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Hugh of Saint-Cher Uses “Without” With “Or” To Teach Both Are Required
Along the lines of our most recent video, “These Latin Passages Illuminate The Truth About A Controversial Issue”, this is an interesting passage from Hugh of Saint-Cher. Hugh of Saint-Cher (c. 1190–1263) was a French Dominican friar, cardinal, and an important biblical scholar of the 13th century. In his Commentary On Luke 10:27, he writes:
Commentary on Luke 10:27
Diliges Dominum Deum tuum ex totis viribus totius cordis ex totis viribus totius anime ex totis viribus totius mentis…
“You shall love the Lord your God with all the powers of your whole heart, with all the powers of your whole soul, and with all the powers of your whole mind.
… {d} Ex tota mente id est memoria sine difficultate, vel sine oblivione. Hec non possunt impleri in via.
“With the whole mind, that is, with the memory without difficulty, or without forgetfulness. These things cannot be fulfilled on the way [i.e., in this present life / on the road of earthly existence]."
Here Hugh of Saint-Cher uses the Latin word “sine”, followed by a noun in the ablative case, followed by the word “or”, followed again by the word “sine”, and then followed by another noun in the ablative case. He does not employ that language to teach that only one of the two (i.e. the absence of difficulty or the absence of forgetfulness) is required to love God perfectly. Rather, he employs that construction to teach that, in his view, love of God with the whole mind would require the absence of both difficulty and forgetfulness, not just one without the other. Hugh of Saint-Cher thus uses the Latin word “sine”, followed by a noun in the ablative case, followed by the word “or”, followed again by the word “sine” to teach that both are necessary.
The examples covered in our video sufficiently prove our point, but this was an interesting additional example that served to directly refute another errant comment made by a “BOD” supporter. He falsely claimed that one could never repeat the “without” (sine) after “or” to teach that two things are required. He doesn’t know what he’s talking about, and they really just pile one error and false claim upon another.
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