Dist. 25, Divisio Textus
Book I: On the Mystery of the Trinity · Distinction 25
DIVISIO TEXTUS.
Supra ostendit1 Magister, quid significetur per terminum numeralem, cum dicimus, tres personas; hic secundo subdit, quid significetur per hunc terminum persona. Et dividitur haec pars in duas. In prima quaerit et opponit; in secunda solvit, ibi: Quibusdam videtur, quod nomine personae.
Prima pars habet tres partes. In prima movet dubitationem; in secunda opponit per auctoritatem Augustini ostendens, quod dicitur secundum substantiam, ibi: Persona enim, ut supra ait Augustinus; tertio opponit per rationem, tertio capitulo2 ibi: Aliter etiam potest ostendi, quod nomine personae: ubi monstrat illud idem.
Quibusdam videtur, quod nomine personae. Haec est secunda pars, in qua solvit; et dividitur haec pars in duas. In prima solvit secundum opinionem aliorum, qui dicunt, quod persona accipitur secundum essentiam, tamen relatam ad suppositum. In secunda solvit secundum opinionem suam per distinctionem ibi: Sciendum est igitur, quod hoc nomen persona multiplicem intelligentiam facit. Et haec pars dividitur in duas. In prima parte ostendit, quomodo accipitur hoc nomen persona in plurali; in secunda, quomodo accipitur in singulari, cum dicitur: alius est Pater, alius Filius in persona3, ibi: Nunc inspiciamus, utrum secundum eandem rationem. — Prima pars habet tres partes. In prima ponit distinctionem, per quam solvit; in secunda confirmat per auctoritatem Augustini, ibi: Et hic sensus adiuvatur ex verbis etc.; in tertia ad obiectionem respondet, ibi: Ad hoc autem quod illi dicunt. — Similiter sequens pars habet tres partes. In
prima determinat, quomodo accipitur persona, cum dicitur: alia est persona Patris; secundo, quomodo accipitur, cum dicitur: alius est Pater in persona; tertio hoc confirmat auctoritatibus. Primum facit ibi: Nunc inspiciamus etc.; secundum ibi: Deinde quaeritur, utrum secundum eandem rationem; tertium, ibi: Quod autem secundum substantiam dicatur.
TRACTATIO QUAESTIONUM.
Ad intelligentiam huius partis duo principaliter quaeruntur.
Primo quaeritur de quidditate huius nominis persona.
Secundo quaeritur de communitate eiusdem.
Quantum ad primum duo quaeruntur.
Primo quaeritur de persona, quid sit secundum rem.
Secundo, quid sit secundum definitionem.
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DIVISION OF THE TEXT.
Above the Master showed1 what is signified by a numeral term, when we say three persons; here, secondly, he adds what is signified by this term person. And this part is divided into two. In the first he inquires and raises objections; in the second he resolves, there: To certain ones it seems, that by the name of person.
The first part has three parts. In the first he raises a doubt; in the second he objects by the authority of Augustine, showing that it is said according to substance, there: For person, as Augustine says above; thirdly he objects by reason, in the third chapter2 there: It can also otherwise be shown, that by the name of person: where he shows the same thing.
To certain ones it seems, that by the name of person. This is the second part, in which he resolves; and this part is divided into two. In the first he resolves according to the opinion of others, who say that person is taken according to essence, yet related to a supposit. In the second he resolves according to his own opinion by a distinction, there: It must therefore be known, that this name person makes a manifold understanding. And this part is divided into two. In the first part he shows how this name person is taken in the plural; in the second, how it is taken in the singular, when it is said: the Father is one, the Son another, in person3, there: Now let us look, whether according to the same account. — The first part has three parts. In the first he sets down the distinction by which he resolves; in the second he confirms by the authority of Augustine, there: And this sense is supported by the words etc.; in the third he responds to an objection, there: To this, however, that those say. — Likewise the following part has three parts. In
the first he determines how person is taken, when it is said: one is the person of the Father; secondly, how it is taken, when it is said: the Father is one in person; thirdly, he confirms this by authorities. The first he does there: Now let us look etc.; the second there: Then it is asked, whether according to the same account; the third, there: That, however, it is said according to substance.
TREATMENT OF THE QUESTIONS.
For the understanding of this part, two questions are principally asked.
First it is asked concerning the quiddity of this name person.
Secondly it is asked concerning the community of the same.
As to the first, two questions are asked.
First it is asked concerning the person, what it is according to the thing.
Secondly, what it is according to the definition.
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- Vat., repugnantibus codd. et ed. 1, respondet, et paulo infra dicitur pro dicimus. Dein post hic, quod quidem in non paucis codd. et ed. 1 desideratur, omittit secundo, quod in omnibus fere codd. et ed. 1 exstat.The Vatican edition, against the codices and edition 1, reads respondet ("responds"), and a little below dicitur ("it is said") in place of dicimus ("we say"). Then after hic ("here"), which indeed is wanting in not a few codices and in edition 1, it omits secundo ("secondly"), which in nearly all codices and in edition 1 stands.
- Vat. omittit tertio capitulo, quae voces in multis codd. ut I P T V etc. habentur, aliis codd. ut A Q S V X Z loco earum exhibentibus quarto capitulo; in nostra editione Magistri est capitulo primo.The Vatican edition omits tertio capitulo ("in the third chapter"), which words are found in many codices such as I, P, T, V, etc., other codices such as A, Q, S, V, X, Z exhibiting in their place quarto capitulo ("in the fourth chapter"); in our edition of the Master it is capitulo primo ("in the first chapter").
- Voces in persona, a Vat. suppressas, restituimus auctoritate plurimorum mss. ut A B D F G H K P Q T Y Z etc. et ed. 1.The words in persona ("in person"), suppressed by the Vatican edition, we have restored on the authority of very many manuscripts, such as A, B, D, F, G, H, K, P, Q, T, Y, Z, etc., and of edition 1.