# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Januar 1861_S14
# AI translation — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

14   On Union.

12. Α᾽υτὸς ἑαυτῷ τόπος. [He himself is his own place.]

God is himself his own place.

13. Nihil est in Deo, quod non sit Deus.

There is nothing in God that is not God.

14. Affectus, qui Deo tribuuntur in scripturis, de effectu sunt intelligendi.

The emotions ascribed to God in Scripture are to be understood in terms of their effect.

15. Attributa essentiae divinae sunt ipsa Dei essentia.

The attributes of the divine essence are the very essence of God.

16. Quid sit nasci, quid processus, me nescire, sum professus.

What being born is, what proceeding is — I confess that I do not know.

17. Semper gignit Pater et semper nascitur Filius. Semper spirat Pater et Filius et semper procedit Spiritus Sanctus.

The Father always begets, and the Son is always begotten. The Father and the Son always breathe forth, and the Holy Spirit always proceeds.

18. Oratio superlativa aut exclusiva de una persona usurpata excludit duntaxat creaturas et fictitia numina quaevis.

When a superlative or exclusive expression is used of one Person, it excludes only creatures and any imagined false gods.

19. "Est Luciferi casus, velle Deum spiritu comprehendere sine illo vestitu, quo ipse se vestivit, nempe carne Christi, item signis externis baptismi et eucharistiae."

It is Lucifer's own fall, to wish to grasp God with the spirit apart from that garment in which he has clothed himself — namely, the flesh of Christ, and likewise the outward signs of baptism and the holy Supper.

20. Opera Dei ad intra sunt divisa, opera ad extra indivisa.

God's works within [the Godhead] are distinct; his works outward are undivided.

21. "In trinitate est alius atque alius, ne personas confundas, non autem aliud atque aliud, quoniam tria quoad divinitatem unum idemque sunt."

In the Trinity there is one who is other and another who is other, lest you confound the Persons; but there is not one thing and another thing, since the three, as regards the Godhead, are one and the same.

(From the Erlangen journal.)

On Union.

From Wangemann's "Seven Books of Prussian Church History" we share two interesting documents, a letter and an excerpt from a pamphlet, in which the manner in which the union was introduced at that time is vividly depicted.