Jeroboam’s calves: Jehu’s zeal for Jehovah coexisted with Bethel and Dan—cult referred to the true God
Jehu can burn for Jehovah against Baal and still keep Jeroboam’s calves.
Those calves were image-vehicles of Jehovah-cult—relative, and still sinful.
Latin
XXXI. Eadem fuit ratio cultus vitulis exhibiti a Rege Jeroboam & successoribus ejus. Quod enim in istis vitulis, se Jehovam verum Deum colere professi sint, patet exemplo Jehu: qui cultores omnes Baalis deleturus, gloriabatur de suo erga Jehovam Zelo, sic dicens amico suo Jonadab filio Recab, Veni mecum & vide Zelum meum pro Domino. Et tamen non recessit a peccatis Jeroboam filii Nabat, qui peccare fecit Israel, nec dereliquit vitulos aureos, qui erant in Bethel, & in Dan: Deum, scilicet, non aliter colens, quam in illis imaginibus, quarum proinde cultum referebat ad verum Deum Jehovam. Ut videre est libro 2. Regum cap. 10.
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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