Opera omnia (vol. 4)

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DjVu pp. 355 ff. are his *De contemptu mundi* (a.k.a. *De miseria conditionis humanæ* ). This is Pope Innocent's very popular work of the 13th cen. I'd been looking for a work on the contempt of the world (a characteristic theme of [*Imitation of Christ*](https://isidore.co/calibre#panel=book_details&book_id=2934), too). It's title is the earliest usage of "human condition" I've seen, a phrase I used to object to, because it makes it seem being human is a disease. Its' bk. 1 is an excellent summary of the *librorum sapientiæ* , esp. Ecclesiastes, "which aims at contempt of the world, as is clear from [Jerome’s prologue](https://sites.google.com/site/aquinasstudybible/home/ecclesiastes/jerome-commentary-on-ecclesiastes)" ([Hic est liber](https://isidore.co/aquinas/Principium.htm#1) pt. 2). cf. [this English transl.](https://isidore.co/calibre#panel=book_details&book_id=7286) or [this more recent one](https://archive.org/details/onmiseryofhumanc00inno) * *De quatuor speciebus desponsationum* [pp. 659–66, DjVu pp. 335-9] * *De quadripartita specie nuptiarum liber* [pp. 921–68, DjVu pp. 467-90; [Engl. transl.](https://isidore.co/calibre/#panel=book_details&book_id=7288): PDF pp. 65-74][Sermon III](https://isidore.co/calibre/#panel=book_details&book_id=7288) ([ *PL* 217:664](https://isidore.co/calibre/#panel=book_details&book_id=7285)-5) "On the First Anniversary" (of his pontifical election), which, in the context of nuptial analogies, says (p. 38 = DjVu p. 71):> Propter causam vero fornicationis Ecclesia Romana posset dimittere Romanum pontificem. Fornicationem non dico carnalem, sed spiritualem; quia non est carnale, sed spirituale conjugium, id est propter infidelitatis errorem> [The Roman church can dismiss the Roman pontiff only because of fornication—I mean not carnal, but spiritual fornication, for the marriage is not carnal but spiritual—and this fornication is the sin of heresy.]Liberet nos Dominus ab hæreticis.