Dist. 27, Divisio Textus
Book IV: On the Sacraments · Distinction 27
COMMENTARIUS IN DISTINCTIONEM XXVII.
De consensu ut efficiente causa matrimonii.
Post haec advertendum est, quid sit coniugium, et quae sit efficiens causa etc.
DIVISIO TEXTUS.
The numbered footnotes below correspond to markers in both the Latin body above and the English translation. Quaracchi restarts footnote numbering on each printed page.
Haec est secunda pars, in qua agitur de causa efficiente coniugii, quae quidem est consensus. Et quoniam non omnis consensus facit coniugium, ideo primo determinat Magister in generali, quod consensus sit matrimonii causa. Secundo inquirit, qualis sit ille consensus, infra distinctione vigesima octava: Hic quaeri debet, utrum consensus de futuro etc.
Prima pars habet duas. In prima determinat de ipso coniugio quantum ad quidditatem. In secunda vero quantum ad causalitatem, ibi: Efficiens autem causa matrimonii etc. In prima parte duo facit.
p. 675 In prima breviter praemittit, de quibus intendit agere. In secunda breviter definit coniugium maritale, et hoc ibi: Sunt igitur nuptiae vel matrimonium etc. Et haec duo sunt quasi praeambula ad cognoscendam matrimonii causalitatem sive originem.
Efficiens autem causa matrimonii est. Haec est secunda pars huius distinctionis, in qua agit de causa efficiente, et dividitur haec pars in quatuor partes. In prima veritatem narrat. In secunda1 confirmat, ibi: Quod autem consensus matrimonium faciat etc. In tertia impugnat, ibi: Quidam tamen asserunt etc. In quarta obiectiones in contrarium determinat, ibi: His autem ita respondemus. Fit aliquando desponsatio etc. Subdivisiones partium manifeste apparent in his duabus partibus ultimis, maxime utrum ex solo consensu contrahatur insolubile vinculum. — Et sic tria continentur in hac distinctione, scilicet matrimonii quidditas, causalitas et insolubilitas.
TRACTATIO QUAESTIONUM.
Ad intelligentiam praesentis distinctionis secundum tria, quae determinat Magister, tria principaliter quaeruntur.
Primo quaeritur de matrimonii quidditate.
Secundo, de causalitate.
Tertio, de insolubilitate.
Circa primum quaeruntur duo.
Primo quaeritur, quid sit coniugium genere, sive re.
Secundo, quid sit nomine.
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Commentary on Distinction XXVII.
On consent as the efficient cause of matrimony.
After these things it must be noted what marriage is, and what is its efficient cause, etc.
Division of the text.
This is the second part, in which there is treated the efficient cause of marriage, which indeed is consent. And since not every consent makes marriage, therefore the Master first determines in general that consent is the cause of matrimony. Second, he inquires of what sort that consent is, below in the twenty-eighth distinction: Here it must be asked, whether consent concerning the future etc.
The first part has two [subparts]. In the first he determines concerning marriage itself as to its quiddity. In the second, however, as to its causality, there: But the efficient cause of matrimony etc. In the first part he does two things.
p. 675 In the first he briefly premises the things about which he intends to treat. In the second he briefly defines marital wedlock, and this here: There are therefore nuptials, or matrimony etc. And these two are as it were preambles for coming to know the causality or origin of matrimony.
But the efficient cause of matrimony is [consent]. This is the second part of this distinction, in which he treats of the efficient cause, and this part is divided into four parts. In the first he narrates the truth. In the second1 he confirms [it], there: That consent, however, makes matrimony etc. In the third he attacks [it], there: Yet certain persons assert etc. In the fourth he settles the objections to the contrary, there: But to these things we thus respond. There sometimes takes place a betrothal etc. The subdivisions of the parts manifestly appear in these two last parts, especially [as to] whether from consent alone an insoluble bond is contracted. — And so three things are contained in this distinction, namely the quiddity of matrimony, its causality, and its insolubility.
Treatment of the questions.
For the understanding of the present distinction, according to the three things which the Master determines, three things are principally inquired.
First it is asked concerning the quiddity of matrimony.
Second, concerning [its] causality.
Third, concerning [its] insolubility.
Concerning the first, two things are inquired.
First it is asked, what marriage is in genus, or in reality.
Second, what it is in name.
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- 1Edd. addunt auctoritatibus. Inferius in plurimis codd. desiderantur verba His autem ita respondemus.The editions add "by authorities." Below, in very many codices, the words "But to these things we thus respond" are lacking.