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Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)
Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) 1
chapter Whether whatever is known by us with certitude is known in the eternal accounts themselves
chapter Whether free choice unbendable by nature could be given to man
chapter Whether servile fear is a gift of the Holy Spirit divinely given
1 Whether the soul of Christ was wise by uncreated wisdom alone, or also by created wisdom together with the uncreated
1 Distinction VI — text of the Master of the Sentences
1 Whether spiritual things have their own proper measure
1 Distinction 3. The text of the Master of the Sentences (Parts I and II).
2 Proemium of Saint Bonaventure to the first book of the Sentences
4 Whether the light made on the first day was corporeal or spiritual
4 Whether the soul of Adam was produced before the body, or afterward
4 Whether spiritual and corporeal substances were created simultaneously
4 Whether spiritual and corporeal substances were created simultaneously
5 On the integrity of marriage
5 On the integrity of marriage
5 On the fulness of understanding, insofar as it is the key of contemplation through the understanding of the Word uncreated, incarnate and inspired
5 What the comparison of the Word to wisdom or knowledge is
5 Whether free choice unbendable by nature could be given to man
8 Proemium of Saint Bonaventure to the first book of the Sentences
10 Whether according to a greater capacity of natural endowments greater gratuitous gifts are given by God
13 On the gift of the fear of the Lord
16 On the gift of the fear of the Lord
16 On the gift of the fear of the Lord
16 On the gift of the fear of the Lord
16 On poverty as to mendicancy
16 Whether there is any order and combination in the gifts of the Holy Spirit
16 Distinction XXXIV — text of the Master of the Sentences
16 Distinction XXXIV — text of the Master of the Sentences
16 Distinction XXXIV — text of the Master of the Sentences
16 Distinction XXXIV — text of the Master of the Sentences
16 Distinction XXXIV — text of the Master of the Sentences
24 Whether a good will has one sole end, or whether there can be several
27 Doubts on the Letter of the Master
27 Whether for justification contrition is necessary
33 On the gift of wisdom
Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) 2
Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) 3
chapter Whether good works done apart from charity avail toward a more tolerable punishment
1 On the gift of wisdom
7 Whether parents are more to be loved than children, or conversely
12 Whether it was fitting that the Son of God should assume human nature from the mass of perdition
20 On the third vision: the sixth treatment, which treats of the contemplations of Scripture signified through the fruits, and indeed in so far as they refresh the affection
21 On humility as to its act, namely whether it belongs to Christian perfection to make oneself vile for Christ
21 Whether exterior works add anything beyond a good intention by reason of their excellence and dignity
22 On the third vision: the fifth treatment, which treats of the contemplations of Scripture signified through the fruits, that is, of the considerations that refresh the understanding and the affection, and first indeed of those that refresh the understanding
22 On the fourth precept
22 What is the formal cause, or the manner of proceeding, in these books of the Sentences
33 Whether good works done apart from charity avail toward a more tolerable punishment
33 Whether the Church ought to have instituted that sacred order should impede marriage
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chapter Doubts concerning the text of the Master (Dist. XV, Part II)
3 Doubts concerning the text of the Master (Dist. XV, Part II)
10 On the gift of piety
25 Whether the precept of confession belongs to the natural law
25 Whether the precept of confession belongs to the natural law
33 On the third vision: the sixth treatment, which treats of the contemplations of Scripture signified through the fruits, and indeed in so far as they refresh the affection
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23 Whether this book, or theology, is for the sake of contemplation or that we may become good — that is, whether it is a speculative or a practical science
23 Whether the act of the gift of wisdom is reckoned in the cognition of the true, or in the affection of the good
37 Whether gratuitous gifts are to be loved out of charity
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chapter Doubts concerning the text of the Master (Dist. XVI, Part II)
1 By what kind of sin the woman sinned
2 On the gift of knowledge
9 On the eighth, ninth and tenth precept
13 The Master's Text — On the differences of sins in general
14 Whether it is lawful to swear by God
15 On the origin and distinction of the capital sins
15 Whether the temptation of the flesh can be separated from the temptation of the devil
15 Whether sin must be divided by aversion and conversion as by diverse differences of sins
15 Doubts concerning the text of the Master (Distinction XLII)
15 Whether Lucifer sinned by the sin of pride
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chapter Doubts concerning the text of the Master (Dist. XV, Part I)
14 Whether punishment can be in anything without preceding guilt
14 Whether any punishment is from God
14 Distinction XXXVII — The Text of the Master
16 Doubts on the Master's text
29 Whether in the damned there are spiritual darknesses as to the act of remembering
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14 Whether it belongs to the flesh to tempt
