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All Collections > The Ordinatio of John Duns Scotus > Ordinatio. Book 4. Distinctions 43 - 49. > book four. distinctions 43 - 49 > forty ninth distinction. first part. about the natural quality of beatitude > question five. whether beatitude simply consists in the act of will that is enjoyment > i. to the question > b. a difficulty > 3. conclusion
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The Ordinatio of John Duns Scotus
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Ordinatio. Book 4. Distinctions 43 - 49.
Book Four. Distinctions 43 - 49
Forty Ninth Distinction. First Part. About the Natural Quality of Beatitude
Question Five. Whether Beatitude Simply Consists in the Act of Will that is Enjoyment
I. To the Question
B. A Difficulty
3. Conclusion

3. Conclusion

300. Holding to this second way then [nn.297, 299] one need not concede that, by God’s absolute power, can be caused in the soul of a wayfarer, at least of one not seeing God bare, any enjoyment equal to the lowest enjoyment possible for any blessed; because the supreme of the lowest species cannot be made equal to the lowest of the higher species, for the whole of the former is below the whole of the latter.

301. But it is difficult according to the first way to prevent in the soul of the wayfarer (while his obscure knowledge persists intense to such and such a degree) the possibility of some enjoyment being there equal to some given beatific enjoyment.