Epistola I B. Petri

Translated 2026-08-19, one translator, 4 chunks (3,650 Latin words by the frontmatter count; 3,681 by whitespace), on Opus. verify-english.mjs clean: frontmatter, columns, notes and sections aligned 1:1, no duplicate paragraphs. Apparatus: 10 [var:] · 3 [sic:] · 2 [cj:] · 0 [d:] · 0 [ed:] · 0 [nt:] · 46 [n:] (exact parity with the Latin twins). Structure: ARGUMENTUM, CAPUT PRIMUM, CAPUT II, CAPUT III, CAPUT IV, CAPUT V. Zero guillemets in either language.

The Glossa conventions were settled on Liber Ruth (8968) §1 and are reused here, not re-derived: VERS. n.-- passes through verbatim; the lemma is Englished; a fragmentary lemma is rendered as the phrase it stands for; attribution sigla ride as ordinary [n: …]; usque ad → as far as with no verb supplied to complete the abridgment.

§1 · VULGATE COLLATION — the deliverable

Collated mechanically and by eye against sources/vulgate/clementine-flat.txt (Clementine, ligatures expanded). Every italic lemma in the work — 141 spans, out of 155 italic spans in all (the remainder being the usque ad and etc. formulae) — was put through a normalizing substring test against the whole of 1 Peter, and every span the test did not clear was then resolved by hand against its own verse. Orthographic variants were normalized before comparison and are not treated as divergences: tanquam/tamquam, Charissimi/Carissimi, charitas/caritas, coel-/cael-, haered-/hered-, ae/e.

1a. Divergences that took a [var: …] — 10

1b. Divergences DELIBERATELY left unmarked, with the reason

Pattern 14 fires where the divergence changes the sense. These do not, and marking them would bury the ten above in noise.

• 0682A Estote prudentes sicut serpentes — Mt 10:16 has Estote ergo prudentes. A dropped connective inside a citation Migne himself truncates with "etc."
• 0682B Aedificamini — Vulg 2:5 prints the compound superaedificamini. ⚠ The mechanical test scored this AGREE as a substring, which it is; it is logged here as a divergence, not as a clean agreement, so the count is honest.
• 0682C est factus in caput anguli — Vulg 2:7 hic factus est. Word order, and hic is supplied by Migne's own gloss (et ille lapis hic) immediately before.
• 0682D Nec credunt in quo positi sunt — Vulg 2:8 in quo et positi sunt.
• 0683B Ex bonis operibus considerantes — Vulg 2:12 ex bonis operibus vos considerantes.
• 0684A Servi subjecti — Vulg 2:18 Servi, subditi estote. A synonym.
• 0684B Si propter conscientiam Dei — Vulg 2:19 si propter Dei conscientiam. Word order only.
• 0685C ne timueritis timorem eorum — Vulg 3:14 Timorem autem eorum ne timueritis. Word order only; the lemma is a re-quotation inside the gloss.
• 0686B Quod et vos similis formae — Vulg 3:21 Quod et vos nunc similis formae. Lemma truncation, the ordinary Glossa practice.
• 0686C depositio sordium carnis — Vulg 3:21 carnis depositio sordium. The gloss's own re-quotation of the lemma it printed correctly four words earlier.
• 0686C ut et nos vitae aeternae haeredes efficeremur — Vulg 3:22 ut vitae aeternae haeredes efficeremur; and Migne's Subjectis sibi angelis omits the Vulgate's intervening profectus in caelum.
• 0687C Spiritus ejus super vos requiescit — Vulg 4:14 et qui est ejus Spiritus, super vos requiescit. A condensation to lemma length.
• 0684A Non tantum bonis et modestis: sed etiam difficilioribus — not a divergence at all. Migne labels it Alia translatio himself: he is quoting a second version against the Vulgate's dyscolis, which he then prints and glosses. Nothing to mark.
• 0687D Si justus in terra recipit, quanto magis impius et peccator? — the words agree with Pr 11:31 exactly; the Clementine closes with ! where Migne closes with ?. Under Pattern 8 the printed mark rides as printed. Not a [var:]: Pattern 14 is about the received text, and Migne is here expressly contrasting the vetus editio with the Hebraica veritas — the punctuation is his editors', not a variant reading.