14 Whether God ought to have permitted the man whom He foreknew would be overcome to be assailed through temptation
14 Doubts concerning the text of the Master (Dist. XIX)
19 Whether in the angels there is a mere personal distinction
19 Whether in the angels there is a mere personal distinction
19 Whether the Angel by natural love loves more the superior, or the equal, or the inferior.
19 Whether some fell from every order of Angels.
19 Whether consanguinity poses an impediment to marriage
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3 On the fulness of understanding, insofar as it is the key of contemplation through the understanding of the Word uncreated, incarnate and inspired
3 Doubts concerning the Letter of the Master (Distinction XIV)
3 Doubts concerning the Letter of the Master (Distinction XIV)
5 On the qualities required in the hearers of the divine word, and on Christ the medium of all the sciences
5 On the fulness of wisdom, in which discourse must be ended: namely on the gate and the form of wisdom
5 On the fulness of understanding, insofar as it is the key of contemplation through the understanding of the Word uncreated, incarnate and inspired
9 Whether one is bound as to the mode to confess out of charity
14 On the gift of counsel
14 Whether God ought to have made man impeccable
14 Whether Christ had or assumed the power of sinning
14 Whether Christ had or assumed the power of sinning
14 Whether God ought to have imposed obligatory commandments on man
30 Distinction XXXII — The Text of the Master
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1 Whether man is truly the image of God.
1 Whether man was at the same moment of time created in things of grace and in things of nature
6 Whether the obligation of the Decalogue's commandments is attended to according to the law of nature or the written law
6 Whether the obligation of the Decalogue's commandments is attended to according to the law of nature or the written law
14 Whether the Angels ought to have been deputed to the guardianship of fallen man.
14 Whether the formal character of the image is found more principally in the Angel than in the soul
14 Whether the formal character of the image is found more principally in the Angel than in the soul
26 On confession (the Master's text, Chaps. I–V, pp. 413–417)
26 On confession (the Master's text, Chaps. I–V, pp. 413–417)
26 On confession (the Master's text, Chaps. I–V, pp. 413–417)
26 On confession (the Master's text, Chaps. I–V, pp. 413–417)
26 On confession (the Master's text, Chaps. I–V, pp. 413–417)
26 On confession (the Master's text, Chaps. I–V, pp. 413–417)
26 On confession (the Master's text, Chaps. I–V, pp. 413–417)
26 Whether one is bound as to the mode to confess out of charity
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chapter Whether venial and mortal sin agree in aversion
1 On corporeal nature as regards its coming-to-be
1 On the manner of describing the foresaid in sacred Scripture
1 Doubts concerning the text of the Master
1 Whether matter was produced in perfect actuality.
1 Lombard's text: On the constitution of corporeal nature
1 Whether spiritual and corporeal substances were created simultaneously
1 Whether circumcision ought to have ceased
19 On the qualities required in the hearers of the divine word, and on Christ the medium of all the sciences
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2 On the third vision: the fifth treatment, which treats of the contemplations of Scripture signified through the fruits, that is, of the considerations that refresh the understanding and the affection, and first indeed of those that refresh the understanding
2 Doubts concerning the text of the Master (Part II)
4 On the passion of Christ as regards the outcome of the passion
26 On the third vision: the seventh and last treatment, which treats of the right way and method by which the fruits of Scripture are received, or by which one comes through knowledge and holiness to wisdom
