Dist. 40, 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 XL.
### *On the distinction of the two precepts, in which a twofold concupiscence is forbidden, in comparison to the difference between the Law and the Gospel.*

*The sixth precept is, etc.*

### DIVISION OF THE TEXT.

Above, the Master determined concerning the distinction of the commandments of the Decalogue as to the precepts of the first table and as to the precepts of the second, which regard outward works, and concerning the perversities which have opposition and repugnance to them. But in this third part he determines concerning the distinction of the two precepts, in which the Lord forbids a twofold concupiscence, in comparison to the difference between the Law and the Gospel. Now this part is divided into three particulars. In the first he sets forth the distinction of the aforesaid commandments. But in the second, because in the aforesaid commandments the old Law seems to agree with the new, he inquires into the difference between the Law and the Gospel, there: *But since here the concupiscence of another's wife is forbidden, etc.* But in the third he briefly recapitulates the ten commandments already determined, there: *You have heard the ten strings of the psaltery, etc.* Now the subdivision and meaning of the parts is sufficiently manifest in the text.

### TREATMENT OF THE QUESTIONS.

Now for the understanding of this part there falls here a question concerning the difference between the new Law and the old, about which three things are asked according to the threefold difference which is wont to be assigned.

*First*, it is asked concerning the difference which is assigned with respect to the root.

*Second*, concerning the difference which is assigned with respect to the effect.

*Third*, concerning the difference which is assigned with respect to the exercise, or the burden attached.

### SOLE ARTICLE.
### *On the difference between the new Law and the old.*