# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_October 1861_S291
# AI translation — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

Theological Axioms. 291

The man must first be changed, if his works are to become different.

23. Placente persona placet opus. (Kromayer.)

When the person is pleasing, his work is pleasing too.

24. Ita docent ex Aristotele, omne opus bonum procedere ex electione;
si hoc verum est in philosophia, multo magis in theologia oportet esse ante
opus bonam voluntatem et rectam rationem per fidem. (Luther.)

"They teach, then, from their Aristotle, that no work is to be called
or held good unless it happens unforced, from a good, free will; but in
theology it must be all the more true that, before the work is done, the
reason must be upright and the will good, which cannot happen except
through faith." (Luther.)

25. Virtutis νομικῶς consideratae forma est convenientia cum lege,
quae facit, ut actio sit opus rectum; virtutis εὐαγγελικῶς consideratae forma
est fides, quae facit, ut opus sit Deo acceptum. (Meisner.)

The essence of virtue, when it is considered according to the law, is
agreement with the law, which makes an act a right work; the essence of
virtue, when it is considered according to the gospel, is faith, which makes
a work acceptable to God.

26. Fides est fac totum in operibus. (Luther.)

"Therefore it is faith that does everything and counts in the works."
(Luther.)

27. Bonum opus intentio facit, intentionem fides dirigit. (Augustin.)

To a good work belongs a good intention, but the good intention
depends on faith.

28. Ea tantum intentio est bona, si quis Deo vult obedire juxta man-
data ejus. (Gerh.)

Only that intention is a good one when one wishes to obey God
according to his commandments.

29. Non generatio, sed regeneratio facit Christianos. (Gerh.)

Not birth, but rebirth makes one a Christian.

30. Non nascuntur, sed fiunt Christiani. (Kromayer.)

Christians are not born, but made.

31. Renovatio licet a regeneratione proprie et specialiter accepta di-
stinguatur, individuo tamen et perpetuo nexu cum ea est conjuncta. (Gerh.)

Although renewal, when taken in its proper and particular sense, is
distinguished from rebirth, it is nevertheless inseparably and constantly
bound up with it.

32. Renascentia est opus non minoris virtutis, quam creatio. (Menzer.)

Rebirth is a work of no less power than creation.

33. In omni opere bono occurrit ἐννομία et ἀνομία. (Balth. Meisner.)

In every good work there is found something that is according to the
law, and something that is against the law.