Dist. 1, Part 2, Divisio Textus
Book IV: On the Sacraments · Distinction 1
## COMMENTARIUS IN DISTINCTIONEM I.
Pars II.
De circumcisione et annexis.
Fuit tamen inter illa Sacramenta Sacramentum quoddam, scilicet circumcisionis.
TEXTUM MAGISTRI VIDE SUPRA PAG. 9.
DIVISIO TEXTUS.
Post partem prooemialem et principalem Magister ponit hic partem incidentem; et haec pars habet ortum ex differentia praeassignata. Dixerat enim, quod Sacramenta veteris legis non efficiebant sive non praestabant gratiam iustificantem, et hoc habebat instantiam in circumcisione; ideo illam excipit et ostendit circumcisionis efficaciam. Et haec pars habet duas partes. In prima determinat circumcisionis efficaciam. In secunda determinat eius formam sive integritatem et substantiam, ibi: Hic dicendum est, in quo instituta fuerit.
Prima pars habet duas partes. In prima ostendit circumcisionis efficaciam. In secunda vero removet et determinat quaestionem annexam, ibi: Quaeritur autem de viris, qui fuerunt ante etc., ubi determinat, quod remedium fuerit contra originale ante circumcisionem.
Similiter secunda pars, in qua determinat de his quae spectant ad huius Sacramenti substantiam9, habet duas partes. In prima determinat sive dicit veritatem. In secunda vero removet dubitationem, ultimo capitulo: Si vero quaeritur de parvulis. Subdivisiones partium manifeste apparent in littera.
TRACTATIO QUAESTIONUM.
Ad intelligentiam huius partis quaeritur de duplici remedio, quod praecessit baptismum:
Et primo de illo, quod praecessit tempore legis naturalis1.
Secundo de illo, quod praecessit tempore legis scriptae, scilicet de circumcisione.
Quantum ad primum quaeruntur tria.
Primo quaeritur, utrum ad remedium originalis sufficeret2 fides informis.
Secundo, utrum parvulis et adultis sufficeret virtus solius fidei.
Tertio, utrum adultis esset necessaria virtus sacrificii.
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## COMMENTARY ON DISTINCTION I.
Part II.
On circumcision and related matters.
There was, nevertheless, among those Sacraments a certain Sacrament, namely that of circumcision.
FOR THE TEXT OF THE MASTER SEE ABOVE, PAGE 9.
DIVISION OF THE TEXT.
After the prefatory and principal part, the Master here sets down an incidental part; and this part takes its rise from the difference assigned beforehand. For he had said that the Sacraments of the old law did not effect, or did not confer, justifying grace, and this met with an objection in the case of circumcision; therefore he excepts it and shows the efficacy of circumcision. And this part has two parts. In the first he determines the efficacy of circumcision. In the second he determines its form, or its integrity and substance, there: Here it must be said in what it was instituted.
The first part has two parts. In the first he shows the efficacy of circumcision. In the second, however, he removes and settles the annexed question, there: But it is asked concerning the men who lived before etc., where he determines what the remedy against original [sin] was before circumcision.
Likewise the second part, in which he determines concerning the things that pertain to the substance9 of this Sacrament, has two parts. In the first he determines or states the truth. In the second, however, he removes a doubt, in the last chapter: But if it is asked concerning little children. The subdivisions of the parts plainly appear in the text.
TREATMENT OF THE QUESTIONS.
For the understanding of this part, inquiry is made concerning a twofold remedy that preceded baptism:
And first concerning that one which preceded in the time of the natural law1.
Second concerning that one which preceded in the time of the written law, namely concerning circumcision.
As to the first, three [questions] are asked.
First it is asked whether informed faith would suffice2 for the remedy of original [sin].
Second, whether the virtue of faith alone would suffice for little children and for adults.
Third, whether for adults the virtue of sacrifice would be necessary.
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- 9Edd. formam et substantiam.The editions read form and substance.
- 1Codd. R S X addunt scilicet de fide.Codices R S X add namely concerning faith.
- 2Edd. hic et paulo inferius suffecerit. Mox Vat. omittit et adultis.The editions, here and a little below, read would have sufficed. Then the Vatican edition omits and for adults.