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Eckhardt's Homiletisches Reallexikon, 1907–1917

A cumulative subject index to seven Missouri Synod periodicals, compiled by E. (Ernest) Eckhardt (1868–1939) and printed at St. Louis between 1907 and 1917. Under each headword it sets numbered theses, and beside each thesis the places where the periodicals had treated it — by volume and page, running twenty years past the last of Der Lutheraner's own registers. Where the archive holds the volume a citation names, the citation below is a link to that page.

The alphabetical run is here in full, Abendmahl through Wunder, assembled from five scans: two archive.org items, a pair from Google Books that closes what had looked like a gap in the middle of the alphabet, and the archive.org tail. With it are the Beichtreden appendix, Eckhardt's own printed Register, and the separate 1913 treatise Die Schule, bound in with the later volumes and kept here under its own heading.

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Headwords are spelled as Eckhardt set them, so the filter folds the differences that would otherwise hide them — Sklaverei finds Sclaverei, Konkordienformel finds Concordienformel. What you see listed is always the printed spelling.

4,478 entries under 828 headwords, carrying 129,203 citations and 2,331 fragments too damaged to read · built 2026-09-16. uncorrected OCR

The German below is machine transcription of the 1907–1917 print (tesseract, Fraktur model) and has not been proof-read against the page. Read it as a finding aid: the citations are what it is for, and a garbled word is a defect of our OCR, not of Eckhardt.

2 entries under abendmahlbrodbrechen.

Abendmahl—Brodbrechen

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Anm. b. Chriſtus hat das Brod gebrochen um es aus⸗ zuteilen, zufälliger Weiſe, per accidens. b. Die Reformierten, Presbyterianer, Baptiſten u. ſ. w. halten das Brodbrechen für weſentlich. Es muß ge⸗ brochen ſein. 1. Weil es Chriſtus getan. 2. Weil es in der älteſten Kirche geſchehen iſt. 3. Weil das Abendmahl Brodbrechen genannt wird. Ap. 2, 42. 4. Weil Paulus von Chriſti Leib ſagt: Der für euch gebrochen wird. 1. Cor. 11, 24. 5. Um den falſchen Wahn von der Gegenwart Chriſti im Abendmahl aus dem Herzen zu reißen. 6. Um Chriſti Tod am Kreuz zu verſinnlichen und abzubilden. Anm. Ihr Abendmahl iſt nichts weiter als eine Chriſti Leiden verſinnlichende Handlung. Dagegen 1. Nicht Chriſti Exempel, ſondern nur ſein Gebot bindet uns. 2. „Solches tut“ geht nicht auf alle Nebenumſtände; dann müßten ſie auch ſolche Brode backen wie die Juden und ungeſäuertes Brod brauchen wie wir. Anm. Sie ſchneiden das Brod vorher in kleine Stücke und brechen jedes Stück einmal. So hat es Chriſtus auch nicht gemacht.

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Note b. Christ broke the bread in order to distribute it — incidentally, per accidens. b. The Reformed, Presbyterians, Baptists, etc. hold the breaking of bread to be essential. It must be broken. 1. Because Christ did it. 2. Because it was done in the earliest church. 3. Because the Lord's Supper is called the breaking of bread. Acts 2:42. 4. Because Paul says of Christ's body: Which is broken for you. 1 Cor. 11:24. 5. To tear the false delusion of Christ's presence in the Lord's Supper out of the heart. 6. To symbolize and depict Christ's death on the cross. Note. Their Lord's Supper is nothing more than an act symbolizing Christ's sufferings. Against this: 1. Not Christ's example but only his command binds us. 2. “Do this” does not extend to all the incidental circumstances; otherwise they would also have to bake such loaves as the Jews did and use unleavened bread as we do. Note. They cut the bread into small pieces beforehand and break each piece once. Christ did not do it that way either.

vol a, printed page 39 · scan: bub_gb_3EAUAAAAYAAJ/n0039

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3. Das Brodbrechen iſt ein wenig paſſendes Sinnbild, denn Chriſti Leib iſt nicht gebrochen worden. Joh. 19, 36. Anm. Sie ſollten eigentlich auch etwas Wein ver— gießen, um das Vergießen des Blutes zu verſinnlichen. 4. „Für euch gebrochen“, 1. Cor. 21, erklären die an⸗ dern Evangeliſten mit den Worten: Für euch gegeben. 5. Brich dem Hungrigen dein Brod. Jeſ. 58, 7, heißt auch nicht brechen, ſondern austeilen. Anm. b. Wir brechen das Brod vorher und ſchneiden es zurecht. d. Das Brodbrechen iſt nun eine Bekenntniszeremonie, ein Symbol der falſchen Lehre. Anm. a. Wir enthalten uns desſelben 1. Um unſere chriſtliche Freiheit zu wahren. 2. Um uns nicht der reformierten Lehre verdäch⸗ tig zu machen. Anm. a. Wenn du durch dreimal pfeifen deine Zu— ſtimmung zur falſchen Lehre giebſt, dürfteſt du auch nicht dreimal pfeifen. Anm. b. Wer das Brod bricht, bahnt der Gemeinde den Weg zur reformierten Kirche.

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3. The breaking of bread is a poorly fitting symbol, for Christ's body was not broken. John 19:36. Note. They should really also spill some wine, to symbolize the shedding of blood. 4. “Broken for you,” 1 Cor. 11:24, is explained by the other evangelists with the words: Given for you. 5. “Break your bread for the hungry.” Isa. 58:7 likewise does not mean to break but to distribute. Note b. We break the bread beforehand and cut it to size. d. The breaking of bread is now a confessional ceremony, a symbol of the false doctrine. Note a. We refrain from it 1. To preserve our Christian freedom. 2. To avoid making ourselves suspected of Reformed doctrine. Note. If by whistling three times you give your assent to a false doctrine, then you also ought not to whistle three times. Note b. Whoever breaks the bread paves the way for his congregation toward the Reformed church.

vol a, printed page 39 · scan: bub_gb_3EAUAAAAYAAJ/n0039

A citation shown like this names a volume the archive does not hold — most of Der Lutheraner and Lehre und Wehre past Jahrgang 10, and the five other series Eckhardt indexes, none of which are here. Those references are printed as Eckhardt set them rather than hidden: the reference is the useful thing even when we cannot serve the page. Page images of the Reallexikon itself are not served in this build; the scan note under each entry gives the item and image index in the archive.org copy.