1c. ⭐ A note that points at the wrong Gospel — reported, not marked

0680D. Migne prints Multi prophelae et reges voluerunt videre quae vos videtis, et non viderunt with the note [n: (Matth. XIII)]. Against Mt 13:17 that is a heavy divergence (prophetae et justi cupierunt videre quae videtis). But against Lc 10:24 the lemma is verbatim — multi prophetae et reges voluerunt videre quae vos videtis, et non viderunt — down to the vos. So the text is not divergent at all; the attribution is. No [var:] was fired, because there is no divergence from the verse actually quoted, and the note passes through verbatim per the settled rule (the recension's attributions are known unreliable and the work page says so). This is recorded here because a blind reader collating the lemma against Matthew will otherwise report a divergence that does not exist.

1d. Lemmata checked and found to AGREE EXACTLY — named

⭐ Recorded because a list of findings alone cannot be told apart from a list by someone who did not look. 109 of the work's 141 lemma spans cleared the mechanical test against 1 Peter; the ones checked by hand against a non-Petrine verse and found exact are named first.

Non-Petrine citations, exact against the Clementine: Et dedistis mihi manducare (Mt 25:35) · Venite, benedicti Patris mei (Mt 25:34, at 0680D — the truncation at 0685B is the divergent one) · Beati qui esuriunt et sitiunt justitiam (Mt 5:6) · Visitavit nos oriens ex alto (Lc 1:78) · oculi Domini super justos, et aures ejus in preces eorum (1 Pe 3:12, quoted at 0684D) · omnia subjecisti sub pedibus ejus (Ps 8:8) · Si justus in terra recipit, quanto magis impius et peccator (Pr 11:31, words exact — see the punctuation note above) · Multi prophelae et reges… (Lc 10:24, exact but for the broken type — see §1c).

1 Peter lemmata, exact: Advenis · Charissimi, obsecro vos tanquam advenas et peregrinos · Dispersionis · Ponti · Gratia · Et pax multiplicetur · Regeneravit · Incorruptibilem · In vobis · In virtute · Nunc, si oportet · si oportet contristari · Ut probatio · in laudem / In laudem · Pretiosior auro · Inveniatur · in revelatione · Et honorem · Salutem animarum · Prophetaverunt · In quod vel · Spiritus Christi · Posteriores glorias · Vobis autem ministrabant · Spiritu sancto · Propter quod · Sperate · Filii · Sanctum · In timore · Incolatus vestri · Sed pretioso sanguine · Deponentes igitur omnem malitiam · Sicut modo geniti · Rationabile · Lac concupiscite · Ut in eo crescatis · Si tamen gustastis · Per Jesum Christum · quem reprobaverunt aedificantes · lapis offensionis et petra scandali · Et lapis offensionis · Offendunt verbo · Vos autem genus electum · Regale sacerdotium · Acquisitionis · Annuntietis · Qui aliquando · Charissimi · Tanquam advenas · Subjecti igitur estote omni humanae creaturae propter Deum, sive regi · Tanquam ab eo missis · Ad vindictam · Laudem vero bonorum. Quia sic est · Non quasi velamen · Sed sicut servi Dei · Fraternitatem diligite · Non tantum bonis · Patiens injuste · In hoc enim vocati · Quia et Christus · Tradebat autem judicanti se injuste · Et episcopum · Quarum non sit · Viri · Non reddentes · Quia in hoc · Ut benedictionem · Et quis est · Timorem autem · Dominum autem · Omni poscenti · Melius est · Offerret Deo · In carcere · Quando exspectabant Dei patientiam · Noe · Cum fabricaretur arca · similis formae · Non carnis depositio · Deglutiens mortem · Quia qui passus · Blasphemantes · Omnium · Vigilate in orationibus · Charitatem continuam habentes · Si quis loquitur · Si quis ministrat · Charissimi, nolite · Beati eritis · Quoniam tempus · Et si justus · Commendent animas suas · in benefactis · Seniores · Non coacte · sed spontanee secundum Deum · Similiter adolescentes · Omnes autem invicem humilitatem insinuate · Humiliamini · Tanquam leo rugiens · Scientes · Scripsi / scripsi · In Babylone.

