Cabalistic, confirming the Christian religion · thesis 11>34

Thesis 11>34

Latin

Per nomen <Hebrew>, id est Vir, quod tribus litteris scribitur he, uau, et aleph, quod nomen deo propriissime attribuitur, et maxime conuenienter non solum ad Cabalistas, qui hoc expresse sepius dicunt, sed etiam ad theologiam Dionysii Areopagitae, per uiam Cabalae trinitatis mysterium, cum possibilitate incarnationis, nobis declaratur.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 27122

Apparatus (Farmer): 1486 V (=Vir) | 1487 U

The sheet's bracketed run '<N\N>' renders as OCR garble the three-letter Hebrew word Pico glosses as 'Vir' and spells out as he, vav, alef, following Farmer's transcription (farmer1998:27122); replaced here with '<Hebrew>'.

English

Through the name, that is, 'Man' — written with the three letters he, vav and alef — a name most properly applied to God, and fittingly so not only among the Cabalists, who often say this expressly, but also in the theology of Dionysius the Areopagite, the mystery of the Trinity, together with the possibility of the Incarnation, is declared to us by way of the Cabala.

Pico glosses the word as 'Vir' ('Man'); Farmer's note holds that the three letters in fact spell a word meaning 'he', not 'man' (farmer1998:27157). The translation keeps Pico's own gloss rather than silently substituting the alternative reading.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T10b; sense checked against farmer1998:27176; 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: 1 (deterministic harvest; see Method).

Farmer's cross-references

• 11>35 Si deus in se ut infinitum, ut unum, et secundum se intelligatur, ut sic nihil intelligimus ab eo procedere, sed separationem a rebus, et om