Tenth Distinction

Division of the Text and Overview of Questions

1. “There are some others etc.” [The Master’s text, Sent. IV d.10 ch.1 n.1]

2. Here begins distinction 10, where the Master excludes the error of some about the thing of this sacrament, namely the error of those who denied that the body of Christ is contained in the Eucharist.

3. The distinction is divided into three parts: first the Master posits the error; second the confirmation of it; third the rejection of it.

4. The second part can be divided, because he first sets down four authorities in favor of their error; second he solves the authorities; third he confirms his solution.

5. And the third part can be divided, because he first posits an authority that is against himself; second he weighs a certain part of it that seems to cause a doubt; third he responds to the doubt.

6. But because the principal conclusion of this distinction is that the body of Christ is really contained in the Eucharist, and because indeed the first part is about the Eucharist in the order of doctrine (hence it was also supposed in the first question of distinction 8 [d.8 n.20]), therefore as to this distinction I ask principally about three things: first about the possibility of Christ’s body existing in the Eucharist; second about the things that can belong to Christ’s body existing in the Eucharist; third about the action that can belong to Christ existing in the Eucharist.