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[31] See Benedict Aretius, Problemata theologica, “De cognitione Dei naturali,” loc. 1.
[32] See Romans 7:15–13; Psalm 10:4; 36:2; Romans 1:24, 28; I Timothy 4:2; Jeremiah 31.
[33]
Matthew 22:34–40.
[34]
[By propagation of oneself Althusius means “the legitimate union of man and wife, and the honorable procreation and
education of children.” ]
[35] I have spoken more extensively about this in my Dicaeologicae libri tres [I, 25].
[36] Cicero, The Orator, I, 43. [ “not by unending debates fall of controversies, but” is the unacknowledged omission.]
[37] De redemptione, I, 10, 1 [actually thesis 1 of the second section (“De legibus humanis”) of Chapter 10].
[38] [ De redemptione, I, 11, 1.]
[39]
I Timothy1:9.
[40] De politicae Mosis observatione.
[41]
In commentaries on the Digest I, 1, 6.
[42] [For another discussion by Althusius of the respective uses of the Decalogue in politics and theology, see the preface to
the third edition. Actually the discussion of the Decalogue here is somewhat out of place and should have come earlier. For the
Decalogue is not proper law, Jewish or otherwise, but common law.]
[43]
[44]
Psalm 119:105.
Romans 1; 2.
[45]
[Althusius returns here (Chapter XXII) to the matters he was discussing prior to his raising of the controversy over the
theological and political uses of the Decalogue.]
[46] See Jean Bodin, The Commonweale, V, 1; and Method for the Easy Comprehension of History, 5; Justus Lipsius,
Politicorum sive civilis doctrinae, IV, 5; Hippolytus a Collibus, Princeps, 8; Theodore Zwinger, Theatrum vitae humanae, vol. XXI,
lib. 1; Alexander ab Alexandro, Genialium dierum, IV, 13; Petrus Gregorius, De republica, IV, 4; X, 3 and 6; Giovanni
Botero, Practical Politics, II, 3 f.; Scipio Ammirato, Dissertationes, IV, disc. 7.
[47]
[Here follows an extended discussion first of thirteen characteristics of people in general, then of eighteen characteristics
of courtiers, and finally of the distinction between friends and flatterers. This presentation refers to a number of works, but
especially to the following: Scipio Ammirato, Dissertationes; Gregory Richter, Axiomata politica.
[48] Benefits, VI, 3.
[49]
[Althusius observes that there are three stages in the fortunes of such magistrates. The first is one of security arising from
successful ventures. The second is one of pride arising from security, in which they admire themselves and trust in their own
powers. And in the third they sink into ruin and destruction.]
[50] Politicorum sive civilis doctrinae, IV, 6.
[51] See Giovanni Botero, Practical Politics, I, 8–11.
[52] Politicorum sive civilis doctrinae, IV, 8.
[53] For examples of this humane attitude, see Artaxerxes (Nehemiah 2:4–9), David, who called his subjects brothers (I
Chronicles 28:2), Augustus, Anthony Pius, and others.
[54] [ Duties, I, 14.]
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