Theological, against the common mode · thesis 4>9

Thesis 4>9

Latin

Licet ita mihi uideatur probabile, non est tamen pertinaciter asserendum quod anima Christi per alium modum nobis ignotum non potuerit in infernum descendere.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 21661

Apparatus (Farmer): 1486 ignotum potuerit | Emendationes errorum, corrige: non potuerit | 1487 text emended sic.

1486 reads '...ignotum potuerit...'; the Emendationes errorum corrects this to 'non potuerit', which 1487 follows. The negation is essential to the sense and is kept.

English

Though it strikes me as probable, one should not stubbornly insist that the soul of Christ could not have descended into hell by some other way unknown to us.

The Latin marks this as Pico's own probable view, explicitly withheld from firm assertion; pico_stance recorded as unstated on that basis.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T06b; sense checked against farmer1998:21718; awaiting human check

Attribution: Pico's own opinion (section 4>, theological conclusions differing from the common way of the theologians) · Pico's stance: unstated

Discussed in

• M. V. Dougherty (ed.), Pico della Mirandola: New Essays (2008)

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

Farmer's cross-references

• 2>16 Tractatus suppositionum ad logicum non pertinet.
• 4.15 Per haec uerba precise (Hoc est corpus meum), non expressis uerbis precedentibus, scilicet pridie quam pateretur, non potest consecrari.
• 4>10 Illa uerba (hoc est corpus, etc.), quae in consecratione dicuntur, materialiter tenentur non significatiuae.
• 4>11 Si teneatur communis uia quod actu intellectus attingatur deus, dico duas sequentes conclusiones, quarum haec est prima: quod uidentes uerbu
• 4>12 Beati duplicem habent cognitionem de creaturis, eas formaliter attingentem, quarum altera illatiue est, ex ea qua uerbum attingunt, altera s
• 4>17 Primum peccatum angeli fuit peccatum omissionis, secundum peccatum luxuriae, tertium peccatum superbiae.
• 4>8 Christus non ueraciter et quantum ad realem presentiam descendit ad inferos ut ponit Thommas et communis uia, sed solum quo ad effectum.