Theological Theses · §462

Psalms 102, 92, 90 — God remains; a thousand years as yesterday

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Ps 102: heavens perish like a garment; God remains the same.

Ps 92 / 90: most high forever; from age to age You are God.

A thousand years before God — as yesterday; no proportion to His duration.

Latin

VI. Istud autem Scriptura multis locis aperte docet, praecipue vero Psalmo 102. ubi Propheta comparans res quae inter visibiles maxime sunt permanentes, caelum scilicet & terram, docet illa aliquando habuisse initium, quum sint opus manuum Dei, & finem olim esse habitura: Deum vero permanere semper, & eundem perpetuo & fuisse & fore. Initio, inquit, Tu Domine terram fundasti, & opera manuum tuarum sunt caeli: ipsi peribunt, tu autem permanes: & omnes ipsi sicut vestimentum veterascent, & sicut opertorium mutabis eos, & mutabuntur, tu autem idem ipse es, & anni tui non deficient. Quam perpetuam quoque Dei permanentiam celebrat David, Psal. 92. Tu autem, inquit, altissimus in aeternum Domine. Et Moses vir Dei, Psal. 90. Priusquam montes fierent, & formaretur terra & orbis, a saeculo & usque in saeculum tu es Deus. Quo etiam respicit quod addit, mille anni ante oculos tuos sicut dies hesterna quae praeteriit: quia scilicet ad immensam & illimitatam Dei durationem, nec mille anni, nec quodlibet designatum tempus ullam proportionem habent.

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

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