Cabalistic, confirming the Christian religion · thesis 11>23

Thesis 11>23

Latin

Per illud dictum Hieremiae: Lacerauit uerbum suum, secundum expositionem Cabalistarum, habemus intelligere quod deum sanctum et benedictum lacerauit deus pro peccatoribus.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 26904

English

On the Cabalists' reading of Jeremiah's clause, He tore his own word, the sense we are meant to draw is this: it was God who did the tearing, and the one torn was God, the holy and blessed one, and it was done for the sake of sinners.

'uerbum' ('word') carries, on Farmer's note, a double weight: a regular Cabalistic name for the tenth sefirah, and an echo of the Johannine identification of Christ with the Word of God (farmer1998:26939).

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T10b; sense checked against farmer1998:26962; awaiting human check

Attribution: Pico's own opinion (section 11>, Cabalistic conclusions confirming the Christian religion from the Hebrew wise men's principles) · Pico's stance: endorses

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

• 11>24 Per responsionem Cabalistarum ad quaestionem quare in libro numerorum coniuncta est particula mortis Mariae particu/lae uitulae ruffae, et p
• 11>38 Effectus qui sunt sequuti post mortem Christi debent conuincere quemlibet Cabalistam quod Iesus Nazarenus fuit uerus Messias.
• 8>8 Magi in .xvii. amphorismo nihil aliud intelligunt per triplex indumentum ex lino, panno, et pellibus, quam triplex animae habitaculum, caele