Joram’s calf-cult judged less than Baal-statues—because it claimed the true God, wrongly imaged
Spirit ranks Joram’s calf-sin below Baal-sun worship: calves claimed Jehovah; Baal swapped in a creature.
That ranking collapses if the calves were taken as literal gods or Apis—so relative Jehovah-cult is the better reading, and still condemned.
Latin
XXXII. Ac praeterea idem aperte colligitur, ex iis quae dicuntur de Joram filio Achab, ejusdem libri capite tertio. Sic enim de isto Joram loquitur historicus sacer, Fecit malum coram Domino, sed non sicut pater suus & mater. Abstulit enim statuas Baal quas fecerat pater ejus. Veruntamen in peccatis Jeroboam filii Nabat, qui peccare fecit Israel, adhaesit, nec recessit ab eis. Ubi Spiritus Sancti judicio, quanquam graviter peccaret Rex Joram colens vitulos aureos; peccatum tamen ejus minus grave declaratur, quam peccatum eorum qui statuas Baalis, id est, solis colebant. Unde hoc, nisi quia cultores Baal creaturam simpliciter creatori substituiebant, Solem, scilicet, in suis statuis loco veri Dei colentes; Jeroboam vero & ejus successores, in eo tantum peccabant, quod verum Deum Israel se colere professi, illum colebant in imaginibus, contra voluntatem ejus, ab ipsis excogitatis. Si enim qui colebant vitulos, illos pro diis habebant, aut in iis colebant Apim Aegyptiorum bovem, profecto illorum impietas, hac in parte major adhuc & absurdior erat, quam eorum qui adorabant solem, quo nulla creaturarum visibilium videtur admiratione dignior, & propius Dei imaginem referre.
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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