# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Januar 1861_S13
# AI translation — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

Theological Axioms.   13

42. Talia sunt subjecta, qualia permittuntur, imo praescribuntur a suis praedicatis.

Subjects are of such a kind as their predicates allow — indeed, prescribe.

43. "Ut in Veteri T. umbra cernitur, ita in Novo res significata quaerenda est, non alius typus."

As in the Old Testament the shadow is seen, so in the New the thing signified is to be sought — not another type.

IV. Of God.

1. Praesentem monstrat quaelibet herba Deum.

Every blade of grass reveals the present God.

2. Desine, cur nemo videat sine numine numen,
Mirari; solem quis sine sole videt?

Stop wondering why no one can see God without God — who, after all, sees the sun without the sun?

3. Τὸ πῶς περὶ θεοῦ ζητεῖν σαφὴς τῆς ἀπιστίας ἔλεγχος. [To ask "how" concerning God is a clear proof of unbelief.]

The "how"? To wish to search that out about God is a manifest proof of unbelief.

4. Ratio Deum esse novit, nescit, esse Deum meum.

Reason knows that a God exists; that he is my God, it does not know.

5. Scrutari scripturas fas, Deum nefas.

To search the Scriptures is lawful; to search out God is not.

6. "Sicut nationes manibus, ita haeretici verbis idola fabricantur."

As the heathen fashion idols with their hands, so heretics fashion them with words.

7. Non quia Deus praescit, res futurae sunt, sed quia futurae sunt, ideo Deus praescit.

Things are not future because God foreknows them; rather, God foreknows them because they are future.

8. Voluntas Dei semper impletur, vel a nobis, vel de nobis.

God's will is always fulfilled, either by us or upon us.

9. Ubi Deus est, ibi totus est, nec major in maximo, nec minor in minimo.

Where God is, there he is wholly present, neither greater in the greatest thing nor lesser in the least.

10. Deus est intra omnes creaturas, non inclusus; et extra omnes creaturas, non exclusus.

God is within all creatures, yet not enclosed; and outside all creatures, yet not excluded.

11. Deus est circulus, cujus centrum est ubique, circumferentia nuspiam.

God is a circle whose center is everywhere, and whose circumference is nowhere.