Pico della Mirandola, Conclusiones (1486) SectionsThe thirteen condemnedScholarshipMethod

Theological, against the common mode · thesis 4>23

Thesis 4>23

Latin

Voluntas antecedens sic potest describi: Voluntas dei antecedens est illa qua deus dat alicui naturalia uel antecedentia quibus potest aliquid consequi, cui deus paratus est coagere si alius uelit, nec sibi contrarium manifestabit cum praecepto uel consilio exequendi, permittens eum libere uelle agere ad consequutionem suae salutis.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 21960

Apparatus (Farmer): 1486 consequtionem

1486 reads 'consequtionem'.

English

The antecedent will can be described this way: it is that by which God grants someone the natural or antecedent means to achieve something, standing ready to cooperate should the person be willing, never disclosing anything contrary by way of precept or counsel to be carried out, but letting him freely choose to act toward his own salvation.

Sense checked; no further crux.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T06b; sense checked against farmer1998:22007; awaiting human check

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

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