A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §324

Annotatio I §.II: Taking κατὰ τὸ ῥητόν three ways — retain words; follow native sense; want the sense proper

That one fight should not be counted as two is plain once you see that taking a proposition κατὰ the literal meaning can mean three things.

First: keep the words — formally, or by formal equipollents that do not even differ in concept.

Second: follow the words’ genuine native sense.

Third: want that sense to be proper.

Latin

Ex una duas sic Controversias nequicquam constitui, ad oculum patet, si observetur: Τὸ κατὰ τὸ ῥητόν Propositionem accipere, triplici modô contingere posse, (1.) uti verba retineas, idque vel formaliter, vel aequipollenter, aequipollentia scil. formali, hoc est ea, quâ à formaliter retentis ne conceptu quidem distinguantur aequipollentia. (2.) Sensum verborum genuinum nativumque sequaris. (3.) Sensum verborum velis esse proprium.

About this text

Samuel Strimesius — Prefatio through Controversiae Post Lutherum Controv. III-XIII + XV Tolerantia, Hexades Annotationum Prooemium and Annotatio I through Decem Theses / Francus plus Annotatio II §.I-§.VI and Annotatio III §.I–§.VII (through Cassellanum 1661) from Ingenua in Controversias Evangelicorum (Frankfurt an der Oder, 1708). Honest partial; Prefatio silence reasons, Annotatio III §.VIII+ fruits / §.IX+, Hexades theses body, deeper Controversiae / Part II remain.

English follows the locked 1708 Francofurti ad Viadrum Latin of Prefatio §I–II, Crimina defenses through III, Part I Protheoria through Controversiae Obices/Historia/Varii gradus, Formula Discord/Disparitas, Ulterius confirmatur / Classes / Formula protest / triplex differentia, Coena Domini Controversiae Priores through Precariae Hypotheses (Controv. print pp. 34–40), Controversiae Post Lutherum Natae Controv. III–XV tip (providence through De Tolerantia mutua; Controv. print pp. 40–78), Hexades Annotationum Prooemium H.I–§.III (Hexades print pp. 1–4 / PDF ~182–185), and Annotatio I De Augustana Confessione §.I–§.VIII tip (Hexades print pp. 5–24+ / PDF ~186–205+), reconstructed from Google Books PDF page images (ONB copy, id 3epYAAAAcAAJ) with pdftotext as check. No modern English was copied. Sister Halle digitization of Ingenua in Arminianismum (DOI 10.25673/65287) remains Anubis-blocked — skipped; Controversias only. Prefatio silence reasons, Annotatio I §.IX+, Hexades theses body beyond §.VIII, and remainder of Controversiae / folio remain.

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