in the beginning the props and stays of faith : now they are also the object of faith. At Leonberg, a town of Wirtemberg [A.C. 1644, thirteenth Sunday after Trinity], a girl of twenty years of age was so disabled in her limbs, as hardly to be able to creep along by the help of crutches ; but whilst the Dean [Raumeier was his name] was, from the pulpit, dwelling on the miraculous power of Jesus' name, she suddenly was raised up and restored to the use of her limbs.1 — raDra, these) Miracles are here alluded to of a most palpable kind, and such as are altogether removed from every suspicion of trickery. — vapaxo- Xo'jSqffzi, shall follow in the train of) The word and faith precede the signs, ver. 20. — cv T& 6v6/j>ari MOU, in My name) which believers call upon. — -xouvafc, new) Such as they themselves had not pre viously known : or even such as no nation had previously spoken : 1 Cor. xii. 10. For in Acts ii. 4, the tongues of the Parthians, Medes, etc., are called other tongues, not new tongues, "Erspai) other tongues, were such as were used before, viz., by the various nations : but xa/va/, new tongues : for instance, as at Corinth, where one spake in the tongue, and another had to interpret it, although there was no one present who used the foreign tongue ; a proceeding which was as it were a kind of prophetical exercise.
18. Qaivdffipov, deadly) The resurrection of dead men is not here mentioned: Jesus Christ performed more than He promised. But we read of only Tabitha being raised by Peter, and Euty- chus by Paul : for now that the Saviour has entered His glory,
1 This happened in the presence of Duke Eberhard III. and his courtiers, and was committed to the public records, which are above all suspicion. However D. Ernesti, Bibl. TheoL T. ii. 416, regards the whole affair as not worthy to be dignified with the name of miracle. The very words of the Dean are given by E. B. in his Ed. of Beng. Gnom., which the curious reader can consult. The girl had been for nine years continuously disabled. E. B. tells a marvellous tale in addition. At Lavingen, in the year 1G06, Nov. 26, Joseph Jenisch was born of the noble stock of the Kellers ; he was destitute of a tongue from his birth, but in consequence of the earnest prayers of his parents and family, when he had not yet finished his first year, he was able to name distinctly the several members of the family, and was, therefore, dedicated to the service of the ministry, which for forty years he discharged at Boblingen and Munchingen : he died on the 10th of April 1675. — ED. and TRANSL.