# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Januar 1862_S11
# AI translation — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

Theological Axioms. 11

44. Quemadmodum verbum non prodest fidei non admixtum, ac nihilominus est et manet salutare medium, per quod fides in cordibus hominum accenditur; ita quoque baptismus non prodest absque fide, et nihilominus est salutare medium, per quod Sp. S. in illis, qui non resistunt ipsius operationi, fidem vult accendere, augere et confirmare. (Gerh.)

Just as the word profits nothing when it is not mixed with faith, and nonetheless is and remains the saving means by which faith is kindled in the hearts of men, so too baptism profits nothing without faith, and nonetheless it is the saving means by which the Holy Spirit, in those who do not resist his working, wills to kindle, increase, and strengthen faith.

45. Duo sunt baptismi officia in infantibus, primo per eum accenditur fides, ut per causam instrumentalem, deinde eadem confirmatur et obsignatur per baptismum, ut per sigillum fidei. (Gerh.)

The office of baptism in infants is twofold: first, faith is kindled through it, as through an instrumental cause; and second, that same faith is confirmed and sealed through baptism, as through a seal.

46. Baptismus necessarius est necessitate non solum mandati, sed et medii, ordinata autem, non absoluta. (Dannhauer.)

Baptism is necessary by a necessity not only of command but also of means — yet an ordinate necessity, not an absolute one.

47. Nullus ἀβάπτιστος introibit in regnum coelorum, ἀβάπτιστος, inquam, privative, non negative. (Dannhauer.)

No unbaptized person shall enter the kingdom of heaven — the unbaptized, I say, who has deprived himself of baptism, not the one to whom it has been denied.

48. Ἀπιστία, non ἀπουσία sacramenti damnat. (Dannhauer.)

It is unbelief in the sacrament, not the lack of the sacrament, that condemns.

49. Voluntas pro facto imputatur, ubi factum excludit necessitas. (Bernard.)

The will is reckoned for the deed where necessity excludes the deed.

50. Sponsores os, non cor infantibus communicant. (Kromayer.)

Sponsors lend infants their mouth, not their heart.

51. Quale discrimen est inter verbum de Christo venturo, de veniente, et exhibito, talis etiam est differentia inter circumcisionem, baptismum Johannis et Christi baptismum. (Gerh.)

Whatever difference there is between the word concerning Christ as one who was to come, as one who was coming, and as one who has appeared, such a difference also exists between circumcision, the baptism of John, and the baptism of Christ.

52. Ideo baptizatur Christus, non ut sanctificetur ab aquis, sed ut ipse sanctificet aquas. (Ambrose.)