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 1139 — printed
qu a(space-split). Read asquae("who," resuming beata Virgo qu a singulariter se electam videbat). Rendered "who saw herself singularly chosen." Broken-type, not an emendation of sense. - col ~1140 —
Omne quod praevidit se facturum, facit; nec aliquid quod non praevidit fieri non dubium, sed fieri necesse est.The clausenec aliquid quod non praevidit fieri non dubiumis syntactically defective (dangling double negative, no clean main verb). Rendered literally: "nor is there anything which he did not foresee to come about — it is not doubtful, but it is necessary that it come about." Intended sense appears to be "nothing comes to pass that he did not foresee; rather it necessarily comes to pass." Left literal per register rule; flagged as likely corruption in the printed Latin.
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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.
1140 — added-negative (migne, low confidence)
Printed: Omne quod praevidit se facturum, facit; nec aliquid quod non praevidit fieri non dubium, sed fieri necesse est.
Conjecture: nec aliquid quod praevidit fieri, non dubium, sed fieri necesse est — the intrusive non before praevidit (with the second non attaching to dubium) turns the standard point about foreknowledge and necessity into the claim that what God did NOT foresee must necessarily happen
The same work has just laid down the opposite of divine non-foresight: Videre Deo per cognitionem, est nihil eorum quae sunt ignorare ("for God, to see through knowledge is to be ignorant of none of the things that are"), quoting Omnia nuda et aperta sunt oculis ejus. The immediately preceding clause here is likewise Omne quod praevidit se facturum, facit. As printed the sentence necessitates the occurrence of what God did not foresee, which nothing in the surrounding exposition allows; the English preserves the break with a dash rather than repairing it.
1142 — sense-reversing-letter (migne, medium confidence)
Printed: *Suscepit, sicut medicus aegrotum, Israel puerum suum: id est, humilem et innocentem suscepit, ut sanaret infirmum, et redimeret captivum; ut justificaret impium, et salvaret justum.*
Conjecture: salvaret injustum (or perditum) — the printed justum has lost the privative; every other member of the series names the defective party (infirmum, captivum, impium)
The sentence's own opening simile forbids it: Suscepit, sicut medicus aegrotum — a physician takes up the sick, not the sound; and the next clause states outright that Christ does not find his object already in the saved condition, Suscepit Israel, non quem invenit Israel, sed ut faceret Israel ("not whom he found as Israel, but that he might make him Israel"). To "save the righteous" is exactly what this pair of neighbours denies.