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1 1, 1 | ordained by them to the ~perfect knowledge of God in which
2 1, 2 | are who imagine that man's perfect good which ~is happiness,
3 1, 2 | proportionate to the cause no perfect knowledge of that cause
4 1, 4 | everything in so far as it is perfect is called ~good, we shall
5 1, 4 | inquiry:~(1) Whether God is perfect?~(2) Whether God is perfect
6 1, 4 | perfect?~(2) Whether God is perfect universally, as having in
7 1, 4 | Para. 1/1~Whether God is perfect?~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[4] A[1]
8 1, 4 | For we say a ~thing is perfect if it is completely made.
9 1, 4 | made. Therefore He is not perfect.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[4] A[1]
10 1, 4 | It is written: "Be you perfect as also your heavenly ~Father
11 1, 4 | your heavenly ~Father is perfect" (Mt. 5:48).~Aquin.: SMT
12 1, 4 | predicate ~"best" and "most perfect" of the first principle.
13 1, 4 | cause, which must be most perfect. For just as ~matter, as
14 1, 4 | actual, and therefore most perfect; for a thing is perfect
15 1, 4 | perfect; for a thing is perfect in proportion ~to its state
16 1, 4 | actuality, because we call that perfect which lacks ~nothing of
17 1, 4 | made is improperly called perfect. Nevertheless because created
18 1, 4 | things ~are then called perfect, when from potentiality
19 1, 4 | into ~actuality, this word "perfect" signifies whatever is not
20 1, 4 | be preceded by something ~perfect. For seed, though it be
21 1, 4 | 3: Existence is the most perfect of all things, for it is ~
22 1, 4 | a living thing is more perfect than what merely exists; ~
23 1, 4 | Therefore life is more ~perfect than existence; and knowledge
24 1, 4 | spoken of ~as universally perfect, because He lacks not (says
25 1, 4 | and an agent as ~such is perfect; still to pre-exist virtually
26 1, 4 | imperfect, but in a more perfect way. Since ~therefore God
27 1, 4 | of being; for things are perfect, precisely so far as ~they
28 1, 4 | although ~existence is more perfect than life, and life than
29 1, 4 | a living thing is more ~perfect than what merely exists,
30 1, 4 | whiteness; and this is the ~most perfect likeness. In another way,
31 1, 5 | only in so far as it is perfect; for all ~desire their own
32 1, 5 | perfection. But everything is perfect so far as it is ~actual.
33 1, 5 | is clear that a thing is perfect so far as it ~exists; for
34 1, 5 | perfection), is not said to be perfect simply nor ~good simply,
35 1, 5 | actuality and is in some way perfect; since every act implies
36 1, 5 | effective power, whereby it is perfect in being, for a thing is
37 1, 5 | in being, for a thing is perfect ~when it can reproduce its
38 1, 5 | be good so far as it is perfect; ~for in that way only is
39 1, 5 | Now a ~thing is said to be perfect if it lacks nothing according
40 1, 5 | order for a thing to be perfect and good it must ~have a
41 1, 5 | being, so far as it is ~perfect, and according to this perfection
42 1, 6 | added as necessary for its perfect ~operation; thirdly, perfection
43 1, 7 | Phys. iii. But God is most perfect; therefore He is not ~infinite.~
44 1, 7 | hand, form ~is not made perfect by matter, but rather is
45 1, 7 | the nature of something perfect. Now being is the most formal ~
46 1, 7 | Himself is infinite and perfect.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[7] A[1]
47 1, 8 | because according to ~the perfect idea of its species it is
48 1, 8 | except in reference to the perfect idea of ~their essence.
49 1, 8 | universe is a kind of "whole perfect body" (Coel. et ~Mund. i).
