Theological Theses · §417

El Shaddai — all-sufficient, not lacking

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Most perfect: holds every excellence of every being.

Hebrew Shaddai / Dai = sufficiency.

El Shaddai: lacks nothing; self-sufficient — often rendered omnipotent.

Latin

XIX. Deus igitur est ens perfectissimum, quod non tantum entia singula perfectione superat, sed etiam in se habet omnem omnis entis perfectionem: nec caret excellentia ulla quae sit aut esse possit. Et haec est summa Dei perfectio, quam exprimit vox Hebraea Shaddai, quae unum est ex divinis nominibus. Nam Dai Hebraeis est sufficientia. Ideoque El Shaddai proprie significat illum cui nihil deest, & qui nulla re eget, sed in se, & a se habet omnimodam sufficientiam, sive dixeris autarkes, qui sibi ipsi sufficit & potest solus omnia efficere, unde non male vertitur omnipotens.

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

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