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So Luther's sincere idiomatic German, such language as this: "Hilf, lieber Gott, wie manchen Jammer habe ich gesehen, dass der gemeine Mann doch so gar nichts weiss von der christlichen Lehre!" no more proves a power of style in German literature, than Cobbett's sinewy idiomatic English proves it in English literature.
Steadiness with honesty; the danger for a national spirit thus composed is the humdrum, the plain and ugly, the ignoble: in a word, das Gemeine, die Gemeinheit, that curse of Germany, against which Goethe was all his life fighting.
We who loathe all the humdrum bourgeois talk 'don't do this don't do that! Aunt Alsie, there's a German line, too, you know it Was uns alle baendigt, das Gemeine' don't you hate it too das Gemeine?" the word came with vehemence through the white teeth. "And how can we escape it we women except through freedom through asserting ourselves through love, of course?
So Luther's sincere idiomatic German, such language is this: 'Hilf lieber Gott, wie manchen Jammer habe ich gesehen, dass der gemeine Mann doch so gar nichts weiss von der christlichen Lehre! no more proves a power of style in German literature, than Cobbett's sinewy idiomatic English proves it in English literature.
For the present, he said, the home of this ideal "Gemeine" would be the Moravian Church. At Herrnhut and other places in Saxony it would be a home for Lutherans; at Herrnhaag it would be a home for Calvinists; and then, when it had done its work and united all the children of God, it could be conveniently exploded. He gave the Moravian Church a rather short life.
There must be hewers of wood and drawers of water, and the dishes ought to be washed. On a higher plane, also, than this mere sense of physical necessity, there are forces limiting the influence of romance. Schiller put it all into one famous line: "Und was uns alle bändigt, das Gemeine." Or listen to Keats:
I am my own mistress responsible to no one. I choose for myself I dare for myself!" And when at last she rose, first loosening and then twisting the black masses of her hair, it seemed to her that the form in the glass was that of another woman, treading another earth. She trampled cowardice under foot; she freed herself from "was uns alle bändigt, das Gemeine!"
"For the present," he said, "the Saviour is manifesting His Gemeine to the world in the outward form of the Moravian Church; but in fifty years that Church will be forgotten." It is doubtful how far his Brethren understood him. They listened, admired, wondered, gasped and quietly went their own way.
Compare the classical passage in the Large Catechism : "nicht Gemenschaft, sondern Gemeine." See A Discussion of Confession, above, p. 88. Changed to "Christian" in the Catechisms , although the Latin translations retain catholocism. The Apostle does not say, "one cup." The translation here follows the reading of the Jena Ed. Edd. Thus the Vulgate. See pp. 137 ff. Vulgate.
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