Finite minds must skip small things — God’s infinity need not

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For humans: attending to trivia crowds out weighty things.

Finite capacity forces trade-offs.

Infinite intellect: no diversion, no forgetting.

Latin

XXI. Hominum quidem respectu melius est quaedam nescire quam scire: & res est vituperabilis, ingenioque magno & excelso indigna, si quis ad res parvas & viles advertat. Verum hoc inde fit, quod intellectus humanus finitus cum sit, neque multorum capax, sufficere non potest omnibus cognoscendis. Ac propterea si rerum vilium atque minutarum cognitionem quaerat, iisque nimium attendat, hoc ipso necesse est illum ea negligere, quae sunt majoris momenti, & quae ignorare illi noxium ac turpe est. At in Deo res aliter se habet. Nam intellectus divinus, propter suam infinitatem, per notitiam rerum pusillarum non avertitur a rerum magnarum scientia, aut in ea aliqua ratione impeditur. Nec etiam metus est, ne dum res parvas & viles contemplatur, obliviscatur earum, quae graves sunt atque momentosae.

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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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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