# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_September 1861_S257
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Lehre und Wehre [Doctrine and Defense].
Volume VII.    September 1861.    No. 9.

Theological Axioms.

XVI. On Justification through Faith.
(Continuation and Conclusion.)

27. Fides naturae ordine justificatione prior est, non tamen tempore. (Gerhard.)

Faith is, by the nature of the thing, prior to justification, though not prior in time.

28. Fides sola justificat, quamvis nunquam sit sola. (Gerhard.)

Faith alone justifies, although it is never alone.

29. Determinatio "sola" pertinet ad praedicatum. (Gerhard.)

The restricting addition "alone" refers to the predicate.

30. Exclusivae particulae urgentur in merito, in applicatione et in forma justificationis. (Gerhard.)

In the article of justification the all-excluding particles are pressed with regard to what justification merits, by what it is appropriated, and in what the righteousness of the justified essentially consists.

31. Particula sola removet opera non ab actu praesentiae, sed a communicatione efficientiae. (Gerhard.)

The particle "alone" excludes works not from their presence, but from a share in the efficacy [of justification].

32. Fides et caritas quidem distingui, non autem separari possunt. (Gerhard.)

Faith and love can indeed be distinguished, but not separated.

33. Fides a dilectione non potest nisi νοηματικῶς sejungi. (Gerhard.)

Faith can be parted from love only in concept.

34. Caritas non informat fidem, sed fides informat caritatem. (Luther.)

Love does not give shape to faith; rather, faith gives to love its proper character.

35. Justificatio et renovatio non ita divelluntur, quasi vera fides aliquando et aliquamdiu stare possit cum malo proposito, sed ordine causarum et effectuum, antecedentium et consequentium ita distribuuntur; manet

[Justification and renewal are not so torn apart, as though true faith could at some time and for some while stand together with an evil purpose; rather, they are so distributed in the order of causes and effects, of things antecedent and consequent, that it still remains...]