Part, Question

4001   2, 121 |              brave man delights in his act?~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[123] A[
4002   2, 121 |              brave man delights in his act. For "delight is ~the unhindered
4003   2, 121 |              man takes pleasure in his act.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[123] A[
4004   2, 121 |              he takes pleasure in ~his act.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[123] A[
4005   2, 121 |              to have no delight in his act."~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[123]
4006   2, 121 |             reason. Now the ~principal act of fortitude is to endure,
4007   2, 121 |            spiritual pleasure, in the ~act itself of virtue and the
4008   2, 121 |             employs anger, not for the act of ~endurance, because the
4009   2, 121 |                by itself performs this act, but for the ~act of aggression,
4010   2, 121 |        performs this act, but for the ~act of aggression, for which
4011   2, 121 |               is that it is stated to "act steadfastly," ~according
4012   2, 121 |        cooperate with fortitude in its act ~of endurance, wherein its
4013   2, 121 |          commended: for it is ~by that act that the brave man curbs
4014   2, 122 |                Whether martyrdom is an act of virtue?~(2) Of what virtue
4015   2, 122 |               Of what virtue is it the act?~(3) Concerning the perfection
4016   2, 122 |      Concerning the perfection of this act;~(4) The pain of martyrdom;~(
4017   2, 122 |                Whether martyrdom is an act of virtue?~Aquin.: SMT SS
4018   2, 122 |               that martyrdom is not an act of virtue. For all acts
4019   2, 122 |         Therefore martyrdom is not an ~act of virtue.~Aquin.: SMT SS
4020   2, 122 |                 nothing unlawful is an act of virtue. Now it is unlawful ~
4021   2, 122 |          Therefore martyrdom is not an act of virtue.~Aquin.: SMT SS
4022   2, 122 |              to offer oneself to do an act of ~virtue. But it is not
4023   2, 122 |          Therefore martyrdom is not an act of ~virtue.~Aquin.: SMT
4024   2, 122 |              Therefore martyrdom is an act of virtue.~Aquin.: SMT SS
4025   2, 122 |           evident that martyrdom is an act of virtue.~Aquin.: SMT SS
4026   2, 122 |           certain things belong to an ~act of virtue as regards the
4027   2, 122 |               such a case a man should act according to reason. And
4028   2, 122 |               unjustly: yet if anyone ~act unjustly, one ought to endure
4029   2, 122 |                Whether martyrdom is an act of fortitude?~Aquin.: SMT
4030   2, 122 |               that martyrdom is not an act of fortitude. For the Greek ~{
4031   2, 122 |             Therefore ~martyrdom is an act of faith rather than of
4032   2, 122 |                Further, a praiseworthy act belongs chiefly to the virtue
4033   2, 122 |         thereby, and without which the act avails ~nothing. Now charity
4034   2, 122 |           proof of charity lies in the act of martyrdom, ~according
4035   2, 122 |             Therefore ~martyrdom is an act of charity rather than of
4036   2, 122 |              for praise ~in a virtuous act, is the virtue of which
4037   2, 122 |              virtue of which it is the act. Therefore ~martyrdom is
4038   2, 122 |             Therefore ~martyrdom is an act of patience rather than
4039   2, 122 |            account of the virtue whose act he performs. ~Therefore
4040   2, 122 |              Therefore martyrdom is an act of fortitude.~Aquin.: SMT
4041   2, 122 |           evident that martyrdom is an act of ~fortitude; for which
4042   2, 122 |              must be considered in the act of fortitude. one ~is the
4043   2, 122 |            Charity inclines one to the act of martyrdom, as its first ~
4044   2, 122 |              it. Hence martyrdom is an act of charity as commanding,
4045   2, 122 |            meritorious, like any other act of ~virtue: and for this
4046   2, 122 |               Q[123], A[6]), the chief act of fortitude ~is endurance:
4047   2, 122 |               and not to its secondary act, which is aggression, ~martyrdom
4048   2, 122 |              on the part of its ~chief act, viz. endurance, hence it
4049   2, 122 |                Whether martyrdom is an act of the greatest perfection?~
4050   2, 122 |               that martyrdom is not an act of the greatest perfection. ~
4051   2, 122 |         Therefore martyrdom is ~not an act of the greatest perfection.~
4052   2, 122 |            good to many. Therefore the act of teaching and guiding ~
4053   2, 122 |               is more perfect than the act of martyrdom.~Aquin.: SMT
4054   2, 122 |               that, We may speak of an act of virtue in two ways. First,
4055   2, 122 |          regard to the species of that act, as compared to the virtue
4056   2, 122 |             some good consisting in an act of virtue, such as faith
4057   2, 122 |              love of God, so that this act of virtue being the end
4058   2, 122 |              Body Para. 2/2~A virtuous act may be considered in another
4059   2, 122 |               in this ~respect that an act comes to belong to the perfection
4060   2, 122 |               Reply OBJ 1: There is no act of perfection, which is
