# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_April 1861_S98
# AI translation — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

98 The Biblical History of Creation and the Geological Theories of the Earth's Formation.

8. Liberum arbitrium post lapsum est titulus sine re.

Free will after the fall is an empty title.

9. "Liberum arbitrium post peccatum res est de solo titulo et dum facit, quod in se est, peccat mortaliter."

Free will after sin is a thing that consists in a mere title, and when it does what lies within its powers, it sins mortally.

10. "Voluntas facit, ut nec necessitas excusare valeat voluntatem, nec voluntas excludere necessitatem; est enim necessitas quodammodo voluntaria."

The will brings it about that necessity cannot excuse the will, nor can the will exclude necessity; for it is in a certain manner a voluntary necessity.

11. "Mala mea pure mala sunt et mea sunt, bona autem mea nec pura sunt, nec mea."

My evil is thoroughly evil and my own; my good, however, is neither thoroughly good nor my own.

12. Sine Dei lumine nihil est homine.

Without God's light there is nothing (good) in man.

13. A debito ad posse non valet consequentia.

From the fact that man is obliged to do something it cannot be concluded that he is able to do it.

14. A mandato ad posse non valet consequentia.

From the fact that something is commanded (to man) to do, the conclusion cannot be drawn that he is also able to do what is commanded.

15. Detrectans homo Deo conditori servitium, amisit in creaturas dominium.

When man refused service to God his Creator, he lost his dominion over the creatures.

(To be continued.)


The Biblical History of Creation and the Geological Theories of the Earth's Formation.

(Conclusion.)

6. "As for the fact that many of the primeval types have become wholly extinct and that many of those now living have not been found in the mountain formations, we must, lest the significance of this fact be overestimated, first of all recall that the material for forming a sure judgment about the distribution of the flora and fauna in the various periods of our earth's body is still very defective. How many of the types of the present age were present in the oldest period of the earth's history — on that a final judgment can only be passed when geognosy has accurately