Rome: unwritten tradition is natural — Jews, pagan states, Pythagoras and Socrates
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Next Rome proof: every nation runs on unwritten custom.
Jews keep extra-scriptural traditions; Athens, Sparta, and the Gauls used unwritten law.
Pythagoras and Socrates taught much and wrote nothing.
Bellarmine: nature itself cries that unwritten tradition is necessary or most useful.
Latin
XXVI. Praeterea Pontificii, traditiones non scriptas necessarias esse probant ex more omnium gentium. Nam primo, inquiunt, Judaei traditiones aliquas extra Scripturam habuerunt, & etiamnum habent. Deinde omnes profanae Respublicae magna ex parte legibus non scriptis reguntur, ut olim Athenienses, & Lacedaemonii, & etiam antiqui Galli, sicut testantur Caesar, Thucydides, & Plutarchus. Ac praeterea Philosophi nobilissimi & celeberrimi, Pythagoras & Socrates, cum plurima docuerint, nihil tamen scripserunt. Unde concludit Bellarminus naturam ipsam quodammodo clamare traditiones non scriptas necessarias, vel certe utilissimas esse.