4061   2, 122 |             the proper ~species of its act, whence it derives no excellence
4062   2, 122 |               Further, martyrdom is an act of fortitude. But it belongs
4063   2, 122 |             martyrdom is a meritorious act, as stated above (A[2], ~
4064   2, 122 |                cannot be a meritorious act after death. Therefore it ~
4065   2, 122 |                until death ensues. The act of ~martyrdom is meritorious
4066   2, 123 |               1~I answer that, A human act is said to be a sin on account
4067   2, 123 |            because the good of a human act consists in order, as stated ~
4068   2, 123 |           something disagreeable is an act not of ~fortitude but of
4069   2, 124 |           habits by their acts. Now no act of fortitude is hindered
4070   2, 124 |             Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 1: The act of fortitude is to endure
4071   2, 125 |               2: It is praiseworthy to act quickly after taking counsel, ~
4072   2, 125 |           taking counsel, ~which is an act of reason. But to wish to
4073   2, 125 |              of reason. But to wish to act quickly before taking ~counsel
4074   2, 125 |           sinful; for this would be to act rashly, ~which is a vice
4075   2, 125 |              daring which leads one to act quickly is so far praiseworthy
4076   2, 126 |            fortitude which makes a man act ~bravely through being accustomed
4077   2, 126 |           fortitude ~which makes a man act bravely through being unaccustomed
4078   2, 126 |             which is ~requisite for an act of fortitude; and potential
4079   2, 126 |           above (Q[123], AA[3],6), the act of ~fortitude is twofold,
4080   2, 126 |           things are ~required for the act of aggression. The first
4081   2, 126 |               requisite for the ~other act of fortitude, viz. endurance.
4082   2, 126 |              though they concur in the act of fortitude, they ~differ
4083   2, 127 |                secondly to ~its proper act, which consists in the right
4084   2, 127 |           denominated chiefly from its act, a man is said to be ~magnanimous
4085   2, 127 |                minded to do some great act. Now an act ~may be called
4086   2, 127 |              do some great act. Now an act ~may be called great in
4087   2, 127 |                another ~absolutely. An act may be called great proportionately,
4088   2, 127 |            very good use of it: but an act is simply and absolutely
4089   2, 127 |              amount to the same) in an act of ~virtue may be considered
4090   2, 127 |       difficulty is found ~only in the act of intellectual virtues,
4091   2, 127 |             the virtues. Wherefore the act of magnanimity is not becoming
4092   2, 127 |                in the soul, ~either in act or by way of a proximate
4093   2, 127 |           possible for one to whom the act of magnanimity is not competent,
4094   2, 127 |              disposed to practice that act if ~it were competent to
4095   2, 127 |        perfection of gratitude, in the act of ~which he wishes to excel,
4096   2, 127 |            avoid reproof" (which is an act of prudence), "nor to ~act
4097   2, 127 |             act of prudence), "nor to ~act unjustly" (which is an act
4098   2, 127 |             act unjustly" (which is an act of justice), "that he is
4099   2, 127 |               do ~favors" (which is an act of charity), "that he gives
4100   2, 127 |        services ~readily" (which is an act of liberality), that "he
4101   2, 127 |                truthful" (which is ~an act of truthfulness), and that "
4102   2, 127 |             complaining" (which ~is an act of patience). Therefore
4103   2, 127 |                 something great in the act of fortitude, even as in
4104   2, 127 |                for commendation of the act, so ~that it become meritorious,
4105   2, 127 |              it needs them in order to act ~more expeditiously.~Aquin.:
4106   2, 130 |               merely in respect of one act, vainglory is a mortal ~
4107   2, 131 |                solicitude, which is an act of ~prudence, as stated
4108   2, 132 |            Philosopher (Ethic. vi, 4) "act is ~right reason about things
4109   2, 132 |            things]. Therefore it is an act rather than a virtue.~Aquin.:
4110   2, 132 |             must needs be ~a virtue of act," i.e. a moral virtue, whereby
4111   2, 132 |                good use of the rule of act: and this is what magnificence
4112   2, 132 |              does. ~Hence it is not an act but a virtue.~~Aquin.: SMT
4113   2, 132 |               work done is produced by act: in the use ~of which it
4114   2, 132 |               produced [factum] by the act is something great, namely
4115   2, 132 |               1~Reply OBJ 4: The chief act of virtue is the inward
4116   2, 132 |                accomplish the ~outward act of magnificence in things
4117   2, 133 |               the very species of ~its act, since it exceeds the rule
4118   2, 134 |            heaven as regards the ~same act that they have on the way,
4119   2, 134 |                God. In like manner the act of patience, in heaven,
4120   2, 134 |              to the pleasure which its act affords, it is reckoned
4121   2, 134 |                123], A[6]), the proper act of fortitude is ~to endure;