30 Distinction 10. The text of the Master of the Sentences.
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9 On the second precept of the decalogue
12 Whether it is lawful to swear by God
29 Whether God knows things other than himself
29 Whether God knows things other than himself
29 Whether God knows things other than himself
29 The text of the Master (Lombard), Distinction XLV — On the abodes of souls and on suffrages for the dead
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chapter On the third vision, which is that of the understanding instructed through Scripture: the first treatment, in which the spiritual understandings of Scripture are treated
chapter On the second vision: the second treatment, which is on the threefold firmness of faith
5 On the third vision: the fifth treatment, which treats of the contemplations of Scripture signified through the fruits, that is, of the considerations that refresh the understanding and the affection, and first indeed of those that refresh the understanding
5 Text of the Master, Distinction II (Chs. 1–5)
5 Proemium of Saint Bonaventure to the first book of the Sentences
6 On the fourth vision, namely that of the understanding suspended through contemplation: the first treatment, which treats in general of the threefold object of this contemplation, or of the contemplation of the heavenly hierarchy, of the Church militant, and of the human mind made hierarchic
6 On the second vision: the second treatment, which is on the threefold firmness of faith
6 On the second vision: the second treatment, which is on the threefold firmness of faith
7 On the third vision, which is that of the understanding instructed through Scripture: the first treatment, in which the spiritual understandings of Scripture are treated
11 Doubts concerning the text of the Master
20 What the matter of extreme unction is
21 Whether the matter of confirmation is necessary
23 On the third vision: the seventh and last treatment, which treats of the right way and method by which the fruits of Scripture are received, or by which one comes through knowledge and holiness to wisdom
26 On the steps of the ascent into God and on the speculation of him through his vestiges in the universe
35–40 On the fulness of understanding, insofar as it is the key of contemplation through the understanding of the Word uncreated, incarnate and inspired
41 Proemium of Saint Bonaventure to the first book of the Sentences
42 On the third vision: the fifth treatment, which treats of the contemplations of Scripture signified through the fruits, that is, of the considerations that refresh the understanding and the affection, and first indeed of those that refresh the understanding
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20 Whether the Supreme Pontiff can dispense in a matter of a vow
20 Whether the Supreme Pontiff can dispense in a matter of a vow
24 On the third vision, which is that of the understanding instructed through Scripture: the first treatment, in which the spiritual understandings of Scripture are treated
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chapter Doubts concerning the text of the Master (Dist. XV, Part I)
chapter What contrition is according to its substance
1 On poverty as to renunciation
6 Doubts concerning the text of the Master (Dist. XV, Part I)
12 On the fulness of wisdom, in which discourse must be ended: namely on the gate and the form of wisdom
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chapter Whether all are bound to love their enemies as to affection
1 On humility as to its act, namely whether it belongs to Christian perfection to make oneself vile for Christ
3 Whether all are bound to love their enemies as to affection
28 On the third vision: the seventh and last treatment, which treats of the right way and method by which the fruits of Scripture are received, or by which one comes through knowledge and holiness to wisdom
29 On the gift of wisdom
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24 A treatment of grace is set first, according to its rise, its use and its fruit
24 On the gift of piety
24 Whether according to the order of charity one's own good is to be preferred to the good of one's neighbor
24 Whether according to the order of charity one's own good is to be preferred to the good of one's neighbor
24 On satisfaction
24 By which works it comes about that satisfaction is made
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2 Whether the purgation of purgatory takes place through material fire
2 Whether the purgation of purgatory takes place through material fire
9 Whether trinity and supreme necessity stand together
10 Doubts concerning the text of the Master
10 Doubts concerning the text of the Master (Distinction XXIII)
10 Whether the power of sinning is in us from God
10 Whether the power of sinning, as such, is evil
10 Whether that man, namely Christ, could sin
10 The Master's Text — Distinction XII (Chapters I–III)
