Adversaries' Mosaic-tradition reply — oral law claim still falls under Christ's verdict
Rome replies: Christ condemned only later, empty, or Scripture-contradicting Jewish traditions — not Mosaic/Prophetic ones — and Rome's traditions come from Christ and the Apostles.
Counter: the traditions Christ attacks as human doctrines were sold as Mosaic and Prophetic. Rabbis call them thorah shebbal peh (oral law), claiming Moses received them viva voce on Sinai equal in authority with the written law.
In Christ's day those Jewish doctors were the Church's only teachers — there was no true Church of God except among the Jews.
Yet Christ still rejects their extra-Scriptural traditions as human doctrines despite ancient/Mosaic pedigree. So why trust today's Roman doctors when they claim hand-to-hand receipt from Christ and the Apostles?
Church teachers can err and push merely human dogmas as divine; therefore no certain word of God stands outside sacred Scripture — for any such word would still have to come through fallible overseers, with no greater warrant.
Latin
XXVII. Respondunt adversarii, Christum & Apostolos non reprehendere traditiones, quas Judaei acceperant a Mose & Prophetis, sed traditiones acceptas a quibusdam recentioribus, quae quidem traditiones partim inanes erant, partim cum Scripturis repugnabant: Sed aliam esse rationem traditionum Ecclesiae Romanae, quas illi scilicet a Christo & Apostolis acceperunt. Sed contra sciendum est, traditiones illas, quas Christus exagitat ut doctrinas hominum, pro traditionibus Mosaicis & Propheticis fuisse venditatas. Nam Judaeorum Rabbini, in eo majorum suorum vestigiis insistentes, traditiones suas vocant thorah shebbal peh, quasi dicas, legem oralem, nempe quia volunt illas ore tenus a Mose acceptas, qui illas in monte Sinai ab ipso Deo habuerit, non minus quam legem scriptam, cui proinde volunt illas authoritate pares esse. Jam autem Christi tempore Judaeorum Doctores erant Ecclesiae Doctores & Magistri: siquidem nulla tum erat vera Dei Ecclesia nisi apud Judaeos. Cum ergo nihilominus Christus aperte rejiciat, & pro doctrinis hominum habeat traditiones quas extra Scripturam proferebant, licet ab antiquis illas accepissent, adeoque ab ipso Mose traditas gloriarentur, quam fidem facient hodierni Pontificiorum Doctores traditiones illas, quas se ab ipso Christo & Apostolis ejus per manus patrum suorum accepisse se jactant, revera esse instituta Christi & Apostolorum, non vero humana inventa? Et certe cum inde pateat Ecclesiae magistros in eo posse falli, & pro divinis obtrudere dogmata & praecepta quae mere humana sunt, Inde quoque sequitur nullum extra Scripturam sacram certum Dei verbum reperiri. Etenim, si quod tale verbum Dei exstaret, ab Ecclesiae praepositis accipiendum esset, nec majori authoritate nobis commendaretur.
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.