# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Juli 1863_S196
# AI translation — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

196 Theological Axioms.

23. Quemadmodum jus docendi et sacramenta administrandi radicaliter ad totam ecclesiam, publicum autem ejus exercitium ad ejus ministros legitime vocatos spectat: ita quod libet ecclesiae membrum perinde ac totus coetus claves aeque habet ac facultatem docendi, sed ad usurpationem tantum privatam, non ad usum publicum et solennem, ne confusio oriatur, ecclesiam misere dilaceratura. Quando autem coitur in coetum publicum, tum claves ab illis tantum sunt usurpandae, quibus tota ecclesia per publicam vocationem earum exercitium et usum commisit. (Deyling.)

Just as the right to teach and to administer the sacraments belongs, at its root, to the whole Church, while the public exercise of it belongs to its lawfully called servants: so every member of the Church, just like the whole congregation, likewise has the keys, as also the power to teach, but only for private use, not for public and solemn use, lest confusion arise which would tear the Church apart wretchedly. But when the assembly gathers publicly, then the keys are to be used only by those to whom the whole Church, through public call, has entrusted their exercise and use.

24. Quemadmodum claves sub nomine Petri omnes accepere discipuli, ita sub nomine discipulorum tota ecclesia, quae per ordinarios verbi ministros hodie eas exercet; alias nulla esset peccata ligandi vel solvendi potestas in nostro ministerio. (Balduin.)

25. Quemadmodum cives liberae alicujus civitatis omnes, quotquot urbem illam incolunt, commune jus habent et parem libertatem, quod rempublicam attinet, et tamen ordinis causa eligunt senatores, hisque praeficiunt consulem, cui claves urbis et statuta tradunt, quo illa communi omnium nomine tueatur atque juxta illa rempublicam administret: ita quoque faciunt cives civitatis Dei. Habent hi quidem communionem omnium sanctorum, et omnia ipsorum sunt 1 Cor. 3, 21., omnia possident sub uno capite, Christo, qui omnia ad salutem necessaria suae ecclesiae et in ea sigillatim unicuivis membro, etiam minimo, sanguinis sui merito acquisivit; et tamen ordinis causa eligunt certas personas, quibus demandant administrationem clavium regni coelorum, quales sunt apud nos diaconi, pastores, doctores, episcopi sive superintendentes et consimiles, ut ita juxta doctrinam Pauli apud nos omnia εὐσχημόνως καὶ κατὰ τάξιν fiant. (Polycarp. Lyserus.)

Just as all the citizens of some free imperial city, however many of them inhabit that city, have a common right and equal freedom as far as the republic is concerned, and just as they nevertheless, for the sake of order, choose senators and set a burgomaster over them, to whom they hand over the keys and statutes of the city, so that he may administer them in the common name of all and govern the republic according to them: so also do the citizens of the City of God. They indeed have a communion of all the saints, and everything is theirs; they possess everything under the one Head, Christ, who all things needful for salvation to his Church, and within it in particular to each