Objection: intellect and wisdom are accidents — answer by analogy
Objection: intellect/wisdom name accidents — none in God.
Answer: as in creatures they are imperfect accidents; as absolute concepts, formal in God.
Analogical names strip accident — sit inside the divine essence.
Latin
XV. At, inquies, nomina ista proprie significant accidentia quaedam, nam intellectus & voluntas sunt potentiae naturales, sapientia vero & justitia, habitus quidam intellectum & voluntatem exornantes. Sed in Deo nulla sunt accidentia. Ideoque perfectiones quae per nomina illa significantur in Deo, non possunt esse proprie & formaliter, sed solummodo eminenter, sicut perfectiones illae quae dicuntur secundum quid. Respondeo intellectum, voluntatem, sapientiam, justitiam, & similia duobus modis considerari posse. Vel secundum modum quo creaturis insunt: Et ita sunt accidentia quae imperfectionis aliquid admixtum habent. Vel praecise, prout de illis formatur quidam conceptus generalis qui abstrahit ab omni imperfectione, & per analogiam communis est Deo & creaturis. Priore modo perfectiones illae proprie Deo non competunt. Posteriore vero Deo formaliter insunt, & possunt de Deo vere & proprie enunciari. Nam cum audimus voces illas intellectum, voluntatem, sapientiam, justitiam, possumus concipere perfectionem quandam absolutam, & quae non includat ullam rationem accidentis. Et sic Deo tribui possunt recte & convenienter. Nam perfectiones istae hoc modo consideratae vere sunt intra essentiam divinam.
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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