It struck many as incomprehensible how Delitzsch could emphasize the absolute need for a sober, grammatical-philological exegesis, and then add, "Christ, the crucified and resurrected One, is the active goal of the entire Word of God, and thus also its final meaning" (cited in Wagner, p. 325). Or again, in an essay translated into English (The Old Testament Student, pp. 77-78) he writes, "Without the New Testament,
the Old Testament would be a labyrinth without a clue, a syllogism without a conclusion, a torso without a heart, a moon without the sun, since Christ is the proper interpreter of
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