Vasquez's ground: no irrational thing is capable of honor per se—alone-adoration risks idolatry
Vasquez's ground: nothing irrational is capable of honor per se, because adoration is willed submission to a superior excellence.
Image-alone veneration can be branded folly or idolatry—servitude to the irrational, or attributing deity or dignity to it (Gentile error, not Christian religion).
Latin
LII. Fundamentum autem sententiae ejus est quod nulla res inanima, aut irrationalis sine rationali, capax est secundum se honoris, cultus, & reverentiae, seu adorationis. Et hoc quia adoratio est voluntas exhibendi alicui excellenti notam, & signum submissionis, excellentiae ipsius debitum: Jam vero animus submissionis, & servitutis erga illum ipsum versatur, quem quis apprehendit, ut sibi superiorem, & excellentia majori praeditum, qualis respectu hominis non est imago sine exemplari considerata. Ut pluribus exponit ipse disputationis jam dictae capite nono. ubi etiam affirmat, illum qui imaginem per se, non adorato in ipsa exemplari, veneratur, stultitiae, seu idololatriae infimulari posse: aut quia rei irrationali se subjicit, & contra rectam rationem se servum exhibet: aut quia dum illi se submittit, aliquod numen, aut dignitatem, aut virtutem ei tribuit; quod est error gentilium, non Christianorum religio.
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)
This is an AI-assisted study translation. Source fidelity and completeness have not been independently certified. Open Latin on each section (or the Latin source witness link) for the source text. This is not a complete critical edition.