# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Januar 1861_S10
# AI translation — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

10   Theological Axioms.

7. Solus sensus literalis est argumentativus.

Only the literal sense has probative force.

8. Sensus literae non temere est deserendus.

The sense of the letter is not to be abandoned without compelling reason.

9. Scriptura semet ipsam explicat.

Scripture interprets itself.

10. Sensus literae est deserendus, ubi clarior parallelismus tropicam explicationem requirit.

The sense of the letter is to be abandoned where a clearer parallel passage requires a figurative interpretation.

11. Omnis explicatio Scripturae S. fidei debet esse analoga.

Every interpretation of Scripture must be in keeping with the faith.

12. Sensus literae est deserendus, ubi analogia fidei tropicam explicationem requirit.

The sense of the letter is to be abandoned where the analogy of faith requires a figurative interpretation.

13. Οὐδεμία γραφὴ τῇ ἑτέρᾳ ἐστὶν ἐναντία. [No scripture is contrary to another.]

No passage of Scripture contradicts another.

14. Sensus literae est deserendus, ubi evidentia rei tropicam explicationem requirit.

The sense of the letter is to be abandoned where the nature of the matter requires a figurative interpretation.

15. Distingue tempora, et concordabit scriptura.

Distinguish the times, and Scripture will agree with itself.

16. Omnis fidei articulus in Scriptura S. alicubi propriis et perspicuis verbis est expositus.

Every article of faith is set forth somewhere in Scripture in plain and clear words.

17. Statuendum de quovis dogmate ex propria ejus sede.

Of any doctrine one must believe what is said of it there, where it has its own place in Scripture.

18. Sensus literae non est deserendus, praesertim quoad substantialia, ubi fidei articulus ceu in propria sede tractatur.

The sense of the letter is not to be abandoned, especially as regards essentials, where an article of faith is treated as in its own proper place.

19. Τὸ ῥητὸν est retinendum, ubi articulus fidei ex professo proponitur. [The express wording is to be retained...]

One must keep exactly to the letter where an article of faith is deliberately set forth.

20. Non potest scriptura intelligi theologice, nisi ante intellecta sit grammatice.

Scripture cannot be understood theologically unless it has first been understood grammatically.