Cabalistic, confirming the Christian religion · thesis 11>32

Thesis 11>32

Latin

Si duplex Aleph quod est in textu: Non auferetur sceptrum, etc., coniunxerimus ad duplex Aleph quod est in textu: Deus possedit me ab initio, et ad duplex Aleph quod est in textu: Terra autem erat inanis, per uiam Cabalae intelligemus ibi Iacob de illo uero Messia locutum, qui fuit Iesus Nazarenus.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 27025

Apparatus (Farmer): 1487 ab initio . et duplex aleph

English

If we join the double alef in the text The scepter shall not be taken away, etc., to the double alef in the text God possessed me from the beginning, and to the double alef in the text But the earth was without form, by way of the Cabala we shall understand that there Jacob was speaking of that true Messiah, who was Jesus of Nazareth.

The three texts joined are Gen. 49:10 (spoken by Jacob), Prov. 8:22, and Gen. 1:2 (farmer1998:27102); each alef functions as a linking mark across otherwise unconnected verses rather than as an argued proof.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T10b; sense checked against farmer1998:27083; 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: 3 (deterministic harvest; see Method).