Dist. 40, Divisio Textus
by St. Bonaventure
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## COMMENTARY ON DISTINCTION XL.

*How acts and works are either rectified or made depraved by affection and end.*

*After these matters concerning acts, it seems that the following must be added,* etc.

### DIVISION OF THE TEXT.

Above, the Master showed how the will is rectified and made depraved by the end. In this part he intends to show how acts and works are to be rectified and made depraved by affection and end. And since the oblique is known through the straight, and evil through good, therefore this part has two [parts]. In the first part the Master inquires how the intention makes a work good. In the second part he inquires how, from the obliquity of the intention or of the will, a work comes to be made evil, below: *And when the intention, as was said above, makes a work good,* etc.

The first part is divided into two parts. In the first of these the Master shows that acts are to be weighed as good or evil from the intention and the end. In the second he asks whether this is universally true, that the goodness of works is caused by the goodness of the intention, there: *But it is asked whether all the works of man,* etc.

And that second part is subdivided into three parts. In the first of these he recounts the opinions of various persons. In the second he confirms one of them by the authority of Augustine, there: *But Augustine most evidently teaches,* etc. In the third, however, he returns to confirming the remaining matters, there: *Which things, nevertheless, certain persons contend,* etc.

### TREATMENT OF THE QUESTIONS.

Now for the understanding of this part, in which the Master principally treats of the goodness which works have from the intention, a question here arises concerning two things.

And first it is asked about the goodness which works receive from the intention.

Second, however, it is asked about the goodness which works add over and above to the intention.

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