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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 CREATION of the rational soul

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A DISPUTATION ON THE CREATION of the rational soul.1

DISPVTATIO DE CREATIONE animae rationalis.

VERVM super his verbis quibus Moses creationem animae rationalis adumbravit, tres quaestiones tractandae sunt.
BUT upon these words by which Moses adumbrated the creation of the rational soul, three questions must be treated.2

Translator’s notes

  1. New disputation divider (rule above and below), opening on Gen 2:7. Catchword from PDF 462 was 'DISPV'. ↩
  2. Programmatic sentence (large initial 'V') announcing the three quaestiones of the disputation. ↩