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Bengel after a hard day's study retired
to rest. Some one in the adjoining room
heard this prayer "Blessed Lord, we
are on the same good old terms
to-night."
A German theologian of profound
critical judgement, extensive learn-
ing and solid piety. Mc-Strong.
At 18 when he was brought very low by
a severe illness he was strengthened
against the fear of death by Ps 118:17:
"I shall not die, but live, and declare
the works of the Lord"' Ib.
He chose as his thesis for his inaugural
as professor at Denkendorf: "True
godliness the surest road to true science."
Ib.
He had the use of but one eye during his
life-long studies and he [seclulously?]
concealed this privation even from
his wife. Ib
The [Gnomon?] as a brief and suggestive
commentary on the N.T. still remains
unrivaled. Ib

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The scholar's delight.

Though modern criticism has fur-
nished many valuable additions to our
materials for N.T. exegesis, yet in som
respects Bengel stands out still facile
princeps among all who have labored,
or who as yet labor in that im-
portant field. He is unrivalled
in felicitous brevity, combined with
what seldom accompanies that
excellence, namely, perspicuity.
Terse, weighty and suggestive,
he often, as a modern writer ob-
serves, condense more matter into
a line, than can be extracted
from pages of other writers.
— Quoted by Spurgeon in
Commenting and Commentaries-33.
Elliott calls this "a remarkable and
almost unique commentary."
Weidner says, its equal cannot be found in
exegetical literature.