4122   2, 134 |             Para. 1/2~Reply OBJ 2: The act of fortitude consists not
4123   2, 135 |                counts. First, from the act's ~very species, which is
4124   2, 135 |             the proper object of that ~act: secondly, from the length
4125   2, 135 |             Sometimes a virtue and its act go by the same name: thus ~
4126   2, 135 |                without performing ~the act: thus a poor man has the
4127   2, 135 |                without exercising ~the act. Sometimes, however, a person
4128   2, 135 |                 begins to ~perform the act, yet does not accomplish
4129   2, 135 |           persevere, sometimes for the act of persevering: ~and sometimes
4130   2, 135 |                 yet ~completes not the act, through not persisting
4131   2, 135 |                 principal virtues, the act of perseverance is not accomplished
4132   2, 135 |                denoting the consummate act of perseverance.~Aquin.:
4133   2, 135 |         virtuous habit, but a virtuous act sustained to the end, according
4134   2, 135 |                very continuance of the act: whereas ~constancy makes
4135   2, 135 |               is more intrinsic to the act of virtue than that ~which
4136   2, 135 |                be taken to denote ~the act of perseverance enduring
4137   2, 137 |              FS, Q[68], A[6]). But the act of fortitude does not remain
4138   2, 137 |       enjoyment of the end. Hence ~the act of fortitude there is to
4139   2, 137 |                justice pertain to ~the act of justice. Therefore this
4140   2, 140 |             body in ~accomplishing the act of reason. Wherefore it
4141   2, 140 |             circumstances in which the act takes place, is simply more ~
4142   2, 141 |              principal pleasure of the act itself of ~procreation,
4143   2, 141 |           pleasures incidental to ~the act, resulting, for instance,
4144   2, 142 |  shamefacedness implies a praiseworthy act; wherefore from many ~such
4145   2, 142 |              deformity of a ~voluntary act: and this, properly speaking,
4146   2, 144 |             Abstinence itself; (2) its act which is fasting; (3) its
4147   2, 144 |           belongs to abstinence, is an act not of virtue but of art.~
4148   2, 144 |               a ~virtue nor a virtuous act, but something indifferent.
4149   2, 144 |          virtuous ~habit or a virtuous act. This is the meaning of
4150   2, 144 |      abstaining from food a man should act with due regard for ~those
4151   2, 145 |               1) Whether fasting is an act of virtue?~(2) Of what virtue
4152   2, 145 |               Of what virtue is it the act?~(3) Whether it is a matter
4153   2, 145 |                1~Whether fasting is an act of virtue?~Aquin.: SMT SS
4154   2, 145 |            seem that fasting is not an act of virtue. For every act ~
4155   2, 145 |               act of virtue. For every act ~of virtue is acceptable
4156   2, 145 |            Therefore fasting is not an act of virtue.~Aquin.: SMT SS
4157   2, 145 |                 1/1~OBJ 2: Further, no act of virtue forsakes the mean
4158   2, 145 |            Therefore fasting is not an act ~of virtue.~Aquin.: SMT
4159   2, 145 |              good and evil, is ~not an act of virtue. Now such is fasting,
4160   2, 145 |            Therefore fasting is not an act of virtue.~Aquin.: SMT SS
4161   2, 145 |            Para. 1/1~I answer that, An act is virtuous through being
4162   2, 145 |              Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 1: An act that is virtuous generically
4163   2, 145 |          cannot be reckoned a virtuous act. Such is only the fasting ~
4164   2, 145 |                1~Whether fasting is an act of abstinence?~Aquin.: SMT
4165   2, 145 |            seem that fasting is not an act of abstinence. For ~Jerome [*
4166   2, 145 |          fasting is not exclusively an act ~of abstinence.~Aquin.:
4167   2, 145 |               Now paying tithes is an ~act of religion, as stated above (
4168   2, 145 |               Therefore fasting is an ~act of religion and not of abstinence. ~
4169   2, 145 |            Therefore fasting is not an act of abstinence.~Aquin.: SMT
4170   2, 145 |               I answer that, Habit and act have the same matter. Wherefore
4171   2, 145 |              Wherefore every ~virtuous act about some particular matter
4172   2, 145 |            evident that ~fasting is an act of abstinence.~Aquin.: SMT
4173   2, 145 |          stated above (A[1], ad 1), an act ceases to ~be virtuous by
4174   2, 145 |                2: Nothing prevents the act of one virtue belonging
4175   2, 145 |               fasting should not be an act of religion, or of chastity,
4176   2, 145 |            above (A[2]), fasting is an act of the virtue of ~abstinence,
4177   2, 145 |                 Further, fasting is an act of the virtue of abstinence,
4178   2, 145 |             Three things concur in the act of procreation, namely, ~
4179   2, 146 |            from which he went on to an act of gluttony: while the ~
4180   2, 146 |              being the accidents of an act, do not differentiate ~its
4181   2, 146 |                Reply OBJ 1: Joy in the act or end of sin results from
4182   2, 146 |           Scurrility proceeds from the act of gluttony, and not from ~
