What are your favorite Latin sayings (along with the English translations)?

__________________
Andrew Myers
Husband of Jessica, Father of Jackson, Katie and Samuel
Member, Presbyterian Reformed Church of Northern Virginia
Warrenton, VA USA
Editor, The Matthew Poole Project

"Let your Morning Thoughts, and your last Evening Thoughts, be what shall become of you to all Eternity." -- Matthew Poole

If you have a Palm PDA you NEED this free dictionary - http://palmsource.palmgear.com/index...e&prodid=50548
Hope that link works. Last time I tried SemperFi had to fix it.
You do need BDicty. If it is not included in the above download, you can get it here - http://www.beiks.com/palm/Bdicty.htm look for the line that says "download public version"

"Quid quid latine dictum sit, altum"
"Anything said in Latin sounds profound"

Greg

__________________
Greg Bednarchik
Sovereign Grace Church
(part of Sovereign Grace Ministries)
Cherry Hill NJ

Here's one of my favorite!

Latin is a Language,
At least it used to be,
First it killed the Romans,
Now it's killing me!

DTK

__________________
Sola Scriptura est norma normans non normata
David T. King, pastor
Christ Presbyterian Church (OPC)
Elkton, Maryland
Augustine (354-430): Therefore what He [i.e., Christ] has deigned to speak to us, we ought to believe that He meant us to understand. But if we do not understand He, being asked, gives understanding, who gave His Word unasked. NPNF1: Vol. VII, Tractates on John, Tractate XXII, §1.

__________________
Josh Hicks, Chloë's Daddy
Member of TRBC, Attending CCRPC. My Blog
The Puritan Pub (Team Blog)
Board Rules -- Signature Requirements -- Suggestions?

Here's one I laid on Fred some time ago:

"Caesar si viveret, ad remum dareris!"
"If caesar were alive, you'd be chained to an oar!"

__________________
Rev. Bruce G. Buchanan
ChainOLakes Presbyterian Church, CentralLake, MI


When posting friends, kindly bear those words of earthly wisdom in mind:
Oh, that God the gift would give us
To see ourselves as others see us.
--Robert Burns, 1786 (modernized) ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Click to get: Board Rules -- Signature Requirements -- Suggestions? --

I had in mind some sayings that were a bit more, how should I put this, profound...:bigsmile: Now then, what is Latin for "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em!"

Asterix the Gaul:



Sona si Latine loqueris. (Honk if you speak Latin.)

__________________
Andrew Myers
Husband of Jessica, Father of Jackson, Katie and Samuel
Member, Presbyterian Reformed Church of Northern Virginia
Warrenton, VA USA
Editor, The Matthew Poole Project

"Let your Morning Thoughts, and your last Evening Thoughts, be what shall become of you to all Eternity." -- Matthew Poole

Asterix is always profound. I wish I had those books.

__________________
Ruben
Moderator

Click to get: Board Rules -- Signature Requirements -- Suggestions?

Calvinistas Conversando - Reformed Discussion Board in Spanish.

Spanish Blog -Teologia en Mexico
English Blog -The Howling Wilderness

My apologies to Andrew!

Here are a few of my favorite Latin sayings, most of which were taken directly from Muller's Dictionary of Latin and Greek Theological Terms.

Scriptura sacra locuta, res decisa est (Sacred Scripture has spoken, the issue is decided).

Scriptura ex scripturim explicandum esse (Scripture is to be explained by Scripture).

All our preaching and teaching must be 'doctrina e Scriptura Sacra hausta' (doctrine drawn from Holy Scripture).

We proclaim Evangelium est Deus absolvens et justificans (The gospel is God absolving and justifying).

Fides justificat non propter se, ut est in homine qualitas, sed propter Christum, quem apprehendit (Faith justifies not because of itself, insofar as it is a quality in man, but on account of Christ, of whom faith apprehends).

Sinners are justificatus sola fide sine operibus (justified by faith alone without works).

Sola Scriptura est norma normans non normata (Scripture alone is the norm that norms [itself] not normed), and is therefore the only irreformable norm.

Vox Scriptura Vox Dei (The Voice of Scripture is the Voice of God).

