Dist. 32, 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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## COMMENTARY ON DISTINCTION XXXII.

### *How original sin is healed.*

*Since it was said above that original sin* etc.

### DIVISION OF THE TEXT.

Above, the Master showed how original sin is transmitted. In this part he intends to show how it is healed. Now this part is divided into two parts. In the first of these the Master determines how original sin is to be deleted in baptism; which indeed is the work of divine mercy. But secondly he determines how, in the infusion and punishment of the soul itself, the rectitude of divine justice is preserved, there: *It is also wont to be asked, by what justice it is held* etc. He does this because *all the ways of the Lord are mercy and truth*; and therefore, alongside the kindness of mercy, it was also fitting that the equity of justice be manifested.

The first part is divided into three parts. In the first he shows how in baptism original sin is deleted on the part of the soul. Secondly, how it must be healed on the part of the flesh, there: *But it is wont to be asked, whether the flesh itself also* etc. Thirdly he determines concerning the penalty which remains in both, namely concerning concupiscence, from what it is as from its author, there: *Moreover it is wont to be asked, whether concupiscence* etc.

Likewise the second principal part has three parts. In the first part he determines whether God ought in justice to impute original guilt to the soul. But secondly he asks why God wills to join that soul to a defiled body, there: *But if it is asked, why God, who made the soul itself* etc. In the third he determines of what sort the soul is created by its Author, there: *Here it is wont to be asked by some, whether the soul is such* etc. — And thus, in sum, the Master in the present distinction principally determines two things, of which one is how original sin is deleted through the work of divine mercy; the other is how it is contracted, the equity of divine justice being preserved. And all the things that are determined in this part can be reduced to three; of which the first is how original guilt is deleted; the second is from what concupiscence itself comes; the third is how, in the infusion of the soul and the imputation of original guilt, divine justice is preserved.

### TREATMENT OF THE QUESTIONS.

For the understanding of this part, then, there here arises a question concerning three things.

For first it is asked concerning the deletion of original guilt.

Secondly it is asked concerning the defect of concupiscence that remains.

Thirdly it is asked concerning the equity of divine justice in the infusion and punishment of the soul.

Concerning the first, two things are asked.

First it is asked whether baptism deletes original sin as to the guilt, which is in the mind.

Secondly it is asked whether it deletes it as to its cause, which is in the flesh.

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