copulae

On Sellars 'view, such special copulae and metalinguistic indicators initially arise in response to the need to abstract from our domestic sign designs in order to classify items of different languages on the basis of such functional criteria.

Wilfrid Sellars Rosenberg, Jay 2009

Harvey's rendering is: "For, say they, Christ taught them the nature of their copulae, (namely,) that being cognisant of their (limited) perception of the Unbegotten they needed no higher knowledge, and that He enounced," etc. the words seem scarcely capable of yielding this sense: we have followed the interpretation of Billius.

ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001

Hancintimam coniundioncm cuidenti ex - emplo copulae coniugalis, qua duo fiunt quafivnacaro,

Speculum peccatorum aspirantium ad solidam vitae emendationem, siue, Admiranda S. Augustini conversio : historica eiusdem narratione, discursibus moralibus, et emblematis adornata : cum indice concionum per quatuor octauas eiusdem diui et dominicos dies Quellinus, Erasmus, 1607-1678 1637