# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_October 1861_S292
# AI translation — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

292 Theological Axioms.

34. Opus bonum optime factum est mortale peccatum secundum judi-
cium Dei. (Luther.)

The best good work is, by God's judgment, a mortal sin.

35. Bona opera placent Deo προηγουμένης τῆς πίστεως. (Evagrius.)

Good works are pleasing to God because he is moved to it beforehand
by faith.

36. Fides bonorum operum forma est, non quasi Christi justitia et sa-
tisfactio ita imputetur operibus, ut per nostra illa opera in Dei judicio justi-
ficemur; "cum enim ipsa justificari indigeant, utique nos justificare non
poterunt." Placent Deo renatorum opera, sed non placant Deum.
(Gerh.)

Faith gives good works their essence, not as though the righteousness
and satisfaction of Christ were so imputed to the works that we should be
justified before God's judgment through those works; "for since they
themselves stand in need of justification, they can all the less justify us."
The works of the reborn please God, but they do not reconcile God.

37. Non renatorum opera moraliter ac in speciem bona sunt umbrae
tantum ac larvae virtutis, imo peccata. (Gerh.)

The works of the unregenerate that are morally and outwardly good
are only shadows and masks of virtue — indeed, sins.

38. Nihil bonum est sine summo bono. (Anselm.)

Nothing is good without the highest good.

39. Bona naturaliter et moraliter facta ideo sunt mala coram Deo,
quia non fiunt ex Deo nec propter Deum; sed homo ea sibi tribuit et in eis
tanquam suis sibi placet, cum non sint sua. (Luther.)

What is naturally and morally good is therefore evil before God,
because it does not happen from God nor for God's sake, but man ascribes
it to himself and delights in it as his own, though it is not his.

40. Works belong to the neighbor, faith to God. (Luther.)

41. Quantum operum nostrorum merito adscribitur, tantum gratiae
Dei et Christi merito detrahitur. (Kromayer.)

Whatever is ascribed to the merit of our works is to that same extent
taken away from the grace of God and the merit of Christ.

42. Bona opera a foro justificationis sunt sejungenda. (Gerh.)

Good works must be kept separate from the process of justification.

43. Extra causam justificationis nemo potest bona opera a Deo prae-
cepta satis magnifice commendare. (Luther.)

Apart from the matter of justification, no one can praise too highly the
good works commanded by God.

44. Praemia dantur non διὰ τὰ ἔργα, sed κατὰ τὰ ἔργα. (Gerh.)