Reply: hard places exist — but saving faith does not require piercing every obscurity
Yes, Scripture has very hard places even the learned cannot settle.
That does not make an unwritten tradition necessary for those loci.
Faith and salvation do not require piercing every obscurity.
If they did, the Church would lack necessities — and Rome itself confesses tradition does not settle those darkest places either.
Latin
XLI. Respondeo in Scripturis esse quidem loca quaedam valde difficilia, & super quorum intellectu mens haeret: Nec satis liquido perspicere possunt, etiam doctissimi quis sit verus eorum sensus. Sed inde non sequitur necessariam esse traditionem aliquam unde petatur istorum locorum intelligentia. Nec enim necesse est ad fidem & salutem in verum sensum ejusmodi locorum penetrare. Quod si necessarium esset, Ecclesia quibusdam necessariis careret. Nam, ex confessione ipsorum adversariorum, in obscurissimis istis & perplexis Scripturae locis traditio non docet, & extra dubium ponit quis sit eorum sensus genuinus: ac de illo non minus incerti sunt Doctores Pontificii quam nostri.
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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