System of Sacred Theology · §2.10.3 · Ludwig Crocius

III–IV. OT obscurely by just interpretation: Sadducees' marriage reductio; Abraham–Isaac–Jacob

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III. From the Old Testament it is demonstrated either more obscurely, by just interpretation, or more clearly, by evident diction.

IV. More obscurely by just interpretation it is demonstrated when a firm consequence is drawn from a saying of the Old Testament. Luke 20:27: the Sadducees tried to defend their opinion against Christ and to overthrow the resurrection he asserted with an argument to absurdity: If there is a resurrection of the dead, a great confusion of marriages will arise, so that seven will be husbands of one woman. But the consequent is absurd and against the law of nature. Therefore so is the antecedent. They prove the consequence from Moses' law, Deut. 25:5. But Christ answers (1) by denying that consequence, because in the resurrection marriages cease (Luke 20:34 more fully); (2) by opposing a new argument: Concerning the resurrection, Have you not read what was said to you by God: I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?

Latin

III. E V.T. demonstratur vel obscurius, per justam interpretationem, vel clarius, per evidentem dictionem. IV. Obscurius per justam interpretationem demonstratur, quando firma consequentia e dicto V.T. deducitur. Luc. 20.v.27. Sadducaei opinionem suam contra Christum defendere & resurrectionem a Christo assertam destruere conabantur argumento ducente ad absurdum: Si est resurrectio mortuorum, orietur magna confusio matrimoniorum, ita ut unius mulieris septem futuri sint mariti. Atqui absurdum est consequens & contra jus naturae. Ergo & antecedens. Consequentiam probant e lege Mosis Deut. 25.v.5. Christus vero respondet, 1. negando illam consequentiam, addita ratione, quia in resurrectione nuptiae cessant, id quod plenius expressit Lucas cap. 20.v.34. 2. Novum argumentum opponendo, qua suam sententiam confirmat, De resurrectione, inquiens, non legistis, quod vobis dictum est a Deo dicente: Ego sum Deus Abrahami, Deus Isaaci, & Deus Jacobi?

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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)

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