Bellarmino’s ‘by praying only’ sense fails prayers that ask by command, precept, and power
Bellarmino’s ‘they only pray it in’ reading does not fit public texts.
Some hymns ask Saints to act by command, precept, and power—not merely by obtaining.
Latin
LVIII. Verum modo allati Bellarmini expositio, qua dicit preces ad Sanctos conceptas, quibuscunque verbis exprimantur, hunc sensum habere, secundum Ecclesiae Romanae mentem, ut Sancti quae postulantur, praestent orando, atque impetrando, non alia vero ratione: haec, inquam, expositio non satis quadrat illis ad Sanctos orationibus, in quibus non simpliciter rogantur ut peccata solvant, corda sanctificent, & caelum aperiant, sed ut id faciant jussu, praecepto, potestate: quales orationes in publico cultu Ecclesiae Romanae non paucae reperiuntur.
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.