System of Sacred Theology · §4.12.2 · Ludwig Crocius

III. Circumcision

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III. CIRCUMCISION was an Old Testament sacrament by which, with the foreskin of the little boy cut off on the eighth day from birth, God's covenant with Abraham and his seed was sealed (Gen. 17).

It designated circumcision of the heart by the Spirit (Deut. 10:16; Rom. 2:28-29; Col. 2:11) and Christ coming in the flesh. The eighth day shadowed Christ's resurrection and the beginning of the new age.

Latin

III. CIRCUMCISIO fuit sacramentum V.T. quo amputata pellicula praeputii pueruli octavo die a nativitate foedus Dei cum Abrahamo & semine eius obsignabatur, Gen. 17. Designabat circumcisionem cordis per Spiritum (Deut. 10:16; Rom. 2:28-29; Col. 2:11) & Christum in carne venturum. Octavus dies typum resurrectionis Christi & novi saeculi initium adumbravit.

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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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