# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Januar 1861_S8
# AI translation — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

8   Theological Axioms.

II. Of Holy Scripture, the Principle of Theology.

1. "Οὐδὲν ἄτερ γραφῆς." [Nothing apart from Scripture.]

Nothing outside of Scripture.

2. "Quod credimus, debemus autoritati, quod intelligimus, rationi."

What we believe, we owe to authority; what we understand, to reason.

3. "Verbum Dei condit articulos fidei et praeterea nemo, ne angelus quidem."

God's Word makes the articles of faith, and nothing else, not even an angel.

4. "Scriptura est fluvius, in quo elephas natat, et agnus ambulat."

Scripture is a river in which the elephant swims and the lamb walks through.

5. Nullus in scripturis est apex, a quo non pendeant doctrinarum montes.

In Scripture there is no least stroke of a letter on which mountains of doctrine do not hang.

6. Multa sunt in scripturis, etiamsi non dicantur.

Much is in Scripture, even though it is not there expressly stated.

7. "Pascimur apertis, exercemur obscuris; illis fames, his taedium pellitur."

We are fed by what is plain, exercised by what is obscure; by the one hunger is driven off, by the other tedium.

8. Patres fuerunt lumina, non numina.

The church fathers were lights, not gods.

9. Errat ecclesia, quae ecclesiam errare posse negat.

The church errs which denies that the church can err.

10. Errant concilia, quae concilia errare posse negant.

Councils err which deny that councils can err.

11. Hebraei bibunt fontes, Graeci rivos, Latini paludes.

The Hebrew drinks from the spring, the Greek from the streams, the Latin from the marshes.

12. Prophetica et apostolica scripta sunt unica credendorum regula et norma.

The prophetic and apostolic writings are the sole rule and norm of what is to be believed.

13. Supremus controversiarum judex est Spiritus S. per scripturam nobiscum loquens.

The supreme judge of all controversies is the Holy Spirit, speaking with us through Scripture.

14. Dogma de canone proprie loquendo non est articulus fidei.

The doctrine concerning the canon is, properly speaking, not itself an article of faith.