Bonaventure

COMMENTARIUS IN DISTINCTIONEM V.

Quales facti sint Angeli aversione et conversione.

Post haec consideratio etc.

DIVISIO TEXTUS.

Supra ostendit Magister, quales facti sunt Angeli in sua prima conditione. Hic secundo intendit agere, quales facti sunt aversione et conversione. Dividitur autem haec pars in tres. In prima agit de aversione et conversione. In secunda de confirmatione et obstinatione, infra distinctione septima: Supra dictum est, quod Angeli etc. In tertia de ordinum distinctione, infra distinctione nona: Post praedicta superest cognoscere. Prima pars habet duas. In prima agit de conversione et aversione. In secunda de ruina, quae consecuta est malorum aversionem, et hoc infra distinctione sexta: Praeterea sciri oportet etc. Prima pars habet tres. In prima ostendit, quid sit averti et converti. In secunda ostendit, a quo sit, ibi: Habebant enim omnes etc. In tertia quaedam dubia circa conversionem movet et solvit, ibi: Si autem quaeritur, utrum post creationem. Et illa tertia pars habet tres partes secundum tres dubitationes, quas determinat et explanat. Primo enim determinat, utrum bonis gratia sit collata ad hoc, ut efficaciter converterentur. Secundo vero, utrum malis sit sua aversio imputanda, cum gratiam non habuerint, ibi: Ideoque quibusdam videtur etc. In tertia vero determinat, utrum conversio fuerit meritoria confirmationis, ibi: Hic quaeri solet, utrum in ipsa confirmatione etc. — Et sic tria tanguntur in universo, scilicet aversio luciferi, aversio¹ aliorum minorum et conversio bonorum.

TRACTATIO QUAESTIONUM.

Ad intelligentiam huius partis, in qua quaeritur, quales facti sint Angeli per aversionem et conversionem, tria quaeruntur. Primo enim quaeritur de aversione luciferi, qui fuit caput totius malitiae²³. Secundo quaeritur de aversione minorum Angelorum. Tertio de conversione bonorum. Quantum ad primum duo quaeruntur. Primum est, utrum peccaverit peccato superbiae. Secundum est, quid fuerit eius appetibile.

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COMMENTARY ON DISTINCTION V.

Of what sort the Angels were made by aversion and conversion.

"After these things, [a] consideration" etc.

DIVISION OF THE TEXT.

Above, the Master showed of what sort the Angels were made in their first condition. Here, secondly, he intends to treat of what sort they were made by aversion and conversion. Now this part is divided into three. In the first he treats of aversion and conversion. In the second, of confirmation and obstinacy, below in distinction seven: Above it was said that the Angels etc. In the third, of the distinction of the orders, below in distinction nine: After the foregoing it remains to know. The first part has two [sections]. In the first he treats of conversion and aversion. In the second, of the ruin which followed upon the aversion of the wicked, and this below in distinction six: Moreover it must be known etc. The first part has three [sections]. In the first he shows what it is to be averted and to be converted. In the second he shows by whom it is, there: For they all had etc. In the third he raises and resolves certain doubts concerning the conversion, there: But if it is asked, whether after creation. And that third part has three parts according to the three doubts, which he settles and explains. For first he determines whether grace was conferred on the good for this, that they might be efficaciously converted. Secondly, whether their aversion is to be imputed to the wicked, since they had not had grace, there: And therefore to some it seems etc. In the third he determines whether the conversion was meritorious of confirmation, there: Here it is wont to be asked, whether in the confirmation itself etc. — And thus three [things] are touched upon in all, namely the aversion of Lucifer, the aversion¹ of the other lesser [Angels], and the conversion of the good.

TREATMENT OF THE QUESTIONS.

For the understanding of this part, in which it is asked of what sort the Angels were made through aversion and conversion, three [things] are asked. For first it is asked about the aversion of Lucifer, who was the head of all malice²³. Secondly it is asked about the aversion of the lesser Angels. Thirdly about the conversion of the good. Concerning the first, two [things] are asked. The first is, whether he sinned by the sin of pride. The second is, what was his object of appetite.