Cabalistic, confirming the Christian religion · thesis 11>58

Thesis 11>58

Latin

Rectius foret illud Becadmin, quod ponit glosa chaldaica super dictione Bresit, exponere de sapientialibus ideis quam de trigintaduabus uiis, ut dicunt alii Cabalistae; utrunque tamen est rectum in Cabala.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 27633

Apparatus (Farmer): 1486 Cabalistae.utrunque

English

Becadmin, the word the Chaldean gloss sets over Bereshit, is better explained as referring to the sapiential ideas than, as other Cabalists hold, to the thirty-two paths — though in the Cabala both readings stand as correct.

'sapiential ideas' are, per Farmer's note, the Platonic ideas at the highest level identified with Christ or Wisdom; the 'thirty-two paths' combine the twenty-two Hebrew letters with the ten sefirot (farmer1998:27669).

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T10b; sense checked against farmer1998:27692; 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: 2 (deterministic harvest; see Method).