§2 · BROKEN TYPE AND CONJECTURES

Corpus-frequency controls were run over all 1,493 files of src/latin/. ⭐ The negatives are recorded too: a checked control is worth having.

2a. 0680D · prophelae — non-word. [sic: prophelae]

prophelae 1 occurrence corpus-wide (this one) against prophetae 220. A t/l substitution. Rendered "Many prophets [sic: prophelae] and kings…" — the sense is carried in plain words and the marker records the plate; the bracket does not stand in for the rendering, and the sentence reads aloud without it.

2b. 0684B · inducamim — non-word. [sic: inducamim]

inducamim 1 occurrence corpus-wide (this one); inducamini 0 — recorded as a checked negative, i.e. the frequency control is inconclusive here and the call rests on morphology, not on the count: there is no Latin form inducamim, and the required 2nd plural passive subjunctive is inducamini. Rendered "you may be led [sic: inducamim] to obey".

2c. 0687A · evangelixatum — non-word. [sic: evangelixatum]

evangelixatum 1 (this one); evangelizatum 1 elsewhere — again a thin control, so the call rests on the letter: x for z in evangelizatum est, the Vulgate's own word at 1 Pe 4:6. Rendered "was the gospel [sic: evangelixatum] preached also to the dead".

2d. 0682B · Tanquam lapides viri — a REAL word, wrong word. [cj: viri; read vivi]

Vulg 2:5 reads lapides vivi, "living stones". viri is perfectly good Latin (273 occurrences corpus-wide; vivi 39), so [sic:] cannot reach it — this is Pattern 18. The evidence is internal, not statistical: Migne's own gloss on the lemma runs per discretionem eruditi vivificantur et apti sunt — the gloss expounds vivi. Rendered literally as "As stones, men." with the conjecture standing beside it, additively. The rival reading (that viri is a genuine variant meaning "stones of men") loses, because nothing in the gloss addresses "men" and vivificantur addresses "living" directly.

2e. 0685B · debitis for debetis — [cj: debitis; read debetis]

Ideo debitis a malo declinare et facere bonum. As printed the clause has no finite verb: debitis is the dative/ablative plural of debitum, "to/by debts". Controls: debitis 2 corpus-wide, and the other one (11632/0073, hominum debitis non tenetur) is a genuine noun — so debitis as a verb is unattested in 1,493 files, while debetis runs 43, ⭐ including four verses later in this very chunk (0685D, Ita debetis calumniatores pati). Rendered "you are bound [cj: …] to turn aside from evil". The rival — that this is a medieval e/i orthographic variant and so Pattern 9 territory, taking no marker — loses on that in-chunk control: the same scribe/plate spells the same verb correctly a few lines down.

2f. Suspiciously TIDY forms — a checked zero

Per the digitization-alters-spelling class (brief §4), the work was read for forms that look cleaner than their surroundings. None found. The three defective forms above are all rough, and no smooth form sits inside a rough passage. No plate read was performed for PL 114 cols 0679–0688, so this is a judgment from the Latin alone and cannot exclude an upstream silent "correction"; recorded as such rather than as a pass.