DTK

__________________
Sola Scriptura est norma normans non normata
David T. King, pastor
Christ Presbyterian Church (OPC)
Elkton, Maryland
Augustine (354-430): Therefore what He [i.e., Christ] has deigned to speak to us, we ought to believe that He meant us to understand. But if we do not understand He, being asked, gives understanding, who gave His Word unasked. NPNF1: Vol. VII, Tractates on John, Tractate XXII, §1.

Et patribus, et posteritati

For fathers and for sons

KC

__________________
Heb 13:20-21

Kevin C. Easterday
Attending Covenant OPC, St. Augustine, FL
Husband to Tina (August 13, 1988), Father and Teacher to Kamden (16) and Kolton (14)
Federal Theology Website
Click to get: Board Rules -- Signature Requirements -- Suggestions?

A few from BDicty
Amat victoria curam - Victory favors those who take pains

Amor vincit omnia - love conquers all

credite amori vera dicenti - Believe love speaking the truth (Jerome)

Credo ut intelligam - I believe in order to understand (Augustine)
[wouldn't it be great in the course of a Bibile study to just say "It's like Augstine said..., and then look around suprised that they don't know what you just said.][And they say 'elitist' like it's a bad thing]

Dominus tecum - May the Lord be with you (singular)
Dominus vobiscum - May the Lord be with you (plural)

Dum excusare credis, accusas - When you believe you are excusing yourself, you are accusing yourself (Jerome) [Teach this one to the kids]

Hope you enjoyed them

__________________
Greg Bednarchik
Sovereign Grace Church
(part of Sovereign Grace Ministries)
Cherry Hill NJ

No apologies needed, DTK! These are good sayings.

Here are a few of mine:

Post Tenebras Lux (After the Darkness, Light.)

Scrutamini scripturas (Let us search the scriptures)

Cor meum tibi offero, Domine, prompte et sincere (My heart I offer to you, O Lord, promptly and sincerely)

Neque enim quaero intelligere ut credam, sed credo ut intelligam. Nam et hoc credo, quia, nisi credidero, non intelligam (Nor do I seek to understand that I may believe, but I believe that I may understand. For this too I believe, that unless I first believe, I shall not understand)

Homo sum humani a mi nihil alienum puto (I am a human being; nothing human is strange to me)

Acta non verba (Actions, not words.)

Alenda lux ubi orta libertas (Let learning be cherished where liberty has arisen)

Christus Rex (Christ the King)

Lex Rex (Law is King)

Coram Deo (In the presence of God)

Simul justus et peccator (Righteous and at the same time a sinner)

Deo vindice (With God as protector)

Deo gratias (Thanks be to God)

Pro Christo et Libertate (For Christ and for Liberty)

Dominus Illuminatio Mea (The Lord is my light)

Deo volente (God willing)

Dum spiro spero (While I breathe, I hope)

Dum vita est, spes est (While there is life there is hope)

Dum vivimus servimus (While we live we serve)

Errare humanum est perseverare diabolicum (To err is human; to persist is of the Devil)

Esse quam videri (To be rather than to seem)

Gloria in Excelsis Deo (Glory be God in the highest)

In luce Tua videmus lucem (In Thy light we see light)

Non Nobis Domine Non Nobis Sed Nomini Tuo Da Gloriam (Not To Us O Lord Not To Us But To Your Name Give Glory)

Semper reformanda (Always reforming)

Ecclesia reformata semper reformanda est secundu Verbum Dei (The reformed Church is always being reformed according to the Word of God)

Sic semper tyrannis (Thus always to tyrants)

Soli Deo gloria (Glory to God alone)

Sola fide (By faith alone)

Sola gratia (By grace alone)

Sola scriptura (By scripture alone)

Solus Christus (Christ alone)

Verbum Domini Manet in Aeternum (The Word of the Lord endures forever)

Virtute non armis fido (I trust in virtue, not arms)

Deus nobiscum, quis contra? (God is with us, who can be against us?)

[Edited on 6-6-2006 by VirginiaHuguenot]

__________________
Andrew Myers
Husband of Jessica, Father of Jackson, Katie and Samuel
Member, Presbyterian Reformed Church of Northern Virginia
Warrenton, VA USA
Editor, The Matthew Poole Project

"Let your Morning Thoughts, and your last Evening Thoughts, be what shall become of you to all Eternity." -- Matthew Poole

Any other favorites?

