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 →
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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). 2 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.
1013B — added-negative (migne, medium confidence)
Printed: Cum autem causa Dei exigit, non solum relinqui sed recte etiam odio haberi potest, ut in eo propter Deum odiatur, quod contra Deum non diligitur.
Conjecture: quod contra Deum diligitur — "so that in her that be hated for God's sake which is loved against God"; the intrusive non destroys the odiatur propter Deum / diligitur contra Deum antithesis and removes the stated ground for the hatred.
The clause is given as the reason the wife may 'recte etiam odio haberi' — but as printed it says the thing hated is the thing NOT loved against God, i.e. it supplies no ground for hatred at all and inverts the antithesis the sentence is built on. The whole preceding stretch turns on the propter Deum / secundum Deum / contra Deum triad: 'Recte igitur relinquit propter Deum, qui relinquere potest secundum Deum. Quandiu autem secundum Deum relinquere non potest, propter Deum relinquere non potest.' The only thing that can rightly be hated for God's sake is what is loved against him.
1016A — dropped-word (ours, medium confidence)
Printed: Servi Dei nostri signati sunt in frontibus suis, et non possunt [1016A] exterminii sententiam evadere, nisi solum ii qui in figura Tau crucis Christi signaculo muniuntur.
Conjecture: The subject of 'non possunt' is general, not 'servi Dei nostri': "...and none can escape the sentence of extermination, save only those who in the figure of the Tau are fortified with the seal of the cross of Christ." The English pronoun 'they' silently binds the negation to the sealed, reversing the claim.
As rendered, the sealed servants of God are the ones who cannot escape — yet the same sentence's own exception clause says the escapers are precisely 'those who ... are fortified with the seal of the cross of Christ'. The immediately preceding sentences set the terms the other way: 'if you are a Christian, where is the sign of your King? I see an alien mark upon your forehead. Do you know what shall be over those who bear the mark of the beast?' — the seal saves, the alien mark condemns (Ezech. IX / Apoc. VII).