4183   2, 146 |              and not from ~the lustful act, but from the lustful will:
4184   2, 148 |             drunkenness may denote the act by which a man incurs this ~
4185   2, 148 |              incurs this ~defect. This act may cause drunkenness in
4186   2, 148 |             the mere repetition of the act, but because it is impossible
4187   2, 148 |               defect and the preceding act. on the ~part of the resulting
4188   2, 148 |              in so far as it causes an act to be ~involuntary through
4189   2, 148 |              the part of the preceding act, a ~distinction would seem
4190   2, 148 |                that ~results from that act be without sin, the subsequent
4191   2, 148 |                however, the ~preceding act was sinful, the person is
4192   2, 148 |         voluntariness of the preceding act, inasmuch as it was through
4193   2, 149 |              far as it delights in its act, it is reckoned ~among the
4194   2, 149 |                abstinence ~directs its act to chastity as its end.~
4195   2, 149 |                 is about a disgraceful act, and this is common to all
4196   2, 149 |              so that even the conjugal act, which is adorned by the
4197   2, 150 |                accidental to the moral act, which as such must be considered
4198   2, 150 |                of matter to the ~moral act, since the sensible passions
4199   2, 150 |              food, as this would be to act counter to the good of ~
4200   2, 150 |            abstain altogether from the act of ~procreation, for this
4201   2, 150 |            procreation, for this is to act against the good of the
4202   2, 151 |                1/1~Whether no venereal act can be without sin?~Aquin.:
4203   2, 151 |            would seem that no venereal act can be without sin. For ~
4204   2, 151 |             virtue. Now every venereal act is a ~great hindrance to
4205   2, 151 |                seemingly, no ~venereal act is without sin.~Aquin.:
4206   2, 151 |               2. Now in every venereal act there is excess of ~pleasure,
4207   2, 151 |              is incompatible with the ~act of understanding," as the
4208   2, 151 |        prophecy. Therefore no venereal act can be without sin.~Aquin.:
4209   2, 151 |             without which no ~venereal act is possible, as Augustine
4210   2, 151 |                  Therefore no venereal act can be without sin.~Aquin.:
4211   2, 151 |     commandment": and he refers to the act of sexual intercourse between
4212   2, 151 |          Therefore not every venereal ~act is a sin.~Aquin.: SMT SS
4213   2, 151 |               attaching to a venereal ~act directed according to reason,
4214   2, 151 |                does it follow that the act in question is contrary
4215   2, 151 |            from the fact that the free act of reason in considering ~
4216   2, 151 |             contrary to virtue, if the act of reason be sometimes interrupted
4217   2, 151 |               does not follow that the act in question is a sin, but
4218   2, 151 |               a sin. For ~the venereal act consists in the emission
4219   2, 151 |               his. But in the venereal act a man uses only what is
4220   2, 151 |             some end as good, and this act is ~hindered by lust, according
4221   2, 151 |        blindness of ~mind." The second act is counsel about what is
4222   2, 151 |                 Terence says (Eunuch., act 1, sc. 1), speaking of lecherous
4223   2, 151 |                Q[53], A[3]). The third act is ~judgment about the things
4224   2, 151 |           thoughtlessness." The fourth act is the reason's ~command
4225   2, 151 |           Hence Terence says (Eunuch., act 1, sc. 1) of a man who ~
4226   2, 151 |           results a twofold inordinate act. One is ~the desire for
4227   2, 151 |           desired pleasure. The ~other act is the desire for the things
4228   2, 152 |               does not specify a moral act, whose species is derived
4229   2, 152 |                the end of the venereal act. In ~this way, as hindering
4230   2, 152 |             attaches to every venereal act from which ~generation cannot
4231   2, 152 |            matter wherein the venereal act is consummated may be discordant
4232   2, 152 |                because in the venereal act the woman is passive and
4233   2, 152 |            vices concurring in the one act, and in this way ~adultery
4234   2, 152 |                the ~species of a moral act, as stated above (FS, Q[
4235   2, 152 |        circumstantial to the venereal ~act, for instance kisses, touches,
4236   2, 152 |            have ~shown, since it is an act of generation accomplished
4237   2, 152 |               to the very genus of the act, and not only as ~to the
4238   2, 152 |              whole life, wherefore the act of gluttony ~is not a mortal
4239   2, 152 |                 lust, for the marriage act that is done out of sensuous
4240   2, 152 |             not only to consent to the act, but ~also to the delectation
4241   2, 152 |                not only consent to the act but also consent to the ~
4242   2, 152 |                instruct one who cannot act ~according to or against
4243   2, 152 |               a man, while asleep, can act according to or against ~
4244   2, 152 |               properly in the venereal act whereby ~a virgin is violated.
