Ego sum qui sum — Jehovah; no essence-existence composition
Plato's to on / ens per essentiam: exists by His essence forever.
Exod 3: I am who I am; Jehovah from havah — being proper to God.
Apocalypse: who is, was, is to come — no essence-existence split.
Latin
XVIII. Idcirco Deus vocatur a Platone to on, esse ipsum, quod hodie Philosophi dicunt ens per essentiam, id est, quod vi suae essentiae existit, & cujus essentia & natura est ut perpetuo existat. Atque hoc docet Deus ipse Exodi capite tertio, dum se vocat illum qui est, Ego sum qui sum, inquit Mosi. Quo nomine significat esse ipsi convenire longe alia ratione, quam rebus ab ipso creatis. Nam existere, ut dixi, creaturarum respectu est aliquid contingens, Dei vero, necessarium. Creaturis est accidentarium, verum Deo, essentiale. Esse creaturarum est participatum & mutuarium: sed Deo, esse proprium est, ipsique primo & per se competit. Atque haec est etiam vis nominis illius Jehovah quod est Deo maxime proprium. Fit enim ab havah, esse, quasi dicas ipsum est, id quod est, & ho on. Quod Joannes in Apocal. explicat illa periphrasi ho on kai ho en kai ho erchomenos: qui est, qui erat, & qui futurus est. Adeoque quum Dei existentia sit de ratione essentiae illius, nec una possit ab altera distingui, quasi aliud quid, sed conceptus unius ingrediatur conceptum alterius, Deus non potest dici ullo modo compositus ex essentia & existentia, estque prorsus istius compositionis expers.
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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