§3 · MIGNE'S OWN PRINTING, REPRODUCED NOT TIDIED

• 0684D · VERS. 25-- — the period after the numeral is missing. Reproduced verbatim.
• 0687C · VERS 14.-- — the period after VERS is missing. Reproduced verbatim. ⭐ Confirmed against the peer report from James (8998) @0674D, which prints VERS 19.-- with the same defect: the class recurs across the Glossa NT block and is the plate's, not ours. Neither was normalized.
• 0679D–0681D — Migne prints no VERS. 8, 16 or 18 in CAPUT PRIMUM, and skips from VERS. 19 straight to CAPUT II; CAPUT III jumps 3 → 7 → 9 → 13; CAPUT V runs 1, 2, 5, 6, 8, 9, 12, 13. This is the abridgment, not an omission, and the sequence is everywhere ascending — the Jude-style out-of-order case does not occur here.
• 0687A · Quia qui passus. [n: (BEDA.)]. — the full stop falls outside the italic span, after the note. Reproduced in place.
• 0680C — Cum judex laudans vestram fidem, dicet: … is a subordinate clause with no main clause; Migne closes it with a full stop. Rendered as printed ("When the judge, praising your faith, shall say: …"), anacoluthon intact.
• 0682D — Offendit verbo qui eo quod verbum audivit; — the relative clause has no verb of its own. Rendered "He stumbles at the word who does so by this, that he has heard the word", the pro-verb standing for the elided offendit; the conjecture (a haplography of offendit) is left here and not in the text.
• 0687B — quamvis in publicum non semper ostendi, potest. Migne sets a comma between the infinitive and its governing potest. Under Pattern 8 the mark is preserved in position: "although in public it is not always, able to be shown." The English is odd because the plate is odd.
• 0683D — qui etiamsi bonos damnat; non minus… Migne's semicolon breaks the conditional. Preserved.
• 0684B — a Domino is capitalized where the argument (a slave beaten by his owner, cum ei bene serviat) requires the human dominus. Rendered "his lord", which is the same word and prejudges neither; the capital is not carried into English, where capitalization would be a claim the Latin's typography does not make.
• Ellipsis of the copula and of a gapped verb occurs at 0682A (Adulatio linguam.), 0684C (Cum supra specialiter servos, nunc totam Ecclesiam instruit), 0687A (jam similis Christo crucifixo), 0687C (Qui patitur pro nomine Christi, beatus), 0687D (In nostra quae secundum Hebraicam veritatem), 0684B (Dyscoli indocti et agrestes). English cannot gap these, so the verb is supplied from the finite verb Migne prints in the same sentence, never from elsewhere. Listed so the supply is visible.
• Em-dashes: none used. Migne prints none.

§4 · SUPPLIED SUBJECTS — the register, with the evidence for each

Every "he/she/it/they" the Latin does not print, and what decides it. This is the class that has cost this edition most.

§5 · NEGATION — every printed negative, its host, and the attachment check

A mechanical scan for the negation vocabulary (non · nec · neque · nisi · ne · nihil · nil · null- · nunquam · nusquam · haud) returns 88 tokens across the four chunks. Each was checked by naming the single Latin word it attaches to and confirming the negative sits on that word in the English — not merely that the count matched. The sites below are the ones meeting the trigger condition (a negative on a verb with a quantifier, correlative or predicate adjacent), which is where the procedure has failed before.

