De dignitate sacerdotii

Garbled or doubtful type in Migne's plate, rendered literally and logged here.

• col. 0492B (chunk 0001) — honestatis ac piae conversationis veste … the clause ne, quod absit, hanc perversi cujuslibet operis interpretatione disrumpat has no clear antecedent for hanc other than veste (abl.). Rendered per the sense ("tear it apart"); no emendation made.

• col. 0492D–0493A (chunk 0001) — ut Ecclesia, Christi in sua vigere munditia valeat. The word order as printed is disordered (for ut Ecclesia Christi in sua munditia vigere valeat), and Migne's comma after Ecclesia makes it worse. Rendered from the evident sense, "that the Church of Christ may be strong to flourish in her own cleanness"; the printed order stands in the Latin.

• col. 0493D (chunk 0001) — et requiescere faciam regnum domum Israel. The Vulgate reads quiescere faciam regnum domus Israhel; Migne prints the accusative domum, which cannot construe with regnum. Rendered literally as an apposition ("the kingdom, the house of Israel"); not emended.

• col. 0493D (chunk 0001) — (Ibid) appears inside the guillemets, as an inline italic locator, in a work that otherwise cites through [n: …] notes. It refers back to Osee I. Passed through verbatim and not wrapped in an [f: …] tag: the referent is a scripture locus (the [n:] pool), not a fons, and tagging it would inject it into the fontes index wrongly. Flagged for a human decision if inline scripture locators are later given a marker of their own.

• col. 0494B (chunk 0001) — per morum spritiualium honestatem. Printed: spritiualium. This is not a Latin word — a transposition of spiritualium, which is the near-certain intended reading (the same treatise prints spiritualis correctly at 0491C and 0492B). Per Pattern 7 the non-word is carried into the English untranslated and in italics: "by the honorableness of spritiualium character." Not emended in either twin.

• col. 0497D–0498A (chunk 0003) — merito jam, e in alios adhibita manus impositione transfundit. The bare e between two commas is broken type; the intended reading is almost certainly et (or the e is a dropped catchword). Rendered literally: the stray letter is carried into the English as e rather than silently repaired.

• col. 0497D (chunk 0003) — omne, quod cogitat, Deo sacrarium offerre non cessat. sacrarium (a shrine) in the accusative beside omne quod cogitat is unconstruable; the expected word is sacrificium. Rendered literally ("to offer to God, as a sacred shrine, everything that it thinks"); not emended.

• col. 0497D (chunk 0003) — cum Sanctum Domini equis freno superponitur. equis (dat./abl. pl.) for the equi (gen. sg.) of the Zacharias lemma quoted two sentences earlier. Rendered literally, "upon the bridle for horses."

Not cruces — flagged for a human

These are Migne's citation numerals, passed through verbatim untranslated per the marker rule. None were corrected in the text.

• col. 0494D (chunk 0002) — [n: (Levit. II)] for the blood of the ram touched to the high priest's right ear, hand, and foot. The locus is Levit. VIII, 23–24 (cf. Exod. XXIX, 20); Leviticus II is the cereal offering and contains nothing of the kind.

• col. 0495B (chunk 0002) — [n: (Deut. XX)] for Si audieris vocem Domini Dei tui … faciet te Dominus Deus tuus excelsiorem cunctis gentibus. The locus is Deut. XXVIII, 1; Deuteronomy XX is the law of war.

• col. 0494A (chunk 0001) — [n: (Matth. VI)] for Non potest arbor mala fructus bonos facere. The locus is Matth. VII, 18.

• col. 0494D (chunk 0002) — the quotation tagged [n: (Coloss. I)] runs … et transtulit in regnum filii dilectionis suae, servitutemque peccati illius a nobis cruor abstersit. Only the first half is Col. I, 13; the servitutemque … abstersit clause is Damian's own continuation carried inside the guillemets. Left inside the quotation, since the guillemets are Migne's.

