# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Mai 1864_S132
# AI translation — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

132 Theological Axioms.

The prohibition of Lev. 18, as far as concerns the degrees in the direct ascending and descending line, belongs to the natural moral law; as far as it concerns the remaining degrees, to the positive moral law.

63. Lex naturae sic dicitur ἁπλῶς seu ὅλως; haec est plane immutabilis. Alias dicitur lex naturae κατά τι seu τινὸς ἕνεκα; haec est mutabilis. (Gerh.) — The law of nature is so called ἁπλῶς (absolutely) or ὅλως (wholly); this is entirely unchangeable. Otherwise the law of nature is called κατά τι (in a certain respect) or τινὸς ἕνεκα (for the sake of something); this is changeable.

The law of nature is so called simply, or without qualification; this is wholly unchangeable. Otherwise the law of nature is so called with regard to something, or for the sake of something (else); this is changeable.

64. Inter conjugia in gradibus prohibitis inita haec differentia esse videtur, ut alia omnino dissolvenda sint, alia inflicta arbitraria poena tolerari possint. (Baier.) — Among marriages entered into within forbidden degrees, this distinction seems to hold, that some are to be dissolved altogether, others may be tolerated once an arbitrary penalty has been imposed.

Among the marriages which have been entered into in forbidden degrees, this distinction seems to hold: that some must simply be dissolved, while others can be punished at discretion and tolerated.

65. Conjugia, quibus Deus (Lev. 20.) capitis supplicium expresse constituit, quod ita turpia et abominabilia sint, ut nefas sit, conjuges in illis perseverare, solvenda sunt. (Baier.) — Marriages on which God (Lev. 20) has expressly set the penalty of death, because they are so base and abominable that it is a sin for the spouses to persist in them, are to be dissolved.

Marriages on which God (Lev. 20) has expressly set the death penalty, because they are so shameful and abominable that it is an abomination for the married parties to remain in them, are to be dissolved.

66. Conjugia consanguineorum et affinium in linea recta, inter ascendentes et descendentes, et consanguineorum in gradu primo lineae collateralis dirimenda sunt. (Baier.) — Marriages of blood relatives and in-laws in the direct line, between ascendants and descendants, and of blood relatives in the first degree of the collateral line, are to be dissolved.

Marriages of blood relatives and of persons related by marriage in the direct line, between those who descend from one another, and of blood relatives in the first degree of the collateral line, are to be torn apart.

67. Quando personae illegitime conjunctae separantur, non tam divortium est, quam declaratio, quod in conjunctione illa non fuerit vinculum conjugale. (Baier.) — When persons unlawfully joined are separated, it is not so much a divorce as a declaration that in that union there was no marital bond.

When persons unlawfully joined are separated, this is not so much a divorce as it is the declaration that there was no marital obligation in that union.

68. Ecclesia, quae conjugia illegitima, quae Deus dirimere non jussit, tolerat seu non dirimit, non ideo legem prohibentem conjugia illa relaxat, sed suo vigori relinquit. (Baier.) — The church, which tolerates, or does not dissolve, unlawful marriages that God has not commanded to be dissolved, does not thereby relax the law forbidding those marriages, but leaves it in its full force.

The church, which tolerates or does not tear apart unlawful marriages that God has not commanded to be torn apart, does not thereby relax anything of the law forbidding those marriages, but leaves the same in its full force and validity.

69. Mors naturalis, non civilis solvit matrimoniale vinculum. (Gerh.) — Natural death, not civil death, dissolves the marital bond.

Natural death, not civil death, dissolves the marriage bond.

70. Etsi conjugium sua natura sit indissolubile, quia, quod Deus conjunxit, homo separare non debet, tamen solvitur de facto adulterio et malitiosa desertione. (Melch. Nicolai.) — Although marriage is by its own nature indissoluble, because what God has joined together man ought not to separate, it is nevertheless dissolved, in fact, by adultery and by malicious desertion.