Doubt came from hard passages, not missing Church decree
Third: those who doubted those books did not doubt because they failed to see them received by the churches and recommended by the ancient Fathers' tradition naming the apostles as authors.
They doubted because, without weighing the matter enough, they thought those books contained things that did not savor of the divine Spirit and did not cohere well enough with the faith taught in the other books.
So the Latin Church doubted Hebrews, because chapters six and ten seemed to favor the Novatians, who cut off all hope of pardon from those who fell after baptism.
The Apocalypse was also suspect because of the Millenarians, who misused certain places that seemed to favor them.
Jude was rejected by some because it seems to cite an apocryphal book that once circulated under the name of Enoch the patriarch.
Latin
XXXVII. Dico tertio, eos, qui de libris illis dubitarunt, dubitandi causam non habuisse, quod eos non viderent ab Ecclesiis receptos, & antiquorum Patrum eos ad Apostolos authores referentium traditione commendari: sed quod, re non satis expensa, putarent in his libris quaedam esse quae non redolerent divinum Spiritum; nec satis cohaererent cum fidei doctrina reliquis libris comprehensa. Ita dubitatum est in Ecclesia Latina de Epist. ad Hebraeos, quod capite sexto & decimo videretur favere Novatianis, qui lapsis post baptismum omnem spem veniae tollebant. Apocalypsis etiam suspecta fuit propter Millenarios, qui quibusdam ejus locis abuttebantur, quae ipsis in speciem favent. Judae vero Epistola a quibusdam rejecta fuit, quoniam videtur citare librum quendam Apocryphum, qui sub nomine Enoch Patriarchae olim circumferabatur.
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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