# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_September 1862_S260
# AI translation — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

260 Theological Axioms.

22. The Church is a high, deeply hidden thing, which no one may know
or see, but must grasp and believe only through baptism, sacrament, and
the Word. (Luther.)

23. As by the projecting knobs of the poles, as by certain signs, one
might know that the Ark was in the Holy of Holies, although it was
hidden, so also no one sees the Church; one must believe it solely by the
sign of the Word. (Luther.)

24. Ecclesia verbo Dei generatur, alitur, nutritur et roboratur.
(Augustine.)

The Church is born, sustained, nourished, and strengthened through
God's Word.

25. Aliud est coetus ex hypocritis et vere ac sincere credentibus
constans; aliud est coetus, cui admixti sunt hypocritae. Ecclesia proprie
dicta non est coetus ex hypocritis et non-sanctis constans, sed est
coetus, cui hypocritae et non-sancti sunt admixti. (Carpzov.)

One thing is a company consisting of hypocrites and of the truly and
sincerely believing; another thing is a company to which hypocrites are
mixed in. The Church properly so called is not a company consisting of
hypocrites and non-saints, but a company to which hypocrites and
non-saints are mixed in.

26. Non sunt hypocritae membra ecclesiae invisibilis, nec visibilis
verae, sed tamen visibilis aggregatae; ut zizania non est pars agri
triticei, qua talis, tamen pars est agri totius aggregati ex tritico et
zizaniis. (Dannhauer.)

Hypocrites are indeed not members of the invisible Church, nor of the
true visible one; but they are members of the visible Church insofar as
it, together with other constituent parts, makes up a whole — just as
the weeds are no part of the wheatfield as such, but are nonetheless a
part of the field, insofar as that field is a whole consisting of wheat
and weeds.

27. Etsi hypocritae sint in coetu illo, in quo est ecclesia, non tamen
in coetu proprie sunt, qui est ecclesia. (Calov.)

Although the hypocrites are in that company in which the Church is,
they are nevertheless not properly in the company which is the Church.

28. Impii et hypocritae partes quidem verae ecclesiae dici possunt,
membra vera proprie dicta nequaquam. (Quenstedt.)

The ungodly and hypocrites can indeed be called parts of the true
Church, but by no means members properly so called.

29. They will dispute about the Church: Church is also the name given
to the ungodly crowd that is in office; which they dispute for this
reason, that they may apply the promise to themselves. (Luther.)

30. Impii in ecclesia sunt, non de ecclesia, numero, sed non merito.
(Augustine.)

The ungodly are in the Church, not of the Church; they are in it as to
number, but not as to merit.