Selected Extracts

Preface

but whatever has been printed with different typefaces original: "mit unterschiedenen Littern gedruckt"; referring to the use of different fonts or styles, such as Roman type versus Fraktur, used for emphasis, everything—as well as the occurring Note Well original: "NB." (nota bene)—originates from the author himself. We have left his word exactly as we found it, even though at times some small changes for the sake of greater clarity seemed to have a place; however, respect for the dear father A title of respect for the author, likely Johann Georg Gichtel, whose works the editors were compiling did not allow it; especially since one had an even deeper reason, which was that we justly feared weakening the spirit within the word if one presumed to give it a different garment than it had assumed in the holy writer, who alone, were he still alive, would have the power to make such changes. We do not doubt, and experience has also confirmed this elsewhere, that the soul-oriented gemüthliche: referring to a reader who reads with their "Gemüt," the deep seat of the soul's emotions and spiritual intuition reader [will accept] various words and manners of speech which adhered and became peculiar to the author original: "Auctori" during his many years' stay in Holland from the local language original: "Landes-Sprache," referring to Dutch or otherwise, as well as