Caution — while θεόπνευστοι still spoke, written Scripture was not yet the full deposit
Take that with this caution: once the θεόπνευστοι men through whom revelation's light grew are gone, and their writings are out.
Except the time when their living voice still sounded in the Church, before they had put in writing what God was pleased to reveal to them anew. For example, when the Apostles began to preach and had not yet written anything, Old Testament Scripture did not hold all needful for salvation except in a mixed, implicit way — inasmuch as it sent us to the true Messiah, from whom we would be taught God's will more fully.
Latin
XXX. Id tamen intelligendum videtur cum hac cautione, nempe sublatis viris θεοπνεύστοις per quos crevit divinae revelationis lumen, & editis eorum scriptis. Ut excipiatur tempus quo viva vox eorum in Ecclesia resonabat, nec dum scriptis consignaverant quae Deo placitum erat de novo ipsis revelare. Nam, exempli gratia, quum Apostoli praedicare coeperunt, neque adhuc quicquam scripserant, Scriptura veteris Testamenti non continebat omnia ad salutem necessaria, nisi confuse & implicite, quatenus nos ad verum Messiam remittebat, a quo plenius de Dei voluntate edoceremur.
About this text
Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu, Sedan Theses, newly rendered from Latin: from theology proper through the Roman theses I–77 and the Reformed theses of Part Two. The theses only — not the collected works.
English follows locked Pitt Latin through Imaginum CLOSED + Sanctorum Cultu Romana CLOSED + Pars Secunda Reformata I-XL. 1675 PDF ~384-390 (book ~370-376); Vision OCR + pdftotext + tess. No modern English. This slice densifies Sanctorum Pars Secunda I-XL. Next: Pars Secunda XLI–fin (~CI). Claim stays claimed (book densify not done).
Catalogue & scope
ESTC R17887; Wing L802. IA bub_gb_eOkHAW4G0-wC (+ EEBO 1675 for gap leaves). Densify through Sanctorum Cultu Romana I-LXXVII + Pars Secunda Reformata I-XL (Pars Secunda not closed; not whole folio).
Witnesses
- Copy-text Locked Latin, De Theologia I-XLIII (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
- Checked print Internet Archive PDF of the 1675 Pitt folio (Latin)
- Checked print pdftotext of De Theologia pages (Latin)
- Checked print Internet Archive DjVu OCR of the 1675 Pitt folio (Latin)
- Copy-text Locked Latin, De Fide I-XXII (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
- Copy-text Locked Latin, De Authoritate Scripturae Pars I I-XLVII + Pars II I-XXXV + Pars III I-VIII (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
- Copy-text Locked Latin, De Scripturae plenitudine densify (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
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