Angelomus of Luxeuil
PL 115, col. 116A
English
But he was borne not by place but by power, ruling and sustaining that formless matter, as the will of a craftsman is borne above the things to be made. Hence another translation well says 'was lying upon,' or 'was warming,' in the likeness of a bird quickening her eggs with her heat, so that it may be plainly understood of the Holy Spirit and not of the spirit of this world, as the heretics thought.
Fresh draft (Claude), approved by Wilson Pruitt · cc-by
Latin
Sed ferebatur non localiter, sed potentialiter, regendo et sustentando ipsam informem materiam; sicut superfertur rebus fabricandis voluntas artificis. Unde bene alia translatio dicit: Incumbebat [ Z., incubabat ], seu confovebat, in similitudine volucris, ova calore animantis, ut manifeste intelligatur de Spiritu sancto, et non de spiritu hujus mundi, sicut haeretici putaverunt.
PL 115, col. 116A · pd
Notes
Angelomus splices the two Latin lines into one sentence: Augustine's 'not by place but by power' and Jerome's bird, the latter presented as 'another translation' and unnamed. Jerome's 'nonnulli' (some suppose) has hardened into 'haeretici'.
Power, not placeBird brooding, warming
Threads
- → echoes · Jerome
'alia translatio dicit: Incumbebat seu confovebat, in similitudine volucris, ova calore animantis' is Jerome's wording, unnamed and re-labelled as a translation variant. - → echoes · Augustine
'non localiter sed potentialiter … sicut superfertur rebus fabricandis voluntas artificis' is Augustine's craftsman (Gnl imp. §16 / Gnm I.5).