Division of the Text and Overview of Questions

1. “After the sacrament of baptism and of confirmation etc.” [Lombard ad loc.]

2. After the Master has dealt with baptism, whereby we are regenerated, and with confirmation, whereby we are strengthened, he here deals with the sacrament of the Eucharist, whereby we are nourished and made complete in what is good.

3. It is divided into two parts: in the first the Master makes connection with what has preceded and in it he makes determination about the Eucharist in comparison with the two prior sacraments. In the second he makes determination about the Eucharist in itself [n.6].

4. The first part is divided into two. In the first he sets down the connection of what needs to be said with what has been said. In the second part he gives the reason for the connection by comparing the Eucharist with baptism in particular.

5. And this part has two parts. In the first he compares the Eucharist with baptism in respect of excellence; in the second in respect of agreement and difference. Now the agreement is plain, that both sacraments are prefigured in the Mosaic Law, but the difference is that each has its own proper prefiguring. And he sets down the agreement and difference as follows: first he sets down the prefiguring proper to each sacrament in the Mosaic Law, and second he sets down the prefiguring proper to each in their cause.

6. And next follows the part where the Master deals with the Eucharist in itself.

7. And this part has four parts. First the Master deals with the sacrament of the Eucharist and of the taking of the sacrament; second with the conversion or consecration, whereby the sacrament begins to be; third with the accidents remaining after the consecration; fourth with the minister of the sacrament. The second part starts at the beginning of distinction 11; the third at the beginning of distinction 12; the fourth at the beginning of distinction 13.

8. Now the first part is divided into two, for the Master first determines the truth about the sacrament and the receiving of it; secondly he excludes errors opposing it.

9. The first part again is divided into two, for he first determines the truth of the sacrament, and second the receiving of it (at the beginning of distinction 9)

10. The first of these parts is divided into preface and treatise (whicha begins at “The Lord instituted the sacrament”).

a.a [Interpolation]: and therefore I do not divide the preface from the whole treatment of the Eucharist, but only from the treatment contained in this distinction, for there are only four things proposed here that the treatment determines. The treatment is in this way_

11. And the treatment has two parts. In the first he deals with two matters he has set down, namely the institution and the form of this sacrament. In the second he deals with two others, namely the sacrament and the thing.

12. The first part is again divided into two. First he deals with the truth of the institution, and second he excludes an error or doubt about it.

13. The first again is divided into two. First he deals with the institution and second with the form.

14. As to this eighth distinction there are three questions principally to be dealt with: first the sacrament, whether the Eucharist is a sacrament of the New Law; second the form, whether it is the form set down in the canon of the mass; third the institution, whether this sacrament was suitably instituted after the Last Supper (the Cena).