Eleventh Distinction

Division of the Text and Overview of the Parts

1. “Now if it is asked...” [Lombard, Sent. IV d.11].

2. The Master determined above the truth about the Eucharist as to the sacrament, and the thing of the sacrament, and the use of it. Here he determines the truth about the sacramental consecration, which is as it were the beginning of this sacrament.

3. And there is a division into two parts: for first he makes determination about the act of consecration, and secondly about the matter of consecration.

4. The first part is divided into two: first he determines the truth, and secondly he excludes an error about it.

5. The second part [n.3] is divided into three: for first he makes determination about the matter in general that precedes and accompanies the consecration, namely why there is a different species from the species of the contained thing; second about the matter in particular as to the double species that combine in the sacrament [sc. bread and wine]; third about a certain species that has to be added to the other main species [sc. the water added to the wine].

6. As to this eleventh distinction, then, two main questions must be asked: first about conversion or transubstantiation, and second about the matter fit for transubstantiation or conversion.