Dist. 18, Part 1, Divisio Textus
by St. Bonaventure
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### COMMENTARY ON DISTINCTION XVIII.

#### Part I.

*On the power of the keys and the use of them in the penitential forum.*

> Here it is wont to be asked, whether sin, once altogether remitted by God, etc.

### DIVISION OF THE TEXT.

Above the Master treated of confession with respect to its necessity on the part of the penitent; here, secondly, he treats of it with respect to the power on the part of the one absolving. Now this part has two [parts]. In the first he treats of the power in itself, in the second in comparison to those who receive [it], below in the nineteenth distinction: *After it has been shown, what the apostolic keys are,* etc. The first part has two [parts]. In the first he determines concerning the keys and their use in the penitential forum; in the second, however, in the judicial forum, there: *There is also another mode of binding and loosing,* etc.

The first part has two [parts]. In the first he inquires into and determines the truth. In the second, for the sake of fuller unfolding, he argues to the contrary, and this there: *But it is asked, whether [the priest] is able to loose from sin.* The first part has two [parts]. In the first he raises his question. In the second he determines [it], there: *These keys are not corporeal.* Likewise the second part has two [parts]. In the first he argues to both sides, showing first, that priests cannot loose from sin and bind; second, that they can loose from sin and bind. In the second he determines the mode by which they loose and bind, there: *Yet this was not conceded to the priests, to whom nevertheless* etc., where he shows, that priests are said to bind and loose either with respect to the showing [of it], or with respect to temporal punishment.

### TREATMENT OF THE QUESTIONS.

For the understanding of this part, inquiry is made concerning the keys, insofar as they pertain to the penitential forum. And concerning this three things are principally asked.

First it is asked concerning the keys in general.

Second, concerning the power of binding and loosing, which is the principal key.

Third, concerning the knowledge of discerning.

With respect to the first, two things are asked.

First it is asked, whether the keys of the Church have been given.

Second, granted that [they have], it is asked, for what they have been given.

### ARTICLE I.

#### *On the keys in general.*

### QUESTION I.

#### *Whether the keys of the Church have been given.*

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