Dist. 30, Dubia
by St. Bonaventure
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### DUBIUM CONCERNING THE LETTER OF THE MASTER

This alone, however, is briefly asked, since the Master in the letter, in that chapter: *Now it remains to consider*, names original sin by eight names — how those names are to be distinguished.

And it must be said to this, that original sin can be compared to that *from which* it is; and so it is called original sin, because it is from the origin; it is also called the *law of the flesh*, because it is contracted by the mediation of the flesh. — It can also be compared to that *toward which* it is, or to that toward which it inclines, and this either in a remote disposition, and so it is called *concupiscibility*; or in a nearer disposition, and so it is called *the tinder* (*fomes*); or also in a proximate disposition, and so it is called *concupiscence*. — It can also be compared to that *through which* it inclines, and so it is called *the law of the members*. — It can also be compared to that *against which* it is, and this in two ways: either inasmuch as it renders [one] disinclined to the good, and so it is called *the languor of nature*; or inasmuch as it predominates over the will, so as to bend it toward evil, and so it is called *the tyrant*. — And so it is clear that, according to the diverse comparisons, it is named by diverse names.

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