Thesis 11>21
Latin
Qui coniunxerit dictum Cabalistarum dicentium quod illa numeratio quae dicitur iustus et redemptor, dicitur etiam ze, cum dicto Thalmudistarum dicentium quod Isaac ibat sicut ze, portans Crucem suam, uidebit quod illud quod fuit in Isaac praefiguratum fuit adimpletum in Christo, qui fuit uerus Deus uenditus Argento.
The sheet prints 'redemptor_dicitur' and 'praefiguratum_fuit' with connecting underscores, an OCR artifact for a missing space or light punctuation; resolved here to 'redemptor, dicitur' and 'praefiguratum fuit'.
English
Whoever joins the Cabalists' saying that the numeration called the just one and redeemer is also called ze, to the Talmudists' saying that Isaac went like a ze, carrying his cross, will see that what was prefigured in Isaac was fulfilled in Christ, who was the true God sold for silver.
'numeratio' is rendered 'numeration', Pico's own word for a sefirah. 'ze' is the Hebrew demonstrative 'this'/'this one', given by Farmer's note as a further common name for the ninth sefirah, continuing the pairing 'just'/'redeemer' from 11>19 (farmer1998:26884).
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>19 Si dictum illud Prophetae: Vendiderunt iustum argento, cabalistice exponamus, nihil aliud nobis significat quam hoc, scilicet, Deus ut redem
- 11>27 Ex principiis cabalistarum euidenter elicitur quod per aduentum mes-
- 28.31 Data est circumcisio ad liberationem a uirtutibus immundis quae in circuitu ambulant.