5. Classifications and various namings of the sins of commission.
The manifold divisions of the peccata actualia, if they have ground in Scripture, are not to be considered useless or "boring." Rather, as Chemnitz points out, they serve to ward off1646) carnal security, in that Christians see how many wild beasts slumber in their own flesh and are to be fought by them. Unusquisque igitur verorum Christianorum una cum Paulo, 1 Cor. 9:27, proprium suum corpus contundat et in servitutem redigat, ne reprobus fiat. [Google] We will therefore diligently ask God, ut sancti sui Spiritus gratia nobis adesse et largiri dignetur, ut peccata nostra vere agnoscamus, serio deploremus, eorumque remissionem in unico Servatoris nostri Iesu Christi merito firma fide quaeramus sicque in ipso aeternam beatitatem consequamur. Amen. [Google]
1644) Peter, Matt. 26:33-36. All Christians are told, 1 Cor. 10:12: δ δοκών έστάναι, βλεπέτω μη πέοη.
1645) This is what Paul inculcates in Rom. 11:20-22 to the standing heathen insofar as they showed inclination to rise above the fallen Jews. Therefore 2 Cor. 12:9: ή δνναμις ϑεον εν άσΰενείct τελειονται. This is as much as, "In temptation the strong are weak and the weak are strong."
1646) Loci I, 269.
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