First proof closed; Solomon — heavens of heavens cannot contain God
First claim closed: essence-presence everywhere.
Second: filling the universe yet not contained — surpasses it.
1 Kgs 8: heavens of heavens cannot contain You — of substance, not mere power.
Latin
XIX. Itaque nullus est locus in universo, ubi Deus non adsit non tantum virtute & potentia sua, sed etiam per essentiam suam quae omnia penetrat, & per omnia diffusa est. Sed praeterea, quod secundo loco probandum suscepimus, Dei magnitudo tanta est ut totum universum replens ipso tamen non contineatur, sed ipsum longe exsuperet. Id docet Salomon libro primo Regum capite octavo. Nam postquam dixit de templo quod recens extruxerat, Aedificavi domum habitaculum tibi, firmam sedem in qua aeternum habites, Ne quis existimaret Deum magnifica illa domo in posterum includendum esse, sicuti gentium idola suis templis, absurdam ejusmodi cogitationem removet. Ecce, inquit, caeli caelorum non capiunt te, quanto minus domus ista quam aedificavi? Ubi per caelos caelorum intelligit caelos extremos, qui continent universum mundum, quos Deum capere, id est, continere & concludere non posse asseverat. Quae verba accipi non possunt nisi de Dei substantia, non vero de Dei virtute, & exertione providentiae ejus. Nam cui tam stupido & inepto posset venire in mentem Dei potestatem & providentiam unica domo concludi? Nec opus fuit ut Salomon cogitationi tali occurreret.
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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