Even latria/dulia champions admit scriptural mix-up of the terms, yet defend the School distinction as anti-equivocation coinage
Even latria/dulia partisans admit the Greek terms blur in pagan use and Scripture—latreia sometimes of human service, duleia often of God’s own cult.
They still defend the School coinage: the thing differs, so the names must, to kill equivocation.
As the old Church coined homoousios against heretics, so the later Church may rebaptize words against later errors.
Latin
V. Imo illi ipsi qui hunc vocum Latriae & Duliae usum, prout in Schola Romana usurpantur, maxime probant, agnoscunt tamen voces illas apud profanos Scriptores, & in usu communi confundi: imo in sacra Scriptura apud Graecos interpretes; latreian quandoque dici de servitio humano: saepe vero tam in Novo quam in Veteri Testamento duleian pro cultu solius Dei summi. Veruntamen pertendunt Scholam Theologicam non sine causa excogitavisse distinctionem illam Latriae & Duliae. Nam cum in re inveniatur manifesta distinctio inter cultum Dei & Sanctorum, oportuisse etiam, ad vitandam aequivocationem, utrumque cultum distincto vocabulo designari. Nec sine ratione ad hoc delectas volunt Latriae & Duliae voces; quia latreia in Novo Testamento ad solum Dei cultum significandum adhibetur: duleia vero sumitur pro omni servitute tam Dei quam hominum. Quicquid vero de eo sit, quemadmodum licuit antiquae Ecclesiae contra Veteres haereticos nova invenire vocabula, ut voces homoousios, Trinitatis, &c. Sic etiam licuisse Ecclesiae Posteriori, contra Haereticos posteriores, vocabula quaedam nova invenire, aut saltem vocabulis antea usitatis in alia significatione uti.
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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