The ban is moral and perpetual—Gentiles are reproached for image-cult, not for breaching Moses’ positive rites
Prophets blame Gentiles for making and culting images—proof the ban is moral for all, not a Jew-only positive rite.
Gentiles are not charged with breaking Moses’ ceremonial code, but with violating nature’s moral law.
Latin
XVII. Et certe legem illam positivam non esse, quae solos Judaeos spectaret, sed moralem quae omnes homines in universum, & semper obstringit, inde manifestum est, quod imaginum cultus, & earum fabricatio, ad numen repraesentandum, in Dei verbo gentibus exprobratur, ut passim apud Prophetas videre est. Nec enim gentibus vitio verti solet, quod leges positivas, Israelitico populo a Mose datas, transgressae sint; sed solum quod legem moralem, per naturam hominum cordibus impressam violarint.
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.