Image of God is spiritual — human members of God are metaphor
Anthropomorphites abused imago Dei into bodily members.
Image = intellect, will, grace-gifts — not limb-shape.
God's ears/eyes/hands in Scripture are metaphor for knowledge and power.
Latin
XIII. Anthropomorphitae quidem errori suo obtendebant authoritatem Scripturae, quae dicit hominem factum esse ad imaginem & similitudinem Dei, unde colligebant Deum habere membra similia humanis. Sed imago Dei in homine non consistit in membrorum situ & conformatione, verum in spiritualibus animae facultatibus, intellectu, scilicet, & voluntate: ac praeterea in donis variis, quibus anima per Dei gratiam decoratur. Quod autem Scriptura variis in locis Deo membra humana tribuit, veluti aures, oculos, manus, pedes, metaphorice intelligendum est. Nam aures & oculi, verbi causa, Deo tribuuntur ut per id significetur nihil ipsi esse occultum, omniaque dicta & facta nostra ipsi probe nota & perspecta esse. Etenim aures & oculi sunt instrumenta visus & auditus, quibus percipimus ea quae fiunt & dicuntur. Et similiter quia manus sunt actionum nostrarum instrumenta, per manum Dei significatur illius potentia & vis illa qua res efficit. Et ita de reliquis.
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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