Legal sacrifices foreshadowing Christ were not clear faith for OT believers — revelation measures faith

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They add: OT believers had to know legal sacrifices foreshadowed Christ's — yet Moses and the prophets do not make that plain.

Answer: Christ's real death and the types' force toward it is a Gospel mystery, silent in prior ages (as Paul says).

Apostles read it from Scripture after Gospel light and fulfillment; before, it lay in shadows — not clear to the common faithful.

Even after Christ came, Jews and even the Apostles did not yet grasp His death — Peter rebuked as Satan (Matthew 16).

Ancient saints lacked nothing needful: revelation measures faith. Obscure confused faith sufficed until the Gospel made clear distinct faith necessary.

Latin

XXVII. Praeterea contendunt, sub toto Veteris Testamenti curriculo in Ecclesia scitu necessarium fuisse, quod sacrificia legalia futurum Christi sacrificium adumbrarent. Id vero notum esse non potuisse ex scriptis Mosaicis, imo neque ex propheticis. Respondeo reale Christi sacrificium, id est, illius mortem & vim quam ad illam sacrificia typica habuerunt, mysterium esse quod solum Evangelium revelavit, quodque praecedentibus saeculis tacitum erat, ut pluribus in locis loquitur Apostolus. Ista quidem Apostoli nostri, postquam accessit lux Evangelii, & rerum ipsarum eventus, vaticiniorum optimus interpres, ex Scriptura sacra deduxerunt. At vero antea in umbris legalibus & prophetiarum obscuritate latebant: nec a vulgo fidelium saltem poterant pervideri. Et certe quod jam post ipsius Christi in terris adventum, nihil dum de illius oblatione & morte apud Judaeos innotuerat, tantum abest ut ab initio quicquam de ea re sciverint, inde manifestum est, quod nihil aeque eorum animos a Christo alienaverit, ac cruenta illa oblatio quae in cruce peracta est. Neque id verum est tantum de Judaeis incredulis, sed de piis & fidelibus quoque: Nam Apostoli ipsi paulo ante Christi passionem illum pro nobis moriturum esse nondum intelligebant. Unde est quod, quum de sua morte illis aperte primum loqui coepit, istud a Petro fuerit rejectum magna cum aversatione: Quapropter etiam illum increpuit Christus dicens, Vade a me Satana, ut videre est Matth. 16. Neque tamen quicquam ad salutem necessarium priscis fidelibus defuit: Nam divina revelatio est mensura fidei nostrae, neque Deus a nobis pleniorem fidem exigit, quam possit ex hactenus facta revelatione haberi. Quamdiu ergo mysterium oblationis a Christo peragendae confuse tantum obscure & indistincte revelatum fuit, suffecit ut fideles obscuram tantum & confusam illius fidem haberent. Clara vero & distincta illius mysterii fides post Evangelii promulgationem necessaria demum fuit.

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

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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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