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Commentarius in librum Sapientiae · Schemata

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Schema I.

  • Pars I. Hortatio ad exercendam iustitiam triplicem
    • primo, iustitia ad Deum triplex (c. 1.)
      • iustitia cordis
        • exhortatio ad iustitiae bonum
          • quoad rectam affectionem — aestimationem — intentionem
        • duplex utilitas acquiescentium
          • per gratiam in praesenti — gloriam in futuro
        • triplex detrimentum contemnentium
          • per exclusionem a consortio Dei — sapientiae — Spiritus S.
      • iustitia locutionis
        • removetur impunitatis confidentia, quae oriri posset
          • ex iudicis misericordia — ignorantia — impotentia
        • praedicatur poena malae locutionis
          • in iudicum deducendae — a iudice discutiendae — omnibus publicandae
        • monetur ad pravae locutionis cautelam
      • iustitia operis, ad quam monetur
        • per rationes ex parte creationis
          • sumtas ex bonitate Creatoris — ex parte finis creationis — ex parte conditionis creaturae
        • » » » » retributionis
          • tangendo praemium iustitiae — supplicium iniustitiae — aequitatem supplicii ob quatuor rationes
    • secundo, ad proximum (c. 2. 3.)
      • retrahitur ab iniustorum similitudine (c. 2.)
        • tangendo triplicem iniuste vivendi causam motivam
          • a parte status
            • mundi — paradisi — inferni
          • » » naturae
            • quoad humanam originem — compositionem — resolutionem
          • » » nominis seu famae
        • describendo vitam iniustorum, qui concorditer se exhortantur
          • ad vacandum dissolutioni
            • celeriter — abundanter — evidenter — communiter — hilariter
          • ad iustorum oppressionem
            • sine reverentia personae — sine timore iustitiae
      • provocatur ad iustorum similitudinem (c. 3.)
        • per eorum status commendationem
          • quia liberantur a triplici malo
            • damnationis
            • mortis temporalis
            • praesentis vexationis
          • quia praemiantur triplici bono
            • quoad stolam corporis
            • » iudiciariam potestatem
            • » gloriae perfectionem
              • in cognitione veritatis
              • inhaesione bonitatis
              • perfectione comprehensionis
        • per status oppositi reprobationem refutando triplicem errorem
          • quoad suam impunitatem
          • » praemia vitae continentis
          • » poenas incontinentiae
    • tertio, ad se ipsum, quae commendatur comparando statum iustorum et iniustorum (c. 4. 5.)
      • primo, ante iudicium (c. 4.)
        • quoad statum praesentis vitae
          • qui commendatur ex se
            • a decore — ab immortalitate — ab aedificatione — a remuneratione
          • » » ex oppositi status reprobatione
        • » » mortis, ubi tangitur
          • mortis acceleratio — accelerationis ratio quintuplex — populi stulta opinio
        • » » post mortem
          • in comparatione impiorum viventium — morientium — mortuorum resurgentium
      • secundo, in iudicio (c. 5.)
        • constans iustorum accusatio, orta ex septem rationibus
        • coacta reproborum confessio
          • causa motiva huius confessionis
            • afflictio de bonorum felicitate
            • anxietas de propria infelicitate
          • confessionis materia, quae est confessio proprii erroris
            • circa iustorum vitam, confitendo
              • Sanctorum contemptum
              • status eorum reprobationem
              • eorum praesentem exaltationem
              • proprium errorem
            • circa propriam vitam
              • quoad eius laboriositatem
              • » » caecitatem
              • » » inutilitatem
              • » » instabilitatem
        • utrorumque iusta retributio
          • primo praemium iustorum
            • pro operatione boni
            • pro victoria mali
          • supplicium reproborum sub metaphora arma moventis
            • regis propositum — apparatus — bellum — belli effectus — belli remedium
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Schema II.

