After simplicity — highest perfection demands absolute simplicity

Click or tap any sentence to jump there. The side buttons skip a paragraph.

Simplicity and highest perfection are necessarily linked.

In bodies, simpler often means more imperfect — creatures need composition.

Highest perfection demands absolute simplicity — so after simplicity, perfection.

Latin

I. Novissimis thesibus egimus de divina simplicitate, quae cum summa & absoluta Dei perfectione necessariam connexionem habet. Nam in rebus quidem corporeis, quae simpliciora sunt, sunt imperfectiora. Sic elementa sunt imperfectiora mixtis, & animalia sunt plantis perfectiora. Nec est ulla res creata quae ad suam perfectionem compositionem aliquam non requirat, & quae saltem non egeat accidentibus quibusdam perfici. Sed summa perfectio simplicitatem absolutam exigit. Deus est simplicissimus, quia perfectissimus. Ideoque postquam actum est de Dei simplicitate, ratio postulat ut jam de perfectione illius agamus.

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)

This is an AI-assisted study translation. Source fidelity and completeness have not been independently certified. Open Latin on each section (or the Latin source witness link) for the source text. This is not a complete critical edition.