Dist. 26, Divisio Textus
by St. Bonaventure
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## Commentary on Distinction XXVI.

#### *On the properties of the persons, insofar as they are assigned within the persons themselves.*

> *"Now let us consider the properties of the persons" etc.*

### Division of the text.

Above, the Master treated of the things which are said of God according to substance; here, in the second place, he treats of the things which are said of God according to relation.

Now this part is divided into two. In the first he treats of the things which are said of God properly and eternally. In the second he treats of the things which are said of God temporally and in common, below in the thirtieth distinction: *"For there are certain things which are said from time."*

The first part is again divided into two; for certain properties or relations are personal, and with these he deals first; certain are non-personal, and with these he deals second, below in the twenty-eighth distinction: *"Furthermore, it must be considered that not only three etc."*

The first part is again divided into two. In the first he assigns the properties of the persons, insofar as they are assigned within the persons themselves. In the second, however, he treats of them insofar as they may be expressed by various names, below in the twenty-seventh distinction: *"Here it can be asked whether the properties etc."*

The first part has two [subdivisions]. In the first the Master assigns the properties of the persons. In the second, however, he raises a difficulty concerning their assignment, there: *"Here it is asked how a property is said to belong to the begotten etc."*

The first part has three parts according to three chapters. In the first he determines to whom the properties are to be assigned — namely, to the hypostases. In the second he assigns what those properties are, there: *"Now let us consider the properties of the persons."* In the third he shows what those properties are, since they are relations, or said according to relation, yet not according to accident; and this he does in the third chapter, there: *"Wherefore it should be known that not every etc."*

*"Here it is asked how a property is said to belong to the begotten God."* This is the second part, in which he raises difficulties concerning the aforesaid assignments, and this part has two [subdivisions]. In the first he raises a difficulty against the assignment of the property of the Son. In the second, against the assignment of the property of the Holy Spirit, there: *"Here it can be asked whether the Father."* The first part has two [subdivisions]. In the first he poses the question and resolves it by the authority of Hilary. In the second he applies that solution also to the property of the Holy Spirit, which is *gift*, there: *"So also it must be said concerning the Holy Spirit."*

Likewise the second part has two parts. In the first he inquires and answers; in the second he refutes a certain position of some. The first he does there: *"Here it can be asked whether the Father etc."*; the second he does there: *"But certain ones think that the Holy Spirit etc."*

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