These are the edition's working notes, published as they were written. They record, work by work, where Migne's plate is defective or the reading uncertain: the printed form, what the English does with it, and why. They are not a groomed apparatus. Where a note argues with itself, withdraws an earlier decision, or leaves a question open, that is the record of how the reading was actually reached, and it is left standing — a conjecture that is visible can be checked, and one that has been tidied away cannot.
The English never silently repairs the page. A construable but wrong reading is rendered literally and the conjecture is recorded here, never applied to the text. How the English is produced and checked →
- Col 0839C — Migne prints "Quia dicitis Deum plus quam velle" ("Why? Because you say that God ... more than he wills"). The infinitive posse appears to be dropped: the sense the argument requires is Deum plus posse quam velle ("that God can do more than he wills"), matching the opening thesis. Translated per that reading ("Because you say that God can do more than he wills").