Cabalistic, confirming the Christian religion · thesis 11>40

Thesis 11>40

Latin

Hoc habent ineuitabiliter concedere Cabaliste, quod uerus messias per aquam homines purgabit.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 27231

English

There is no escaping it for the Cabalists: the true Messiah will cleanse mankind by water.

Sense checked; no further crux. Farmer cross-references 11>44-45 for the same water/fire pairing (farmer1998:27305).

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T10b; sense checked against farmer1998:27286; 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: 3 (deterministic harvest; see Method).

Farmer's cross-references

• 11>41 Sciri potest in Cabalam per mysterium mem clausi cur post se Christus miserit paraclytum.
• 11>44 Scitur ex cabala per mysterium partis septentrionalis cur iudicabit deus saeculum per ignem.
• 11>45 Scitur in cabala apertissime cur dei filius cum aqua baptismi uenerit, et spiritus sanctus cum igne.