4245   2, 152 |               own consent, whether by ~act of fornication or by the
4246   2, 152 |               of fornication or by the act of marriage: for the conditions
4247   2, 152 |               FS, Q[18], AA[6],7), the act of a virtue ~or vice, that
4248   2, 152 |             worship of God, becomes an act of religion, as in the case
4249   2, 152 |         deformity whereby the venereal act is rendered unbecoming,
4250   2, 152 |          natural order of the venereal act as becoming to the human
4251   2, 152 |            most ~grave and shameful to act against things as determined
4252   2, 152 |               make use of the venereal act not only with prejudice
4253   2, 152 |               authority as regards the act of generation, than as regards ~
4254   2, 153 |                power removes the ~evil act of that power. But continence
4255   2, 153 |               does not remove the evil act of ~the concupiscible: since "
4256   2, 153 |               power of the soul, whose act it is to choose; and that
4257   2, 154 |          incontinent man would seem to act against his ~conscience
4258   2, 154 |                 xi] sin is ~chiefly an act of the will, because "by
4259   2, 154 |             sinned, because the sinful act has become connatural to
4260   2, 156 |                in the execution of the act, does not ~destroy the rectitude
4261   2, 156 |               would be hindered in its act, if it were to deliberate
4262   2, 156 |               be done, while having to act.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[158] A[
4263   2, 156 |                  and it is the natural act of a power, namely the irascible;
4264   2, 156 |             his ~reason, wherefore its act is natural to man, in so
4265   2, 156 |                the imperfection of the act. This imperfection is considered
4266   2, 156 |               the course of the human ~act [*Cf. FS, Q[46], A[8], OBJ[
4267   2, 158 |          admonishing wrong-doers is an act of justice ~or of charity,
4268   2, 158 |                145], A[1]], whether we act seriously or in play. ~The
4269   2, 159 |       Consequently a man, by an inward act of the soul, may subject ~
4270   2, 159 |                a natural sequence, the act ~of one virtue proceeds
4271   2, 159 |               virtue proceeds from the act of another.~Aquin.: SMT
4272   2, 160 |             sin, and not to the inward act of pride, namely contempt
4273   2, 160 |               the object of a habit or act cannot be other ~than the
4274   2, 160 |                as regards the ~outward act whereby a man falsely ascribes
4275   2, 160 |              its very ~nature, for its act is the contempt of God.
4276   2, 161 |            before being in the outward act of the body; since, as Augustine ~
4277   2, 161 |              consists in a ~deliberate act of the appetite, namely
4278   2, 161 |             own natural power he might act so as to ~obtain happiness.
4279   2, 163 |                1/1~Reply OBJ 1: In the act of tempting the devil was
4280   2, 164 |             wherefore solicitude is an act ~of prudence as stated above (
4281   2, 164 |             Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 2: The act of a cognitive power is
4282   2, 164 |              One is connected with the act ~of knowledge itself; and
4283   2, 164 |            other ~good pertains to the act of the appetitive power,
4284   2, 165 |          reduced from potentiality to ~act, and this is done by the
4285   2, 166 |             moderation do ~not sin but act justly, by rewarding them
4286   2, 168 |            consider the species of the act, as are murder, ~adultery,
4287   2, 169 |                which is not always in ~act, is a habit. Now prophecy
4288   2, 169 |               and it is not ~always in act, else a prophet could not
4289   2, 169 |               is something "whereby we act when we will," as ~the Commentator [*
4290   2, 169 |               to the substance of ~the act - for instance, the working
4291   2, 169 |               not the substance of the act - for instance to ~love
4292   2, 170 |              the time of the ~marriage act, the presence of the Holy
4293   2, 170 |            might be hindered ~from the act of prophesying by some very
4294   2, 170 |               to the ~intellect, whose act precedes the act of the
4295   2, 170 |                 whose act precedes the act of the will, which power
4296   2, 171 |           uplifted, and intent on its ~act. Therefore it seems that
4297   2, 171 |             the mind is intent, in its act, upon distant things ~which
4298   2, 171 |              when it is intent, in its act, ~upon the coordination
4299   2, 173 |              habit, but only as to the act of the blessed, it follows
4300   2, 173 |           follows that he had not ~the act of faith at the same time,
4301   2, 173 |                but not as ~regards the act by which he saw God by a
4302   2, 177 |               being" from ~their form, act in such and such a way. ~
4303   2, 177 |              movement is defined ~"the act of a perfect thing." In
4304   2, 178 |            truth. Now ~intention is an act of the will, as stated above (
4305   2, 178 |              intellect to practice the act of ~contemplation, as stated
4306   2, 178 |                 dispositively. For the act of contemplation, wherein
4307   2, 178 |      contemplative life consists in an act of the reason, there is
4308   2, 178 |             contemplative life has one act wherein it is finally completed,
4309   2, 178 |                of truth, and from this act it derives its unity. Yet ~
4310   2, 178 |               it arrives at this final act. Some of these ~pertain
4311   2, 178 |             and the last and ~crowning act is the contemplation itself
4312   2, 178 |      contemplation" regards the simple act of ~gazing on the truth;
4313   2, 178 |                  First, with regard to act, that is to say by actually
4314   2, 178 |     potentially and not with regard to act, that is to say, when the
4315   2, 178 |              so far as movement is the act of a perfect thing, according ~
4316   2, 178 |            life consists chiefly in an act ~of the intellect, it has
4317   2, 178 |               in itself, wherefore its act can endure longer.~
4318   2, 179 |          through having its end in an ~act of the appetitive power,
4319   2, 179 |              Para. 1/1~OBJ 2: Further, act and habit would seem to
4320   2, 179 |               life. Now teaching is an act of wisdom: for the Philosopher
4321   2, 179 |              than contemplation, is an act of the ~contemplative life.
