Hebrew Cabalists · thesis 28.26

Thesis 28.26

Latin

Quod dixit Anchelos chaldeus becadmin, id est cum aeternis uel per aeterna, triginta duas uias sapientiae intellexit.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 18069

Apparatus (Farmer): 1486, 1487 becadmim | 1487 cum eternis vel paterna

1486 and 1487 read 'becadmim'; 1487 reads 'cum eternis vel paterna' (farmer1998:18090).

English

In using the word becadmin — 'with' or 'through eternal things' — Onkelos the Chaldean showed that he had grasped the thirty-two paths of wisdom.

'Anchelos'/'Onkelos' transliterated as in the Latin; reworded to avoid near-identity with the published English; sense checked against farmer1998:18121.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T04b; sense checked against farmer1998:18121; 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: 2 (deterministic harvest; see Method).

Farmer's cross-references

• 9>19 Ideo uoces et uerba in magico opere efficaciam habent, quia illud in quo primum magicam exercet natura, uox est dei.