Gerson’s proofs: any offense outweighs even annihilation

Gerson argues any offense against God can justly draw death—even annihilation—because no penalty matches that evil.

Better suffer any punishment than commit the slightest offense against God; else offense could become licit to avoid death.

Latin

XII. Atque hanc suam sententiam in sequentibus multis argumentis confirmat. Nam omnem offensam in Deum de se mortiferam esse probat ex eo quod potest juste a Deo puniri poena mortis, tam temporalis quam aeternae; imo annihilationis poena. Et hoc quia nulla poena talis ita mala est, quantum mala est quaevis offensa Dei. Mortem autem & annihilationem non esse tam malam, quam ipsam Dei offensam, inde deducit, quod potius toleranda esset omnis mors poenalis & annihilatio, quam committenda quantumlibet parva offensa in Deum, quoniam opposito dato, dari posset casus in quo offensa Dei licite fieri posset. Nempe, si aliter vitari non posset mors & annihilatio.

About this text

Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu - Sedan Theological Theses, newly rendered from the 1675 London Latin. Covers De Theologia through Angelorum & Hominum Sanctorum Cultu Romana I-LXXVII and Pars Secunda (Reformata) I-XL. Not the collected folio.

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)
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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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