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Peter Lombard’s
MASTER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PARIS
ARCHBISHOP OF PARIS
SENTENTIARUM LIBER SECUNDUS
DE RERUM CREATIONE ET FORMATIONE
CORPORALIUM ET SPIRITUALIUM
ET ALIIS PLURIBUS EO PERTINENTIUBUS
THE SECOND BOOK OF SENTENCES
On the Creation and Formation of Things Corporal and Spiritual
and Many Other Things Pertinent to This
An English Translation with the Latin text in parallel
According to the Quaracchi Edition of 1885
© 2007,2008 Br. Alexis Bugnolo
(unless otherwise specified)
This is the great “Summa” of Medieval
Theology, which was commented on by such Doctors of the Church
as Sts. Thomas Aquinas, Bonaventure, Albert the Great,
and such eminent theologians as Blesseds John Duns Scotus, Peter of Tarentaise,
and Dionysius the Carthusian.
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BOOK II
DE RERUM CREATIONE ET FORMATIONE CORPORALIUM
ET SPIRITUALIUM
ET ALIIS
PLURIBUS EO PERTINENTIUBUS
DISTINCTION
I
Part I, Chapter 1: That
there is one Beginning, not more.
Chapter 2: What it is to create, what to make.
Chapter 3: According to what reckoning are words of this kind: “to do”,
“to make”, said of God.
Part II, Chapter 4: For what reason has a rational creature been made,
that is man and/or Angel.
Chapter 5: In what manner man is said (to have) been made “for the sake
of the reparation of the downfall of the Angels”.
Chapter 6: For what reason has man been thus instituted, that (his) soul
has been united to a body.
DISTINCTION
II
Part I, Chapter 1: On
the Angels, when they were made.
Chapter 2: That nothing was made before heaven and earth.
Chapter 3: That together with time and with the world the spiritual and
corporal creature began.
Part II, Chapter 4: Where were the Angels then created?
Chapter 5: That the mater of (things) visible and the nature of
invisibles was created together, and each formless.
Chapter 6: In what manner did Lucifer say: “I shall ascend into
Heaven”?
Part
I, Chapter 1: Angels of what kind were made?
Chapter 2: Whether all the Angels were equal in essence, wisdom, (and)
liberty of judgment?
Chapter 3: What common and equal (goods) did the Angels have?
Part II, Chapter 4: Whether they were created good, and/or evil, and
whether there was any delay between (their) creation and fall?
Chapter 5: On the threefold wisdom of the Angels before (their) downfall
and/or confirmation.
Chapter 6: Whether they had any love for God and/or for themselves before
(their) downfall?
Chapter 1: Whether the Angels were created perfect and blessed, or wretched and imperfect?
Chapter
1: On the confirmation and conversion of those standing, and the aversion
and lapse of those falling.
Chapter 2: Briefly touches upon free will.
Chapter 3: Whether anything had been given to those standing, by which
they were converted.
Chapter 4: Which grace the Angels needed, and which they did not.
Chapter 5: Whether their aversion is to be imputed to their falls.
Chapter 6: Whether the beatitude, which the standing accepted in
confirmation, they merited through some grace apportioned at that time.
Chapter
1: That of the greater and lesser Angels, certain ones fell down, among
whom one was loftier, namely Lucifer.
Chapter 2: Whence and whither they were cast down.
Chapter 3: For what reason has it not been conceded to them to dwell in
Heaven, and/or on Earth.
Chapter 4: On the prelations of the demons.
Chapter 5: Whether all the demons are in this gloomy air, or whether some
are in Hell.
Chapter 6: On the power of Lucifer.
Chapter 7: Whether demons, once conquered by the Saints, thereafter
approach other men.
Part
I, Chapter 1: Whether good Angels can sin, and/or evil angels uprightly
live.
Chapter 2: That though each have free will, yet they cannot be bent to
each.
Chapter 3: That the good Angels have a more free judgment after their
confirmation than before.
Chapter 4: That the good Angels cannot sin from their nature, just as
they could before.
Part II, Chapter 5: In what manners evil angels may know the truth of temporal
things.
Chapter 6: That the arts of magic prevail by the virtue and knowledge of
the Devil, which is theirs from God.
Chapter 7: That the matter of visible things does not serve the evil
angels at will.
Chapter 8: That the evil angels are not creators, though through them
mages make frogs and other things; just as neither do the good Angels, even if
through their ministry creatures come to be.
Chapter 9: That God alone so works the creation of things, just as He
does the justification of the mind.
Chapter 10: That evil angels can do many things through their own natural
vigor, which they cannot do on account of God’s prohibition.
Part
I, Chapter 1: Whether all Angels are corporeal?
Chapter 2: On the forms, according to which God appeared, and on those,
in which the Angels appear.
Chapter 3: That God in the appearance, according to which He is God,
never has appeared to mortals.
Part II, Chapter 4: In what manner demons are said “to enter” into men.
Chapter
1: On the distinction of the Angelic Orders.
Chapter 2: What is named an “Order”? and what is the reason for the name
for each?
