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# Title: Leibniz-Handschriften zur Theologie LH 1, 2, 2 A (shelfmark LH 1, 2, 2a)
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periculo obiicere. Iaque simagna ratio cautionis ades-
set, atque idololatriae metus, non dubito recte fieri
posse de imaginibus, quod serpenti aneo fecit Z Zcchiar.
qui tamen ipsius DEt iussu fuerat erectus. Abstine-
ri quoque iisdem consultum foret apud porulum,
qui forte odio imaginum a Christiana fide ample-
ctenda absterreretur; quod aliquando apud Arabe-
et Persas et Scythas et alios brientis populos usu
venire posset, DE0 Christianorum armis, vel potius
praedicationibus favente, cum fatalis aderit
Mahometicae tyranidi dies.
Nunc autem omnibus accurate expensis, lex DE1,
siqua fuit, contra imagines ipsumque carum cultum,
in quantum ille nihil divino honori aduersum con-
tinet, non nisi caremonialis suisse indicanda est,
et pro tempore condita, et a primis Christianis soite
ob granes caussas, aliquandiu retenta; quemadmodum
illa de die Sabbati; item illa de sanguine et suffocate.
quae multo expressiorem Noui Testamenti locum habet
necideo minus tamen apud maximam Christianorum
partem antiquata est, cum ratio servandi cessaret.
hane apud Ludaos ipsos dispensationilocum fuisse
constat exemplis. Nam et si simulacea et sculptilia
penitus velita videantur; tamen, ut similitudines
ferum manimarum taceam, certe cherubini aurer,