Vasquez's latria fix: interior submission to God alone; images get only the exterior mark
Vasquez's fix: one act, but split—interior submission aims only at the exemplar or God; the image gets only the exterior mark.
Latria names the interior servitude-affect toward God, not the bare gesture—so II Nicaea rightly denies latria to images.
Latin
LIX. Vasquez autem difficultatem istam aliter expedit, juxta posita ab ipso principia. Quamvis enim pertendat unico adorationis actu, imaginem cum exemplari coli, nec aliter esse colendam: in actu tamen illo, ut jam explicuimus, duas partes distinguit, unam quae est ipsa animi submissio, alteram quae est ejus submissionis signum. Et priorem illam partem, quae est animi submissio, non vult ullo modo respicere imaginem secundum se, atque ad eam terminari, sed referri ad solum exemplar: solam vero partem alteram, quae est submissionis nota quaedam exterior, imagini vult exhiberi, & per illam ad exemplar transire. Nempe cum aliquis coram imagine procumbit, aut genua flectit, id facit, ex ejus sententia, in signum servitutis atque reverentiae, quam deferendam putat, non imagini, sed prototypo soli. Jam vero latriae vocem significare vult, non notam exteriorem submissionis, & reverentiae secundum se, sed affectum subjectionis, ipsam vero notam prout subest, & perficitur interno servitutis affectu erga Deum. Unde colligit recte a Synodo Nicena secunda negari imaginibus deferendam esse latriam: quia, scilicet, illis non est exhibenda illa animae submissio, in qua latria proprie consistit.
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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