• col. 0496D (chunk 0003) — [n: (Num. XI.)] on sedebamus super ollas carnium. The phrase is Exod. XVI, 3; Num. XI is the source of the melons, onions, and garlic in the immediately preceding sentence, so the note has probably slipped one clause. Note the anomalous internal period in the numeral (XI.), also preserved.

• cols. 0497A → 0498A (chunk 0003) — the column sequence jumps from 0497A straight to 0498A; there are no 0497B/C/D anchors in the TEI. Reproduced as transmitted.

• chunk 0000 — the head DE DIGNITATE SACERDOTII. stands at the very end of the chunk with no body: the Argumentum and the dedicatory letter precede it, and the treatise proper opens with CAPUT PRIMUM at the head of chunk 0001. The empty head is reproduced 1:1. A human should confirm this is Migne's layout (a running title set as a head) and not a chunker artifact.

• attribution — the addressee is given only as Domno A. Venerabili archiepiscopo. The initial is not expanded here.

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Blind Opus read of the Latin/English pair for sense-reversing defects (one word or one letter asserting the opposite of what the context requires). 1 site(s). Migne's defects are recorded here and rendered literally in the English; our own errors were fixed in place. Full context: data/sweeps/corpus-polarity/REPORT.md.

0493D — sense-reversing-letter (ours, medium confidence)

Printed: Quoniam adhuc modicum, [0493D] et visitabo sanguinem Jezrahel super domum Jehu, et requiescere faciam regnum domum Israel, et in illa die conteram arcum Israel, in valle Jezrahel

Conjecture: Hosea 1:4 reads 'et quiescere faciam regnum domus Israel' — 'I will cause the kingdom of the house of Israel to CEASE' (Douay). Migne's plate prints 'requiescere' (extra re-, plus 'domum' for 'domus'), and the English has followed the printed form lexically as 'make ... to rest', turning a sentence of destruction into a promise of repose. Render 'and I will bring the kingdom of the house of Israel to an end'.

Damian cites this verse for one purpose only, stated in the sentence immediately before it: 'Quod utique nomen, quamvis prosperum significare videatur ... hic tamen vindictam Dei et furorem sonat' — 'although it seems to signify something prosperous ... here nevertheless it sounds the vengeance of God and fury.' A clause promising Israel's kingdom rest is the opposite of vindicta and furor, and it also contradicts the clauses flanking it inside the same quotation ('I will visit the blood of Jezrahel upon the house of Jehu', 'I will break the bow of Israel'). The paragraph after it repeats the point: 'Quod autem hic per Jezrahel, non salus, sive prosperitas, sed Dei potius ira signatur.'

### 0493D — sense-reversing letter (Migne's plate; resolved 2026-07-29) Printed: et requiescere faciam regnum domum Israel (Hosea 1:4).

Conjecture: quiescere faciam regnum domus Israel — "I will cause the kingdom of the house of Israel to cease" (Vulg./Douay).

Damian adduces the verse to prove that Jezrahel here sounds vindictam Dei et furorem, introducing it with cum protinus subinfertur. As printed, the oracle promises rest, so the proof-text contradicts the reading it is cited for.

Ruling (Wilson, 2026-07-29): render literally, mark inline. The scripture policy is locked — translate what Migne prints, never substitute a conventional version — so "to rest" stands, and the page now carries [sic: requiescere] so the reader meets the defect there rather than only here.

Resolved 2026-07-29 — [var: …] (Pattern 14) was added for exactly this. The page now reads "to rest [sic: requiescere] [var: Vulg. quiescere, "cause to cease"]" — Migne rendered faithfully, the received reading noted beside it. The two markers answer different questions and both are needed here: [sic:] says the type is the plate's, [var:] says the quotation disagrees with the Vulgate.

The gap that forced the new pattern is worth keeping on record: [sic: …] may only wrap type carried verbatim from the plate, so the gloss could not go inside it (the verifier rejected the attempt, correctly), and [ed: …] is reserved for text our source has lost. Scripture divergence was neither, and had nowhere to live but this file — which no reader opens.