4322   2, 179 |                 1/2~I answer that, The act of teaching has a twofold
4323   2, 179 |               1~Reply OBJ 2: Habit and act have a common object. Hence
4324   2, 181 |             virtue that enables us "to act with immobility," according
4325   2, 181 |               Duty implies relation to act; while grades denote an
4326   2, 181 |               of the sublimity of the ~act, as in the case of a bishop.
4327   2, 182 |              of things that hinder the act of ~charity, and yet are
4328   2, 182 |                 not through having the act of perfect love, but through ~
4329   2, 182 |          Martyrdom is the most perfect act of charity. But an act of ~
4330   2, 182 |         perfect act of charity. But an act of ~perfection does not
4331   2, 182 |             order is ~directed to some act in the Divine offices. Wherefore
4332   2, 183 |            considered as an ~episcopal act it has the height of degree
4333   2, 183 |               the Blessed Mark did not act against a ~precept by cutting
4334   2, 183 |             obstacle, for instance the act of sight ceases through
4335   2, 183 |            without the exercise of its act.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[185] A[
4336   2, 184 |            mean. Therefore he does not act virtuously: ~and so this
4337   2, 184 |         necessity of coercion makes an act involuntary and ~consequently
4338   2, 184 |                 since this would be to act contrary to the vow of ~
4339   2, 184 |               from this he proceeds to act against the law or rule.
4340   2, 185 |                of sin, ~and hinders an act of virtue; hence a gloss
4341   2, 185 |            first is on the part of the act itself of begging, which
4342   2, 185 |                especially ~seem not to act thus from affectation, since
4343   2, 186 |           namely that "they are not to act as advocates in lawsuits." ~
4344   2, 186 |                when it is expedient to act thus for the spiritual welfare ~
4345   2, 186 |            with any religious order to act as ~counsel at law for a
4346   2, 186 |                obstacle to some higher act of charity, such as divine ~
4347   2, 186 |               for the ~exercise of his act: he needs only the necessaries;
4348   2, 187 |             both because to vow is ~an act of religion, which has a
4349   2, 187 |                 because ~"to vow is an act of the will" according to
4350   3, 1   |              to punish, as He lays the act of sin to man's charge, ~
4351   3, 1   |           credit him with the contrary act. Therefore it was not ~necessary
4352   3, 1   |              it was necessary that the act of the one satisfying should ~
4353   3, 2   |                of ~Chalcedon, part ii, act. 1): "We must understand
4354   3, 2   |         Council of Chalcedon, part ii, act. 1) that ~the Divine nature "
4355   3, 2   |          springs ~from the two as from act and potentiality or from
4356   3, 2   |           Synod of Chalcedon (Part ii, act. 5): ~"We confess that our
4357   3, 2   |             inasmuch as it becomes the act of matter, ~and this is
4358   3, 2   |              with God, which is by the act of the soul in ~fruition;
4359   3, 3   |             since the ~effect does not act on its cause. Hence it is
4360   3, 3   |          principle and the term of the act, for to assume is to take
4361   3, 3   |        properly belongs to a person to act, and ~this assuming of flesh
4362   3, 3   |               Further, to assume is to act. But to act befits a person,
4363   3, 3   |               assume is to act. But to act befits a person, not a ~
4364   3, 3   |          implies two things, ~viz. the act of assuming and the term
4365   3, 3   |            term of assumption. Now the act of ~assumption proceeds
4366   3, 3   |          implies two ~things, viz. the act of the one assuming and
4367   3, 3   |               Now the principle of the act is the Divine power, and
4368   3, 5   |            Council of ~Ephesus (P. II, Act. I) we read the saying of
4369   3, 5   |                its substance or in its act. for it is not the act of
4370   3, 5   |             its act. for it is not the act of a ~body, as is proved
4371   3, 5   |          intellective power is not the act of a body, ~nevertheless
4372   3, 7   |       beatitude through the ~uncreated act of knowledge and love of
4373   3, 7   |                was not capable of this act, ~on account of the difference
4374   3, 7   |            attain ~to God by a created act of fruition which could
4375   3, 7   |                 is so acted upon as to act. And hence the nature of
4376   3, 7   |              sufficient for every good act, ~according to 2 Cor. 12:
4377   3, 7   |        although He also ~performed the act of liberality, as far as
4378   3, 7   |                borne towards God in an act of reverence. Hence it is ~
4379   3, 7   |                 Christ as man had this act of reverence towards God
4380   3, 7   |               bring about this or that act. And hence in other ~saints
4381   3, 8   |                not only as they are in act, ~but as they are in potentiality.
