Cabalistic, confirming the Christian religion · thesis 11>33

Thesis 11>33

Latin

Per hanc dictionem <Hebrew>, quae scribitur per Aleph, Iod, et Scin, et significat Virum, quae deo attribuitur cum dicitur Vir belli, de trinitatis mysterio per uiam Cabalae perfectissime admonemur.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 27117; 1486 print folio <32v/33r>

Apparatus (Farmer): 1486 dicitur. Vir belli

The sheet's bracketed run '<WN>' renders as OCR garble the Hebrew word spelled out immediately after it, Aleph, Yod, Shin, following Farmer's transcription (farmer1998:27117); replaced here with '<Hebrew>'. The sheet also line-breaks 'et / Scin' and runs 'attribuitur' into 'cum' as 'attribuiturcum'; both are rejoined here as ordinary spacing, not variants.

English

By this word, spelled with alef, yod and shin, meaning 'man' — a word applied to God when he is called a man of war — we are most fully instructed, by way of the Cabala, in the mystery of the Trinity.

'man of war' echoes Exod. 15:3; Farmer's note takes each of the three letters as standing for one Person of the Trinity, as with shin and Christ in 11>14 (farmer1998:27151).

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T10b; sense checked against farmer1998:27170; 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

• (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)

Mention records in the corpus: 4 (deterministic harvest; see Method).