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 →
Garbled or corrupt printed readings in Migne (PL 176), rendered by evident sense per the register rule rather than silently emended. Column locations follow Migne's plates. All are single-letter typographic corruptions, not substantive variants.
| Column | Printed reading | Note |
|---|---|---|
| 0012C (chunk 0001, CAP. II) | per contemptationem pariter cum proximo beatificanda est | contemptationem is corrupt for contemplationem ("through contemplation"); rendered by evident sense. Not "contempt." |
| 0014B (chunk 0001, CAP. III) | Ut nomem Dei tui in vanum non assumas | nomem is corrupt for nomen ("the name"); rendered by evident sense. |
| 0016B (chunk 0002, CAP. IV) | fecit in eo dilectionem, spirituale palatum, quoddam significans ad gustum | Diverges from the parallel passage in De fructibus (1006A), which reads quodammodo… sensificans ("in a certain manner rendering sensible"). Here quoddam significans is rendered by the sense the parallel supplies ("in a certain manner rendering it sensible to the taste"). Noted as a printing divergence, not emended. |
Non-cruces (deliberate variants preserved, not errors)
- 0016B (chunk 0002): germinatus est nexus ("the bond budded forth") — where the parallel De fructibus passage (1006B) reads geminatus ("was doubled"). Both are meaningful; each rendered as printed in its own work.
- 0016A/0016B: this chapter (CAP. IV) is a longer recension of the same material found in De fructibus CAP. XIX (11075/0002); wording differences between the two printings are preserved rather than harmonized.
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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.
0013B — added-negative (migne, medium confidence)
Printed: Sane quantum spectat ad sensum litterae, duobus modis parentes nostros honorare debemus, et obediendo eis videlicet in omnibus, his exceptis in quibus Dei Patris dilectio non offenditur, et eos (quantum nostra facultas suppetit) adjuvando.
Conjecture: his exceptis in quibus Dei Patris dilectio offenditur (delete non) — the standard Victorine formula: obey in all things EXCEPT those in which the love of God is offended
As printed, the exception clause carves out the cases where God is NOT offended, i.e. it commands obedience to parents precisely in what offends God — the reverse of the rule the same work has just laid down. Chunk 0000 @0010B: 'qui cavet sollicite ne in sua servitute, vel pro timore hominis contra Deum quid faciat' ('who carefully takes heed lest in his service he do anything against God for fear of man'), and @0010A-C the whole argument that human honour is a lesser thing subordinated to latria owed God alone. The immediately preceding sentence in this same chunk (@0013A) states the governing principle: 'Deus diligendus est propter seipsum, et homo propter Deum' — man is loved for God's sake, so obedience to man cannot be commanded in the very cases where God is offended.