Primitive Doctors: Decalogue is the moral-natural sum—only the Sabbath’s seventh-day rigor is ceremonial
Fathers read the Decalogue as the moral-natural sum binding everyone.
Only Sabbath’s exact seventh-day stoppage is ceremonial; sanctifying some solemn day remains moral.
Latin
XXIII. Unde est quod Prisci Ecclesiae Doctores communi consensu affirmant Decalogum nihil aliud continere, quam brevem summam legis Moralis atque naturalis, ad cujus observationem omnes communiter tenentur, excepto solum praecepto de sanctificatione Sabbati, seu diei septimi; in quo observarunt aliquid esse ceremoniale, nempe, praecisam & rigidam diei a creatione septimae observationem, & scrupulosam in ea cessationem ab omni opere: quamvis, quoad substantiam, & quatenus certam diem solemniter Deo sanctificari jubet, etiam morale sit.
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.