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CAP. XI. DE APOSTASIA. 1 33<br />
sui remanentis omnino suspen<strong>de</strong>re; tercio, quia iuxta And every<br />
adversaries <strong>de</strong>us posset facere dictas res per se esse <strong>de</strong> everything else,<br />
communi cursu nature, et formas alias quas dicimus<br />
substanciales formaliter inherere; et per consequens<br />
5 posset mutare genera rerum faciendo quidlibet esse<br />
quidlibet, cum inherere vel per se esse sit acci<strong>de</strong>ntale<br />
B.<br />
cuicunque create essencie. Item, <strong>de</strong>us nichil agit super- Why should<br />
flue:<br />
que<br />
sed superrlueret<br />
possent per<br />
ponere quantitatem et qualitatem 'quantity' that<br />
se esse, cum illis positis oporteret<br />
can exist by<br />
10<br />
ponere quantitatem et qualitatem sufficientes informare,<br />
that cannot has<br />
• n /• to be posited<br />
omnino sicut tile facerent, que non potuerunt per se in any case?<br />
et<br />
quantitates. Si igitur sunt, sunt a <strong>de</strong>o Manicheorum.<br />
Assumptum patet ex hoc quod <strong>de</strong>us non potest quic- Such a scheme<br />
• • r r* • j i<br />
• • /• .<br />
of things would<br />
i-^quam facere, nisi gracia hnis <strong>de</strong>biti et maniresta racione; come from tne<br />
B's 'i'esse; igitur <strong>de</strong>us non facit huiusmodi qualitates |<br />
,\.Si d<br />
cum aliter foret insipiens. Et minor patet ex hoc quod, £ vll r .<br />
J<br />
od of<br />
^ r t Alamchaeusposita<br />
quantitate vel qualitate que fingitur acci<strong>de</strong>ntaliter<br />
informare, oportet preter ipsam ponere informa-<br />
cionem, qua subiectum sit formaliter quantum vel<br />
20 quale; et ilia sufficit sine alia ficta, positis partibus<br />
substancialibus cum suis modis. Si enim A quantitas If a quantity<br />
informat B subiectum et manebit in line et non in- inform a°<br />
formans ipsum, 1 oportet<br />
. . . .<br />
tarn, que<br />
ponere informacionem distinc- subject does not<br />
*ii- a inform it bv<br />
sibi accidit: et notum est, si llhus fieret itself, another<br />
25 alia informacio, foret processus in infinitum in talibus. required to do<br />
I<strong>de</strong>o secundum Aueustinum 5 t0 De trinitate, capitulo<br />
i3°, I<br />
so; and so on<br />
' r . forever.<br />
sufficit ponere quantitatem que sit substanciam Quantity<br />
esse quantam. et qualitatem que sit substanciam esse «the bDn* so<br />
qualem. Cum igitur hoc per se sufficit, hoc non potest ^Tff* °\*.<br />
3o esse sine subiecto, ut hodie blasfematur; nichil enim •<br />
, , , r j<br />
-l<br />
Quality<br />
• plus<br />
likewise.<br />
blasfemat in <strong>de</strong>um quam imponere sibi autonsacionem<br />
operis sine causa ad finem<br />
intendit. Nee dubium quin opportet<br />
quern compendiose<br />
ponere informacio-<br />
nem istorum acci<strong>de</strong>ncium distinctam ; ut, posito per eis If they were<br />
. ... separate<br />
35 possibile, quod <strong>de</strong>us infinicies suspendit tarn qualitatis entities, the<br />
quam quantitatis A subiecti informacionem, manente<br />
utraque<br />
bewth^nd<br />
essencia in eo<strong>de</strong>m loco: manifestum est, quod<br />
A per vices sic intensum et remissum minorabitur,<br />
then without<br />
alias mutabitur aquirendo et <strong>de</strong>per<strong>de</strong>ndo per vices<br />
1. quod B. 3. quashes/ B. 5. m utuare amnes MSS. 9, 10. que —<br />
qualitatem <strong>de</strong>est BCD. 22. et <strong>de</strong>est BC. 33. incedit B. 34. posito<br />
<strong>de</strong>est D. 36. a sub informacionem BC; corr. A; aut sub D.<br />
27. What comes nearest to the sense here indicated is, I<br />
believe, De Trin. 1. VII, c. 1 (Migne, t. 42, p. o35).