Institutionis (de Calvini) Lib. 1.1 - Dei notitiam & nostri res esse coniunctas
summarium
1. nos in haec ruina, quae sursum oculos cogit attollere. in nostra pudenda, necesse est, ut in aliquam saltem Dei notitiam veniat.
2. sed constat, hominem in puram sui notitiam nunquam pervenire, nisi prius Dei faciem comtempletor. sicut homo qui modo nigri coloris observatur, et nunc in solem suspicimus. antea, modo res terrenas videbat, sed nunc etiam res caelestes
3. hinc horror ille et stupor, ubi homines in scriptura Dei presentiam sentiebant. (cf. Iesia 24.23)
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Institutionis (de Calvini) Lib. 1.1 - Dei notitiam & nostri res esse coniunctas
summarium:
1. nos in hac (ablativus est - maybe tanta better, to set up a result clause) ruina, quae sursum oculos cogit attollere. [pro pudore nostra, or propter pudorem nostram - pudenda generally refers to private parts :) ], necesse est nobis ut in aliquam saltem Dei notitiam veniamus.
2. sed constat, hominem in puram sui notitiam nunquam pervenire posse, nisi prius Dei faciem comtempletur, sicut homo qui modo nigri coloris observatur, et nunc in solem suspicimus. antea, modo res terrenas videbat, sed nunc etiam res caelestes.
3. hinc horror ille et stupor, ubi homines in scriptura Dei presentiam sentiebant. (cf. Iesia 24.23)
Haec summaria bene scripta sunt!
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translatio:
1. we are in such state of ruin as forces us to set our eyes upwards. In our shame, it is nonetheless certainly the case, that one comes to at least some knowledge of God. (Should it be 'veniat' or 'venire'?)
2. but it is noticed, that man in his pure knowledge never arrives (at correct knowledge of God), except having beheld God's face. Before that, he would only see earthly things, but now also heavenly things.
3. hence such horror and stupor, when characters in the Bible saw God.
(a better example is actually Isaiah 6: "In the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and the train of his robe filled the temple. 2 Above him stood the seraphim. Each had six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. [...] 5 And I said: “Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!”)
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