System of Sacred Theology · §2.2.3 · Ludwig Crocius

III-IV. Barbarians ancient and recent; the ancient Getae and Egyptians (Herodotus, Diodorus)

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III. Barbarians — both the ancient and those recently and newly discovered — have acknowledged it.

IV. The ancient, such as the Getae and the Egyptians. The Getae do not think that they themselves cease, but that he who has died goes across to Zamolxis. The Egyptians judge that their parents and ancestors have been translated to an eternal dwelling. Concerning the former Herodotus bears witness in book 4; concerning the latter Diodorus Siculus in book 1 of the Library, number 93.

Latin

III. Barbari, prisci juxta & nuperi noviterque reperti agnoverunt. IV. Prisci, ut Getae & Aegyptii. Getae se non putant, sed eum, qui defunctus fuerit, meare ad Zamolxim. Aegyptii, parentes & majores suos ad aeternam habitationem translatos autumant. De illis testatur Herodotus lib. 4. de his Diodorus Siculus lib. 1. Bibliothecae num. 93.

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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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