Tradition kinds — Divine, Apostolic, Ecclesiastical; confirmation chrism as Divine
Traditions get many partitions. The one that matters here turns on the authors to whom each kind is traced.
Roman doctors name three: Divine, Apostolic, and Ecclesiastical.
Divine are those Christ himself taught and instituted ἀγράφως (without writing), yet nowhere appear in sacred Scripture.
Their stock case is the oil-and-balsam anointing in confirmation, counted among the new-law Sacraments — for they grant every new-law Sacrament must come immediately from Christ.
Latin
XII. Porro traditiones varie partiuntur. Sed partitio quae hic maxime consideranda est, illa est quae sumitur ab authoribus ad quos referendae sunt. Dicunt enim traditiones, alias esse Divinas, alias Apostolicas, & alias Ecclesiasticas. Divinas traditiones vocant ea, quae, ut existimant, Christus ipse ἀγράφως docuit & instituit: nec tamen usquam in sacris literis inveniuntur. Hujusmodi traditio ipsis est unctio illa ex oleo & balsamo quae fit in confirmatione, quam inter Sacramenta novae legis numerant. Agnoscunt enim omnia novae legis Sacramenta immediate a Christo institui debuisse.
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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