Dist. 12, Divisio Textus
by St. Bonaventure
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## COMMENTARY ON DISTINCTION XII.
### *On the condition of the assumed nature.*

*It is also customarily asked whether [God could have assumed] another man,* etc.

### DIVISION OF THE TEXT.

In the preceding [distinctions] the Master determined concerning the incarnation of the Word in itself. But in this part he determines concerning the incarnation itself, insofar as it is ordered to our redemption; and this part lasts from the beginning of this twelfth distinction up to the twenty-third distinction and contains eleven distinctions, just as the preceding part [did]. Now this part is divided into two. In the first of these he treats of those things according to which Christ's incarnation is ordered to our redemption. But in the second he treats of the redemption itself, which was accomplished through the passion, below in the nineteenth distinction: *Now let us ask in what way through his death* etc. And since the ordering of the incarnation to our redemption consists in four things, namely in conformity of nature, in fullness of grace, in defect of passibility, and in the use of virtue: therefore this part has four parts. In the first of these the Master determines concerning the kind of the assumed nature, whether it was of the kind of Adam. But in the second he treats of the fullness of grace, below in the thirteenth distinction: *Moreover it must be known that Christ according to [his] manhood* etc. But in the third he treats of the defect of passibility, below in the fifteenth distinction: *This too must not be passed over* etc. In the fourth he treats of the use of virtue, below in the seventeenth distinction: *This too it behooves [us] to consider, whether Christ* etc.

The first part contains the present distinction and is to be divided into three parts. In the first of these the Master determines concerning the condition of the assumed nature with respect to its kind. In the second, concerning the condition of the assumed nature with respect to free will, there: *Therefore not without reason is it asked, whether that [man]* etc. But in the third he treats of the condition of the assumed nature with respect to sex, there: *It is also customarily asked, although out of curiosity,* etc.

The first part has two [members]. In the first he raises the question and determines [it]. But in the second he confirms [it] by authority, there: *For as Augustine says* etc.

Likewise the second part has two [members]. In the first he determines the truth. In the second he resolves the sophistical reasonings, there: *Some, however, attempt to prove* etc.

Likewise the third part has two [members]. In the first he asks the question and determines [it]. In the second he confirms [it], and this there: *Whence Augustine in the book of the Eighty-three Questions* etc.

### TREATMENT OF THE QUESTIONS.

For the understanding of this part, according to the three things which the Master determines, a question arises here concerning three matters.

First it is asked concerning the fittingness of the assumed nature with respect to its kind.

Secondly it is asked with respect to the use of free will.

Thirdly it is asked concerning the assumed nature itself with respect to the fittingness of sex.

Concerning the first, two [questions] are asked.

First it is asked whether he ought to have assumed a man who was of the kind of Adam.

Secondly, whether it would have been fitting to assume Adam himself.

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