Epiphanius: heretics boasted apostolic tradition — so Rome cannot tar us with their company
Epiphanius: Ptolemaeus sold 'apostolic tradition by succession' to Flora.
Semi-Arians likewise boasted a father-to-son faith inheritance from the Apostles.
Worst heretics waved unwritten tradition as cover — just as Rome does.
So they cannot brand our rejection of their traditions as heretic-company.
Latin
XXV. Epiphanius vero haeresi 33. speciatim idem docet de Ptolemaeo quodam haeretico, ubi verba ejus refert ex epistola ad Floram, cui pollicetur fore ut veritatem disceret eorum quae docebat, postquam dignata esset Apostolica traditione, quam, inquit, per successionem nos quoque accepimus. Haeresi autem 73. refert epistolam Semi-Arianorum in qua gloriantur se amplecti traditam a patribus fidem, & se velut haereditatem quandam servare eam fidem, quam ex Apostolicis temporibus, per patres, qui in medio diu usque ad eos fuerunt, susceperant. Non est ergo, quod Pontificii nostrum cum haereticis consensum nobis exprobrent in rejiciendis traditionibus, cum pessimi quique haeretici de quibusdam traditionibus non scriptis gloriati sint, & eo fuco sua perniciosa figmenta tegere voluerint, ut hodie Pontificii.
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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