Micah’s graven/molten image vowed to Jehovah—relative cult still called a most grave crime
Micah’s household shrine: silver vowed to Jehovah, Levite priest, hope of Jehovah’s blessing.
The cult is textbook relative—and Scripture still brands it a most grave crime.
Latin
XXX. Ejusdem quoque criminis reus fuit Micha ille & Mater ejus, de quibus narratur historia quaedam in libro Judicum capite decimo septimo. Nempe quum ille matri suae furatus esset mille & centum argenteos, & illa super eo perplexa & anxia esset, ultro tandem fassus est penes se esse istam pecuniam, & eam matri suae restituit. Illa vero dixit se consecravisse & vovisse hoc argentum Domino, seu Jehovae, ut habet textus Hebraicus. Atque ex ea pecuniae summa tulit ducentos argenteos, & dedit eos argentario, ut faceret ex eis sculptile atque conflatile, quod fuit in Domo Michae. Qui aediculam quoque in ea Deo separavit, & consecravit unum filiorum suorum, qui factus est ei Sacerdos. Cumque postea filio substituisset Levitam, qui in ista aedicula, Sacerdotio fungeretur, dixit se in posterum sperare quod Jehovah benefaceret ipsi, habenti Levitici generis Sacerdotem. Ex quibus patet sculptile & conflatile istud, ex eorum mente, fuisse vero Deo, nempe, Jehovae consecratum, & eos cultum istum retulisse ad Jehovam, a quo remunerationem illius expectabant. Unde clare sequitur, adorationem ab illis imagini exhibitam non fuisse nisi relativam, quae tamen ut scelus gravissimum in scriptura reprehenditur.
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.