Hebrew Cabalists · thesis 28.15

Thesis 28.15

Latin

Nisi nomen Abraam <Hebrew>, id est he addita, fuisset, Abraam non generasset.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 17847

OCR turned Pico's Hebrew spelling of Abraham's name into the glyph run '< DINNIAN>' in the translation sheet (Farmer's own apparatus renders the same word as '<DNNIN>', farmer1998:17899); replaced here with '<Hebrew>'.

English

Had the name Abraham not been <the word in Hebrew>, that is, with a he added, Abraham would not have begotten.

The Hebrew word behind the glyph run is Abraham's name with the letter he added, per Gen. 17:5 as Farmer's note explains; sense checked against farmer1998:17899.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T04b; sense checked against farmer1998:17899; awaiting human check

Attribution: reported according to the secret doctrine of the Hebrew Cabalist wise men (section 28 of the historical theses) · Pico's stance: reports

Discussed in

• Chaim Wirszubski, Pico della Mirandola's Encounter with Jewish Mysticism (1989)

Mention records in the corpus: 5 (deterministic harvest; see Method).