Cabalistic, confirming the Christian religion · thesis 11>42

Thesis 11>42

Latin

Scitur per fundamenta cabale quam recte dixerit Iesus: Antequam nasceretur Abraam, ego sum.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 27323

Apparatus (Farmer): colon retained from 1486 edition

English

The foundations of the Cabala make it known how rightly Jesus spoke when he said, Before Abraham came to be, I am.

John 8:58. Farmer's note connects the thesis to 11>37, since 'Jesus', tied to the second sefirah, there precedes 'Abraham', tied to the fourth (farmer1998:27355).

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T10b; sense checked against farmer1998:27377; 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).

Farmer's cross-references

• 11>37 Qui intellexerit in dextrali coordinatione subordinationem pietatis ad sapientiam, perfecte intelliget_per uiam Cabalae quomodo Abraam in di
• 11>39 Ex hac conclusione et trigesima superius posita sequitur quod quilibet Cabalista habet concedere quod interrogatus lesus quis esset, rectiss
• 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.
• 11>67 Per dictum Cabalistarum quod Caeli sunt ex igne et aqua, simul et ueritatem. Theologicam de ipsis sephirot nobis manifestat, et philosophica
• 28.33 Nullae sunt litterae in tota lege quae in formis, coniunctionibus, separationibus, tortuositate, directione, defectu, superabundantia, minor