# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Februar 1861_S35
# AI translation — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

Theological Axioms. 35

26. Satisfactio Christi profuit, antequam fuit.

Christ's satisfaction was efficacious for salvation before it existed.

27. Quodcunque Christus meruit, non sibi, sed nobis meruit.

Whatever Christ merited, he merited not for himself, but for us.

28. Omnes consanguinei sumus in sanguine Christi.

We are all blood relations in the blood of Christ.

29. "O felix culpa, quae talem ac tantum meruit habere redemtorem!"

O happy fault, which deserved to have such and so great a redeemer!

30. Plus in Christo accepimus, quam in Adamo perdidimus.

In Christ we have received more than we lost in Adam.

31. Christus quidem fuit legis doctor, sed non legislator.

Christ was indeed a teacher of the Law, but not a lawgiver.

VI. Of Creation and the Angels.

1. Deus non ampliatur nostris laudibus, sed manifestatur suis operibus.

God is not made greater by our praise, but is made manifest through
his works.

2. Hoc universum est larva sui conditoris.

This universe is the mask of its Creator.

3. Omnia propter hominem, homo propter Deum.

Everything exists for man's sake, man for God's sake.

4. Homo est μικρόκοσμος.

Man is a little world.

5. Adamus Praeadamitas excludit.

Before the first man there were no men.

6. "Naturae nomen quaeris? Spiritus est. Officii nomen quaeris?
Angelus est."

Do you ask the name of his nature? He is a spirit. Do you ask the
name of his office? He is an angel.

VII. Of Providence.

1. Providentia est secunda creatio.

Providence is a second creation.

2. "Si cor tuum non fatuum, non crederes fatum."

Were your heart not full of folly, you would not believe in a blind
fate.

3. Homo proponit, Deus disponit.

Man proposes, God disposes.

4. Ludit in humanis divina potentia rebus.

The divine power plays with men as with children.

5. Dei benedicere est benefacere.

For God to bless is to do good.