4382   3, 8   |               will never be reduced to act, and some are reduced at
4383   3, 8   |               reduced at some time to ~act; and this according to the
4384   3, 8   |           which is not yet ~reduced to act, yet will be reduced to
4385   3, 8   |                 yet will be reduced to act according to Divine ~predestination;
4386   3, 8   |               will never be reduced to act; such are those men existing
4387   3, 8   |            from Christ a certain vital act, i.e. to believe, as if
4388   3, 8   |           inasmuch as corporeal things act on bodies, and spiritual
4389   3, 8   |              Christ is ordained to one act, viz. the sanctification
4390   3, 8   |           inasmuch as it is a being in act, ~it must be the same act
4391   3, 8   |              act, ~it must be the same act whereby it is in act and
4392   3, 8   |              same act whereby it is in act and whereby it acts, as
4393   3, 8   |               it heats. Yet not every ~act whereby anything is in act
4394   3, 8   |             act whereby anything is in act suffices for its being the
4395   3, 8   |              iii, ~19), the agent must act on others by reason of a
4396   3, 8   |             diversify a habit. Now the act of the personal grace ~which
4397   3, 8   |               grace are ordained to an act; but the ~grace of union
4398   3, 8   |            union is not ordained to an act, but to the personal being. ~
4399   3, 9   |            imperfect unless reduced to act. But it ~was fitting that
4400   3, 9   |             Council of Constantinople, Act. 4] condemned the opinion
4401   3, 9   |                  text. 39). Hence this act could not belong to the
4402   3, 9   |             potentiality is reduced to act by what is in ~act; for
4403   3, 9   |          reduced to act by what is in ~act; for that whereby things
4404   3, 9   |                unless it be reduced to act. But the passive ~intellect
4405   3, 9   |          things. and it is ~reduced to act by intelligible species,
4406   3, 9   |                intelligible species in act, by abstracting them from ~
4407   3, 10  |               to such things as are in act at some time, but even ~
4408   3, 10  |               ever will ~be reduced to act. Now some of these are in
4409   3, 10  |                 merely whatever are in act at any time, which things
4410   3, 10  |            i.e. whatever is a being in act; secondly, relatively, i.e. ~
4411   3, 10  |        everything is known as it is in act, and not as it is in ~potentiality,
4412   3, 10  |           essentially regards being in act, ~and secondarily regards
4413   3, 10  |              not an infinite number in act, even ~though we were to
4414   3, 10  |              to reckon all that are in act at any time whatsoever, ~
4415   3, 10  |               infinite, i.e. a form or act not limited by being received
4416   3, 10  |              of the ~perfection of the act, although it is not comprehensible
4417   3, 10  |                knowledge is by form or act. Therefore if ~this infinite
4418   3, 11  |             which it can be reduced to act by the active ~intellect,
4419   3, 11  |              of its powers ~reduced to act. Now it must be borne in
4420   3, 11  |               any creature to a higher act than a natural agent can
4421   3, 11  |          Christ's soul were reduced to act by this divinely ~imprinted
4422   3, 11  |              the soul of Christ is the act of a body, and turns ~to
4423   3, 11  |              which is never reduced to act would seem useless. Now,
4424   3, 11  |            pure power ~and a completed act is a habit: and extremes
4425   3, 11  |            behoove it to be ~always in act.~Aquin.: SMT TP Q[11] A[
4426   3, 11  |               2: Habits are reduced to act by the command of the will,
4427   3, 11  |           habit is that "with which we act when we wish." Now the will
4428   3, 11  |           extends to is not reduced to act; provided ~that that which
4429   3, 11  |              of the will be reduced to act ~according as the matter
4430   3, 12  |              that by which "all are in act," as is said De Anima iii,
4431   3, 12  |            intelligible species are in act; but in sensible ~things
4432   3, 13  |                another, so also may we act by a form obtained from
4433   3, 13  |             Council of Constantinople, Act. iv], we read: "When He,
4434   3, 15  |               part no-wise impeded the act of ~reason.~Aquin.: SMT
4435   3, 16  |              or subject - and to be in act belongs to it because ~of
4436   3, 18  |             Council of Constantinople, Act. 4].~Aquin.: SMT TP Q[18]
4437   3, 18  |               held at Constantinople [*Act. 18] it was ~decreed that
4438   3, 18  |                the servant is moved to act, the servant being like ~
4439   3, 18  |            nature; but the movement or act of this power - which is
4440   3, 18  |           power, and sometimes for the act. Hence if the will is taken
