# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_April 1864_S97
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Doctrine and Defense.

Jahrgang X.    April 1864.    No. 4.

Theological Axioms.
(Continued.)

XXIV. On the Household Estate.

1. Ordo oeconomicus ecclesiastici et politici status est seminarium.
(Gerhard.)

The household estate is the nursery of the ecclesiastical and civil estates.

2. In statu oeconomico tres distinctae societates animadvertuntur:
1. conjugum, quae vocatur γαμική; 2. parentum et liberorum, quae est
πατρική; 3. dominorum ac servorum, quae est δεσποτική. (Gerh.)

In the household estate three distinct societies are found: 1. that of the
spouses, which is called the conjugal; 2. that of parents and children,
which is the parental; 3. that of masters and servants, which is the
domestic [i.e. master-servant] society.

3. Conjugium, quamvis non sit sacramentum proprie dictum, tamen est
vitae status divinitus ordinatus ac proinde res conscientiae, ex divina insti-
tutione et legibus divinitus promulgatis pendens. (Gerh.)

Although marriage is not, properly speaking, a sacrament, it is nevertheless
a divinely instituted estate of life and therefore a matter of conscience,
depending on divine institution and on laws that have been made known by
God.

4. Ministri ecclesiae, utpote quibus animarum ac conscientiarum cura
est commissa, a causarum matrimonialium dijudicatione non possunt simpli-
citer removeri. (Gerh.)

The ministers of the church, as those to whom the care of souls and
consciences is entrusted, cannot simply be excluded from the adjudication of
matrimonial cases.

5. Connubia sunt fatalia, non fortuita. (Gerh.)

"No marriage is accomplished on earth that was not first resolved in
heaven." (Gerhard.)