If cetera were Rome's necessary rites, Paul would already have given the Corinthians all needful
Retorsion: if cetera meant altar-sacrifice and sacrament forms, those were still missing when Paul wrote.
But Rome calls those first necessities — while 1 Cor 1 and 15 say the Corinthians already had every word, knowledge, and saving Gospel.
Paul had given a complete faith-doctrine; he hid nothing needful.
So either those Roman traditions are not necessary, or they are not what Paul postponed.
Latin
XIII. Sed, quod majorem vim habet, & adversario potest os obstruere, si per caetera illa, quorum Paulus ordinationem in aliud tempus differt, intelligantur ea quae sentiunt Doctores Ecclesiae Romanae, nempe, sacrificium altaris, ordinatio ministrorum, & alia de Sacramentorum materia & forma, tum quaedam necessaria nondum fuerunt Corinthiis tradita, quum Apostolus hanc epistolam scriberet. Dicunt enim Pontificii sua haec esse in primis necessaria. Sed omnia necessaria Corinthiis abunde ab Apostolo tradita fuerant prius quam hanc epistolam ad illos mitteret, ut patet ex epistolae hujus capite primo, ubi Paulus dicit Corinthios in omnibus divites factos fuisse in Christo, in omni verbo, & in omni scientia. Et capite decimo quinto affirmat Evangelium quod praedicaverat Corinthiis, quod acceperant, & in quo stabant, ejusmodi esse, ut per illud servarentur, siquidem illud retinerent, qua ratione ipsis praedicaverat. Unde manifestum est Apostolum integram & perfectam doctrinam illis antea tradidisse neque quicquam eos celasse quod ad salutem & fidem necessarium judicaret. Igitur oportet, ut, vel Pontificii concedant suas illas traditiones de sacrificio altaris & Sacramentorum materia & forma necessarias non esse, vel agnoscant, non ad illa pertinere, quae Paulus, quum scriberet Corinthiis, nondum tradiderat, sed in posterum se apud ipsos dispositurum esse pollicebatur.
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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