# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Mai 1862_S134
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134    Theological Axioms.

The unworthy eat the body of Christ sacramentally, but they are not thereby united (with Christ) mystically.

42. Unum tantum genus est indignorum convivarum, ii sunt soli illi, qui non credunt.    (Concord.)

"There is only one kind of unworthy guest, namely, those who do not believe."

43. Corpus et sanguis Christi, ut λύτρον fuerunt redemtorium, in coena sacra applicatoria media sunt acquisitae remissionis peccatorum.    (Carpzov.)

As Christ's body and blood were the ransom-price of redemption, so in the Holy Supper they are the means of appropriating the forgiveness of sins that has been obtained.

44. Quod communicat solem, communicat etiam radios.    (Quenstedt.)

What communicates the sun communicates also its rays.

45. Corpus et sanguis Christi rectius ad sigilla, quam ad legata Novi Testamenti referuntur.    (Gerh.)

Christ's body and blood are more rightly reckoned among the seals than among the bequests of the New Testament.

46. Christus instituit sacramenta non ut sacerdos, sed quoad regium officium; ut rex enim applicat per sacramenta, quae ut sacerdos acquisivit.    (Hoepfner.)

Christ instituted the sacraments not as priest, but with respect to his kingly office; for as king he applies, through the sacraments, what he acquired as priest.

47. Vivificatio in carne Christi est actio non naturalis, sicut ustio in igne, sed libera; illos vero vult vivificare, qui vera fide ipsum amplectuntur.    (Gerh.)

The making-alive is, in the flesh of Christ, not a natural act, like burning in fire, but a free one; and he wills to make alive those who embrace him with true faith.

48. Christus soli Patri unitus est οὐσιωδῶς, soli assumtae naturae humanae ὑποστατικῶς, solis piis μυστικῶς.    (Koenig.)

Christ is united to the Father alone essentially, to his assumed humanity alone personally, to the godly alone mystically.

49. Sumus membra Christi, ex carne et ossibus ejus, non φυσικῶς, nec ὁμοφυῶς, sed ἀναλογικῶς.    (Koenig.)

We are members of Christ, of his flesh and of his bone, not physically, nor by virtue of a like nature, but on account of certain points of comparison.

50. Corpus et sanguis Christi non eo fine recipitur, ac si in nostrum corpus et sanguinem converteretur, sed tanquam arma et instrumenta, quibus servator hostes nostros, peccatum, mundum et diabolum, prostraverit et triumphaverit, quaeque contra omnium hostium insultus praesentissimum nobis alexipharmacum praebent.    (Koenig.)

Christ's body and blood are not received to this end, as though they were to be converted into our own body and blood, but rather as