the words, such that they are forced to send away hungry and starving hearers without any practice, without any longed-for nourishment of the soul, with the bald excuse of the lapse of time, even if they may have this one thing in their favor, that they have supplied a learned and elegant sermon. Finally, such preachers comment on the individual expressions of the text in such a way that they are not able to elaborate any argument, whether a theoretical or practical one, as it deserves, with great