# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_September 1861_S261
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Theological Axioms. 261

...imputatur; sed sola obedientia illius personae, quae simul Deus est et homo. (Conc.)

"Neither the divine nor the human nature of Christ is, by itself, imputed to us for righteousness, but only the obedience of the person who is at once God and man."

54. Non essentiali justitia filii Dei habitantis in nobis, sed meritoria, patiendo et agendo acquisita, coram Deo sumus justi. (Kromayer.)

Not through the essential righteousness of the Son of God dwelling in us, but through his meritorious righteousness, acquired by suffering and by acting, are we righteous before God.

55. Remissio peccatorum et imputatio justitiae dicuntur partes justificationis, non secundum rem, sed secundum rationem, sicut, cum homo vestitur, eodem actu nuditas tegitur et vestimentum induitur. (Gerhard.)

The forgiveness of sins and the imputation of righteousness are called parts of justification, not according to the thing itself, but according to our conception of it — just as, when a person is clothed, by one and the same act his nakedness is covered and the garment is put on.

56. Justitia fidei est mere passiva. (Luther.)

The righteousness of faith is a purely passive one.

57. Justitia cujusdam facti a justitia personae distinguenda est. (Gerh.)

The righteousness with respect to a particular deed is to be distinguished from the righteousness of the person.

58. Fide quisque accipit, quantum sibi sufficit. (Gerhard.)

Through faith each one receives as much as he needs (in order to be righteous before God).

59. Error rejiciendus est, cum docetur, hominem alio modo seu per aliquid aliud salvari, quam per id, quo coram Deo justificatur. (Concordia.)

"It is likewise wrong when it is taught that man must be saved in some other way, or by something else, than by that whereby he is justified before God."

60. "Be assured that God has no other way to forgive sin than through the spoken Word, which he has commanded us men to use. Where you do not seek forgiveness in the Word, you will gape toward heaven in vain for grace, or, as they say, for an inward forgiveness." (Luther.)

61. "No false Christian, after the spirit of the sects, can understand this doctrine. How much less will he preach and confess it rightly, even though he takes up the words and repeats them, yet does not abide by them and keep them pure; he always preaches in such a way that one can tell he does not have it right; yet he smears his drivel on it, thereby taking from Christ his honor and ascribing it to himself." (Luther.) *)

*) We hope no excuse is needed for our including this and the following sayings among the theological axioms, since they may at least do good service toward appreciating the axioms that have gone before.