System of Sacred Theology · §3.28.4 · Ludwig Crocius

XII–XVI: sex; male and female; first parents Adam and Eve

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XII. So much concerning the essential parts of humankind: there follows sex, by which, distinguished by the organs of generation, he furnishes origin to his descendants. XIII. And humankind according to sex is male and female. This difference of sex is necessary for generation, and so for the perfection of the human race. For each being is then called perfect in physics when it can generate its like. Therefore, since the male alone cannot generate, he is not altogether judged perfect for the consummation of his genus unless he also have the other portion of himself. On that account Christ in Matthew 19:4, praising Moses' text, says: Have you not read that the Maker from the beginning made male and female? And Moses in Genesis 2:18: It is not good that the human be alone; I will make him a help that is before him. And in verses 21–22 the Lord God caused Adam to sleep with deepest sleep, drew out one of the ribs, and constructed the woman from that rib.

XIV. Sex shines forth both in the first parents and in their descendants. XV. The first parents are the first humans. XVI. Adam was the first man, divinely formed; Eve the first woman, constructed from Adam's rib.

Latin

XII. Haec de partibus hominis essentialibus: sequitur sexus, quo organis generationis discretus posteris suis originem praebet. XIII. Estque homo secundum sexum mas et femina. Haec differentia sexus necessaria est generationi, adeoque ad perfectionem humani generis. Unumquodque enim ens tunc perfectum dicitur in physicis, cum sibi simile generare potest. Quare cum solus mas generare nequeat, non omnino perfectus censetur ad consummationem sui generis, nisi et alteram sui portionem habeat. Eapropter Christus Matth. XIX.4 laudans textum Mosis ait: Non legistis opificem ab initio fecisse masculum et feminam. Et Moses Gen. II.18: Non est bonum hominem esse solum; faciam ei adjumentum quod sit coram eo. Et v.21–22 Dominus Deus arctissimo sopore consopivit Adamum et ex costis unam detraxit et construxit Deus ex ea costa mulierem. XIV. Sexus elucet tum in primis parentibus tum in posteris. XV. Primi parentes sunt primi homines. XVI. Adamus fuit primus vir, divinitus formatus; Eva prima femina e costa Adami constructa.

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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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