# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Januar 1864_S16
# AI translation — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

16 Theological Axioms.

26. Reddite, quae sunt caesaris, caesari et, quae sunt Dei, Deo, id est, imaginem caesaris caesari, quae in nummo est, et imaginem Dei Deo, quae in homine est; ut caesari quidem pecuniam reddas, Deo temetipsum; alioquin quid erit Dei, si omnia caesaris? (Tertullian.)

Give to Caesar what is Caesar's, and to God what is God's; that is, (give) to Caesar Caesar's image, which is on the coin, and to God God's image, which is in man; so that one gives to Caesar the money, and to God oneself; for what else would be God's, if everything belonged to Caesar?

27. That would be seditious, where a preacher does not rebuke the vices of the authorities. (Luther.)

28. Evangelium non abolet politias.

The Gospel does not abolish civil ordinances.

29. Aliud jus soli, aliud poli. (Hackspan.)

One law is that of earth, another that of heaven.

30. In spiritualibus magistratus est ovis, sed in politicis est pastor. (Gerhard.)

In spiritual matters the authority belongs among the sheep, but in political matters it is the shepherd.

31. Ut in spiritualibus magistratus debet obœdire pastoribus, quia in illis est ovis, i.a in politicis ministri ecclesiarum debent obœdire magistratui, quia in illis ipsi quoque sunt oves. (Idem.)

As the authority is bound to obey the pastors in spiritual matters, because in this respect it belongs among the sheep, so the ministers of the church are bound to obey the authority in political matters, because in this respect they in turn are sheep.

32. Princeps, quatenus princeps, est caput reipublicæ, qua christianus, est membrum ecclesiæ ac societatis ecclesiasticæ vindex. (Idem.)

The prince, as prince, is the head of the state; as a Christian, he is a member of the Church and the protector of the ecclesiastical fellowship.

33. Si magistratus est fidelis et commembrum ecclesiæ, vocat, non quia est magistratus, sed quia est commembrum ecclesiæ. (Luther.)

When the authority is a believer and a member of the Church, it calls (the preachers) not because it is the authority, but because it is a member of the Church.

34. Politica administratio versatur circa alias res, quam evangelium: magistratus defendit non mentes, sed corpora et res corporales adversus manifestas injurias et cöercet homines gladio et corporalibus poenis, ut justitiam civilem et pacem retineat. (Conf. August.)

"Civil government deals with many other matters than the Gospel; this power protects not souls, but body and goods against outward violence, with the sword and bodily penalties." (Augsburg Confession.)