Chapter 3: That those names have been taken from the gifts of grace, and
have been given them not for their own sake, but for our sake.
Chapter 4: Whether these Orders were distinguished from the start of
creation?
Chapter 5: Whether all Angels of the same Order are equal?
Chapter 6: In what manner does Scripture say, that the tenth Order is to
be completed from men?
Chapter 7: Whether men are assumed in accord with the number of the standing
and/or of the lapsed spirits?
Chapter
1: Whether all the celestial spirits are sent?
Chapter 2: Whether “Michael”, “Gabriel”, and “Raphael” are names of
Orders, and/or of spirits?
Chapter
1: That souls have each a good Angel to guard them, and an evil angel to
exercise them.
Chapter 2: Whether Angels make progress in merit and reward up until the
Judgment?
Chapter
1: On the distinction of the Six Days.
Chapter 2: That some thought that all things were made in matter and
form, others that this happened through intervals of time.
Chapter 3: In what manner corporal things were founded through intervals
of time.
Chapter 4: In what sense are the tenebrae said to be something,
and in what sense they are said not to be something?
Chapter 5: For what reason is that confused matter said to be “formless”?
and where it came to be, and how everso much did it ascend on high?
Chapter 6: On the four manners of Divine Operation.
Chapter
1: On the work of the first distinction.
Chapter 2: On the light made on the First Day, whether it was spiritual,
or corporal?
Chapter 3: Where was it made?
Chapter 4: In what manners “day” is accepted.
Chapter 5: On the natural order of the computation of Days, and on that,
which was introduced as a mystery.
Chapter 6: On the understanding of these words: “God said”.
Chapter 7: In what sense the Father is said “to work in the Son”, and/or
“through the Son”, and/or “in the Holy Spirit”.
Part
I, Chapter 1: On the work of the Second Day, on which the firmament was
made.
Chapter 2: Which heaven ought to be understood to have been made then.
Chapter 3: From which matter was it made?
Chapter 4: In what manner can waters be above the sky, and what kind are
they?
Chapter 5: On the shape of the firmament.
Chapter 6: Why Scripture is silent concerning the blessing of the work of
this Day.
Part II, Chapter 7: On the work of the third day, when the waters were
gathered together into one.
Chapter 8: How all the waters were gathered together into one place, even
though there are many seas and rivers.
Chapter 9: On the work of the Fourth Day, on which the luminaries of
heaven were made.
Chapter 10: In what manner is this to be accepted: Let them be
for signs and seasons?
Chapter
1: On the work of the fifth day, on which the swimming and flying
creatures were made
Chapter 2: On the work of the sixth day, on which were created the
animals and creeping things of the land.
Chapter 3: On venomous and harmful animals.
Chapter 4: Whether the smallest creatures were created at that time?
Chapter 5: Why man was made after all things.
Chapter 6: On the sentence of those who contend that all things were made
together.
Chapter 7: In what manner is God’s “rest” to be understood?
Chapter 8: In what manner is it to be accepted, that God is said to have
completed His work on the seventh day, when He then rested?
Chapter 9: In what manner are all things made by God said to be “very
good”?
Chapter 10: On the sanctification of the seventh day.
Chapter
1: On the creation of man.
Chapter 2: What kind of man was made?
Chapter 3: On the image and similitude, to which man was made.
Chapter 4: Why man is said to be an “image” and “made to the image”, but
the Son is not said to be “made to the image”?
Chapter
1: On the creation of the soul, or whether it was made from something?
Chapter 2: On the insufflation and inspiration of God; when was the soul
made, whether in the body, or outside of it?
Chapter 3: At what age man was made.
Chapter 4: Why man, having been created outside of Paradise, was placed
in paradise.
Chapter 5: In which manners is “paradise” accepted?
Chapter 6: On the Tree of Life.
Chapter 7: On the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.
Chapter
1: On the formation of the woman.
Chapter 2: For what reason was she formed from the side of the man, and
not from another part of his body?
Chapter 3: For what reason was the rib withdrawn from the man sleeping,
and not waking?
Chapter 4: Why was she made from a rib, multiplied in itself without the
addition of any extrinsic thing?
Chapter 5: On superior and inferior causes.
Chapter 6: Of the causes, which are at once in God and in creatures, and
of those, which are only in God.
Chapter 7: On the soul of the woman, which is not from the soul of the
man, because souls are not on account of a transduction.
Chapter
1: On the state of man before the sin, such as it was according to the
body, and such as it was after the sin.
Chapter 2: In what manner is man said to have been made into a living
soul?
Chapter 3: The body of man before the sin was mortal and immortal, after
sin dead.
Chapter 4: Whether the immortality, which it then had, was from the
condition of its nature, or whether it was out of the benefice of a grace?
Chapter 5: Whether man could live forever, using the other trees and not
the Tree of Life, with God not commanding, that he eat from it?
Chapter 6: On the first and second immortality of the body.
DISTINCTION XIX: On the Generation of Adam & Eve’s Posterity
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