Dist. 8, Part 2, Divisio Textus
by St. Bonaventure
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## COMMENTARY ON DISTINCTION VIII.

#### Part II.

*On the things that integrate the Sacrament of the Eucharist, namely the word and the element.*

*Now the form is that which he himself there set forth, etc.*

FOR THE TEXT OF THE MASTER SEE ABOVE, PAGE 178.

### DIVISION OF THE TEXT.

Above the Master treated of the things antecedent to the Sacrament of the Eucharist. Here he treats of the things that integrate it, which are two, namely the word and the element or visible sign; and this part has two parts. In the first he treats of the form of the word. In the second, of the signification or content of the sign, at: *Now, what the Sacrament is there.*

Each part has two. For in the first he determines, first, what the form is. Second, how it is to be used, namely whether as it was instituted with respect to time: and this he does at: *Where it is worthy of consideration.*

Likewise the second part, in which he treats of the ground of signifying, has two. In the first he determines what is the sign there and what is signified. In the second he determines the likeness and the fittingness of the one to the other, at: *Furthermore that visible species.*

### TREATMENT OF THE QUESTIONS.

For the understanding of this part, according to the two things which the Master determines here, two things are principally asked.

First it is asked about the form of the word in the Sacrament of the Eucharist.

Second, about the signification of the Sacrament itself.

Concerning the first, two things are asked.

First it is asked about the form of the word over the bread.

Second, about the form of the word over the wine.

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