# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Januar 1861_S12
# AI translation — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

12   Theological Axioms.

33. Quae dicuntur in scripturis ἀνθρωποπαθῶς, intelligenda sunt θεοπρεπῶς. [What is said in the Scriptures in human fashion must be understood in a manner befitting God.]

Whatever is said of God in Scripture in a human way must be understood in a way worthy of God.

34. "In Vetere (Testamento) Novum latet, in Novo Vetus patet."

The New Testament lies hidden in the Old; the Old is unlocked in the New.

35. Testamentum Vetus Novi fundamentum, Novum Veteris complementum.

The Old Testament is the foundation of the New; the New is the fulfillment of the Old.

36. Moses prophetarum oceanus, reliqui prophetae postillatores Mosis, Novum T. Veteris complementum.

Moses is the ocean of the prophets; all the other prophets are homilists upon the five books; the New Testament is the fulfillment of the Old.

37. Litera non fallit, multos speciosa fefellit
Glossa, Dei verbo nitere, tutus eris.
Lubrica dum ratio sensus se volvit in omnes,
Certa facis ῥητῷ pectora, Christe, tuo.

The letter does not deceive; many a specious gloss has deceived. Rely on God's Word, and you will walk securely. While slippery reason turns itself to every sense, you, Christ, by your Word, as it stands written, make hearts firm and certain.

38. "Cum Paulus exponit Psalmum de Christo, non est alia, ne angeli quidem, interpretatio agnoscenda."

When Paul explains a psalm as concerning Christ, no other interpretation is to be admitted, not even an angel's.

39. "Prophetae de rebus futuris utuntur saepe verbis sui temporis."

The prophets, when speaking of future things, often use the language of their own time.

40. "Multa praedicta sunt, quae indubie completa, etsi, quomodo et quando impleta sint, nec sacra nec exotica historia referat."

Much has been prophesied which has undoubtedly been fulfilled, even though neither sacred nor secular history reports how and when it was fulfilled.

41. Peritiores duces nusquam inveniet interpres, quam Christum ipsum, ejusque discipulos, fallere nescios, qui, dum plurima V. T. oracula ex ipsa Spiritus Sancti intentione in N. T. interpretantur, ad innumera alia recte intelligenda clavem suppeditant.

An interpreter will nowhere find better guides than Christ himself and his disciples, incapable of error, who, by expounding, in the New Testament, so many oracles of the Old Testament according to the very intention of the Holy Spirit, supply the key for the right understanding of countless others.