Theological Theses · §948

Apoc 22:11: justify means grow more just, not bare declaration

Almost all Protestants deny forensic sense at Rev 22:11.

Justify there = grow more just/pious from already just—progress in righteousness.

Latin

XVI. Inter Protestantes autem pauci reperiuntur qui non agnoscant verbum justificandi sensum forensem non habere Apoc. 22. vers. 11. Qui justus est, justificetur adhuc; & qui sanctus est, sanctificetur adhuc. Ubi satis apparet, ex mente Spiritus Sancti, justificare illic non esse justum declarari, imo nec simpliciter ex injusto justum fieri, sed ex jam pio justoque magis justum ac pium: adeoque justificari, eo loco significat in pietate & justitia pergere, progredi, atque augescere.

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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