Rome: unwritten tradition is natural — Jews, pagan states, Pythagoras and Socrates
Next Rome proof: every nation runs on unwritten custom.
Jews keep extra-scriptural traditions; Athens, Sparta, and the Gauls used unwritten law.
Pythagoras and Socrates taught much and wrote nothing.
Bellarmine: nature itself cries that unwritten tradition is necessary or most useful.
Latin
XXVI. Praeterea Pontificii, traditiones non scriptas necessarias esse probant ex more omnium gentium. Nam primo, inquiunt, Judaei traditiones aliquas extra Scripturam habuerunt, & etiamnum habent. Deinde omnes profanae Respublicae magna ex parte legibus non scriptis reguntur, ut olim Athenienses, & Lacedaemonii, & etiam antiqui Galli, sicut testantur Caesar, Thucydides, & Plutarchus. Ac praeterea Philosophi nobilissimi & celeberrimi, Pythagoras & Socrates, cum plurima docuerint, nihil tamen scripserunt. Unde concludit Bellarminus naturam ipsam quodammodo clamare traditiones non scriptas necessarias, vel certe utilissimas esse.
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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