Conditio Jacobaea

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Use of the Conditio Jacobaea on a banner at the end of the closing service of the German Evangelical Church Congress 2007

The conditio Jacobaea ( Latin ) is the 'Jacobean reservation' in the Latin phrase sub conditione Jacobaea (also Jacobea or Jacobi; 'under the reservation of James'), which as a Christian formula of devotion in humility and hope reminds us that the future and in particular planned events are subject to the will of God . It goes back to the letter of James , in the last section of the fourth chapter of which the apostle warns against being too self-confident and points out that all planned action depends on the condition “ ἐὰν ὁ κύριος θελήσῃ καὶ ζήσομεν καὶ ποιήσἐομεν τοῦτῦ ἢ ν τοῦτε ἢ ν. “(“ If the Lord wills, we will still live and do this or that. ” Jak 4,15  EU ).

Similar passages can be found in the Acts of the Apostles of Luke (18.18-22 EU ), in Romans (1.9-10 EU ), in first Corinthians (4.19 EU , 16.7 EU ), in Philippians (2.19 EU . 24  EU ) and in the Letter to the Hebrews (6.3 EU ). It is not a creation of the apostles, but phrases like Deo volente were common in Greek, Roman and Jewish antiquity and can also be found, for example, in Plato ( Alcibiades I 135d) as " ὅτι ἐὰν θεὸς ἐθέλῃ " ("if God wants" ) or in the Stoa as " ducunt volentem fata, nolentem trahunt " ("fate leads the willing, the unwilling is dragged with it") in Seneca ( Epistulae morales 107,11).

As an abbreviation see c. J. or s. c. I. The phrase is used to conclude a letter . It means “sub conditione Jacobi” written out and can be translated as “under the Jacobite reservation”. In German, this corresponds to the abbreviations sGw or sGw for "so God will", also with reference to ( Jak 4,15  EU ).

The Latin phrase deo volente has a similar meaning , God wills it.

A well-known variant of the Conditio Jacobaea is the phrase "Tomorrow morning, if God willing, you will be woken up again" in the lullaby Good evening, good night .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jakob Stehle: Conditio Jacobaea. Retrieved February 4, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Jas 4,15. In: Online Bibles - Novum Testamentum Graece NA28. German Bible Society, accessed April 11, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Hans Mayr (Ed.): Tu dich auf: Keys to the biblical readings in the church year . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2002, ISBN 978-3-525-60287-4 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  4. ↑ Patrick J. Hartin: James . In: Sacra Pagina . tape 14 . Liturgical Press, 2009, ISBN 0-8146-5975-6 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  5. ↑ Robert Spaemann : About the rationality of belief in God . In: to debate . No. 6 , 2006 ( online [PDF; accessed February 4, 2015]).
  6. ↑ Jürgen Werth : "Make God laugh and make plans!" In: Wort zum Tag. ERF.de, November 25, 2016, accessed on April 11, 2019 .