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Library / Commentaries and Disputations on Genesis, Volume I

Book Four — the creation of the first human beings

A DISPUTATION ON THE FORMATION and excellence of the human body

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A DISPUTATION ON THE FORMATION and excellence of the human body.1

DISPVTATIO DE FORMATIONE et praestantia humani corporis.

CAETERUM, quo planiùs intelligatur quàm aptè et decenter, quantóque artificio et sapientia opificis Dei conformatio humani corporis designata et perfecta sit, libet hoc loco nonnullas hac de re quaestiones disceptare.
Now, that it may be more plainly understood how aptly and becomingly, and with how great artifice and wisdom of God the maker, the conformation of the human body was designed and perfected, it pleases me here to debate some questions on this matter.2

Translator’s notes

  1. Page header: 'COMMENTARIORVM 406.' Title of the new disputation, set centered beneath a rule. ↩
  2. Introduction to the disputation. ↩