Ecce Dii tui Israel: plural form with singular sense; naming the image God means symbol, as papal ‘God the Father’ panels today
Plural Dii on the calves tracks Hebrew idiom, not a pantheon.
Calling the symbol God mirrors modern panels labeled God the Father—representation, not literal identity.
Latin
XXXIV. Neque est quod quis objiciat Jeroboam de vitulis a se consignatis dixisse, Ecce Dii tui Israel qui eduxerunt te de terra Aegypti, quod de vitulo aureo Israelitae jam in deserto dixerant. Etenim ex iis quae ante dicta sunt patet, primo verba quamvis sint pluralis numeri, sensum tamen ibi habere singularem, secundum linguae Hebraicae genium, & frequentem Scripturae usum. Deinde nomen Dei vitulis illis tribui, quia Dei symbola & imagines erant, non quod crederentur in se esse numen illud ipsum, quod antequam formarentur, Israelitas ex Aegypto miraculose eduxerat. Quemadmodum hodie, qui imaginem quandam habitu imperiali vel Papali effictam, dicunt esse Deum Patrem, non propterea credunt imaginem istam, sine ulla figura, & ad litteram esse Deum Patrem, sed solum ejus symbolum & repraesentationem.
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.