Vasquez rejects image-alone adoration as superstitious—must co-venerate the prototype
Vasquez brands image-alone adoration superstitious: a rational creature must not subject itself to an irrational one.
An image without its prototype cannot lawfully be adored; the adorant must also venerate the exemplar in and through the image as terminus.
Cited: Vasquez on ST III, disp. 108, c. 3.
Latin
XLII. Quidam, ut Gabriel Vasquez, hunc adorationis modum tanquam superstitiosum & stultum rejiciunt, quia, videlicet, stultum est creaturam rationalem se subjicere creaturae irrationali, & servam illius sese exhibere. Adeoque pertendunt imaginem per se, sine prototypo, vel ab eo separatam adorari licite non posse: Non solum quia necesse est propter exemplar, tanquam propter rationem remotam, sicut legatum propter Regem, imaginem coli: sed quia qui imaginem adorat, in ea quoque, & per eam, exemplar, ut terminum, & materiam proximam venerationis, venerari debet. Quae sunt verba Gabrielis Vasquez, tomo primo in tertiam Thomae disputat. 108. cap. 3.
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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).
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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).
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