__________________
Andrew Myers
Husband of Jessica, Father of Jackson, Katie and Samuel
Member, Presbyterian Reformed Church of Northern Virginia
Warrenton, VA USA
Editor, The Matthew Poole Project

"Let your Morning Thoughts, and your last Evening Thoughts, be what shall become of you to all Eternity." -- Matthew Poole

Quis?

__________________
Andrew Myers
Husband of Jessica, Father of Jackson, Katie and Samuel
Member, Presbyterian Reformed Church of Northern Virginia
Warrenton, VA USA
Editor, The Matthew Poole Project

"Let your Morning Thoughts, and your last Evening Thoughts, be what shall become of you to all Eternity." -- Matthew Poole

There is an interesting article on the Yale University stamp and motto here.

__________________
Andrew Myers
Husband of Jessica, Father of Jackson, Katie and Samuel
Member, Presbyterian Reformed Church of Northern Virginia
Warrenton, VA USA
Editor, The Matthew Poole Project

"Let your Morning Thoughts, and your last Evening Thoughts, be what shall become of you to all Eternity." -- Matthew Poole

Of course, I guess it has to be left to me to voice a vote for "Semper Ubi Sub Ubi"


Oh you meant REAL Latin! (not the pig variety)

__________________
Todd K. Pedlar
member, First Congregational Church, (CCCC) Cresco, IA
http://semperubi.rtrc.net

"Many men, after a long conversion, see more of the workings of sin in their hearts than ever they did before or at their first conversion. Now, such men have not an increase of sin, but an increase of illumination and light" (Christopher Love)


Click to get: Board Rules -- Signature Requirements -- Suggestions?

Put down another vote for :

"Deo Vindice"

__________________
Richard H. King
Providence PCA
Lubbock, Texas
"No matter how far a man goes, he eventually finds out God's already there." John Wayne - the last line in "Chisum"

'Post tennebras Lux" After Darkness light. I am not sure if I got the spelling right, but that is my fav. I read that, that was posted over the door to the Church in Geneva.

__________________
Sean Jones
Covenant Presbyterian Church OPC
Fort Worth Texas

Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a workman who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the Word of Truth.
2Timothy 2:15

Always wear underwear.

. . .

Wait . . that's English.

Okay, this isn't Latin, but it helps me:

Large Cows Drop Manure = LCDM = 50, 100, 500, 1000.

Learned that one from my Latin teacher in high school and never forgot it!

__________________
Casey Bessette
Westminster OPC • West Suburbs of Chicago • My Blog: Paradise Regained

"It is part of the calling of the ekklesia to learn to know the love of Christ that surpasses all knowledge and also to make known within the world of science 'the manifold wisdom of God' in order that the final end of theology, as of all things, may be that the name of the Lord is glorified. Theology and dogmatics, too, exist for the Lord's sake." — Herman Bavinck, Reformed Dogmatics, vol. 1, p. 46

A judicial maxim: De minimis non curat lex.
(The law is not concerned with trifles).

Which always struck me as odd given our current litigation practice.

__________________
R.Vic Bottomly
Providence Reformed Baptist Church, Tacoma, WA

Click to get: Board Rules -- Signature Requirements -- Suggestions?

Soli Deo Gloria - I like it so much, I wrote a song (still a rough cut, so don't be too critical...)

__________________
-JD
1Thess5:21
Ordained Deacon, PCA
Serving in the SBC
MS

My links: ChristianSkepticism.org | personal | facebook | Prescriptive Psalmody

Habeas felicitatem in die natus es

Happy Birthday ! I just wrote this on the standard Birthday Card that was passed around the office last week. She thought I said: The court hopes you die a natural death !

__________________
~ Steven Bradford ~
Member Covenant Presbyterian, Chattanooga, TN

It's not a profound saying but it cracks me up every time I read it to my kids, just the 'Latin' of it all:

Clamavit Lupus, "Ergo, huffabo et puffabo et tuam domum inflabo"

The Wolf yelled/proclaimed, "Therefore, I will huff and I will puff and blow your house down." (paraphrase of course)

The Latin cracks me up, its so Classic and poetic in this case.

__________________
Larry Hughes
Geologist
Tates Creek PCA
Lexington, KY
PCA

Galatians 4:29, "But as at that time he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so it is now also."

Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit - Perhaps someday we will look back upon these things with joy

__________________
Michael Turner, husband to Krystal and father of Jack
Brookwood Presbyterian Church, North Georgia

If you're into Wordpress: http://chayah.wordpress.com