50 1, 10 | simultaneously-whole ~and perfect possession of interminable
51 1, 10 | simultaneously-whole and ~perfect possession of interminable
52 1, 10 | Further, the whole and the perfect are the same thing. Supposing, ~
53 1, 10 | superfluously described as "perfect."~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[10] A[
54 1, 10 | of time, and ~the word "perfect" is used to exclude the "
55 1, 11 | would ~not be absolutely perfect; but if a perfection, one
56 1, 11 | therefore what is first is most perfect, and is so "per se" ~and
57 1, 12 | being; since a thing is ~perfect so far as it attains to
58 1, 12 | Father, which is such a perfect consideration and ~comprehension
59 1, 12 | infinity of matter not made perfect by form, is unknown ~in
60 1, 12 | place as if one had a ~more perfect similitude of God than another,
61 1, 12 | of seeing God will be as perfect as is the perfect mode of
62 1, 12 | be as perfect as is the perfect mode of God's ~existence.~
63 1, 12 | understanding of one is more perfect than the ~understanding
64 1, 12 | does not attain to that perfect ~mode of knowledge of which
65 1, 12 | intellect can attain to that perfect mode of the knowledge of
66 1, 12 | answer that, We have a more perfect knowledge of God by grace
67 1, 13 | they do not signify any perfect subsisting thing. Therefore
68 1, 13 | creatures of this kind what is ~perfect and subsistent is compound;
69 1, 13 | simply and universally perfect. Hence every creature represents
70 1, 13 | Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 3: The perfect unity of God requires that
71 1, 13 | Deity watches over all with perfect providence and ~goodness."
72 1, 14 | God there exists the most perfect knowledge. To prove ~this,
73 1, 14 | or suffers, or is made perfect by ~itself, "nor," as Hilary
74 1, 14 | agent itself, of something perfect. Likewise that the ~intellect
75 1, 14 | existence would not be perfect, since His existence is
76 1, 14 | from the imperfect to the perfect, as is clear from Phys.
77 1, 14 | would not be absolutely perfect; therefore neither would
78 1, 14 | neither would His being be ~perfect; and this is against what
79 1, 14 | radiating) lines; but as ~perfect acts to imperfect; as if
80 1, 14 | man to animal; or six, ~a perfect number, to the imperfect
81 1, 14 | it is ~manifest that by a perfect act imperfect acts can be
82 1, 14 | in the knower, the more perfect is ~the mode of knowledge.~
83 1, 14 | as ~the imperfect to the perfect act. Therefore the created
84 1, 14 | contrary, we must say that perfect ~knowledge of operable things
85 1, 14 | of God is in ~every way perfect, He must know what is operable
86 1, 16 | as being is in some way ~perfect; for thus it is desirable.
87 1, 18 | movement is ~naturally more perfect than, and prior to, movement
88 1, 18 | the elements are the less ~perfect. Yet life is attributed
89 1, 18 | when said of the act of a perfect thing, as ~understanding
90 1, 18 | from place to place, as perfect animals, such as ~quadrupeds,
91 1, 18 | found in anything, the more perfect is the life ~of that thing.
92 1, 18 | through sense. Hence the more perfect is ~their sense, the more
93 1, 18 | is ~their sense, the more perfect is their power of self-movement.
94 1, 18 | coordinate them. Hence a more perfect ~degree of life is that
95 1, 18 | of ~self-movement is more perfect. This is shown by the fact
96 1, 18 | must have life in the most perfect degree. Such is God; and ~
97 1, 18 | that God has life ~most perfect and eternal, since His intellect
98 1, 18 | since His intellect is most perfect and always ~in act.~Aquin.:
99 1, 18 | of act is ~an act of the perfect, that is to say, of what
100 1, 19 | agent, in so far as it is perfect ~and in act, produces its
101 1, 19 | in so far as they are perfect, communicate their good
102 1, 19 | since the goodness of God is perfect, and can exist without ~
103 1, 19 | willed, namely, that the perfect goodness of God ~can be
104 1, 22 | particular ~effects, that the perfect good of the universe may
105 1, 22 | operative science is the more perfect, the more it considers the ~
106 1, 23 | operations of God are more perfect than those of ~nature. But
107 1, 25 | as it is in act and ~is perfect, is the active principle
108 1, 25 | simply and in ~all ways perfect, nor in Him does any imperfection
109 1, 25 | sin is to fall short of a perfect action; hence to be ~able
110 1, 26 | Consol. iv) "is a state made perfect by the ~aggregation of all
111 1, 26 | term beatitude than the ~perfect good of an intellectual
112 1, 26 | manner to God, ~namely, to be perfect, and to possess intelligence.
