System of Sacred Theology · §2.15.2 · Ludwig Crocius

I–II. Names of eternal death; receiving subject the impious

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I. The nomenclature of eternal death is taken from 2 Thess. 1:8–9, where it is called eternal destruction; also Wis. 4:19; and Heb. 6:2 eternal damnation; from place and reception hell, prison, furnace of fire, place of torments, lake and winepress of wrath, lake of fire, pit, chains of darkness, Gehenna, eternal fire, outer darkness.

II. The receiving subject are the impious who do not have true and heavenly wisdom, nor the wedding garment of Christ's righteousness through faith, not obeying the Gospel, but worshiping the beast — the fearful, unbelieving, fornicators, idolaters, and the like.

Latin

I. Mortis aeternae nomenclatura petita est ex 2 Thess. 1.8–9, ubi dicitur aeternus interitus; & Sap. 4.v.19; & Heb. 6.v.2 aeterna damnatio; a loco & receptu infernus, Es. 5; carcer; caminus ignis; locus tormentorum; lacus & torcular irae; stagnum ignis; fovea; catenae tenebrarum; gehenna; ignis aeternus; tenebrae exteriores. II. Subjectum recipiens sunt impii non habentes veram & caelestem sapientiam, nec vestem nuptialem Christi justitiam per fidem, non obedientes Evangelio, sed adorantes bestiam, timidi, increduli, fornicatores, idololatrae, &c.

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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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