Helbig’s dissent concerning creation

Meaning

The Latin phrase means concerning creation. It identifies the precise subject on which Helbig says the attributed author’s opinion disagrees with his own orthodox authorities. He would have altered or removed the account, he says, had this not undone the arrangement of the book. This is a prefatory distancing formula, not an objection voiced and later withdrawn by the main narrator. It marks the collection’s internal difference of doctrinal voices.