# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Januar 1861_S7
# AI translation — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

Theological Axioms.   7

7. Nomina qui fingit, simul et nova dogmata gignit.

Whoever invents new words thereby also creates new articles of faith.

8. Moderati ingenii est, cum ecclesia non tantum sentire, sed et loqui.

It is the mark of a modest spirit not only to believe with the church, but also to speak with her.

9. Quod non capis, quod non vides,
Animosa firmet fides.

What you cannot grasp, what you do not see, let courageous faith make sure for you.

10. Οὐδεὶς γεωμέτρης εἰσίτω. [Let no one enter who is not a geometer.]

No geometer has any business here.

11. Articuli ad salutem cognitu necessarii sunt omnium temporum.

The articles whose knowledge is necessary to salvation are the same in all ages.

12. "Ut in philosophia modicus error in principio in fine est maximus, sic in theologia modicus error totam doctrinam evertit."

"Just as in philosophy, when one errs a little at the beginning, a very great and immoderate error results in the end: so it goes in theology as well, that a small error ends up corrupting and falsifying the whole of Christian doctrine."

13. "Debet doctrina esse unus quidam perpetuus et rotundus aureus circulus, in quo nulla sit fissura; ea accedente vel minima circulus non est amplius integer."

"Doctrine ought to be like a fine, whole, golden ring in which there is neither crack nor break; for as soon as such a ring gets even the smallest crack or break, it is no longer whole."

14. "Maledictus sit caritas, quae servatur cum jactura doctrinae fidei, cui omnia cedere debent, caritas, apostolus, angelus e coelo."

"Cursed be love, down into the abyss of hell, if it is preserved to the harm and detriment of the doctrine of faith, to which everything alike must rightly yield — be it love, apostle, or angel from heaven, whatever it may be."

15. "Si Deum in uno articulo negas, in omnibus negasti, quia Deus non dividitur in multos articulos, sed est omnia in singulis et unus in omnibus articulis."

"If you deny God in one article, you have certainly denied him in all; for he cannot be divided piecemeal into many articles, but is wholly and entirely in each one and, in all of them together, one God."

16. "Unum verbum Dei est omnia, omnia sunt unum; unus articulus est omnes, omnes sunt unus, et uno omisso omnes paulatim amittuntur; cohaerent enim et quodam communi vinculo continentur."

"One word of God is all of them, and again all of God's words are one; all the articles of our Christian faith are one, and again the one is all, so that, once one is given up, the rest will surely all fall away one by one in time; for they all hang together and belong together."