Gerhard and Walther

If we would consider that in death we will not longer have control over our hands and feet, then we would certainly not offend anyone with our hands. Instead, we would much rather open them up in good deeds for the poor. We would not allow our feet to tread us into the state of sin. Instead, we would much rather, let them carry us to the Lord’s temple.—Johann Gerhard, Schola Pietatis I:227

With a few words from the Old Testament Scriptures, [Jesus] destroyed all the entrenchments and bulwarks of the hellish spirit. How else could Christ have more clearly and undeniably shown to the whole world that the Bible is the imperishable Word of Him who created the heavens and the earth, and that this Word firmly stands when everything else perishes!—C. F. W. Walther, God Grant It!, p. 248.