‘Fellow-servants’ still fits dulia: Scripture’s honorable subjection (Galatians 5) and imperfect ‘service’ by example and intercession
Being conservi does not bar dulia: Scripture also uses dulia for honorable subjection—“through love serve one another” (Galatians 5:13).
Imperfectly we are their servants by their example and intercession—and by the majesty and glory that still outrank us pilgrims.
Latin
VI. Quod autem non simus Sanctorum proprie servi, sed conservi, non obstat, ex eorum sensu, quominus Duliae vox apta sit ad significandam observantiam qua Sanctos colimus, quia in Scripturis Dulia non solum accipitur pro servitute mancipiorum, sed etiam pro honoraria subjectione, ut quum dicit Apostolus per charitatem duleuete servite invicem, Galat. 5. Jam vero, quanquam non simus Sanctorum mancipia; quodam tamen imperfecto sensu Sanctorum servi sumus, quatenus illi nos movent & juvant ad bene operandum exemplo suo, & intercessione apud Deum. Ac praeterea quoniam ratione majestatis & gloriae quam possident, nos qui adhuc peregrinamur a Domino multo sumus eis inferiores.
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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