6007. About faith, [a conversation] with the English, and about Idols
The English who said faith alone saves and had lived a life of evil were given permission to make idols in the form of a person. They shaped everything very skillfully, and when they were unable to shape all the details, Sverus Arnel 1was the one who gave assistance. Eventually an idol was completed in a shape like the person's spirit, but nonetheless it had no life.
Footnotes:
1. A Swedish pastor gifted with ingenuity.
6007. DISCOURSE WITH ENGLISHMEN ON FAITH: ALSO AN IDOL.
It was permitted to those of the English who said that faith alone saves, and have lived in a life of evil, to make an idol in the form of a man, and they adapted everything thereto in an exceedingly artistic manner; and as they were unable to adapt everything, there was a Swede, Arnel, who assisted. At length, the idol was made, with a form similar to the spirit of a man; but still it was destitute of life.
6007. De fide, cum Anglis, et de Idolo
Anglis qui dicebant solam fidem salvare, et in vita mali vixerunt, permissum est idolum ad formam hominis facere, et ei adaptabant omnia perquam concinne, et cum non possent omnia adaptare, erat Sverus Arnel, qui adjuvabat, tandem factum est idolum simili forma cum spiritu hominis, sed usque nulla ei vita.