No NT word marks the image-ban ceremonial—unlike the Sabbath shadow in Colossians 2.16
Colossians 2.16 flags Sabbath/feast shadows as ceremonial; nothing parallel softens the image-ban.
The NT never whispers that Christians may now cult God or saints in images.
Latin
XVI. Sed unde colligunt illi, praeceptum quo Deus prohibet ne imagines ullae colendae proponantur, positivum esse & ceremoniale? In quarto quidem praecepto aliquid esse ceremoniale, quatenus praecise Sabbatum, id est, septimum diem cujusque septimanae sanctificari jubet, colligimus ex Pauli Apostoli verbis disertis, Coloss. 2. 16. Ubi monet fideles non esse damnandos in cibo, vel in potu, aut in parte, seu distinctione diei festi, aut Neomeniae, aut Sabbatorum, quae omnia erant umbrae futurorum, quarum corpus in Christo est: sed ubi Christus, sive Apostoli tale quid significaverunt de prohibitione qua vetantur imagines ullae ad cultum fieri? Et num in toto Novo Testamento, vel unum verbum exstat, quo insinuetur Christianis licere Deum & Sanctos ejus in imaginibus colere, quod ante non licebat?
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)
This is an AI-assisted study translation. Source fidelity and completeness have not been independently certified. Open Latin on each section (or the Latin source witness link) for the source text. This is not a complete critical edition.