Altars ‘of’ Saints: same stone is God’s altar and a martyr’s tomb—dedication to Saints only under tomb-ratio, else idolatry
One stone: altar to God, tomb over a martyr’s bones—every altar a Saint’s sepulcher.
Dedication ‘to Saints’ is licit only as tomb-ratio; altar-ratio to Saints would be idolatry.
Latin
XXI. Quod spectat ad altaria, quae de Sanctorum quoque nomine appellantur, & dicuntur illis esse consecrata, Notat similiter Bellarminus unum eundemque lapidem dici altare, quatenus in eo sacrificatur Deo; & eundem dici tumulum vel sepulchrum, quatenus tegit ossa Martyris alicujus. Omnia enim altaria esse sepulchra Sanctorum. Jam vero quae dicuntur altaria dicari Sanctis, non sub ratione altaris, sed sub ratione sepulchri. Nam esse Idololatriam erigere Sanctis altaria; sed tamen non esse Idololatriam, erigere illis lapideos tumulos.
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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