Nicaea II’s fathers distinguish adoration from mere veneration—and call hypocrites those who venerate but refuse to adore
The Synod’s adoration is more than bare veneration.
Those who say they venerate images but will not adore them are branded hypocrites who insult the saints.
Latin
VI. Porro Patres istius Synodi adorationem illam, quam imaginibus deferendam putant, a veneratione distinguunt, tanquam quae plus aliquid importet quam simplex veneratio. Etenim damnant illos qui se quidem imagines venerari confitentur, sed tamen illas adorare recusant. Ut videre est Actione quarta, ubi post Lecta quaedam verba Anastasii Episcopi Theopolitani, sic loquitur Tharasius Patriarcha, Omnes igitur qui sacras imagines se venerari confitentur, adorationem autem recusant a sancto Patre tanquam hypocritae redarguuntur. Nam cum vere adorationem, quod est honoris symbolum recusant, contrarium facere cognoscuntur, nimirum sanctis convitia dicere. Tomi jam citati pag. 335.
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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