# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_September 1861_S260
# AI translation — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

260 Theological Axioms.

its correlate; that is, the thing believed — the merit of Christ accepted through faith — justifies. Thus the beggar's hand does not enrich him, but the treasure given and the alms taken up by the hand. It is not the mouth that satisfies the stomach, but the food taken.

48. Cum homo per fidem (quam quidem solus Spiritus S. operatur) justificatur, id ipsum revera est quaedam regeneratio, quia ex filio irae fit filius Dei et hoc modo e morte in vitam transfertur. (Concordia.)

"When man is justified through faith (which the Holy Spirit alone works), this is in truth a kind of regeneration, because out of a child of wrath he becomes a child of God, and is thus transferred from death into life."

49. Regenerationis vocabulum differt a vocabulo justificandi non ratione termini ad quem, sed intuitu termini a quo. Quamquam enim subjectum adaequatum justificationis sit homo injustus, impius tamen ille necessum est ut agnoscat impietatem suam; subjectum vero adaequatum regenerationis et vivificationis ratione termini a quo est homo plane mortuus in peccatis. (Huelsemann.)

The word regeneration differs from the word justification not with respect to the terminal point arrived at, but with respect to the starting point. For although the fitting subject of justification is the man who is still unrighteous, this ungodly man must nevertheless recognize his own ungodliness; but the fitting subject of regeneration and vivification, with respect to its starting point, is the man wholly dead in sins.

50. Cuicunque propter Christum fide datur remissio peccatorum, illi eo ipso perfecta Christi justitia imputatur, i. e., propter Christum condonatur, quod commissum, et imputatur, quod omissum. (Gerhard.)

To everyone to whom, for Christ's sake, forgiveness of sins is given through faith, Christ's perfect righteousness is by that very act imputed; that is, for Christ's sake what he has committed is forgiven him, and what he has omitted is imputed to him [as done].

51. Essentialia idiomata Dei sunt ἀκοινώνητα omnibus creaturis extra ὑπόστασιν λόγου existentibus. (Gerhard.)

The essential attributes of God are incommunicable to all creatures which exist outside the person of the (personal) Word.

52. Etsi Deus, qui est aeterna et essentialis justitia, per fidem in electis, qui per Christum justificati sunt, habitat, tamen haec inhabitatio Dei non est justitia illa fidei, propter quam coram Deo justi pronuntiamur. (Concordia.)

"Although, through faith, in the elect who have been made righteous through Christ, God — who is eternal and essential righteousness — dwells, yet such an indwelling of God is not that righteousness of faith on account of which we are pronounced righteous before God."

53. Neque divina, neque humana Christi natura (per se) ad justitiam