Claim that Jeroboam culted Apis is free invention—Scripture never says so; his craft aimed away from Jerusalem, not from Jehovah

Apis-in-the-calves is assertion without Scripture.

Jeroboam’s counsel was anti-Jerusalem, not anti-Jehovah—sudden Egypt-reversion is psychologically forced.

Latin

XXXVIII. Sed quod ad primum attinet, gratis fingitur, & dicitur Jeroboam & posteros ejus, in vitulis, Apim Aegyptium, vel nescio quod aliud numen coluisse. Nam Scriptura nusquam id affirmat; imo contrarium potius innuit, ut thesibus superioribus ostensum est. Nec est cur putemus populum, qui nuper tanta Dei miracula viderat, tam subito ad Aegyptiacas superstitiones revolvendum fuisse, praesertim quum Rex ipse id minime intendisse videatur, cujus consilium erat populum a Jerusalem, non a Jehova, avertere.

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)
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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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