Ordinatio
Duns Scotus’s commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard, also called the Opus Oxoniense. Book III, distinction 3, question 1 asks whether the Blessed Virgin was conceived in original sin.
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The Ordinatio follows the order of the Four Books of Sentences, book by book and distinction by distinction, and treats each topic as a question with arguments on both sides. In book III, distinction 3, Scotus first sets out what he calls the common opinion, that Mary contracted original sin and was afterwards cleansed, with its two chief reasons. He then argues against it from the perfection of Christ as mediator, and gives his own answer in three possibilities, of which he judges it probable, saving the authority of the church and of Scripture, to attribute the most excellent to Mary.
The translator’s preface says that the rendering follows volume nine of the Vatican edition and warns that Scotus’s Latin is elliptical and sometimes obscure. See the Dogma of the Immaculate Conception.
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- 8 December 1854, firm date