De sacrificio David prophetae

Garbled or irregular printed readings in Migne's plate, logged here, plus citation anomalies passed through verbatim under the marker rule. 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 (This work was first translated under the withdrawn src/english/10103/cruces.md convention of rendering "the intended reading"; those places were re-rendered from the plate on 2026-07-28.)

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• Col 1034A — Introducamus cum interim ad coenam nostram. As printed the sentence does not construe: cum is a real word but has no object as a preposition and no clause as a conjunction, and introducamus is left with nothing to bring in. Rendered as closely as the printed words allow, cum standing where the plate puts it: "Let us meanwhile bring in with to our supper." The intended reading is eum ("let us bring him in"), which the answering clause ut … introduci mereamur ad coenam suam confirms.
• Col 1033D — si ex designatis animalibus tria ei fercula opponimus. Not an emendation: oppono means "set before / set over against," so "set three dishes before him" is the literal rendering of what is printed. Logged only because the parallel a line earlier (quales epulas ei apponamus) and the supper imagery suggest the compositor meant apponimus.
• Col 1034B–C — Ignem, inquit, veni mittere in terram; et quid volo, nisi ut ardeat? (Luc. [1034C] XII.) — this scripture locator is printed inline, not as an [n: …] note, and a column anchor falls inside it. It has deliberately NOT been wrapped in a [f: …] tag (pattern 4): it is scripture, and [f: …] feeds the fontes pool, not the scripture index; a tag could not contain the anchor in any case. Kept verbatim, unanglicized, anchor in place. Same treatment for (Psal. [1036B] XXXII) in chunk 0001. A human should decide whether such inline scripture locators want their own marker.

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• Col 1034D — Credo videre bona Domini interra viventium (Ps. 26:13). interra is not a word — in terra run together by the compositor. Carried through untranslated per Pattern 7: "the good things of the Lord interra of the living." (It sits inside an italicized scripture quotation, so the carried form takes no further italic marker.)
• Col 1035A — in spei suae cercitudine solidatur. cercitudine is not a word; the intended reading is certitudine ("certainty"), which the same work prints correctly at 1036D–1037A (ad spei nostrae certitudinem). Carried through untranslated per Pattern 7: "he is made firm in the cercitudine of his hope."
• Col 1035B — Sed coelum illud quod intra non est, cur non habeat sui generis terram…. Rendered as printed, negative and all: "But that heaven which is not within — why should it not have a land of its own kind…" — which reverses the argument. The intended reading is quod intra nos est ("which is within us"): nos has dropped out and non stands in its place. The evidence is the sentence immediately preceding (De regno coelorum catholica fides certissime agnovit quod intra nos sit) and the one immediately following (Si intra nos est regnum coelorum, cur non et intra nos sit terra viventium?).
• Col 1036D — In melle accipe quidquid glorificae jucunditatis in corporeis sensibus incorporea substantia distillat. Both printed words are Latin, so the phrase is rendered as printed: "an incorporeal substance distils into the corporeal senses," which collapses the antithesis. The intended reading is incorporeis, wrongly divided: the immediately preceding clause is corporeis sensibus corporea substantia, and the argument needs the incorporeal member on both sides of the second.
• Col 1036D — the same sentence ends without terminal punctuation in the plate (…distillat then the paragraph break). Reproduced as printed; no full stop supplied.
• Col 1036D–1037A — hujusmodi promissionnes, with doubled n. Typographic only, but promissionnes is not a word, so it is carried through untranslated per Pattern 7: "to inherit promissionnes of this kind together with faithful Abraham." The intended reading is promissiones, printed correctly two sentences earlier (dictae sunt promissiones).
• Col 1038A–B — Quid enim est aliud eum vitulum offerre, quam male jam et desiderare subesse potius quam praeesse…. male is a real word ("badly, ill") and is rendered as printed: "than now ill, and to desire to be under rather than over," which leaves the et joining an adverb to an infinitive. The intended reading is malle ("to prefer"), which the doublet malle … et desiderare and the following subesse potius quam praeesse both require. Note also that the sentence is interrogative in sense but printed with a full stop; reproduced as printed.

