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Nine Books on the Nature of Things
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Book 8 · Separation · Passage 44
Source reference
- Latin witness
- 1605 pp. 247–248
Latin
His omnibus completis & exactis, res Elementares universae ad primam materiam Elementorum redibunt, & in aeternum torquebuntur, nec unquam consumentur, &c. Econtra sacramentales creaturae omnes redibunt ad primam materiam sacramentorum, hoc est, clarificabuntur, & in aeterno gaudio Deum creatorem suum glorificabunt & venerabuntur, a mundo ad mundum, ab aeterno ad aeternum. Amen.
English
When all these things are completed and accomplished, all elemental things will return to the first matter of the elements and be tormented eternally, yet never consumed. All sacramental creatures, by contrast, will return to the first matter of the sacraments: that is, they will be glorified, and in eternal joy will glorify and worship God their creator, from world to world and from eternity to eternity. Amen.
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The complete supplied Latin–English edition of the historical title, dedication and all nine books, with 363 separately labelled historical marginal notes, 117 modern annotations and the complete Diotimos study apparatus. The transmitted composite work is traditionally attributed to Paracelsus; individual authorship remains qualified.
Historical Text and Translation
The normalized Latin follows the complete 1605 Frankfurt Palthenian witness, volume six, printed pages 198–271, in SUB Göttingen PPN578052199, historical scans 182–255. Earlier textual tradition is German; the individual translator of the 1605 Latin text is not identified. The dedication’s 1537 date is transmitted text, not an established date for the composite work.
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