Impurities and dregs

Meaning

The learned words for filth and dregs first accompany the demand for a pure material body, then receive an explicit theological referent: inherited Adamic sin. Part II: matter and the work · unit 16 opposes purified, living gold to common gold weakened or adulterated through use. Part IV: the spiritual comparison · unit 33 describes Christ’s blood as cleansing human frailty and inborn impurity, and Part IV: the spiritual comparison · unit 35 explains that impurity through original sin and baptismal rebirth. English “filth and dregs” keeps the earthy imagery without pretending that sin is a material residue. The selected abbreviated and inflected Latin forms are preserved as printed; the source-label’s dictionary families are only access labels, not additional attestations.