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• Col 1039D — quoniam digni, habiti sunt pro nomine Jesu contumeliam pati. Stray comma between digni and habiti. Ignored in the English as the compositor's slip; no other consequence.
• Col 1041C — cum cor mansuetum et pium sibi extorquet pro Domino zelata, et increpationis cornibus delinquentes ferire. zelata is a real form (neuter plural participle of zelo, "things zealously pursued") and is rendered as printed: "wrings from itself things zealously pursued for the Lord, and to strike offenders with the horns of rebuke" — which leaves extorquet governing a noun and an infinitive at once. The intended reading is zelare, which the parallel infinitive ferire in the same clause requires.

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• Col 1041D — Sed merito et hoc in loco, juxta superiorem modum. quaeritur cur ab Abraham…. A full stop is printed mid-sentence after modum, before the lower-case quaeritur. Rendered as printed per Pattern 8: the stop stands and the continuation stays lower-case. The stop is a plate defect; the intended reading is a comma (or no mark), with quaeritur continuing the sentence.
• Col 1042B — qui non solum in potentiores vel aeque potentes, sed etiam potentiores … impugnat. Rendered as printed, with potentiores twice: "not only those more powerful or equally powerful, but even the more powerful," which destroys the climax. The first member must be the weaker one (minus potentes / inferiores) for sed etiam potentiores to mean anything; that is the intended reading. Per Pattern 11, the repeated occurrence is now marked: "but even [d: the more powerful]."

Citation anomalies — passed through verbatim, flagged for a human

[n: …] contents are reproduced unchanged per the marker rule. These are Migne's numbers, not ours:

• Col 1031C [n: (Psal. LXX)] vs col 1041D [n: (Psal. LXV)] — the same verse (Holocausta medullata offeram tibi cum incenso arietum, Ps. 65:15 Vulg.) is cited two different ways in the one work. LXV is right; LXX at the incipit is wrong. Both stand as printed.
• Col 1033D [n: (Apoc. IV)] for Ecce ego pulso ad ostium… = Apoc. 3:20, not ch. 4.
• Col 1033B [n: (Prov. XI)] for Vir obediens loquitur victorias = Prov. 21:28, not ch. 11.
• Col 1035D [n: (Prov. XVIII)] for Impius cum venerit in profundum malorum contemnit = Prov. 18:3, correct.
• Col 1040A [n: (ibid.)] (Rebecca's counsel) resolves to Gen. XXVII, the immediately preceding non-ibid. locator; left as printed for the indexer to resolve.

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.

### 1035B — dropped-word (high confidence) Printed: Sed coelum illud quod intra non est, cur non habeat sui generis terram, quemadmodum et illud quod cernitur habet terram suam?

Conjecture: quod intra nos est

The sentence immediately before it establishes the premise: 'De regno coelorum catholica fides certissime agnovit quod intra nos sit.' The sentence immediately after it draws the inference from that same premise: 'Si intra nos est regnum coelorum, cur non et intra nos sit terra viventium?' The argument is a contrast between the inward heaven and the visible one ('illud quod cernitur'), so the subject here must be the heaven that IS within; as printed, 'quod intra non est' makes the subject the heaven that is not within — i.e. the visible heaven — which destroys the contrast the same clause goes on to draw and contradicts both neighbours.

### 1036D — letter-inversion (medium confidence) Printed: In melle accipe quidquid glorificae jucunditatis in corporeis sensibus incorporea substantia distillat

Conjecture: incorporeis sensibus (word-division: 'in corporeis' for 'incorporeis')

This is the second limb of a strict two-term antithesis whose first limb is printed one clause earlier: 'In lacte ergo intellige quidquid beatificae dulcedinis corporeis sensibus corporea substantia subministrat.' Milk = corporeal substance to corporeal senses; honey must therefore be incorporeal substance to incorporeal senses. The distinction was set out just above in the same column: 'Pertinet ad beatitudinem hominis exterioris exterioribus oculis videre in Deo naturam humanam. Pertinet vero ad beatitudinem hominis interioris interioribus oculis videre in homine naturam divinam.' As printed, the honey-clause assigns the inner man's beatitude to the bodily senses, collapsing the antithesis into its opposite.