Unequal radiance across the books: Esther and Ruth beside Moses, Isaiah, Paul, and the Gospels
Besides, we must admit that the marks and signs of divinity we said belong in Scripture do not shine with equal brilliance in every book. Just as one star differs from another in light, so some books of Scripture send out richer and more splendid rays of the divine Spirit, while others send out far feebler and more obscure ones. In the Old Testament, for example, Esther and Ruth are far dimmer in divine brightness than Moses's Pentateuch and the Prophecy of Isaiah. And the vestiges of Christ's Spirit are less open in the epistles of James and Jude than in most of Paul's epistles and the four Gospels.
Latin
XLVII. Ac praeterea fatendum est divinitatis notas et indicia, quae Scripturae inesse diximus, in singulis Scripturae libris non esse pari fulgore conspicuas. Nam quemadmodum stella luce a stella differt, ita quidam Scripturae libri uberiores et splendidiores divini Spiritus radios emittunt, alii vero longe exiliores et obscuriores. Sic ex. gr. in Veteri Testamento longe impar est divinitatis fulgor in libro Esther, aut libro Ruth, quam sit in Mosis Pentateucho, et Prophetia Isaiae. Neque tam aperta sunt spiritus Christi vestigia in epistola Jacobi, aut Judae, quam in plerisque Pauli epistolis, et quatuor Evangeliis.
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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