Commentary — Charles-René Billuart, O.P. · from Schola Thomistica

Summa Summae S. Thomae (Billuart)

First published 1754. With massive thanks to Schola Thomistica, whose transcription of the Latin and English translation made this work available to all. Billuart's own compendium of his great commentary on the Summa of St. Thomas, in the two volumes on moral matter: Tomus II on the Prima Secundae (human acts, conscience and the moral systems, the passions and virtues in general, sins, law, and grace) and Tomus III on the Secunda Secundae through the treatise on right and justice. The Latin is the Schola Thomistica transcription, taken for Tomus II from the e-rara scan of the Zurich copy (1884 printing) and for Tomus III from the Vivès edition (Paris, 1887); the English translation of the text is theirs also (AI-assisted, human-reviewed), given by them to the public domain. The full parallel Latin is kept beside the English throughout; the English headings of the contents are our own. Not included: the later editor's appendix on middle knowledge at the end of Tomus II (not Billuart's work); the tract De regulis fidei of Tomus III (controversy theology, set aside for now); and the continuation of the justice treatise, which the printer carried into Tomus IV, a volume not yet in this library. Four footnotes whose closing bracket the transcription lost were repaired against the parallel language; in one English footnote (on the Clementina Exivi) the inner quotation breaks off in the source, where the Latin is complete. Download: PDF — Tomus II: On the Prima Secundae (Latin & English; the library’s text — the later editor’s middle-knowledge appendix is not included) · PDF — Tomus III: On the Secunda Secundae, Faith to Justice (Latin & English; the library’s text — the tract De regulis fidei is not included)