Cabalistic, confirming the Christian religion · thesis 11>45

Thesis 11>45

Latin

Scitur in cabala apertissime cur dei filius cum aqua baptismi uenerit, et spiritus sanctus cum igne.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 27335

English

The Cabala makes it perfectly plain why the Son of God arrived with the waters of baptism, and the Holy Spirit with fire.

Continues the water/fourth-sefirah, fire/fifth-sefirah pairing Farmer notes at 11>44 (farmer1998:27363).

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T10b; sense checked against farmer1998:27389; 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.)

Mention records in the corpus: 1 (deterministic harvest; see Method).

Farmer's cross-references

• 11>44 Scitur ex cabala per mysterium partis septentrionalis cur iudicabit deus saeculum per ignem.
• 11>67 Per dictum Cabalistarum quod Caeli sunt ex igne et aqua, simul et ueritatem. Theologicam de ipsis sephirot nobis manifestat, et philosophica