Synodical letter: to ‘adore’ images is to kiss and love them—Greek prosechein/proskunein as embrace and strong love

The synodical letter equates ‘adoring’ images with kissing and loving them.

Greek usage (proskunein and kin) is pressed to mean embrace and strong affection, not latria.

Latin

XII. Consona sunt quae leguntur in epistola Synodica prima ad Augustos. Sunt autem haec, nempe Christi & sanctorum imagines, adorandae quoque, hoc est, exosculandae & amandae, idem enim significant haec, juxta antiquam Graeciae Dialecton. Nam prosechein, id est, adorare, & aspazesthai, id est, amplecti, & philein, id est, amare significat. Praepositio autem pros, intentionem significat desiderii, quemadmodum in proskunein. Unde concludit epistola vocem proskunein significare amplexum, & vehementem amorem. Tomi saepius allegati pag. 390.

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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