Bellarmino reconciles bold verbs: ‘save me / give me’ mean by praying and merits, not as author

Bellarmino: the ban is on sense, not wording.

You may say ‘Save me / Give me’ to a Saint if you mean by his prayers and merits—not as author of the gift.

Latin

LVI. Ut autem istas preces, & plures alias similes, quae sunt in Ecclesia Romanae usitate, Bellarminus cum supra posita doctrina conciliet, notat, quum dixit, non debere peti a Sanctis, nisi ut orent pro nobis, se non agere de verbis, sed de sensu verborum. Nam quantum ad verba, inquit, licet dicere, Sancte Petre miserere mei, Salva me, aperi mihi aditum caeli: item Da mihi sanitatem corporis, da patientiam, da mihi fortitudinem, &c. dummodo intelligamus, salva me, & miserere mei, orando pro me; Da mihi hoc, & illud tuis precibus & meritis. De Sanctor. Beatitudine lib. 1. cap. 17.

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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