Dist. 1, Part 1, Divisio Textus
by St. Bonaventure
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## COMMENTARY ON DISTINCTION I.

#### Part I.

### *On the Sacraments in general.*

*For the Samaritan* etc.

### DIVISION OF THE TEXT.

And accordingly this book has two parts. In the first it treats of the Sacraments according to the soundness which they confer. In the second it treats of the glory to which they dispose, below in the forty-third distinction: *Lastly, concerning the condition of the resurrection*. The first part has two [parts]. In the first it determines concerning the Sacraments in general. In the second, in particular, below in the second distinction: *Now let us approach the Sacraments of the new law*. The first part, which contains the present distinction, has three parts. For in the first it sets down the proemial part. In the second, the principal part, at: *A Sacrament is the sign of a sacred thing* etc. In the third, the incidental part, at: *There was, however, among those Sacraments a certain one* etc.

Now in the proemial part it does two things. First, by a certain parable it shows what is the instituting cause of the Sacraments. Second, it states what things are to be determined concerning the Sacraments in general, at: *Concerning which four things first occur to be considered*.

But the principal part, in which it determines concerning the Sacraments in general, has four [members] according to those four things which the Master sets forth to be determined. For first it determines what a Sacrament is. Second, why it was instituted, at: *For a threefold cause the Sacraments were instituted*. Third, in what it is instituted, at: *Now there are two things in which* etc. Fourth, it assigns the difference of the new and the old, at: *It now remains to see the difference* etc.

### TREATMENT OF THE QUESTIONS.

For the understanding of those things which are determined in this first part, inquiry is made concerning the Sacraments in general.

And first it is asked concerning the institution of the Sacraments.

Second, concerning their signification.

Third, concerning their content.

Fourth, concerning their efficacy.

Fifth, concerning the difference of the Sacraments of the old and of the new [law].

Sixth, concerning the grace conferred in them.

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