Need a skilled interpreter, not an infallible one — sense has light in the text itself
Faithful readers need a skilled interpreter — not Rome's interpreter who cannot err.
After guidance, certainty rests on the light of truth in the things themselves under the Spirit, not on the guide's or tradition's authority.
Like Aristotle or Horace: a teacher helps, but then you see the sense in the author by your own judgment.
Scripture's sense has light and proofs in the text; it is not blank until tradition or Church judgment fences it.
Latin
XLIV. Itaque ut fideles verum Scripturae sensum in multis assequantur, & uberem fructum ex ea capiant, opus habent quidem interprete, sed non interprete qui errare non possit, ut dicunt Pontificii, verum interprete sagaci & perito. At, postquam illis praeivit ejusmodi interpres, Scripturae sensum tenent, & de eo certi sunt, non propter authoritatem, sive interpretis, sive traditionis, quam ex interprete suo didicerunt: sed propter vim & lucem veritatis, quam jam in rebus ipsis agnoscunt & animadvertunt, si quidem mentem, ut decet, Spiritus sancti virtute purgatam, & illuminatam habeant. Quemadmodum qui student Philosophiae & literis humanioribus per se statim non possunt intelligere textum Aristotelis, & Horatii vel Juvenalis Satyras, sed ad opera praeceptoris & magistri. Et tamen postquam verus, vel Poetae, vel Philosophi sensus ipsis indicatus & expositus est, illum jam proprio judicio discernunt & vident in ipso authore: Nec de eo persuasi sunt propter solam magistri sui authoritatem. Etenim sicut sensus Poematum Horatii & Aristotelici textus ex se incertus & dubius non est, donec accedat aliqua externa authoritas, quae super eo pronunciet, sed ex ipsis authorum verbis atque operum contextura certo deprehendi potest, modo debite expendantur: ita quoque verus Scripturae sacrae sensus habet in ipso textu propriam lucem, & sui argumenta atque probationes quibus innotescere possit, nec est per se vagus & indeterminatus donec accedat authoritas traditionis non scriptae, vel judicii Ecclesiastici quae illum certo modo limitet & coarctet.
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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