.
But there is nothing to which he is so hostile as the beloved Word. And the reason is that he can conceal himself beneath every created thing; only the Word exposes him, so that he cannot hide himself, and shows everybody how black he is. Then he fights back and resists and draws together the princes and the bishops, thinking thus to conceal himself again. But it is of no avail; the Word nevertheless drags him out into the light. Therefore he too does not rest, and because the gospel cannot suffer him, so he cannot suffer the gospel, and that makes it equal. And if our dear God were not guarding us through his angels and we were able to see the devil’s cunning, conspiring, and lying, we should die of the sight of it alone, so many are the cannon and guns he has ranged against us. But God prevents them from striking us. (Luther’s Works, v.51, p.206)
Picture: Whore of Babylon from Das Newe Testament Deuotzsch.
The image is the “Whore of Babylon” from Martin Luther’s (1483-1546) September Testament. The image is based on Revelation chapter 17. A harlot sits on a beast with seven heads and ten horns (v 17:3), decked with precious stones and pearls, with a golden cup in her hand full of abominations (v 17:4). She is drunk (v 17:6) and a king (v 17:10) worships her along with others kneeling before her. The triple tiara crown identifies the harlot as the pope. The image is by Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1553), a close friend of Martin Luther (1483-1546). This symbolism was considered too offensive and the triple tiara became a single tiara in the second edition of Luther’s New Testament which appeared in December 1522. http://pitts.emory.edu/
Catechesis on Trinity Fourteen 2019 (St. Luke 17:11-19)
On Wednesday nights, Trinity Lutheran Church (Herrin, IL) offers to both children and adults an opportunity for teaching with Learn-by-Heart at 6:30 PM and a catechetical service at 7:00.
In this video from September 11, 2019, we learned stanza 3-4 of “Wondrous King, All-Glorious” (The Lutheran Hymnal #41) and the Close of the Commandments and its meaning. This service is designed to prepare God’s people for the theme of the upcoming Sunday Divine Service. The dialog sermon explains “The Ten Lepers” (St. Luke 17:11-19), which is the Holy Gospel for Trinity Fourteen.
The service concludes with “Recite Word by Word.” [Length: 1 hour and 6 minutes]
Bulletins: Catechesis-Trinity-14-9-11-2019-Online.pdf
Prayers: Recite-Word-by-Word.pdf
This catechesis is recorded in two parts.
The first video is the Learn-by-Heart. [Length: 28 minutes]
The second video is the Catechesis Service. [Length: 37 minutes]
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