Section 141. Hero Worship. II

Blessed⁠ and ennobling is the feeling which gathers round a wise teacher or⁠ a great statesman all the more earnest, high-minded, pious youths of his generation⁠; the⁠ feeling which makes⁠ soldiers follow the general whom they trust, they know not why or whither, through danger⁠, hunger, fatigue, and⁠ death itself; the⁠ feeling which, in its highest perfection, made⁠ the Apostles forsake all and follow Christ⁠, saying (S. 111, N. 6): “Lord, to⁠ whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of eternal life,” and which made them⁠ ready to work⁠ and to die for Him whom the world called the Son of the carpenter, but whom they, through⁠ the Spirit of God bearing witness with their own pure and noble spirits, knew⁠ to be the Son of the Living God.—Charles Kingsley, “The Water of Life.”

Beglückend.

Repeat here the prep. ‘round’, um.

generation = time.

jenes.

to make follow, folgen heißen, which verbs must be placed after the rel. clause; folgen requires the dat.; to trust a person, einem vertrauen.

Use the pl. with this noun.

yea, even unto death.

‘to make’, here again heißen (to bid), str. v. tr.; which place after ‘follow’ according to App. § 19.

Jesus Christ has retained its Latin declension, thus: N. Jesus Christus; G. Jesu Christi; D. Jesu Christo; Acc. Jesum Christum. Use the dat. Christo, since folgen governs the dat.

‘to whom’, here wohin (whither), which appears in the German text of the Bible.

‘to make ready’, here = to enable, befähigen.

wirken is more appropriate here than arbeiten, considering the elevated style of the whole speech.

through — spirits, kraft des göttlichen Geistes, der in ihren reinen, edlen Herzen Zeugnis ablegte.

knew to be, als (followed by the Acc.) ... erkannten.