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A TEXTUAL CORRECTION Readers of De Potentia in the 1953 Marietti edition or in the 1980 Frommann-Holzboog edition must have been highly perplexed by a certain mistake in question 7 ("De divinae essentiae simplicitate"), article 1 ("Utrum Deus sit simplex'~, response to objection 7. operatio Dei potest considerari vel ex parte operantis vel ex parte operati. Si ex parte operantis, sic in Deo non est nisi una operatio, quae est sua essentia; non enim agit res per actionem aliquam quae sit media inter Deum et suum velle, quae sunt ipsius esse. Si vero ex parte operati, sic sunt diversae operationes, ipsum factum, sed per suum intelligere et diversi effectu divinae operationis. Hoc autem compositionem in ipso non inducit. No one can pretend to understand this as it is written. One whole line needs to be rearranged and then the paragraph makes sense and becomes worthy of its place in this masterpiece. It should read: ... non enim agit res per actionem aliquam quae sit media inter Deum et ipsum factum sed per suum intelligere et suum velle, quae sunt ipsius esse. Si vero ex parte operati, sic sunt diversae operationes et diversi effectus divinae operationis. Hoc autem compositionem in ipso non inducit. VINCENT J. DONDELINGER •••••••••••••••••• The garbled version of the seventh response can be traced to the 1949 Marietti edition. It was continued in the 1953 edition, cited in the problem. However, the correct version, as given by Mr. Dondelinger, appears in the 1913 and 1931 Marietti editions. The correct version is also in the Parma edition (1852-73), the 499 500 A TEXTUAL CORRECTION Vives edition (1871-72), and that of Mandonnet, Quaestiones disputatae, vol. 2 (Paris, 1925). Thus the correct version is the reading of the manuscript tradition. The text of the Leonine edi- . tion of the De Potentia has been completed but is still unpublished. Leonine Commission Washington, D.C. J. F. HINNEBUSCH, 0.P. ...

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