Bellarmino’s two probable views: see all relevant things in God from beatitude’s start, or revelation when we pray
Bellarmino favors two lines: Saints see in God from beatitude’s dawn all that touches them—including our prayers—or God reveals prayers only when we offer them.
He leans to the first as simply likelier; the second as better for answering heretics.
Latin
XLIV. Bellarmino vero ex multis hac de re sententiis duae videntur maxime probabiles. Una eorum qui dicunt Sanctos videre in Deo, a principio suae beatitudinis omnia quae ad ipsos aliquo modo pertinent, & proinde etiam orationes nostras ad se directas. Altera eorum qui putant, Sanctos non videre in Verbo orationes nostras a principio suae beatitudinis, sed solum tunc revelari eis a Deo orationes nostras, quando eas fundimus. Quomodo Prophetae, Deo revelante, cognoverunt futura, & multi Sanctorum hic in terris donum a Deo habuerunt, quo cognoscerent cogitationes hominum, & facta etiam occultissima. Quarum sententiarum prior Bellarmino videtur simpliciter probabilior, posterior vero magis idonea ad convincendos haereticos. De Sanctorum Beatitudine lib. 1. cap. 20.
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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