# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Februar 1861_S38
# AI translation — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

38 Theological Axioms.

2. Nihil in nobis renovatur, quod prius non fuit deperditum.

Nothing is renewed in us that had not first been lost.

3. Πᾶν κτιστὸν τρεπτόν.

Everything created is subject to change.

4. In statu confectionis homo poterat peccare et non peccare, in statu
defectionis non potest non peccare, in statu perfectionis non potest peccare.

In the state of creation man could sin and could not sin; in the state
of the fall he cannot but sin; in the state of perfection he cannot sin.

5. Primi hominis immortalitas erat, posse non mori, electorum immor-
talitas olim erit, non posse mori.

The immortality of the first man was the ability not to die; the
immortality of the elect will one day be the inability to die.

6. Quod concreatum est, naturale est.

What was created along with man is something natural.

7. Homo ante lapsum habuit boni praesentis γνῶσιν καὶ πεῖραν, mali
absentis γνῶσιν quidem, non πεῖραν.

Before the fall, man had knowledge and experience of the good present
to him, and, of the evil that was absent, knowledge indeed, but not
experience.

8. Nihil putabant velandum, qui nihil senserunt refrenandum.

Those who felt nothing needing to be restrained thought nothing
needed to be veiled.

X. Of Original Sin.

1. Prius incipit macula, quam vita.

The stain begins before life does.

2. "Totus homo inversus est decalogus."

The whole man is the decalogue inverted.

3. "Errasse humanum est, et confiteri errorem prudentis."

To have erred is human, and to confess the error is the mark of a
wise man.

4. "Non nascuntur, sed fiunt Christiani."

We are not born Christians, but made so.

5. "Malevola haec foret benevolentia, si quis miserum hominem esse
velit, ut ejus misereatur."

That would be an ill-willed benevolence, were someone to wish that a
man be wretched so that he might have pity on him.

6. Fuit Adam, et in illo fuimus omnes; periit Adam, et in illo perii-
mus omnes.

Adam was, and in him we all were; Adam fell, and in him we all fell.

7. Ubi lex non distinguit, ibi nec nos distinguere debemus.

Where the law makes no distinction, there we too may make none.