Thomas puts hope of salvation in the cross—an image—so hope’s protestation is no weaker than sacrifice’s
Hope’s claim on God is as strong a protestation as sacrifice’s.
Thomas still assigns latria to the true cross and its effigy because hope of salvation is set there—O crux Ave spes unica.
Latin
XLIV. Certe in sacrificiis, & victimarum immolationibus, divinae omnipotentiae protestatio major non est, quam in actibus spei, quibus salutem nostram a Deo expectamus. Et tamen, juxta Thomam Aquinatem Scholae Romanae principem, in cruce, quae est imaginis species, ponimus spem salutis. Probat enim crucem illam in qua Christus crucifixus est, & etiam ejus effigies, Latria colendas esse; quoniam illi exhibemus Latriae cultum, in quo ponimus spem salutis. In cruce, vero, ex illius mente, ponimus spem salutis. Secundum illud quod cantat Ecclesia Romana, O crux Ave spes unica, Hoc passionis tempore, Auge piis justitiam, Reisque dona veniam.
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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