" As we have seen, Bishop Walton had been forced to give
up the inspiration of the rabbinical punctuation, but he seems to
have fallen back with all the more tenacity on what remained of
the great sacred theory of language, and to have become its
leading champion among English-speaking peoples.
At that same period the same doctrine was put forth by a
great authority in Germany. In 1657 Andreas Sennert published his
inaugural address as Professor of Sacred Letters and Dean of the
Theological Faculty at Wittenberg. All his efforts were given to
making Luther's old university a fortress of the orthodox theory.
His address, like many others in various parts of Europe, shows
that in his time an inaugural with any save an orthodox statement
of the theological platform would not be tolerated. Few things in
the past are to the sentimental mind more pathetic, to the
philosophical mind more natural, and to the progressive mind more
ludicrous, than addresses at high festivals of theological
schools.
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