System of Sacred Theology · §2.8.2 · Ludwig Crocius

I. Sadducees; Hymenaeus and Philetus — spiritual-only or succession-by-procreation readings

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I. Concerning the Sadducees it is established from the Gospel history and the Acts of the Apostles. Hymenaeus and Philetus said that the resurrection had already happened (2 Timothy 2:18), because they judged that no other than a spiritual one — which is from sins through regeneration — is promised, as Haymo and Lyra explain, or because they placed the resurrection in succession through the procreation of children, as Theodoret hands down concerning them, and Augustine concerning the disciples of Severus and Hermias (Heresy 89 to Quodvultdeus).

Latin

I. De Sadduceis constat ex historia Euangelica & Actis Apostolorum. Hymenaeus & Philetus dicebant resurrectionem jam esse factam 2.Tim. 2.18. quia existimabant, non aliam quam spiritualem, quae e peccatis per regenerationem est, promitti, ut Haymo & Lyranus explicant: vel quia resurrectionem in successione, quae per procreationem liberorum fit, constituebant, ut Theodoretus de illis tradit, deque Severi & Hermiae discipulis Augustinus haeres. 89. ad Quodvultdeum.

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Ludwig Crocius's System of Sacred Theology (Bremen, 1636), all four books: theology and its rule in Scripture; man's last end, death and the resurrection; God, the Trinity, creation, providence and sin; and the grace of Christ, the Word and sacraments, faith, the Christian life and prayer.

Ludwig Crocius (1586–1655) taught theology and philosophy at Bremen and sat as a delegate at the Synod of Dort (1618–1619). A Calvinist of the irenic school, he spent his career seeking common ground between the Reformed and Lutheran churches.

His System of Sacred Theology (Bremen, 1636) is a full Reformed dogmatics in the high-orthodox style: precise definitions, ordered questions, objections raised and answered.

Date1636 AD (Bremen; Reformed professor)

EditionSyntagma sacrae theologiae (Bremen: Berthold Villerian, 1636)

English follows the 1636 Bremen Latin (Berthold Villerian), read chapter by chapter from the SLUB Dresden page images, with a machine reading of the same pages as a check. No modern English was copied. The author index at the end of the volume is not translated.

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VD17 14:684303C. SLUB id335860389.

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