113 1, 26 | stated above (A[1]), is the perfect good of ~an intellectual
114 1, 26 | Now that which is most perfect in any intellectual nature
115 1, 27 | there is in Him only one perfect Word, ~and one perfect Love;
116 1, 27 | one perfect Word, ~and one perfect Love; thereby being manifested
117 1, 27 | thereby being manifested His perfect fecundity.~
118 1, 28 | principle of generation in perfect living beings is ~called
119 1, 29 | still, in a more special and perfect way, the particular and
120 1, 29 | signifies what is most perfect in all ~nature - that is,
121 1, 29 | since everything that is perfect must be attributed to God,
122 1, 30 | OBJ 3: Further, the more perfect a creature is, the more
123 1, 30 | Reply OBJ 3: As man is more perfect than other animals, he has
124 1, 30 | the angels, who are more perfect and more ~simple, have fewer
125 1, 32 | We speak wisdom among the perfect, but not ~the wisdom of
126 1, 32 | case of one not having ~perfect goodness: hence it needs
127 1, 33 | generator, the truer and more perfect is ~the generation; as univocal
128 1, 33 | univocal generation is more perfect than non-univocal, ~for
129 1, 33 | imperfect things are taken from perfect things. Hence ~this name "
130 1, 33 | Q[28], A[4]), that ~the perfect idea of paternity and filiation
131 1, 33 | relation ~to God, not in a perfect manner, since the Creator
132 1, 33 | likeness, which is the more ~perfect the nearer we approach to
133 1, 35 | term image as meaning a perfect similitude.~Aquin.: SMT
134 1, 35 | image," because He is the perfect Image of the Father.~
135 1, 39 | figure," or: "This man is of perfect virtue." In like manner,
136 1, 39 | De Trin. vi, 10): "As the perfect Word, not wanting in anything,
137 1, 41 | creatures their substance: but perfect birth gave the Son ~a nature
138 1, 41 | of God, ~subsists in the perfect likeness of God."~Aquin.:
139 1, 41 | as the generation is more perfect. Since, therefore, the ~
140 1, 41 | divine generation is most perfect, that by which the Begetter
141 1, 41 | For this reason is the Son perfect, that the entire divine
142 1, 42 | forasmuch as it is more or less, perfect in heat. Now this ~virtual
143 1, 42 | be better," for the more ~perfect a thing is the better it
144 1, 42 | forasmuch as things of a more perfect nature are of ~longer duration;
145 1, 42 | forasmuch as things of a more ~perfect nature are more powerful
146 1, 42 | but also is it in both in ~perfect equality, therefore we say
147 1, 42 | the Father's nature was perfect ~from eternity; and again
148 1, 42 | instance, we see that the more perfect the nature, the greater
149 1, 44 | so as to be more or less perfect, are caused by ~one First
150 1, 44 | imperfect thing is caused by one perfect. For the ~first principle
151 1, 44 | first principle must be most perfect, as Aristotle says (Metaph.
152 1, 45 | Therefore a change is more ~perfect and excellent when the term "
153 1, 45 | Similarly creation ~is more perfect and excellent than generation
154 1, 45 | Anima ii, text 34), what is ~perfect can make its own likeness.
