Dist. 11, Divisio Textus
by St. Bonaventure
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## Commentary on Distinction XI

*On the eternal procession of the Holy Spirit as regards the principle from which He proceeds.*

"*Here it must be said that the Holy Spirit is from the Father and the Son.*"

### Division of the text

Above the Master treated of the procession of the Holy Spirit in relation to the one proceeding; this is the second part, in which he treats of the same procession in relation to the principle *from which*. And this part is divided in two. In the first he shows that the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son. In the second he determines in what way He proceeds from them — below, in distinction twelve. Likewise it is asked, since the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son, [in what manner].

The first part again has four [subdivisions]. In the first the Master shows by many authorities that He proceeds from the Father and the Son. In the second, on the contrary, by the reasons of the Greeks, he shows that He proceeds from the Father alone, beginning at: "*The Greeks, however, say that the Holy Spirit proceeds only from the Father*". In the third he resolves and settles the authorities and reasons of the Greeks, beginning at: "*We, however, determine those words thus*". In the fourth he shows that the Greeks' confession of faith implicitly contains our own, beginning at: "*It is to be known, however, that the Greeks confess*".

### Treatment of the questions

For the understanding of this part, two principal points are asked.

First it is asked concerning the procession of the Holy Spirit as regards the principle, and it is asked: *whether the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and from the Son*.

Second, *whether He proceeds from the Father and the Son in so far as they are one, or in so far as they are different*.

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