Agreement that images are adored properly—but split on whether the image alone can be integral object
Recent Schoolmen agree images are properly adored, but quarrel over the mode.
All say images are not adored for themselves but for the exemplar.
The live question: can the image alone be an integral, proximate object of a distinct adoration—like a legate honored for the king yet with his own inferior honor?
Latin
XLI. Sed quamvis recentiores in eo consentiant, imagines proprie & vere adorandas esse, nihilominus inter eos controvertitur quis sit illius adorationis modus atque ratio. Fatentur quidem illi omnes imagines non debere adorari propter se, sed tantum propter exemplar quod repraesentant, & cujus similitudinem gerunt. Sed quaestio est, An, licet imago propter exemplar adoretur, tamen per se, & in se possit esse integrum objectum adorationis, ita ut adoretur adoratione diversa ab ea qua ipsum exemplar adoratur, & quae sic terminetur in ipsam imaginem, ut ejus materia proxima & immediata sit imago sola, non autem exemplar. Quemadmodum Legatus Regis honoratur propter Regem cujus nomine Legationem obit, sed tamen potest & solet honorari, honore cujus ipse terminus proximus est, & quo Rex, directe saltem, non honoratur, ac proinde qui est diversus ab eo, & inferior eo quo Rex ipse honorandus est.
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)
- 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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