II. To the Principal Arguments

53. To the arguments.

To the first [n.26] I say that Scripture takes ‘firmament’ for the whole heaven, between the empyrean and the elements.

54. To the second [n.27] I say that the conformity of motions does not entail continuity.

55. To the third [n.28] I say that the heaven cannot yield to a moved star as water or air can yield to a body in motion placed in them, because a naturally incorruptible body is naturally indivisible, and this if it is incorruptible both in its parts and in the whole, as the heaven is posited to be; and thus there could not be a motion of anything in the heaven, unmoved as it is by any natural agent.

The Fifteenth to Twenty Fifth Distinctions are lacking in the Ordinatio

[Fifteenth Distinction: Whether in a mixed body the elements actually remain in substance

Sixteenth Distinction: Whether the image of the Trinity consists in three really distinct powers of the rational soul

Seventeenth Distinction: About the origin of Adam’s soul and the place where it was produced Eighteenth Distinction: About the production of woman and the seminal reasons

Nineteenth Distinction: Whether we had immortal bodies in the state of innocence

Twentieth Distinction: About the offspring of Adam had any been procreated in the state of innocence

Twenty First Distinction: About the venality or gravity of Adam’s sin

Twenty Second Distinction: Whether Adam’s sin came from ignorance

Twenty Third Distinction: Whether God could make a rational creature’s will impeccable by nature Twenty Fourth Distinction: Whether the superior part [sc. of the intellect] is a distinct power from the inferior part

Twenty Fifth Distinction: Whether anything other than the will causes efficaciously an act of willing in the will]