Jeroboam’s political craft: minimize religious change so ten tribes stay—cannot have swapped Jehovah for Apis
Jeroboam’s aim was political: stop Jerusalem pilgrimages without revolting the tribes.
Swapping Jehovah for Apis or a brand-new calf-god would have been religious overthrow, not crafty minimal change.
Latin
XXXIII. Et certe, cum cultus ille vitulorum, ut ex Scriptura sacra manifeste colligitur, a Rege Jeroboam fuerit astu quodam excogitatus, ut, scilicet, subditis suis non amplius esset necesse Hierosolymam proficisci, ad solemnem cultum Deo exhibendum, ne frequens istud cum urbe Jerusalem commercium, occasio ipsis esset in gratiam cum Domo Davidica redeundi, proculdubio, modo finem illum obtineret, in recepta religione quam minimum immutavit, ne subditorum suorum animos a se alienaret. Religionem autem, apud decem tribus ipsi adhaerentes receptam, non simpliciter immutasset, sed funditus subvertisset, si Jehovae Dei Israelis cultu penitus abrogato, pro summo Deo populo suo proposuisset, vel bovem Aegyptium, vel vituli figuram nuper a se fabricatam.
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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