155 1, 45 | immaterial creatures are more ~perfect than material creatures,
156 1, 45 | Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 1: A perfect thing participating any
157 1, 45 | what is after; and what is perfect is the ~cause of what is
158 1, 45 | the creature: and is more perfect, because the ~divine Person
159 1, 45 | divine Person proceeds in perfect similitude of its principle;
160 1, 45 | However, for the generation of perfect animals the universal agent
161 1, 47 | uncreated image, which is perfect, is only one. ~But no creature
162 1, 47 | the mixed things are more perfect than ~the elements, and
163 1, 47 | these one species is more perfect than ~others. Therefore,
164 1, 47 | the universe would not be perfect if only one ~grade of goodness
165 1, 47 | that the house may be made perfect of ~different parts, the
166 1, 48 | all the better and more perfect if some ~things in it can
167 1, 48 | fault to fail as regards ~perfect action, of which he is master
168 1, 48 | destroyed by fault is the more ~perfect good of the agent, since
169 1, 49 | Therefore, as the more ~perfect the fire is in strength,
170 1, 49 | good is the highest and perfect ~good which pre-contains
171 1, 49 | intensified by ~approach to the perfect term; but privation and
172 1, 50 | to God Himself. And the perfect assimilation of an effect
173 1, 50 | text 43) that ~those more perfect natures bear relation to
174 1, 50 | creation of things, the more perfect some things ~are, in so
175 1, 50 | OBJ 4: Further, the more perfect a thing is in nature, the
176 1, 50 | we say that fire ~is more perfect than air: and in this way
177 1, 50 | Damascene is dealing with perfect immortality, which ~includes
178 1, 50 | iii). The angels obtain perfect ~immutability only by favor,
179 1, 51 | 3: Further, life is more perfect in the angels than in souls.
180 1, 51 | must presuppose something perfect in ~that genus. Therefore
181 1, 51 | united to a ~body is more perfect than one which is united
182 1, 52 | since no one of them ~is a perfect mover, because no one man'
183 1, 52 | immediately by way of a perfect container, as was said (
184 1, 55 | thus is something less ~perfect: for he would have but an
185 1, 55 | In this way it is more perfect to know a thing in the ~
186 1, 55 | contained in it, is more perfect than ~one which cannot.~
187 1, 57 | higher beings ~to be more perfect than the lower; and for
188 1, 58 | as the act ~of something perfect, that is, of one actually
189 1, 58 | the intellectual light is perfect ~in the angel, for he is
190 1, 58 | 10): "When that which is ~perfect is come, then that which
191 1, 58 | compared to it ~as the less perfect to the perfect. Therefore
192 1, 58 | the less perfect to the perfect. Therefore the evening knowledge ~
193 1, 58 | On the coming of what is perfect, the opposite imperfect
194 1, 58 | mediums, one of which is more perfect and the other less ~perfect;
195 1, 58 | perfect and the other less ~perfect; just as we can have a demonstrative
196 1, 59 | movement is the act of a perfect agent, as stated in De Anima ~
197 1, 59 | intellectual nature is more perfect than in the lower. But the
198 1, 59 | Consequently an angel would not be perfect in his nature, if his ~intellect
199 1, 60 | nature of the angels is perfect, only natural and not ~deductive
200 1, 61 | secondly, how they were made perfect in grace or glory; and thirdly,
201 1, 61 | universe. But no part is perfect if separate from the whole.
202 1, 61 | that God, Whose "works are perfect," as it is said Dt. ~32:
203 1, 62 | from its creation was ~made perfect and complete; nor did its
204 1, 62 | happiness consists in ~his most perfect contemplation, whereby in
205 1, 62 | God. The first is by the perfect love of God; this belongs
206 1, 62 | Para. 1/4~I answer that, Perfect beatitude is natural only
207 1, 62 | principle of meriting, ~and by perfect grace, which is the principle
208 1, 62 | 10): "When that which is ~perfect is come, then that which
209 1, 62 | can fail. But from its ~perfect union with the uncreated
210 1, 62 | principle of merit. But there is perfect charity in ~the angels.
211 1, 62 | charity of this life; whereas perfect charity does not merit but
212 1, 62 | acquired ~habit is both perfect and enjoyable. In the same
213 1, 62 | the same way the act of perfect ~charity has no quality
214 1, 62 | of the nature of what is perfect, considered as ~perfect. ~
215 1, 62 | perfect, considered as ~perfect. ~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[62] A[
216 1, 63 | 28:15): "Thou didst walk ~perfect [*Vulg.: 'Thou hast walked
217 1, 63 | stones of fire; ~thou wast perfect . . .'] in thy ways from
218 1, 64 | substances, ~although his perfect happiness consists in knowing
219 1, 65 | must be made before the perfect: and it is impossible that ~
220 1, 66 | God is an agent absolutely perfect; wherefore it is said of
221 1, 66 | The works of God are perfect." Therefore the work of
222 1, 66 | can, therefore, produce a perfect thing in an ~instant, according
223 1, 66 | where some forms are more perfect ~than others, and contain
224 1, 66 | is in potentiality to a ~perfect form, and "vice versa."
