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[6] Petrus Gregorius, De republica, X, 4, 5. [Gregorius presents this passage as a statement by Moses in Deuteronomy 32.
Althusius retains the reference to Deuteronomy 32, but does not mention Moses.]
[7] Job 12:12. [This Biblical reference is also to be found in Gregorius, De republica, X, 4, 5.]
[8] Gregorius, De republica, X, 4, 5. [Gregorius then proceeds with brief comments on memory and discretion, but does not
mention judgment.]
[9] Ibid.,, X 4, 6. [There are slight variations in wording in this quotation and others here employed from Gregorius.]
[10] [Gregorius, De republica, X, 3, 3.]
[11]
[12]
Ecclesiasticus 10:3.
Wisdom 6:26.
[13] [Gregorius, De republica, X, 3, 3.]
[14] [This same comparison of man with an animal, although not in the same words, is found in Gregorius, ibid., X, 3, 4.]
[15]
Exodus 18:21; Deuteronomy 1:13–15; Numbers 11:16.
[16]
[Actually he has not said this before. But he has spoken earlier in this chapter of the division in the next sentence,
namely, the distinction he has borrowed from Lipsius between political understanding and political choice.]
[17]
[Chapters XXI–XXVI and XXVII respectively.]
[18]
XXVI.]
Political understanding is discussed in Chapters XXI–XXV and the first part of XXVI, and political choice in the latter part of
[19]
[Doctrine is discussed in Chapters XXI–XXV, and practice in the first part of XXVI.]
[20] Whence practice (experience) begot me, and memory brought me forth; the Greeks call me sophia, and you sapientia.
[21]
Ecclesiastes 12:12.
[22] Duties, I, 6. [The unacknowleged omission from this quotation reads, “and he who wishes to avoid this error, as all should,
will apply both time and diligence to the weighing of evidence.” Althusius also makes other minor changes in wording.]
[23] [The word regnum, which is consistently rendered as “realm” in this translation unless otherwise noted, conveys in this
instance much more the meaning of “rule.” For regnum is here used interchangeably with imperium, and will be dropped by
Althusius in favor of imperium when he turns to a discussion of the nature of rule or imperium in Chapters XXIV–XXV.]
[24]
[Chapters XXI–XXII, XXIII, and XXIV–XXV respectively.]
[25] There is another treatment of common law and proper law in Althusius’ Dicaelogica, I, 13 and 14.]
[26]
Romans 1:19.
[27] Laws, II, 4.
[28] [In this discussion of common and proper law Althusius usually employs jus interchangeably with lex. Consequently, both
Latin words will be translated as “law” except where noted. The reader should also observe that Althusius here employs common
law ( jus commune) in a different sense from that of Chapter IV where it refers to the fundamental law of a particular
association.]
[29]
Romans 2:14 f.
[30]
I Corinthians 1:12; 4:4; 5:1 f.; 11:14; Acts 23:1; Psalm 26:1–3; I Timothy 1:19; Proverbs 28:1; Romans 2:15; 9;
Ecclesiastes 7:22.
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