# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Januar 1862_S10
# AI translation — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

10 Theological Axioms.

35. Hypocritae praedicatione verbi conversi possidere incipiunt bona in illorum baptismo quondam quasi deposita, quae tamen, antequam poenitentiam agerent, neque τῇ κτήσει habebant, neque τῇ χρήσει. (Aeg. Hunnius.)

When hypocrites are converted by the preaching of the word, they begin to possess the goods which had, as it were, once been laid up for them in their baptism, but which, before they did penance, they had possessed neither in ownership nor in use.

36. Peccatum et vetus Adamus in baptismo mortificatur, ut non regnet. (Gerh.)

Sin and the old Adam are so put to death in baptism that he no longer reigns.

37. Lavari quidem cito possumus, sed ad sanandum multa curatione opus est. (Bernard.)

We can be washed quickly, but complete recovery requires a long course of treatment.

38. Scriptura de efficacia baptismi loquitur verbis in praeterito, praesenti et futuro. (Gerh.)

Scripture speaks of the (saving) efficacy of baptism in words of the past, the present, and the future.

39. Ex arca baptismi multi temere in mare perditionis prosiliunt, navis vero ipsa permanet integra, et si per gratiam Dei ad navim revertuntur, non alia nova tabula, sed solida ipsa nave, unde exciderant, ferentur ad portum salutis. (Chemnitz.)

Many recklessly leap from the ark of baptism into the sea of perdition, but the ship itself remains unharmed, and when, by God's grace, they return to the ship, they are carried to the harbor of salvation not on some new, different plank, but on the same sound, unbroken ship out of which they had fallen.

40. Baptismus repeti potest, non actu suscipiendo novum, sed fide recipiendo veterem. (Kromayer.)

Baptism can be repeated, not by an act in which one receives a new baptism, but by faith, in which one lays hold again of the old one.

41. Qui natus non est, renasci non potest. (Quenstedt.)

He who has not been born cannot be born again.

42. Quos Christus sibi vult adduci, illi non sunt a baptismo arcendi. (Gerh.)

Those whom Christ wills to be brought to himself may not be kept back from baptism.

43. Ad quos pertinet promissio foederis, illi etiam per baptismum in foedus Dei sunt recipiendi. (Gerh.)

Those to whom the promise of the covenant belongs must also be received, through baptism, into God's covenant.