  • Pars II. Hortatio ad sapientiam acquirendam, adducta triplici ratione
    • Ratio 1. sumta a periculo proprii officii (c. 6.)
      • insipientium rectorum poena
        • primo petitur audientia
        • secundo subditur audiendi causa quadruplex
      • sapientium rectorum praemium
        • excitatur ad sapientiam — declaratur merces
      • monitio ad concupiscendam sapientiam
        • ponendo exhortationem
        • » facilitatem acquirendi eam
        • » utilitatem et in praesenti et in futuro
        • » exhortationem ad eam diligendam
      • promissio docendi
        • proponendo doctrinae manifestationem — docendi fidelitatem — audiendi utilitatem — ad audiendum exhortationem
    • Ratio 2. sumta ab exemplo monentis (c. 7. 8.)
      • ostenditur, qualiter sapientiam acceperit (c. 7.)
        • describitur fragilitatis humanae miseria quintuplex
        • monetur ad acquirendam sapientiam quadrupliciter
        • declaratur, a quo eandem didicerit, ostendendo
          • quis docuerit — qualia — per quod medium, scil. per Spiritum a Sapientia procedentem
      • quantum eam amaverit (c. 8.)
        • quod ostenditur ex desiderio eam habendi
          • propter eius valorem absolutum quadrupliciter comparatum
        • ex proposito eam acquirendi
          • propter bona pertinentia ad vitam activam et contemplativam — specialiter ad activam — ad contemplativam
        • ex studio eam inveniendi
          • diligentia quaerendi — aptitudo in suscipiendo — fiducia impetrandi
      • quam devote eam a Domino quaesierit (c. 9.)
        • tangitur petitionis forma
          • decor laudatur — donum specificatur — se ipsum humiliat — indigentiam insinuat
        • » exauditionis ratio duplex
        • » petitionis finis duplex
        • » finis difficultas duplici demonstratione
    • Ratio 3. sumta ex multis sapientiae beneficiis et effectibus
      • ipsa promovet sapientes amicos (c. 10.)
        • per beneficia collata singulis personis
          • Adae — Noe — Abrahae — Lot — Iacob — Ioseph
        • per beneficia collata uni populo Israel
          • beneficium generale
          • beneficia specialia
            • in Aegypto — post exitum ex Aegypto — in ipso exitu
          • gratiarum actio
      • punit adversarios (c. 11-19.)
        • per poenas leviores (11. 12.)
          • de punitione Aegyptiorum (c. 11.)
            • propter iniustam Israelitarum oppressionem
            • propter idololatriam per immissionem bestiarum
          • de punitione Chananaeorum
            • iustitia punitionis manifestata ex punientis intentione
            • misericordia in puniendi modo
            • populi in utroque instructio quadrupliciter monstrata
            • adversariorum incorrigibilium condemnatio
        • per poenas graviores ad condemnationem (c. 13-19.)
          • de merito culpae
            • error idololatrantium (c. 13.)
              • primo colentium Dei creaturas
                • erroris causa duplex — effectus — inexcusabilitas — comparatio ad alios
              • secundo colentium proprias facturas
            • detestatio idolorum (c. 14.)
              • ex eorum inutilitate
              • » offensa Creatoris
              • » novitate et modo inventionis
              • » effectu humanae corruptionis
            • commendatio veri Dei (c. 15.)
              • ex ipsius bonitate
              • » » remuneratione
              • » idolorum vilitate
              • » idololatrantium fatuitate.
          • de supplicio poenae
            • de poenis antecedentibus mortem (c. 16. 17.)
              • poena sensus duplex
              • poena damni
            • de poenis inferentibus mortem
              • de exterminatione primogenitorum in Aegypto (c. 18.)
              • de subversione Aegyptiorum in mari (c. 19.)
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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 dissolutiontr.
            • 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
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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 teachingtr. — 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 hertr.
          • 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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Translator’s Notes
  1. tr.
    Translator's note: the Latin vacare holds together several senses that English has to split: being at leisure, being free, being free for something (with a dative) and being free from something (with ab). Here the dative governs, ad vacandum dissolutioni, so the English takes the side of being free for, as Capitulum II does at the same phrase: the impious exhort one another to give their freedom over to dissolution, so that the leisure the word elsewhere commends is here spent on licence. No vaca- word is rendered "rest" in this translation, because quies and requies take that word.
  2. tr.
    Translator's note: the Latin doctrina holds together what English divides among doctrine, teaching and learning. Here doctrinae manifestatio stands in a row with docendi fidelitas and audiendi utilitas, the act of teaching set against the act of hearing, so the English takes "teaching", as Capitulum VI does at the passage this branch summarises.
  3. tr.
    Translator's note: the Latin studium — with studere and studiosus — holds together zeal, eager pursuit, application and study. Here the second reason of Part II, ex studio eam inveniendi, summarises Capitulum VIII's proof ex studio quaerendi sapientiam, made within the exhortation ad studium et amorem sapientiae with which the Prooemium opened, and so the English keeps the work's one root, "study", as Capitulum VIII does at the passage this branch summarises. The word means the eager pursuit of wisdom rather than study in the narrow modern sense.