De differentia sacrificii Abrahae a sacrificio B. Mariae Virginis

Garbled, doubtful, or impossible readings in Migne's plate, logged here. The English renders what the plate prints, per translation-style.md Pattern 7: a printed reading that is construable is rendered literally even where it is odd or says the opposite of what the argument requires, and type that is not a word at all is carried into the English untranslated, in italics. The conjectured reading is recorded here and only here; it is never applied to the running text. (This replaces the earlier src/english/10103/cruces.md convention of rendering "the intended reading," under which parts of this work were first translated; those places were re-rendered from the plate on 2026-07-28.) Note contents ([n: …]) always pass through verbatim and untranslated, so citation errors are flagged here only.

• col. 1046B (chunk 0000) — quid aliud in Dei auribus quam mors pullorum de nido turturum clamitat? The parallel sentence immediately following reads quid aliud quam pullorum more voce columbina clamat?, which makes mors almost certainly a misprint for mos (or for more, "after the manner of"). Rendered literally ("the death of nestlings from the nest of turtledoves"), since the printed reading is grammatical; the sense the parallel demands is "the manner of nestlings."

• col. 1047A (chunk 0001) — non patietur nos tentari supra id quod possumus ferro. ferro is construable — the ablative of ferrum, "with iron" / "with the sword" — and is so rendered: "above that which we are able with iron." The intended reading is ferre ("to bear"), the complementary infinitive I Cor. 10:13 requires and which the rest of the quotation (ut possimus sustinere) echoes; nothing in the context concerns iron or the sword.

• col. 1046D (chunk 0001) — saepe non novelli eorum qui ejusmodi sunt. Both printed words are Latin, so the phrase is rendered as printed: "not the young ones of those who are of this sort," which negates the subject and leaves the sentence saying nearly the reverse of what follows. The intended reading is nonnulli ("some"), wrongly divided and misspelled by the compositor; the same paragraph twice uses nonnullius (nonnullius impatientiae, nonnullius diffidentiae), so the word is live in the immediate context.

• col. 1047B (chunk 0001) — illud pertinet ad par turturum, istud ad pullos corum. corum is not a word (a dropped e in eorum, which the very next sentence prints correctly). Carried through untranslated per Pattern 7: "the latter to the young of corum."

• col. 1046D–1047A (chunk 0001) — …ultra modum trepidare Certum namque… Migne prints no full stop after trepidare, only the capital Certum. Per Pattern 8 no mark is supplied in the English either: the clause runs on unpunctuated into "For it ought to be certain…". The intended reading is a full stop, which the capital implies; the plate omits it.

• col. 1048B (chunk 0001), note — [n: (Sap. VIII)] on Corpus enim quod corrumpitur aggravat animam… = Wisdom 9:15, not 8. Note passes through verbatim; flagged so the index does not treat it as a real locus. The paragraph also ends with no terminal punctuation in Migne; reproduced as printed.

• col. 1050C (chunk 0002) — illud Eliphat Themanites for Eliphaz (Job 4:13). Rendered as printed, "Eliphat the Themanite."

• col. 1050D (chunk 0002) — Si dixero. Consolabitur me lectulus meus… The full stop after Si dixero is Migne's and breaks the conditional (Job 7:13). Reproduced as printed.

• col. 1050D (chunk 0002), note — [n: (Job XVII)] on Si dixero: consolabitur me lectulus meus… = Job 7:13–14, not 17. Verbatim; flagged.

• col. 1051B (chunk 0002) — qui egrediens de terra et de cognatione sua, diu juxta Abrahae exemplar, juxta tandem aliquando in modum David in aliquod flagitium cadit. The second juxta is dittography, and the relative clause has lost its main verb (something like vixit after exemplar). Rendered literally, stumble and all; a human read-through may want to record the intended sense ("who … long lived after the exemplar of Abraham, but at length falls, after the manner of David, into some outrage") in an apparatus. Per Pattern 11, the repeated occurrence is now marked: "long according to the exemplar of Abraham, [d: according] at length at some time falls…"

• col. 1051C (chunk 0002), note — [n: (Luc. XI)] on the Pharisee's Non sum sicut caeteri hominum = Luke 18:11. Verbatim; flagged.

• col. 1051D (chunk 0002) — quilibet praedestinati ad viam aeternam. vitam is the expected reading ("predestined to eternal life"), but via aeterna is defensible Victorine idiom; rendered as printed, "predestined to the eternal way."

• col. 1052A (chunk 0002) — the four degrees are numbered primo … secundo in the consideration of evil, but the primo is missing from the parallel consideration of good (ut cognoscamus … secundo ut cognoscamus). Reproduced as printed.

• col. 1053C (chunk 0003), note — [n: (Rom. VI)] on Scimus quoniam diligentibus Deum omnia cooperantur in bonum = Rom. 8:28. Verbatim; flagged.

• col. 1054A (chunk 0003) — Ecce, homines formam defectus humani. The parallel a few lines later reads Habes hic item formam defectus humani, so homines is very likely a misprint for habes. Rendered as printed with homines taken as a vocative ("Behold, O men, the form of human defect"); the intended reading is "Behold, you have the form…".

