Bulletin du Musée National de Varsovie (32.1991)

5. Temptation of Christ, wali painting, St. Martin's Church in Zillis (after E. Murbach, op. cit.)

numerous patristic formulations in his own analyses.16 In Catena aura, St. Thomas Aąuinas
mcludes texts of the Fathers of thc Church, inostly Chrysostom, Grcgory, and St. Augustine,
arranged according to the subjects:

Quaestio XLI: De tentatione Christi is divided into four articles:

1- Utrum Christo tentati conveniens fuerit

2- Utrum Christus debuerit tentati in deserlo

3- Utrum tentatio Christi debuerit esse post ieiunium

4- Utrum fuerit conveniens tentationis modus et ordo.

Numerous formulations in the Summa Theologica, adding up to a com_preheiisive definition
°f the Temptation (tentare, tentatio), provide an important csmplement to the Quaestiones.

T e n t a r e 'est proprie experimentum sumere de aliąuo. E.rperimentum autem sumitur de aliąuo
ut sciatur aliąuid circa ipsum; et ideo proximus finis cuiuslibet tentatis est scientia. Sed quandoque
tlherius ex scientia ąuaeritur aliąuis alius finis, vel bonus vel malus; bonus ąuidem, sicut cum
®liquis vult scire ąualis aliąuis sit vel ąuantum ad scientiam vel virtutem, ul eum promoveat, malus

16 v-

■ ^oppen, op. cit., p. 96: Bonaventura, Commenl on The Gospel. According to Lukc: Opera omnia, VII, Qua*acci, 1895, pp

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