203.
But there is a doubt whether their theology is about everything although there be
some other theology about certain knowables. Here a distinction must be made
about theology in itself and as it is a habit perfecting the blessed created
intellect. In the first way it is about all knowables, because they are all of
a nature to be known by virtue of the first theological object; in the second
way, I saw that it is possible for it to be about any knowable, because it is
about all knowables, for all the knowables are not infinite. De facto, however,
it has no limitation save from the will of God displaying something in his
essence; and therefore the knowledge of the blessed is in actuality about as many
things as God voluntarily shows them in his essence.
204.
[On our theology] – About our theology I say that it is not actually of
everything, because just as the theology of the blessed has a limit, so also
does ours, form the will of God revealing. But the limit prefixed by the divine
will as to general revelation is of the things that are in divine Scripture,
because – as it contained in the last chapter of Revelation 22.18 – “he
who adds to these things, to him will God add the plagues that are set down in
this book.” Therefore, our knowledge is de facto only of the things contained
in Scripture and of the things that can be elicited from them. (John Duns
Scotus, The Ordinatio of Blessed John Dun Scotus, Volume 1: On Revelation
and Theology [Militant Thomist Press, 2022], 101)
