Dist. 18, Divisio Textus
Book II: On the Creation of Things · Distinction 18
# COMMENTARIUS IN DISTINCTIONEM XVIII. ## De formatione mulieris de viro.
In eodem quoque paradiso etc.
DIVISIO TEXTUS.
Supra egit Magister de formatione viri, hic agit de formatione mulieris de viro. Dividitur autem ista pars in partes duas; in quarum prima determinat de productione mulieris ex parte corporis; in secunda ex parte animae, ibi: Quemadmodum mulieris corpus etc.
Prima pars habet quatuor partes. In prima parte determinat de productione corporis mulieris ex viro in comparatione ad causam finalem. In secunda vero, in comparatione ad causam materialem, ibi: Solet etiam quaeri, utrum de costa illa etc. In tertia vero, in comparatione ad causam efficientem, ibi: Illud etiam sciri oportet. In quarta vero, in comparatione ad causam formalem, ibi: Sed quaeritur, an ratio, quam Deus primis operibus concreavit.
Similiter secunda pars principalis habet quatuor particulas. In quarum prima ponit opinionem quandam erroneam de productione animae mulieris. In secunda vero subiungit aliam opinionem non minus falsam, ibi: Alii autem putaverunt etc. In tertia vero ponit veritatem catholicam, ibi: Catholica autem Ecclesia. In quarta et ultima falsitatem impugnat et veritatem confirmat auctoritate Hieronymi et Augustini, ibi: Unde in Ecclesiasticis Dogmatibus etc.
Et sic duo determinantur in parte ista, quorum primum est formatio mulieris quantum ad corpus1; secundum est perfectio quantum ad animam.
TRACTATIO QUAESTIONUM.
Ad intelligentiam huius partis circa duo incidit hic quaestio.
Primum est circa productionem corporis mulieris de latere viri.
Secundum est circa productionem spiritus sive animae eiusdem mulieris, et per consequens omnium animarum, quae sunt in posteris.
ARTICULUS I.
De productione corporis mulieris de latere viri.
Circa primum quaeruntur tria.
Primo quaeritur, unde mulier formata fuerit.
Secundo quaeritur, utrum secundum seminalem rationem corpus mulieris in costa praecesserit.
Tertio vero quaeritur, quid sit secundum rem et essentiam ipsa ratio seminalis.
QUAESTIO I.
Unde fuerit productum corpus mulieris.
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# COMMENTARY ON DISTINCTION XVIII. ## On the formation of the woman from the man.
In the same paradise also, etc.
DIVISION OF THE TEXT.
Above, the Master treated of the formation of the man; here he treats of the formation of the woman from the man. Now this part is divided into two [sections]; in the first of which he determines concerning the production of the woman with respect to the body; in the second with respect to the soul, at: Just as the body of the woman etc.
The first part has four [sub-]parts. In the first part he determines concerning the production of the body of the woman from the man in comparison with the final cause. In the second, in comparison with the material cause, at: It is also wont to be asked, whether from that rib etc. In the third, in comparison with the efficient cause, at: That also is to be known. In the fourth, in comparison with the formal cause, at: But it is asked, whether the principle which God concreated in his first works.
Likewise the second principal part has four particulars. In the first of which he sets forth a certain erroneous opinion concerning the production of the soul of the woman. In the second he subjoins another opinion no less false, at: But others have supposed etc. In the third he sets forth the Catholic truth, at: But the Catholic Church. In the fourth and last he refutes the falsehood and confirms the truth by the authority of Jerome and Augustine, at: Whence in the Ecclesiastical Dogmas etc.
And thus two [things] are determined in this part, of which the first is the formation of the woman with respect to the body1; the second is her perfection with respect to the soul.
TRACTATION OF QUESTIONS.
For the understanding of this part, a question arises here concerning two [things].
The first is concerning the production of the body of the woman from the side of the man.
The second is concerning the production of the spirit or soul of the same woman, and consequently of all the souls that are in [her] descendants.
ARTICLE I.
On the production of the body of the woman from the side of the man.
Concerning the first, three [questions] are asked.
First, it is asked whence the woman was formed.
Second, it is asked whether the body of the woman pre-existed in the rib according to a seminal principle.
Third, it is asked what, according to reality and essence, that seminal principle itself is.
QUESTION I.
Whence the body of the woman was produced.
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- Plures codd. cum edd. 3, 4 et Vat. omittunt quantum ad corpus.Several codices together with editions 3, 4 and the Vatican edition omit with respect to the body. ---