Sufficiency allows ordinary explanation — it denies another divine word or infallible sense-fixer
Some obscurity and need of explanation do not touch Scripture's sufficiency.
Sola Scriptura does not mean every believer needs no help to draw the whole faith alone.
It means: no second divine word, no second faith-rule, no infallible sense-fixer beyond Scripture.
Latin
XLV. Igitur quamvis Scriptura aliquatenus obscura sit, & apud fideles egeat explicatione, qua ratione jam expositum est, nihil inde concludi potest contra sufficientiam quam Scripturae sacrae tribuimus. Etenim, quum dicimus Scripturam solam sufficere ad fidem & salutem, non intelligimus illam nulla indigere interpretatione, ut inde fideles singuli totam fidei doctrinam hauriant, sed solum ad hoc minime opus esse alio praeter Scripturam Dei verbo, & alia fidei regula, sive interprete quodam infallibili, qui Scripturae sensum alioqui dubium & incertum determinet, & de eo certos nos reddat.
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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