Schemata
by St. Bonaventure
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### Schema I.

- Part I. Exhortation to exercising a threefold justice
  - first, justice towards God, threefold (c. 1.)
    - the justice of the heart
      - the exhortation to the good of justice
        - as to right affection — estimation — intention
      - the twofold profit of those who acquiesce
        - through grace in the present — glory in the future
      - the threefold detriment of those who despise
        - through exclusion from the fellowship of God — of wisdom — of the Holy Spirit
    - the justice of speech
      - the confidence of impunity which could arise is removed
        - from the judge's mercy — ignorance — impotence
      - the punishment of evil speech is proclaimed
        - to be brought into judgement [so printed: *iudicum* for *iudicium*] — to be examined by the judge — to be published to all
      - he is admonished to caution against depraved speech
    - the justice of work, to which he is admonished
      - through reasons on the side of creation
        - taken from the goodness of the Creator — on the side of the end of creation — on the side of the condition of the creature
      - » » » » retribution
        - touching the reward of justice — the penalty of injustice — the equity of the penalty, for four reasons
  - secondly, towards the neighbour (c. 2. 3.)
    - he is drawn back from the likeness of the unjust (c. 2.)
      - touching the threefold moving cause of living unjustly
        - on the side of state
          - of the world — of paradise — of hell
        - » » nature
          - as to human origin — composition — resolution
        - » » name or fame
      - describing the life of the unjust, who exhort one another with one accord
        - to be free for dissolution
          - speedily — abundantly — openly — in common — merrily
        - to the oppression of the just
          - without reverence for the person — without fear of justice
    - he is provoked to the likeness of the just (c. 3.)
      - through the commendation of their state
        - because they are delivered from a threefold evil
          - of damnation
          - of temporal death
          - of present vexation
        - because they are rewarded with a threefold good
          - as to the stole of the body
          - » judiciary power
          - » the perfection of glory
            - in the cognition of truth
            - the inherence of goodness
            - the perfection of comprehension
      - through the reprobation of the opposite state, refuting a threefold error
        - as to their own impunity
        - » the rewards of a continent life
        - » the punishments of incontinence
  - thirdly, towards himself, which is commended by comparing the state of the just and of the unjust (c. 4. 5.)
    - first, before the judgement (c. 4.)
      - as to the state of the present life
        - which is commended from itself
          - from comeliness — from immortality — from edification — from remuneration
        - » » from the reprobation of the opposite state
      - » » of death, where there is touched
        - the acceleration of death — the fivefold reason for the acceleration — the foolish opinion of the people
      - » » after death
        - in comparison with the impious living — dying — the dead rising again
    - secondly, in the judgement (c. 5.)
      - the constant accusation of the just, arising from seven reasons
      - the forced confession of the reprobate
        - the moving cause of this confession
          - affliction over the felicity of the good
          - anxiety over their own infelicity
        - the matter of the confession, which is the confession of their own error
          - concerning the life of the just, by confessing
            - the contempt of the Saints
            - the reprobation of their state
            - their present exaltation
            - their own error
          - concerning their own life
            - as to its laboriousness
            - » » blindness
            - » » uselessness
            - » » instability
      - the just retribution of both
        - first the reward of the just
          - for the doing of good
          - for the victory over evil
        - the penalty of the reprobate under the metaphor of one taking up arms
          - the king's purpose — equipment — war — the effect of the war — the remedy of the war

### Schema II.

- Part II. Exhortation to acquiring wisdom, brought forward by a threefold reason
  - Reason 1, taken from the peril of one's own office (c. 6.)
    - the punishment of unwise rulers
      - first a hearing is asked
      - secondly a fourfold cause for hearing is subjoined
    - the reward of wise rulers
      - he is roused to wisdom — the wage is declared
    - the admonition to the coveting of wisdom
      - by setting down an exhortation
      - » the ease of acquiring her
      - » her usefulness both in the present and in the future
      - » an exhortation to loving her
    - the promise of teaching
      - by setting forth the manifestation of the teaching — the faithfulness of teaching — the usefulness of hearing — the exhortation to hearing
  - Reason 2, taken from the example of the one admonishing (c. 7. 8.)
    - it is shown how he received wisdom (c. 7.)
      - the fivefold misery of human frailty is described
      - he is admonished to acquiring wisdom in four ways
      - it is declared from whom he learned the same, by showing
        - who taught — what things — through what medium, namely through the Spirit proceeding from Wisdom
    - how much he loved her (c. 8.)
      - which is shown from the desire of having her
        - on account of her absolute worth, compared in four ways
      - from the purpose of acquiring her
        - on account of the goods pertaining to the active and the contemplative life — specially to the active — to the contemplative
      - from the study of finding her
        - the diligence of seeking — the aptitude in receiving — the confidence of obtaining
    - how devoutly he sought her from the Lord (c. 9.)
      - the form of the petition is touched
        - the comeliness is praised — the gift is specified — he humbles himself — he intimates his need
      - » the twofold reason for his being heard
      - » the twofold end of the petition
      - » the difficulty of the end, by a twofold demonstration
  - Reason 3, taken from the many benefits and effects of wisdom
    - she promotes the wise, her friends (c. 10.)
      - through the benefits conferred on single persons
        - Adam — Noe — Abraham — Lot — Jacob — Joseph
      - through the benefits conferred on one people, Israel
        - the general benefit
        - the special benefits
          - in Egypt — after the going out from Egypt — in the going out itself
        - the giving of thanks
    - she punishes the adversaries (c. 11-19.)
      - through lighter punishments (11. 12.)
        - on the punishing of the Egyptians (c. 11.)
          - on account of the unjust oppression of the Israelites
          - on account of idolatry, through the sending in of beasts
        - on the punishing of the Canaanites
          - the justice of the punishing, made manifest from the intention of the one punishing
          - mercy in the manner of punishing
          - the instruction of the people in both, shown in four ways
          - the condemnation of the incorrigible adversaries
      - through heavier punishments, to condemnation (c. 13-19.)
        - on the merit of fault
          - the error of those practising idolatry (c. 13.)
            - first of those worshipping the creatures of God
              - the twofold cause of the error — the effect — the inexcusability — the comparison with others
            - secondly of those worshipping their own makings
          - the detestation of idols (c. 14.)
            - from their uselessness
            - » the offence of the Creator
            - » the novelty and the manner of their invention
            - » the effect of human corruption
          - the commendation of the true God (c. 15.)
            - from his own goodness
            - » » reward
            - » the vileness of idols
            - » the folly of those practising idolatry.
        - on the penalty of punishment
          - on the punishments preceding death (c. 16. 17.)
            - the twofold punishment of sense
            - the punishment of loss
          - on the punishments inflicting death
            - on the extermination of the firstborn in Egypt (c. 18.)
            - on the overthrow of the Egyptians in the sea (c. 19.)

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