Dist. 5, Divisio Textus
Book IV: On the Sacraments · Distinction 5
## COMMENTARIUS IN DISTINCTIONEM V.
De baptismo per comparationem ad dantes.
Post haec sciendum est, Sacramentum baptismi etc.
DIVISIO TEXTUS.
Supra determinavit Magister de baptismo in se et per comparationem ad suscipientes1; hic tertio agit de ipso per comparationem ad dantes; et hi sunt quibus collata est potestas baptizandi. Et dividitur haec pars in duas partes. In prima agit de potestate collata. In secunda agit de his quae hanc potestatem expediunt, vel impediunt, infra distinctione sequenti circa medium, ibi: Hoc etiam sciendum est, quod licet ter etc.
Prima pars habet duas. In prima ostendit Magister, quae sit illa potestas, quae ministris est collata. In secunda vero determinat, quibus est collata, ibi2: Nunc quibus liceat baptizare. Prima pars habet tres partes. In prima parte ostendit, quod potestas baptizandi aequaliter est efficax in omnibus ministris. In secunda vero ostendit, quae sit illa potestas, quoniam est solius ministerii exterioris, ibi: Quia ministerium tantum habent. In tertia vero parte ostendit, quae sit illa potestas, quam Dominus potuit dare ministris, sed non dedit, ibi: Hic quaeritur, quae sit illa potestas, ubi dicit, quod est potestas cooperationis.
TRACTATIO QUAESTIONUM.
Ad intelligentiam eorum quae dicuntur in praesenti distinctione, tria principaliter quaeruntur.
Primo quaeritur de potestate collata baptizaturis sive baptizantibus quantum ad extensionem.
Secundo de ipsa quantum ad intensionem sive efficaciam.
Tertio quaeritur de ipsa potestate baptizantium per comparationem ad dantem illam.
Circa primum breviter quaeruntur duo.
Primo quaeritur, utrum soli sacerdotes sive clerici habeant potestatem baptizandi.
Secundo, dato quod etiam laici3, quaeritur, utrum haeretici in potestate illa communicent cum catholicis.
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## COMMENTARY ON DISTINCTION V.
On baptism by comparison to those who give it.
After these things it must be known, the Sacrament of baptism etc.
DIVISION OF THE TEXT.
Above the Master determined concerning baptism in itself and by comparison to those who receive it1; here, thirdly, he treats of it by comparison to those who give it; and these are they to whom the power of baptizing has been conferred. And this part is divided into two parts. In the first he treats of the power conferred. In the second he treats of the things which further this power, or hinder it, below in the following distinction near the middle, at: This too must be known, that although three times etc.
The first part has two [parts]. In the first the Master shows what that power is which has been conferred on the ministers. In the second he determines on whom it has been conferred, at2: Now to whom it is permitted to baptize. The first part has three parts. In the first part he shows that the power of baptizing is equally efficacious in all ministers. In the second he shows what that power is, since it is of the outward ministry alone, at: Because they have only the ministry. In the third part he shows what that power is which the Lord could have given to the ministers, but did not give, at: Here it is asked what that power is, where he says that it is a power of cooperation.
TREATMENT OF THE QUESTIONS.
For the understanding of the things which are said in the present distinction, three things are principally asked.
First it is asked concerning the power conferred on those about to baptize, or on those baptizing, as to its extension.
Second, concerning it as to its intension or efficacy.
Third it is asked concerning the very power of those baptizing by comparison to him who gives it.
Concerning the first, two things are briefly asked.
First it is asked whether priests alone or clerics have the power of baptizing.
Second, granted that laymen also [have it]3, it is asked whether heretics share in that power together with catholics.
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- 1Dist. III. et IV. — Edd. omittunt in se et, pro quo codd. HQ in se, determinavit etiam de baptismo.Distinctions III and IV. — The editions omit in se et (in itself and), in place of which codices H, Q read in se, [he] determined also concerning baptism.
- 2In principio d. VI.At the beginning of distinction VI.
- 3Cfr. infra lit. Magistri, d. VI. c. 2. — Superius post laici edd. supplent possint baptizare.Compare below the text of the Master, distinction VI, chapter 2. — Above, after laici (laymen), the editions supply possint baptizare (may be able to baptize).