• 0679D nulla adversitas retrahat — host is the noun adversitas, not retrahat: "let no adversity draw you back". Confirmed by the parallel omnis tribulatio invitet in the next clause, which pivots on the quantifier.
• 0680A Naturaliter non est anima incorruptibilis, sed gratia Dei… — the sed clause proves the host is naturaliter, not est: "not naturally incorruptible, but by the grace of God". Rendered so.
• 0680C Nullus … custodiri valet … nisi ille perficiat — host is Nullus, the subject; the nisi correlative confirms it.
• 0681C Non vere Deum invocatis, nisi solliciti sitis — host is vere, carried as "You do not truly call upon God".
• 0682A nec ratio aliqua … vos trahat — host is the quantified noun phrase ratio aliqua: "let no reasoning draw you", not "let reasoning not draw you".
• 0683C non resistatis alicui dignitati — host is resistatis with alicui in its scope: "resist not any dignity". Rendered with the quantifier under the negative.
• 0683C non est potestas nisi a Deo — Rom 13:1 verbatim; nisi correlative fixes the scope.
• 0683C non tamen ita quod semper fiat — host is the ita quod clause, not the verb.
• 0683D non | minus — ⚠ the column anchor [0683D] falls between the two words. Split deliberately in the English to match: "pertains no [0683D] less to their praise".
• 0685B Non solum cessetis reddere … sed etiam — ⭐ the 8987 defect class exactly. Host is solum, never cessetis: "Not only cease ye to render evil for evil, but also…". Rendering it "do not cease" would invert the sentence and would have passed every count-based check.
• 0685C ut non a memoria, non ab amore recedat — two negatives, each on its own prepositional phrase, both preserved separately ("not from the memory, not from the love"); collapsing them into "nor" would merge two hosts into one.
• 0685D non in passionibus desiderii, sed sicut Deum intelligimus velle — host is the phrase, fixed by the sed. The 8960 @0740B model.
• 0687A Ne animus aliquid cogitet praeter id solum — host is cogitet with aliquid under it; solum belongs to the exception, not to the negation.
• 0687B Deum non sono vocis, sed sensu animi oret — host is the phrase sono vocis, not oret; the sed proves it.
• 0687B non vestris meritis, sed gratiae ejus attribuatis — same shape, same host test.
• 0687C non ideo putetis — host is ideo: "do not for that reason think".
• 0687D ut nec justi quidem … transeant — host is justi, with quidem marking it: "not even the just pass through it without tribulations". Attaching the negative to transeant would say the just do not pass through at all, which the parenthesis (qui in coelo coronandi sunt) contradicts.
• 0688A non vult facile … liberare — host is facile: God does not will to free easily, not that he does not will to free.
• 0688C pudeat vos solos prae omnibus non posse pati — trigger condition met (solos adjacent). Host is posse: the shame is that they alone cannot suffer. solos is the subject accusative and is not the host — checked explicitly, because 8990 @0614B failed on exactly this shape.
• 0688D non est in alio aliquo salus — host is the quantified phrase: "there is salvation in no other". Act 4:12 (Migne prints oportet vos for the Clementine's oporteat nos — gloss prose, not an italic lemma, so no marker; logged here).
• 0688D Qui gratiam spernit non gratiam minuit, sed hanc non suam, id est non sibi utilem reddit — three negatives in one sentence. The sed fixes the first on minuit (not on gratiam); the second and third sit on the predicates suam and utilem. All three rendered on their own hosts.

§6 · PUNCTUATION — band-by-band, and one deliberate addition

The column anchors are verified 1:1, so they partition the twins identically. Colons, semicolons, question marks and exclamation marks were compared band by band across all 42 bands, with markers stripped symmetrically from both sides. Seven mismatched bands were found and repaired (0000 band 8; 0001 bands 2, 3, 9; 0002 bands 1, 3 — every one a colon or semicolon supplied in English where Migne prints a comma). Final state: zero mismatched bands except one, which is deliberate.

⚑ The one remaining delta — 0003 band 5, one colon in English that Migne does not print — is Pattern 8b and is correct. Migne closes an indirect question with ?: Quaeritis causam quare justus vix in Dei judicio salvus esse possit, et quare? English cannot end that construction with a mark, so it is recast into direct form behind a colon: "You ask the cause: why can the just man scarcely be saved in the judgment of God, and why?" Nothing is supplied or deleted; the plate's sentence type survives.

• Question marks: 13 in the Latin, 13 in the English, and in the same bands. Ten of them are the Quid est malitia? nisi nocendi amor? catechism at 0681D–0682A, whose elliptical nisi answers are rendered "what but…" so that both the exceptive and the mark survive.
• The single exclamation (0688A, …perpetuae exitium spectant!) is preserved.
• 0687D — Migne's ? where the Clementine prints ! (Pr 11:31) rides as printed.
• ⚠ No comma→semicolon sweep was performed. Migne prints semicolons himself in this book (8 of them), so the Tobit exception does not apply. Commas were left exactly where the register put them and are not claimed to be at parity; the named sentence-type marks are.

