Blaise Pascal, Provincial letters no. 8, trans. M’Crie. Pascal has just cited "sa Théologie fondamentale, p. 543." Unable to find any comment on this in either vol. 5 of the critical Brunschvicg edition of 1904-1914, or vol. 1 of the Le Guern Pléiade edition of 1998, or via quick-and-dirty searches of the full-text in JSTOR and the Atla Religion Database on the French, I reproduce what I’ve found at secs. 1578 (MDLXXVIII) and 1579 (MDLXXIX) in the printing of 1657, albeit not on a p. 543. (I could find no edition/volume of this work in the Hathi Trust Digital Library containing a p. 543, but have not yet checked, say, Google Books. Secs. 1578 and 1579 had become secs. 2578 and 2579 in a latter printing, by the way, so variations like that should also be kept in mind.)
p. 444, col. 2 (marginal summaries):
- "An potuerint occidi Ianseniani", Whether the Jansenists can be killed.
- "An Iesuitis Iansenius nocuerit", Whether Jansenius harmed [(defamed)] the Jesuits.
p. 445, col. 1 (marginal summary):
- "Iansenius occidi a Iesuitis non potuit", Jansenius could not be killed by the Jesuits.
p. 445, cols. 1-2 (text above and beside the summary just above):
- The Jansenists accuse the Jesuits of Pelagianism, and [so] I ask first Whether they are calumniators, and second, Whether they can be killed. . . . And I respond to the second that Jansenius could not be killed when alive, nor can the Jansenists today, who remain.
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