# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Januar 1858_S12
# AI translation — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

12 The Euen Theses.

-mutually integrate into the full truth, and are only then rightly understood when they are grasped in their inseparable unity and mutual interpenetration.

Gloss on 6. Where does the Word remain? Luther: "One should not separate the Word and the sacraments, for Christ has also comprised the sacraments within the Word, and where it were without the Word, one could not find comfort in the sacraments." But it is to the Word that faith corresponds.

7. If justification by faith is called the principle of the whole evangelical doctrine because the sum of all the goods of salvation is implicit in it, and if the sola fide is accordingly directed not merely against the absolute necessity of sacramental mediation of salvation, then the doctrine of subjective salvation is, at its deepest ground, clouded through the misapprehension and denial of the essential gift of salvation.

Gloss on 7. Luther: "St. Paul, Romans 10:8, says: In order that one become righteous, it is necessary that one believe from the heart. He does not say: it is necessary that one receive the sacraments. For without the bodily receiving of the sacraments (provided they are not despised) one can become righteous through faith," etc.

8. If justification by faith is called the center that bears and governs the whole of church doctrine, because only those dogmas can count as norming the Church into which the principle of justification resolves itself, then the churchly confession is subject, with unavoidable necessity, to a total stunting — because not only the true doctrine of the sacraments, but also other essential articles of faith (conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, the resurrection of the flesh) can in no way be reached through the unfolding of the principle, and would therefore have to be regarded as indifferent propositions of the confession.

Gloss on 8. Luther: "Where this sun shines and gives light in the heart, there is a right and sure understanding of all matters, so that one can stand firm and hold fast on all the articles: as that Christ is true man, born of the Virgin Mary, and also true almighty God, born of the Father in eternity, Lord over angels and all creatures; likewise: so too he rightly believes and teaches concerning the Holy Spirit, concerning Baptism, the Sacrament, good works, the resurrection of the dead," etc.

9. Justification by faith, detached from the whole of doctrine and asserted in its singular standing as a principle, is a scholarly abstraction capable of anything, which in the end turns into the so-called formal principle of the Reformation, and thereby abrogates every churchly confession.

Gloss on 9. Who authorizes the detaching of this central truth as a single formula from the whole context of doctrine? Luther: "This knowledge does it all, brings us all wisdom, God with all His good gifts, opens up heaven, breaks hell, the devil, and the world, with all their wisdom and power, lies and murder."

10. The center of gravity of the churchly development of doctrine shifts, each