Bellarmine's OT silence example flips to NT instances — Mary's perpetual virginity first
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Bellarmine offers that Old-Testament silence as a specimen of something necessary yet unwritten.
He then piles New-Testament instances of faith-matters he says Scripture cannot teach.
First: Mary always a virgin against Helvidius — Church-wide belief, he says, with no Scriptural witness.
Latin
XX. Et istud quidem profert Bellarminus, cujus praecipue vestigia sequimur, tanquam exemplum rei necessariae sub Veteri Testamento, de qua tamen in Scriptura sacra nihil reperitur. Quod autem hodie sub Novo Testamento multa ad fidem pertineant de quibus per Scripturam doceri non possumus, pluribus instantiis probare annititur. Et primum quidem, inquit, credendum est Beatam Mariam semper fuisse virginem contra errorem Helvidii, ut semper tota Ecclesia credidit. Et tamen nullum de hac re est in Scriptura testimonium.