Theological Theses · §464

First Ens cannot have been made — Jehovah / l'Eternel

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First-Ens proofs (from Deum esse) force no start of duration.

First cause cannot be made by another or by itself — contradiction either way.

Jehovah / l'Eternel names aseity and so connotes eternity.

Latin

VIII. Hac in parte vero, Scripturae ratio manifeste adstipulatur. Quaecunque enim argumenta demonstrant unum esse primum Ens a quo pendent omnia caetera, & unde originem habent, cujusmodi a nobis allata & exposita sunt Thesibus illis quibus demonstravimus Deum esse, ea, inquam, argumenta necessario probant primum Ens illud, nempe Deum, aeternum quoque esse, nec habuisse ullum durationis initium. Nam Ens quod primum est, & aliorum causa, factum esse non potest, quippe nec ab alio factum est, alioqui primum non esset, sed daretur Ens aliud ipso prius: nec etiam a seipso, quum ut fieret deberet non fuisse: ut faceret, deberet fuisse, quae manifeste pugnantia sunt. Quod autem est & non factum est, nunquam esse incepit, adeoque aeternum est. Quocirca Augustum illud Dei nomen Jehovah quod significat Deum esse per se & a se, & illum qui facit ut reliqua omnia sint, adeoque Ens primum & independens, Dei aeternitatem includit & connotat. Ideoque authoribus vernaculae nostrae versionis non male vertitur l'Eternel.

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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