Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
The laws punish sacrilege horribly in public, but it is a greater sacrilege to strip the Church of the knowledge of languages than of golden or silver ornaments. For these heavenly gifts bring light to the Gospel, and they are more truly ornaments of the Church than any golden object. And there is no doubt that God has added the gift of languages to the Gospel for the purpose that they call us and that they lead to an explanation of the Holy Scriptures.
Therefore consider those contemptuous of languages sacrilegious, who once rushed at the altars and into the temples with great rage and threatened the devastation and ruin of religion and of the noble arts, and do not doubt that they will have to pay God their penalty. If we, however, strive to be pleasing to God and loyal towards the Church, let us recognise the favour of God and protect and conserve it for the use of the Church. If someone is deterred from these studies by the fact that the prizes do not appear to be adequate to the toil, then he does not have sufficient religious feeling for God.
For if God promises prodigious recompense for piety in every case, His trustworthiness is not to be doubted. Elsewhere He promises vast crops of fruits of the earth, if the people generously joined together for the use of the temple. Therefore the recompense will not be lacking for us, if we join our efforts for the use of the Church; and it is piety to have regard for the Church in expectation of that promise.
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Therefore consider those contemptuous of languages sacrilegious, who once rushed at the altars and into the temples with great rage and threatened the devastation and ruin of religion and of the noble arts, and do not doubt that they will have to pay God their penalty. If we, however, strive to be pleasing to God and loyal towards the Church, let us recognise the favour of God and protect and conserve it for the use of the Church. If someone is deterred from these studies by the fact that the prizes do not appear to be adequate to the toil, then he does not have sufficient religious feeling for God.
For if God promises prodigious recompense for piety in every case, His trustworthiness is not to be doubted. Elsewhere He promises vast crops of fruits of the earth, if the people generously joined together for the use of the temple. Therefore the recompense will not be lacking for us, if we join our efforts for the use of the Church; and it is piety to have regard for the Church in expectation of that promise.
For the reference, see:
Veit Dietrich on the sacrilege of stripping the church of biblical languages
The laws punish sacrilege horribly in public, but it is a greater sacrilege to strip the Church of the knowledge of languages than of golden or silver ornaments. For these heavenly gifts bring ligh…
reformedcovenanter.wordpress.com
