Dist. 24, Divisio Textus
by St. Bonaventure
Source text: Public Domain Mark 1.0. English translation/apparatus/encoding: CC BY-NC 4.0, Wroot Press.
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### DIVISION OF THE TEXT.

Above the Master excepted this name *person* from the general rule of substantial names, showing that it must be said *three persons*, not *three essences* or *three substances*. Here begins the second part, in which he determines what is signified when *three persons* is said; and this part has two parts. In the first he shows what is signified by a numerical word; in the second, what is signified by this name *person*, below in the twenty-fifth distinction: *Furthermore it must be considered, since this name person, as has been said before*.

The first part again has two: in the first he inquires and resolves in general; in the second he adapts his solution to the distinctive names in particular, there: *For when it is said one God*. And this second part has four parts. In the first part he determines what *one* and *many* signify; in the second what *two* and *three* signify, there: *Likewise also, when we say three persons by the name of the ternary*; in the third, what *discrete* and *distinct* signify, there: *But when we say: the persons are distinct*; in the fourth, what *trinity* and *triune* signify, there: *When therefore it is said trinity* etc.

### TREATMENT OF THE QUESTIONS.

For the understanding of those things which are said in the present distinction, there is a question concerning numerical terms, how they are taken in the divine. And concerning this three things are principally asked.

First it is asked concerning the numerical and partitive term, such as this name *one*.

Secondly, concerning the simply numerical term, such as this name *three*.

Thirdly, concerning the name embracing both, such as this name *triune*.

And as to the first, two questions are asked.

First it is asked whether this name *one* is said positively, or privatively, in the divine.

Secondly, whether it is said according to substance, or according to relation.

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