Such was the consistently rationalistic Life of Jesus, which evoked so much opposition at the time of its appearance, and seven years later received its death‐blow at the hands of Strauss. The method is doomed to failure because the author only saves his own sincerity at the expense of that of his characters. He makes the disciples of Jesus see miracles where they could not possibly have seen them; and makes Jesus Himself allow miracles to be imagined where He must necessarily have protested against such a delusion. His exegesis, too, is sometimes violent. But in this, who has the right to judge him? If the theologians dragged him before the Lord, He would command, as of old, “Let him that is without sin among you cast the first stone at him,” and Paulus would go forth unharmed. Moreover, a number of his explanations are right in principle. The feeding of the multitudes and the walking on the sea must be explained somehow or other as misunderstandings of something that actually happened. And how many of Paulus’ ideas are still going about in all sorts of disguises, and crop up again and again in commentaries and Lives of Jesus, especially in those of the “anti‐rationalists”! Nowadays it belongs to the complete duty of the well‐trained theologian to renounce the rationalists and all their works; and yet how poor our time is in comparison with theirs—how poor in strong men capable of loyalty to an ideal, how poor, so far as theology is concerned, in simple commonplace sincerity! VI. THE LAST PHASE OF RATIONALISM—HASE AND SCHLEIERMACHER _Karl August Hase._ Das Leben Jesu zunächst für akademische Studien. (The Life of Jesus, primarily for the use of students.) 1829. 205 pp. This work contains a bibliography of the earliest literature of the subject. 5th ed., 1865. _Friedrich Ernst Daniel Schleiermacher._ Das Leben Jesu. 1864. Edited by Rütenik. The edition is based upon a student’s note‐book of a course of lectures delivered in 1832. _David Friedrich Strauss._ Der Christus des Glaubens und der Jesus der Geschichte. Eine Kritik des Schleiermacher’schen Lebens Jesu. (The Christ of Faith and the Jesus of History. A criticism of Schleiermacher’s Life of Jesus.) 1865.