System of Sacred Theology · §3.6.8 · Ludwig Crocius

Ninth–tenth NT names; use of the chief names

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NINTH from the New Testament is ho Theos, God. TENTH is Kyrios, LORD (Matthew everywhere).

XIII. This is the review and use of the chief names of God. Although no name of God perfectly expresses the infinite essence: yet many are His names which impress His properties. For God by His Word has revealed many things about Himself. Names imposed by God in the Scriptures usefully increase the knowledge of God; names invented by men are not easily to be admitted.

Latin

NONUM est ex novo testamento: ὁ Θεός, Deus. DECIMUM est Κύριος, DOMINUS, Matth. passim. XIII. Haec est praecipuorum Dei nominum recensio & usus. Etsi nullum nomen Dei infinitam essentiam perfecte exprimat: tamen multa sunt ejus nomina, quae ipsius proprietates imprimunt. Deus enim verbo suo multa de se revelavit. Nomina a Deo in Scripturis imposita utiliter notitiam Dei augent; ab hominibus conficta nomina non facile admittenda. Cap. 6 closes before Cap. 7 De attributis Dei.

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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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