Dist. 44, Part 1, Divisio Textus
by St. Bonaventure
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### COMMENTARY ON DISTINCTION XLIV.
#### Part I.

*On the resurrection with respect to its mode—namely, of what quality and of what magnitude the bodies rise.*

*But some are wont to inquire and ask* etc.

### DIVISION OF THE TEXT.

Above the Master treated of the resurrection, whether it is. Here he determines how it is, by showing what and how much and of what quality rises; and this part has two [subdivisions]. In the first he shows of what quality and of what magnitude the bodies rise. In the second he determines concerning aborted fetuses, showing that they rise in no magnitude, because they did not live, there: *This too must be investigated* etc.

The first part has two [subdivisions]. In the first part he determines how great and of what quality the bodies of those rising will be. In the second, however, he determines how the bodies of the damned will be passible, there: *But if it is asked concerning the bodies of the wicked, in what manner.* The first part has two [subdivisions]. In the first he determines in what stature they rise. In the second he determines of what quality they rise, there: *But this [belongs] in the bodies of the Saints.* The first part has two [subdivisions]. In the first he determines in what age and stature they rise. In the second he determines in what manner the stature of the body ought to be restored, and by what; where he determines what rises in what, there: *For the earthly matter does not perish for God* etc.

Likewise the second part, in which he treats of the quality of the bodies, has two [subdivisions]. In the first he shows that the bodies of the elect will lack all deformity. In the second, however, concerning the bodies of the reprobate he leaves [it] in doubt; yet he suggests that they will not lack deformities, there: *But concerning the reprobate it is wont to be asked* etc. And thus he determines three things. First, what of a man rises unto the completion of his stature; second, in what part it rises; and third, of what quality—whether with deformities, or without.

### TREATMENT OF THE QUESTIONS.

For the understanding of this part three things principally are asked.

First it is asked, what rises in the human body.

Second, in what.

Third it is asked, of what quality the bodies rise.

Concerning the first, two things are asked.

First it is asked, what rises with respect to deficiency.

Second, what rises with respect to superfluity.

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