§7 · THE FOURTH TEST — read for what the English SAYS

Run last, with the counts already clean: every paragraph read back against the Latin asking only does it assert what he asserts. Four passages were changed on this pass and are named so a blind reader can see they were looked at:

1. 0679D — "the peace of reconciliation with him" → "the peace of his reconciliation" (reconciliationis ejus: the genitive is Christ's, not the sinner's).
2. 0680C — "unless he perfect it from whom you have the beginning" was ambiguous as to which clause ille governs → "unless he from whom you have the beginning of a good action bring it to perfection".
3. 0688C — Omnes autem invicem humilitatem insinuate had been inverted into "be ye all one to another insinuating humility", which turns an imperative into a participle → "And all of you insinuate humility one to another".
4. 0687C — Charissimi, nolite had been left as the stump "Dearly beloved, be not" → "Dearly beloved, be ye not as strangers", the phrase the fragment opens (nolite peregrinari, 1 Pe 4:12), per the Ruth §1.2 convention.

Marker-strip test: every [sic:], [cj:], [var:] and [n:] was stripped and the residue read for a stranded article or preposition sitting on punctuation, or a doubled mark. All five bracket sites read aloud without their brackets: "Many prophets … and kings", "you may be led to obey", "was the gospel preached also to the dead", "As stones, men.", "Therefore you are bound to turn aside from evil". No clause lost its object.

§8 · WHAT WAS NOT DONE

• No plate read. PL 114 cols 0679–0688 were not opened at 300 dpi, so Migne's foot-of-page notes ([cn:]) have not been recovered for this work, and the three defective forms in §2 are conjectured from the Latin alone. A later reader must be able to tell an unchecked book from a checked one: this one is unchecked on that axis.
• No interleaving reported. 8998 (James) runs 0671A–0680B and this work opens at 0679B. That overlap is Migne's own by-band layout and is a documented false positive; no [ed:], no report.
• No band arithmetic reported. CAPUT PRIMUM runs 0679B → 0679C → 0679D → 0680B (no 0680A) and CAPUT III runs 0685D → 0686A. Positional quarter-guides, not gaps.

§Adjudication — blind polarity read (2026-08-19)

⚠ Context: this work's translating agent was killed mid-run by an API transport error and resumed to finish its apparatus, so the blind reader was told to treat its final passes as unconfirmed and re-run them. It did: marker-strip on all five markers (three [sic:], two [cj:] — none had swallowed its word), the full negation-attachment pass, and punctuation by position. All clean. Chunks 0000, 0001 and 0002 read and named clean; 2 sites in 0003, both DECLINED, 0 repairs.

1. DECLINED · 0687C · Charissimi, nolite. rendered "Dearly beloved, be ye not as strangers." The reader is right that peregrinari is not on the plate — Migne prints a two-word cue and stops. But Glossa convention 3 renders a fragmentary lemma as the phrase it stands for (Ruth's Non te. → "Let no man see thee"), and the settled boundary is that expansion is never the defect; CONFORMATION is — following the familiar English where Migne's Latin diverges. This is not that: "as strangers" renders peregrinari literally and is not Douay's "think it not strange", and Migne's own gloss reads the word both ways (exsules a membris Christi and nolite mirari). The out-of-pattern observation is real but stylistic. See the batch ruling in 8998's cruces §Adjudication.
2. DECLINED as a [cj:], RECORDED as an open crux · 0687C · Quia requiescent super vos patientes. The reader read the plural requiescent against the lemma's singular Spiritus … requiescit as a plate defect (requiescent for requiescet) hidden behind a bare English "they". It construes without any defect: super takes the accusative, so vos patientes is "upon you who suffer", and requiescent's subject is simply unexpressed and plural — most naturally the septiform gifts of Isa. 11:2, which is exactly what the two limbs describe (in praesenti ex parte … in futuro perfecte). The English supplies nothing and keeps the ambiguity, which is the correct handling. ⛔ A [cj:] was refused on principle here: it would assert a conjecture with no witness, and no plate read exists for cols 0679–0688. This is precisely the case Migne's own foot-of-page apparatus is likely to settle, and we have not looked. Never guess a conjecture. ▶ Plate request: col. 0687C, alongside 8946's Salomomonis at 1116D.

⚑ Reader's own most useful negative: pius pastor at 0684C was held open a long time as a possible conformation to John 10's bonus pastor and then rejected with reasons — the near-miss is evidence the pass was actually run.