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chapter Whether free choice can be bound as to its use on account of the unfitness of the body
chapter Doubts concerning the text of the Master (Dist. XV, Part II)
chapter Whether wicked ministers give the Sacrament and the reality of the Sacrament
6 Whether, if the first parents had stood in the state of innocence, they could ever have been deceived
6 Whether free choice can be bound as to its use on account of the unfitness of the body
6 Whether in the demons there is foreknowledge concerning future things
21 Whether almsgiving must be done from one's own goods, justly acquired and necessary
21 Doubts concerning the text of the Master (Dist. XV, Part II)
21 Doubts concerning the text of the Master (Dist. XV, Part II)
23 Whether in adults the power of sacrifice was required as a remedy for original sin
24 Distinction XL — text of the Master of the Sentences
30 Whether wicked ministers give the Sacrament and the reality of the Sacrament
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1 On the third vision: the fifth treatment, which treats of the contemplations of Scripture signified through the fruits, that is, of the considerations that refresh the understanding and the affection, and first indeed of those that refresh the understanding
1 On the second vision, that of the understanding uplifted by faith: the first treatment, which treats of the height of faith
2 On the third vision, which is that of the understanding instructed through Scripture: the first treatment, in which the spiritual understandings of Scripture are treated
4 On the fourth vision: the second treatment, which treats specially of the first object of the understanding suspended through contemplation, namely of the consideration of the heavenly hierarchy
7 Doubts on the letter of the Master (Part II)
10 On the second vision, that of the understanding uplifted by faith: the first treatment, which treats of the height of faith
12 On the fulness of understanding, insofar as it is the key of contemplation through the understanding of the Word uncreated, incarnate and inspired
22 Lombard's text — On the work of the second, third, and fourth days (Chapters I–X).
22 Lombard's text — On the work of the second, third, and fourth days (Chapters I–X).
22 Lombard's text — On the work of the second, third, and fourth days (Chapters I–X).
22 Lombard's text — On the work of the second, third, and fourth days (Chapters I–X).
29 Doubts on the letter of the Master
29 Doubts on the letter of the Master
29 Doubts concerning the text of the Master (on the sixth and seventh precepts forbidding concupiscence, and on the diversity of the Sacraments of the two Laws)
32 Whether the act of love toward God has a measure
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10 On the third vision: the fifth treatment, which treats of the contemplations of Scripture signified through the fruits, that is, of the considerations that refresh the understanding and the affection, and first indeed of those that refresh the understanding
14 On the third vision: the sixth treatment, which treats of the contemplations of Scripture signified through the fruits, and indeed in so far as they refresh the affection
16 On the third vision: the third treatment, which, continuing the preceding one, first shows how in the twelve principal mysteries antichrist too is displayed; then begins to treat of the infinite heavenly contemplations sprouting from the seeds and fruits of Scripture
16 Whether, with Adam sinning, his body could have been perpetuated through eating of the tree of life
16 Whether Christ merited for us the opening of the gate
20 On humility as to its act, namely whether it belongs to Christian perfection to make oneself vile for Christ
20 Whether in the same order of Angels there is a perfect equality, or a certain gradation
20 Whether equality is to be posited among the gratuitous habits
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1 Proemium to the fourth book of the Sentences
13 On the third vision: the second treatment, which begins to treat of the sacramental figures of Scripture, first in general, and then of the twelve principal mysteries signifying Christ
17 On the fourth vision: the fourth treatment, which continues to treat of the third object of this vision, which is the soul itself made hierarchic
17 On the eighth, ninth and tenth precept
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6 On the qualities required in the hearers of the divine word, and on Christ the medium of all the sciences
6 On the fourth vision, namely that of the understanding suspended through contemplation: the first treatment, which treats in general of the threefold object of this contemplation, or of the contemplation of the heavenly hierarchy, of the Church militant, and of the human mind made hierarchic
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