Reply: the unsaid things were Gospel mysteries the disciples could not yet bear
The many things of John 16 are not a blank check for later Roman traditions.
They mean the clear unpacking of Gospel mysteries the disciples could not yet carry.
Cross, resurrection, ascension, session, Gentile call, end of legal worship, New-Testament church — Christ had sketched these briefly.
Prejudice, grief, and the still-missing Spirit blocked full grasp before the Passion.
Latin
III. Respondeo per multa illa quae testatur Christus se dicenda discipulis habuisse, & quae tamen discipuli ante Christi mortem portare non poterant, intelligi accuratam & distinctam explicationem mysteriorum Evangelicorum, veluti de efficacia & fructu mortis Christi, de resurrectione illius, de ascensione in caelum, & sessione ad dexteram Patris, de vocatione Gentium, & cultus legalis abrogatione, de statu Ecclesiae sub Novo Testamento, aliisque hujusmodi, de quibus quidem breviter & generatim Christus discipulis locutus est, etiam ante mortem; sed ea tamen tunc illi intelligere non poterant, nec eorum accuratam explicationem ferre, propter varia praejudicia quibus mens eorum erat occupata, & tristitiam summam qua dejectus erat illorum animus, & quia nondum acceperant illum veritatis Spiritum qui mentis ipsorum oculos erat illuminaturus, ut Evangelii lucem ferre & aspicere possent.
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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