• col. 1053D (chunk 0003) — illam humilitatis revelatam quam superius per quatuor gradus distinximus. The governing noun has dropped out (the four degrees were of cognitio humanae infirmitatis at 1052A), leaving a bare participle. Rendered as printed, "that revealed humility."

• col. 1054A (chunk 0003) — et semel dejectum ad status rectitudinem propria virtute roboratur. As printed the clause asserts the opposite of the argument (which is that fallen man cannot rise by his own strength); a negative (nec/nunquam) has evidently dropped out, and dejectum is an accusative where a nominative is required. Rendered literally as printed.

• col. 1055A (chunk 0003) — et velut per speculum et in aenigmat evidere. Neither printed form is a word: the division has slipped by one letter from in aenigmate videre (I Cor. 13:12), which the answering clause (veritatem absque involucro, et quasi facie ad faciem videre) confirms. Both are carried through untranslated per Pattern 7: "and to evidere them as through a mirror and in aenigmat."

• col. 1055A (chunk 0003) — a mundanis insuper mundana transiens; read probably ad supermundana ("passing from worldly things to things above the world"). Rendered close to the printed text ("passing from worldly things and above worldly things").

• col. 1055C (chunk 0003) — sed paulatim invalescere prava consuetudine ad hoc usque perducitur. invalescere is a real infinitive and is rendered as printed, stranded: "but gradually it is brought, to grow strong by depraved custom, so far that it ceases to kick against its exactors." The intended reading is the ablative absolute invalescente prava consuetudine ("as depraved custom grows strong"), which the ablative prava consuetudine standing beside it already presupposes.

• col. 1057B–C (chunk 0004) — et charitas … quantumcunque profecerit bene examinatus diligenter inspectus — masculine participles where the feminine charitas requires examinata, inspecta. Not an emendation in the English: participles carry no gender exponent in English, so "when well examined and carefully inspected" renders the printed masculine and the expected feminine alike. Logged for the Latin record only.

• col. 1056A (chunk 0004) — Jucunditas [securitas] securae conscientiae. Migne prints the variant in square brackets inside the text. Passed through verbatim and untranslated, on the same footing as [ al., …] variants; the lemma Jucunditas is what is translated.

• col. 1059A → 1060A (chunk 0004) — the column sequence jumps from 1059A straight to 1060A; there are no 1059B–D anchors in the TEI, and the work's last sentence straddles the jump. Reproduced as printed; not an error on our side.

PL 196 polarity sweep (2026-07-28)

Sites found by the volume-wide sweep for sense-reversing defects (dropped or intrusive negations, and single letters that invert a claim). All are Migne's; all are rendered literally per Pattern 7. Entries already discussed above are repeated here so the class can be read in one place.

### 1046D — added-negative (high confidence) Printed: Sed saepe non novelli eorum qui ejusmodi sunt, propter metum cadendi, et laborem patiendi, desiderant cito mori, ut ab omni periculi suspicione de caetero possint esse securi.

Conjecture: nonnulli (word-division defect: nonnulli split as 'non novelli')

The very next sentence is a rebuke aimed at exactly the people this sentence is supposed to be describing: 'Sed attende ne forte videatur esse signum nonnullius impatientiae laborum certamina subterfugere vel signum similiter nonnullius diffidentiae sub cadendi metu ultra modum trepidare.' The warning has no subject unless the preceding clause has just asserted that SOME of them do long for a quick death out of fear of falling. As printed, the clause denies that anyone of that description exists, and the reproof that follows strikes at nobody; note also that 'nonnullius' appears twice in that very rebuke.

### 1054A — dropped-non (high confidence) Printed: Subtracta namque gratia et protectione divina, homo ad inimici suggestionem in quodcunque malum dejicitur, et semel dejectum ad status rectitudinem propria virtute roboratur.

Conjecture: nec semel dejectum ad status rectitudinem propria virtute roboratur (or ... propria virtute non roboratur)

The sentence is the prose gloss on the dust-image printed immediately before it at the end of the previous paragraph: 'Pulvis ad omnem flatum de suo loco excutitur, et quocunque dejectus, nunquam nisi alieno impulsu levatur' — dust, once cast down, is NEVER lifted except by an impulse from outside. The same chapter's four-degree scheme (1052A) states the doctrine flatly: 'secundo ut sciamus a nullo malo post lapsum nostra virtute posse resurgere.' As printed the clause asserts the exact contrary, that fallen man IS strengthened back to uprightness by his own power, and it is offered as an illustration of 'forma defectus humani.' The parallel ashes-clause that follows keeps its negative ('per semetipsum omnino non poterit sine ejus cooperatione custodire'), so the dust-clause is the odd one out.

### 1055A — added-negative (medium confidence) Printed: oportet illum oculos illos claudere, quos in primis parentibus legimus apertos fuisse, et oblectamenta sensuum non attendere, nec avertere.

Conjecture: sed avertere (or nec advertere)

The governing clause is 'Qui vult ergo huic mundo mortuus esse, oportet illum oculos illos claudere' — the man dead to the world must SHUT his eyes; and the whole burial figure that follows turns on 'Sepultus vero desinit videre, simul et videri.' A prescription to close the eyes and yet not to turn away from the delights of the senses cancels itself; the printed 'nec avertere' forbids the very aversion the image demands.