Dist. 20, Divisio Textus
by St. Bonaventure
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### COMMENTARY ON DISTINCTION XX.

#### *On the equality of the three persons with respect to power and virtue.*

> *Now it remains to show, how any of these persons* etc.

### DIVISION OF THE TEXT.

Above the Master showed the equality of the persons with respect to magnitude; here he shows the equality with respect to power and virtue. And this part has three parts. In the first he proposes what he intends. In the second he proves it, at: *Nothing, he says, less than the Father has* etc. In the third he dissolves a doubt or objection to the contrary, at: *But perhaps you will say, by this very fact greater is* etc.

The first and last parts remaining undivided, the middle one is divided into three, according to three proofs or reasons, of which the first is taken from the authority of the Lord, John the sixteenth: *All things which the Father has are mine*. The second is taken by deduction to the impossible, since if He did not beget an equal, either He could and would not, and so was envious; or He willed and could not, and so was impotent; and this is placed at: *Likewise in another way he proves the Son equal to the Father*. The third reason is ostensive, taken by likeness from created generation, and is placed at: *This, however, by a human likeness*.

### TREATMENT OF THE QUESTIONS.

For the understanding of the things which are said in the present distinction, two things are principally asked.

First it is asked whether in divine matters an equation of power is to be posited.

Secondly, whether in divine matters an order is to be posited.

As to the first, two things are asked.

First it is asked whether in divine matters an equation of power is to be posited with respect to the extension of possibles.

Secondly, whether there is there an equation with respect to the intension of power.

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