Thesis 11>14
Latin
Per litteram <Hebrew>, id est, scin, quae mediat in nomine Iesu, significatur nobis cabalistice quod tum perfecte quieuit, tanquam in sua perfectione, mundus cum Iod coniunctus est cum Vau, quod factum est in Christo, qui fuit uerus dei filius et homo.
The bracketed run '<W>' renders as OCR garble the single Hebrew letter named in apposition immediately after it ('id est, scin'); replaced here with '<Hebrew>' since the letter itself does not render (farmer1998:26697). Farmer's edition also prints 'lesu' for 'Iesu' (I/long-s confusion), corrected here (farmer1998:26697).
English
Through the Hebrew letter that stands in the middle of the name Jesus, that is, shin, we are shown Cabalistically that the world then came fully to rest, as though at its own perfection, when Yod was joined to Vav — which came about in Christ, who was true Son of God, and man.
Yod and Vav are also the first and last letters of the ineffable name Pico associates with the Messiah in 11>15; shin mediates between them in the name Jesus, as Pico reads it letter by letter rather than as a word.
Discussed in
- (author to be confirmed from front matter), Erkenntnistheorie und christliche Kabbalah: Das Paradigma des Pico della Mirandola (n.d.)
- Chaim Wirszubski, Pico della Mirandola's Encounter with Jewish Mysticism (1989)
Farmer's cross-references
- 11>15 Per nomen Iod he uahu he, quod est nomen ineffabile quod dicunt Cabaliste futurum esse nomen messiae, euidenter cognoscitur futurum eum deum
- 28.22 Licet fiat multiplex coordinatio curruum, tamen inquantum attinet ad phylacteriorum mysterium duo sunt currus ordinandi, ita ut ex secunda,
- 5>6 Ideo amor ab Orpheo sine oculis dicitur, quia est supra intellectum.