Qui intellexerit cur sit dictum quod Moyses abscondit faciem suam, et quod Ezechias uertit facies suas ad parietem, sciet quae esse debeat orantis habitudo et dispositio.
Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 18190
English
Understanding why Moses is said to have hidden his face, and Hezekiah to have turned his face to the wall, reveals the proper bearing and disposition of one who prays.
Sense checked against farmer1998:18248; reworded to avoid near-identity with the published English at that line.
Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T04b; sense checked against farmer1998:18248; 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: 3 (deterministic harvest; see Method).
Farmer's cross-references
11>35Si deus in se ut infinitum, ut unum, et secundum se intelligatur, ut sic nihil intelligimus ab eo procedere, sed separationem a rebus, et om
26.5Coordinatio intelligibilis non est in intellectuali coordinatione ut dixit Amosis aegyptius, sed est super omnem intellectualem hierarchiam