Dist. 10, Part 1, Divisio Textus
by St. Bonaventure
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### COMMENTARY ON DISTINCTION X.

#### Part I.

*The sophistical reasons of the heretics, who deny that the body of Christ is on the altar, are resolved.*

> There are likewise others who surpass the madness of those preceding.

### DIVISION OF THE TEXT.

Above the Master showed that the true body of Christ is received. In this part he shows that the true body of Christ is on the altar, proceeding from the refutation of the lesser error to the refutation of the greater. And this part is divided into two parts. In the first the Master replies to the sophistical reasons of those who said that the body of

Christ is not truly on the altar. In the second he confirms the truth by manifold authority, showing that the body is truly on the altar, and by what power this comes about, there: *I think a sufficient answer has been given to the heretics.*

The first part has two [subdivisions]. In the first he sets down authorities and reasons. In the second he subjoins expositions and determinations, there: *Which from the same reasoning* are all to be received. And that [part] likewise has two. In the first he expounds and determines certain authorities, which they, understanding them badly, were distorting. In the second, however, as it were incidentally, he expounds a certain tropical expression of Augustine, which might furnish someone with fuel for error, there: *Attend to these things diligently, because by a certain trope* etc.

### TREATMENT OF THE QUESTIONS.

For the understanding of this part five [things] are asked.

First it is asked, whether the body of Christ is on the altar according to truth.

Second, whether it is there according to quantity.

Third, whether it is there definitively.

Fourth, whether dimensively.

Fifth, whether it is whole in each part of the host.

### SINGLE ARTICLE.

#### *On the truth and mode of the presence of Christ in the Sacrament of the altar.*

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