# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Mai 1861_S130
# AI translation — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

130 Theological Axioms.

Obedience to the first table cancels obedience to the second, when both
cannot hold at the same time.

10. Ceremonialia cedunt moralibus, etiam in secunda tabula.

The ceremonial yields to the moral, even in the second table.

11. Caritas est omnium mandatorum regina.

Love is the queen of all the commandments.

12. Ut dilectio Dei caput est et summa omnium reliquorum praeceptorum,
quae Deum, ita dilectio proximi summa et caput eorum est, quae
homines concernunt.

As love of God is the chief point and sum of all the other commandments
that concern God, so love of neighbor is the sum and chief point of those
that concern men.

13. Regula et mensura oboedientiae in praeceptis affirmativis est: diliges
Deum ex toto corde; in negativis: non concupisces.

The rule and measure of obedience in the commandments that command
something is: love God with your whole heart; in those that forbid
something: you shall not covet.

14. Poscit lex moralis oboedientiam perfectissimam perfectione graduum,
perfectione partium et perfectione perseverantiae.

The moral law demands an altogether perfect obedience, by virtue of a
perfection of degrees, of parts, and of constancy.

15. Promissiones legi additae cum conditione perfectae oboedientiae sunt
intelligendae.

The promises attached to the law are to be understood with the condition
of perfect obedience.

16. Praecepta negativa includunt contraria affirmativa, et affirmativa
contraria negativa.

The prohibitions include their opposite commands, and the commands
include their opposite prohibitions.

17. Non manui tantum aliisve externis membris, sed cordi ac toti homini
Deus in lege praecipit.

Not only to the hand or to other outward members, but to the heart and
to the whole man, does God give commandment in the law.

18. Non externa tantum, sed et interiora cordis peccata, adeoque intima
illa naturae corruptio a lege accusantur.

Not only the outward sins, but also the inward sins of the heart, and
therefore also that innermost corruption of nature, are accused by the law.

19. In decalogo appellatione crassioris delicti minora prohibentur, ut
magnitudinem et gravitatem eorum coram Dei judicio vere agnoscamus.

In the Ten Commandments, by the naming of a grosser offense the lesser
ones are forbidden, so that we may truly recognize their magnitude and
gravity before God's judgment.