# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_August 1863_S225
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Lehre und Wehre.

Volume IX.    August 1863.    No. 8.

Theological Axioms.
(Continued.)

XXII. Concerning the Holy Office of the Ministry and Matters Connected With It.
(Continued.)

34. Only a few are drawn forth from the multitude for this reason: that they, in the stead of the congregation, are to carry on and exercise the office which they all possess — not that one should have more power than another. (Luther.)

35. Sacerdotes sunt laici, sed nonnisi interna ἱκανότητι apti ad quaevis ecclesiae munia, et sic quoque ad eucharistiae administrationem, ne putemus, minus verum sacramentum fore, quod laicus dederit, necessitate forsitan vel errore adductus. (Grapius.)

The laity are priests, but fit for all churchly functions only by virtue of an inward capacity, and so likewise for the administration of the Holy Supper — that we may not think it a less true sacrament which a layman gives, moved thereto perhaps by necessity or through some error.

36. No one can hold an office except by, and not without, a command and a call. (Luther.)

37. Vocatio ad ministerium alia est mediata sive ordinaria, alia immediata sive extraordinaria. (Gerhard.)

The call to the preaching office is in part a mediate or ordinary one, in part an immediate or extraordinary one.

38. Deus duplici ratione, quandoque scilicet immediate per se ipsum, quandoque vero mediate per ecclesiam illos vocat, quibus publicum in ecclesia docendi officium vult commissum. (Gerh.)

God calls those to whom he wills the public teaching office in the church to be entrusted, in a twofold manner — at times immediately, through himself, at times mediately, through the church.

39. If God wills to do something extraordinary outside of or above such an order of offices and calling, and to raise up someone over the prophets, he will prove it by signs and deeds. (Luther.)