# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_August 1861_S227
# AI translation — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

Theological Axioms. 227

It is one thing to be justified on account of faith, another to be justified through
faith; we are justified not for the sake of faith,
but through faith.

21. Fides non entitative et qualitative, sed objective et relative justificat. (Quenstedt.)

Faith justifies not by its existence or by its
quality, but by its object and by its relation.

22. Fides aut sumitur absolute pro corde fideli, aut relate pro ipsa
fiduciali apprehensione Christi; priori modo non imputatur fides (h. e. qualitas nobis inhaerens) ad justitiam. (Gerhard.)

Faith is taken either absolutely, for a believing heart,
or relatively, for the confident apprehension of Christ Himself; in the former
way (that is, as a quality inhering in us) it is not reckoned unto righteousness.

23. Fides est manus mendica, quae coelestia bona in evangelio oblata recipit. (Gerhard.)

Faith is the beggar's hand which receives the heavenly goods offered in the gospel.

24. Fides non tantum manus est apprehendens poculum, in quo continetur salutaris portio, sed est spirituale illud os, quo ex fonte salutis bibimus. (Gerhard.)

Faith is not only the hand that grasps the cup of salvation,
but it is that spiritual mouth with which we drink from the fountain of
salvation.

25. Fides duplices habet manus: unam, quam extendit sursum et
apprehendit Christum una cum omnibus beneficiis suis, et hac parte dicimus, nos justificari per fidem; alteram, quam protendit deorsum ad exercenda opera caritatis ac reliquarum virtutum, et hac parte testificamur quidem veritatem fidei, non autem justificamur. (Brentius.)

Faith has two hands: the one it stretches upward and thereby
lays hold of Christ together with all His benefits, and in this
respect we say that we are justified through faith; the
other it stretches downward for the exercise of works of love and of the
other virtues, and in this respect we do indeed bear witness to the truth
of faith, but are not thereby justified.

26. Quando dicitur fides imputari ad justitiam, semper intelligendum
est objectum fidei seu fides, quae creditur; non fides, qua creditur, non
ipse actus fidei. (Huelsemann.)

When it is said of faith that it is reckoned unto righteousness,
there is always to be understood thereby the object of faith, or the faith
which is believed, not the faith with which one believes,
not the act of faith itself.

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