Christ the Greatest Hero in Battle

hausen’s friends (one of whom is writing down this remark) would by no means fail to find much more to criticize in the presented depictions of the Spirit of Jesus *), which the reviewer believes has been so greatly dishonored by Eckartshausen's adaptation. To say nothing of Socinianism Socinianism was a rationalist Christian movement that denied the Trinity and the divinity of Christ; in the 18th century, critics often used the term as an insult to describe any theology they felt was too focused on human reason rather than divine mystery., which prevails throughout the aforementioned book, The Spirit of Jesus: the style is harsh and cumbersome, unnecessarily wordy, filled with tedious repetitions, and burdened with every imaginable rhetorical ornament; furthermore, nearly every page is peppered with barbaric, modern-philosophical terminology. The following, in which Eckartshausen's own serene genius breathes, may prove the difference between original inspiration and mere copying.

A horizontal decorative brace appears here in the original text to separate the main body from the footnotes.

*) The Spirit of Jesus, as manifested on Earth; and considered especially according to the most interesting situations, relationships, and circumstances. original: "Geist Jesu, wie sich derselbe auf Erden geäußert hat..." Leipzig: published by Gerard Fleischer the Younger, 1797.