Dist. 17, Part 3, Divisio Textus
Book IV: On the Sacraments · Distinction 17
## COMMENTARIUS IN DISTINCTIONEM XVII.
Pars III.
De confessione sacramentali facienda.
Nunc priusquam praemissis auctoritatibus etc.
TEXTUM MAGISTRI VIDE SUPRA PAG. 416.
DIVISIO TEXTUS.
Haec est tertia pars, in qua Magister tertiam prosequitur quaestionem. Et dividitur haec pars in tres partes. In prima movet quaestionem. In secunda solvit, ibi: Sane ad hoc dici potest etc. In tertia, iam determinata veritate, respondet auctoritatibus superius inductis ad falsam partem, ibi: Cum igitur ex his aliisque pluribus testimoniis etc.
Ex quibus responsionibus duo praecipue circa confessionem manifestantur, sicut patet in littera, scilicet cui sit confitendum, et quid sit confitendum.
TRACTATIO QUAESTIONUM.
Ad intelligentiam huius partis secundum duo, quae tangit hic Magister, duo principaliter quaeruntur.
Primo quaeritur, cui sit confitendum.
Secundo, quid sit confitendum.
Circa primum quaeruntur tria.
Primo quaeritur, utrum sufficiat confiteri laico.
Secundo, dato quod non, quaeritur, utrum contra voluntatem proprii sacerdotis possit quis confiteri alii discretiori.
Tertio quaeritur, utrum proprio sacerdoti debeat quis confiteri in publico, vel in occulto.
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## COMMENTARY ON DISTINCTION XVII.
Part III.
On the making of sacramental confession.
Now, before [responding] with the authorities set down above, etc.
FOR THE TEXT OF THE MASTER, SEE ABOVE, PAGE 416.
DIVISION OF THE TEXT.
This is the third part, in which the Master pursues the third question. And this part is divided into three parts. In the first he raises the question. In the second he resolves it, there: But to this it can be said, etc. In the third, the truth now having been determined, he replies to the authorities adduced above for the false position, there: Since therefore from these and from several other testimonies, etc.
From which responses two things chiefly concerning confession are made clear, as is evident in the text, namely, to whom one ought to confess, and what one ought to confess.
TREATMENT OF THE QUESTIONS.
For the understanding of this part according to the two things which the Master touches upon here, two matters are principally asked.
First it is asked, to whom one ought to confess.
Second, what one ought to confess.
Concerning the first, three things are asked.
First it is asked, whether it suffices to confess to a layman.
Second, granted that it does not, it is asked, whether against the will of one's own priest someone may confess to another more discreet [confessor].
Third it is asked, whether one ought to confess to one's own priest in public, or in secret.
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