# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Juli 1864_S193
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Lehre und Wehre.

Volume X.    July 1864.    No. 7.

Theological Axioms.
(Continued.)

XXIV. On the Household Estate.
(Conclusion.)

86. Relatio mutua, per quam parentes, ut tales, liberos ut liberos et hi vicissim illos ut suos parentes respiciunt et ad mutua officia obligantur, manet, quamdiu parentes et liberi vivunt. (Baier.) — The mutual relation, by which parents, as such, regard their children as children, and these in turn regard them as their parents, and are bound to mutual duties, endures as long as the parents and children live.

The mutual relationship, by virtue of which parents, as such, regard the children as children, and the children in turn regard them as their parents, and are bound to mutual duties toward one another, endures as long as the parents and children live.

87. A worldly kingdom cannot stand where there is not inequality among persons, so that some are free, some captive, some lords, some subjects. (Luther.)*)

*) We have intentionally given, in what follows, somewhat more numerous theological aphorisms on the point — in itself a subordinate one — of the estate of master and servant. For although the time is approaching with rapid steps in which slavery will be wholly abolished (a thing over which we certainly grieve least of all, indeed for which we ourselves might, under certain circumstances, vote on political grounds), the biblical doctrine of bondage or serfdom nevertheless remains just as firmly established after the abolition of the latter as before it — just as the doctrine of kingship remains just as firmly established, and must be held fast by all Christians, in a free republic as in an absolute monarchy. Indeed, since the spirit of this latest age labors for the abolition of slavery not out of purely political grounds, but in the antichristian spirit of the rejection of all divine superiority and subordination in the world, it is, after the carrying-through of the emancipation of the slaves, doubly the duty of the Lutheran theologian to watch that no false principles overturning God's ordinances creep into the church, as into sects that regard nothing of God's Word. The church shall be no weathervane of the spirit of the age, and the Christian theologian shall be no herald — courting the applause of the godless world and whoring with it — of a love-feigning humanism that is in fact founded on pure self-seeking and enmity against God's governance of the world; but rather he shall set himself against the flood of a false Enlightenment and the lying grimace of a professed philanthropy, in the name of the LORD, with the weapon of the clear Word of Scripture, in defiance of all hypocritical perverters of Scripture and impudent slanderers of Scripture, in defiance of the pious world, this bedecked bride of the devil, in defiance of the devil himself and all the gates of hell. D. R.