4441   3, 18  |             the will is taken for ~the act, it is necessary to place
4442   3, 18  |              something else. Hence the act of the will, inasmuch as
4443   3, 18  |               itself, as health, which act is called by ~Damascene {
4444   3, 18  |                  is different from the act of the will as it is drawn
4445   3, 18  |               take medicine; and ~this act of the will Damascene calls {
4446   3, 18  |            speaking of the will as ~an act, we thus distinguish in
4447   3, 18  |                the power but only the ~act, as we have said.~Aquin.:
4448   3, 18  |                of which ~choice is the act.~Aquin.: SMT TP Q[18] A[
4449   3, 18  |                the good," which ~is an act of the free-will. Therefore
4450   3, 18  |               3]), there was a twofold act of the ~will in Christ;
4451   3, 18  |            reason," and ~is the proper act of free-will, as was said
4452   3, 18  |          consequently free-will, whose act is choice, as was said in ~
4453   3, 18  |            Council ~of Constantinople, Act. 18] it is said: "We confess
4454   3, 19  |             Council of Constantinople, Act. 10] quotes the words of
4455   3, 19  |                that the Sixth Council (Act. 18) condemned this opinion,
4456   3, 19  |              The instrument is said to act through being moved by the ~
4457   3, 19  |               1: Fruition, which is an act of charity, pertains to
4458   3, 19  |             that as ~man merits by the act of the soul which he performs
4459   3, 20  |              to God through its proper act, inasmuch as by its own
4460   3, 20  |             will of his master. Now to act is not attributed to the
4461   3, 21  |           passing from potentiality to act, ~inasmuch as it is the
4462   3, 21  |                  inasmuch as it is the act of something imperfect,
4463   3, 21  |                movement ~signifies the act of something perfect, i.e.
4464   3, 21  |             i.e. something existing in act, ~as to understand and to
4465   3, 21  |               if prayer itself were an act of the sensuality; and in ~
4466   3, 21  |             alone. Hence prayer is ~an act of the reason, as was said
4467   3, 21  |             the Living God, not by the act of the ~flesh mounting to
4468   3, 21  |          uplifting of ~prayer is by an act which pertains only to the
4469   3, 24  |             First, on ~the part of the act of predestination: and thus
4470   3, 24  |               and by the ~same eternal act God predestinated us and
4471   3, 24  |                considers the aforesaid act of the ~predestinator.~Aquin.:
4472   3, 24  |                on the part of the very act ~of predestinating, then
4473   3, 24  |            because by one and the same act God predestinated both Christ
4474   3, 24  |     predestination on the part ~of the act of predestinating.~Aquin.:
4475   3, 27  |               is contracted through an act. But as long as one is in
4476   3, 27  |               as long as one is in the act ~of sinning, one cannot
4477   3, 27  |                long as she was ~in the act of origin, by existence
4478   3, 27  |             fettered: not indeed by an act of her reason, as in holy
4479   3, 27  |                 even if it precede the act of the ~reason, is a venial
4480   3, 27  |                some sudden ~inordinate act, antecedent to the act of
4481   3, 27  |      inordinate act, antecedent to the act of reason. And although
4482   3, 27  |            movement not preceded by an act of reason, ~and thus she
4483   3, 27  |               she taught ~which is the act of wisdom; or that she worked
4484   3, 27  |          worked miracles, which is the act ~of one of the gratuitous
4485   3, 27  |             natural inclination to the act of that virtue.~
4486   3, 29  |               attained by the marriage act, ~if this be referred to
4487   3, 32  |          formation, since it is not in act. Nor, again, is ~it possible
4488   3, 32  |                for the purpose of the ~act of generation, distinguish
4489   3, 33  |         requires a fixed time for its ~act, so also does the generative
4490   3, 34  |                use of free-will ~is an act of the will and the reason
4491   3, 34  |           reason or intellect. But the act of the ~intellect presupposes
4492   3, 34  |               intellect presupposes an act of the senses; and this
4493   3, 34  |                operation is a "second ~act." We must, therefore, say
4494   3, 34  |               existence, and begins to act ~unless it is hindered.
4495   3, 34  |               intellect and will could act without any action ~of the
4496   3, 34  |             consideration of their own act; and that ~of infants who
4497   3, 34  |        consideration of, not their own act of ~faith, but that of their
4498   3, 34  |               than the latter: just as act is more ~perfect than habit;
4499   3, 34  |            habitual ~grace without the act. Now, He received grace "
4500   3, 34  |              grace was not without its act, it follows that He was