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 0843C (chunk 0000) — likely misprint (sive for sine)
- Reading (as printed):
et tamen sive compassionis dolore in certitudine felicitatis persistens [n: (Luc. XVI)], eum per justitiam repulit - Note:
sive("or") gives no clean sense here; the argument (Abraham, in blessedness, feels no compassion-grief for the rich man and repulses him by justice) requires sine compassionis dolore ("without the grief of compassion"). A plain misprint (sive/sine). Rendered per sense ("persisting without any grief of compassion in the certitude of happiness"); the Latin itself is not emended.
## Col 0844B (chunk 0000) — stray question mark in a declarative list
- Reading (as printed):
Compassio ex vitio, culpabilis est? compassio ex natura, irreprehensibilis; compassio ex virtute laudabilis - Note: The
?afterculpabilis estis anomalous within a three-member declarative list (vice = culpable; nature = irreprehensible; virtue = praiseworthy) — evidently a punctuation slip for a semicolon. Rendered as a declarative clause ("Compassion from vice is culpable;"). Punctuation artifact only; no word affected. Noted for completeness.
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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.
0843C — sense-reversing-letter (migne, medium confidence)
Printed: Abraham autem etiam cruciatum vidit, et tamen sive compassionis dolore in certitudine felicitatis persistens, eum per justitiam repulit dicens: Fili, recepisti bona in vita tua, et Lazarus similiter mala.
Conjecture: sive > sine ("sine compassionis dolore ... persistens") — a single letter; as printed, sive has no second disjunct to govern (contrast the author's correct use two columns later, "opprimi sive affligi"), and it leaves the bare ablative "compassionis dolore" attached to "persistens", i.e. Abraham persisting WITH the grief of compassion.
The immediate argument is that the blessed do not compassionate at all: "Hic compati virtutis est; illic non compati, felicitatis. ... Illic non compateris felicitate, non moveris aeternitate, non condoles impassibilitate" (0843B-C), and Abraham is introduced as the foil to the rich man who IS still tormented by another's misery ("Sane qui illic pati non exuunt compati non deponunt"). Abraham "persisting in the grief of compassion in the certitude of happiness" asserts the exact opposite of the sentence three lines above it, and of the act it explains — "eum per justitiam repulit." Our English silently repairs the plate, rendering it "without any grief of compassion" (supplying both the negation and an "any" that the printed Latin has no word for), so the defect is invisible to an English-only reader.