# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_M rz 1861_S67
# AI translation — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

Theological Axioms. 67

17. Clamitat ad coelum:
Vox sanguinis et Sodomorum,
Vox oppressorum, merces detenta laborum.

It cries to heaven: the voice of the blood shed and of Sodom, the voice of the oppressed, the wages withheld from labor.

18. Ex parte Dei vel peccati in se nullum irremissibile peccatum datur, at ex parte personae peccantis.

On God's part, or on the part of sin itself, there is no unforgivable sin, but there is on the part of the sinning person.

19. Peccatum in Spiritum Sanctum irremissibile est habito respectu non tam ad ipsam personam Spiritus Sancti, quam ad ejus officium et beneficium.

The sin against the Holy Spirit is unforgivable, not so much with regard to the person of the Holy Spirit Himself, as rather with regard to His office and His works of grace.

20. De peccato in Spiritum Sanctum non temere pronunciandum, sed nonnisi a posteriori, nempe ex finali impoenitentia judicandum.

That someone has committed the sin against the Holy Spirit is not to be pronounced rashly, but is to be judged only afterward, namely from an impenitence that endures to the end.

21. Quaedam sunt peccata per se, quaedam κατ' ἄλλο.

Some things are sin in themselves; others are sin on account of some additional circumstance.

22. "Foecundum est peccatum; non desinit, ubi incipit."

Sin is fruitful; it does not stop where it begins.

23. Quod quis per alium facit, per se fecisse putandum est.

What someone does through another must be believed to have been done by himself.

24. Consulo, praecipio, consentio, provoco, laudo,
Non retego culpam, non punio, non reprehendo,
Non obsto, sed praecipio et defendo aliena.

The following are the ways by which one becomes a partaker in another's sins: by giving counsel toward it, commanding it, giving one's consent to it, provoking it, praising it, not reporting the crime, not punishing it, not rebuking it, not resisting it, but rather defending it.

25. Tot domini, quot vitia.

As many sins, so many masters.

26. Contra conscientiam errantem agens, bonum agit, sed non bene.

He who acts against his erring conscience does something good, but does not act well.

(To be continued.)