Extra mundum — God is His own place (Tertullian, Augustine, Bernard)
Objection: outside the world is nothing — is God in nothing?
Answer: as before creation — God needs no place; He is place to Himself.
Tertullian / Augustine / Bernard / Dionysius; possible place beyond this world.
Latin
XXIII. At, inquies, quomodo Deus est extra mundum cum extra mundum nihil sit? An Deus est in nihilo? Respondeo Deum esse extra mundum quomodo ante mundum conditum erat ubi est mundus. Nempe Deus loco non indiget, sed est ipse sibi locus. Juxta illud Tertulliani libro contra Praxeam: Ante omnia Deus erat solus ipse sibi, & locus, & mundus, & omnia. Quod alii volunt, dum dicunt, Deum extra mundum esse in seipso, sicut ante in seipso fuit. Idque post Augustinum in Psalmum 122. Antequam faceret Deus sanctos ubi habitabat? In se habitabat. Quo pertinet etiam illud Bernardi, Non est quod quaeras ultra ubi erat? praeter ipsum nihil erat. Atque haec est sententia versuum istorum qui leguntur apud Dionysium Carthusianum: Dic ubi tunc esset quum praeter eum nihil esset? Tunc, ubi nunc, in se, quoniam sibi sufficit ipse. Quibus addendum est extra hunc mundum quidem nullum esse locum realem & actualem, sed tamen esse locum possibilem. Nimirum Deus potest ibi creare corpora & loca ubi erit citra ullum sui motum & loci mutationem.
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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