225 1, 68 | imperfect things ~stand towards perfect. But bodies of composite
226 1, 69 | of due distinction and of perfect beauty, and in respect of
227 1, 69 | the heavenly bodies, are perfect and stable ~in being, whereas
228 1, 69 | production of perfection of perfect species, from which ~the
229 1, 70 | which is distinct from perfect. For ~the perfection of
230 1, 70 | himself. For although the perfect is developed from the ~imperfect
231 1, 70 | natural processes, yet the perfect must exist simply before ~
232 1, 71 | Further, land animals are more perfect than birds and fishes ~which
233 1, 71 | forth eggs. But the more perfect has precedence in ~the order
234 1, 71 | generation also the more perfect is reached through the less
235 1, 71 | reached through the less perfect.~
236 1, 72 | generally ~speaking, more perfect than birds and fishes, not
237 1, 72 | on account of their more perfect life, and seems to imply
238 1, 72 | man, as being ~the most perfect grade, is not said to be
239 1, 72 | the corruption of the less perfect the more perfect should
240 1, 72 | the less perfect the more perfect should be ~generated. Hence
241 1, 73 | superfluous, for a thing is called perfect ~to which nothing is wanting
242 1, 73 | a thing is substantially perfect, and this perfection ~is
243 1, 73 | the whole universe, is the perfect ~beatitude of the Saints
244 1, 75 | species of colors one is more perfect than ~another; and the same
245 1, 75 | compared to one another as the perfect to the imperfect, since
246 1, 76 | from ~one another, as the perfect and imperfect; as in the
247 1, 76 | things, the ~animate are more perfect than the inanimate, and
248 1, 76 | inanimate, and animals more perfect ~than plants, and man than
249 1, 76 | is supplanted by a more perfect ~soul, which is both sensitive
250 1, 76 | universally of all more ~perfect forms with regard to the
251 1, 76 | is added is ~always more perfect. Therefore that form which
252 1, 76 | and so on, is the most ~perfect: and yet it inheres to matter
253 1, 76 | is susceptible of a more perfect form should itself be more
254 1, 76 | form should itself be more perfect. But the intellectual soul
255 1, 76 | intellectual soul is the most perfect of souls. ~Therefore since
256 1, 76 | greater variety of parts in perfect than in imperfect animals;
257 1, 76 | already said (A[4]), the more ~perfect form virtually contains
258 1, 76 | and specially the soul of perfect animals, is ~not equally
259 1, 77 | of things cannot acquire perfect goodness, but they ~acquire
260 1, 77 | to a higher order acquire perfect goodness by many movements;
261 1, 77 | those yet higher acquire perfect goodness by few movements;
262 1, 77 | those things which acquire perfect ~goodness without any movement
263 1, 77 | disposed is he who can acquire perfect health by means ~of many
264 1, 77 | best of ~all is he who has perfect health without any remedies.
265 1, 77 | can acquire universal and perfect goodness, because he can
266 1, 77 | in being able to acquire perfect goodness; ~although by many
267 1, 77 | it falls short of more ~perfect creatures.~Aquin.: SMT FP
268 1, 77 | the power ~of growth is perfect quantity, which is the end
269 1, 77 | they are to one another as ~perfect and imperfect.~Aquin.: SMT
270 1, 77 | of nature, forasmuch as perfect ~things are by their nature
271 1, 77 | imperfect, a ~thing comes to be perfect. Thus, according to the
272 1, 77 | agent and the end are more perfect, ~while the receptive principle,
273 1, 77 | principle, as such, is less perfect; it follows that ~those
274 1, 77 | as the imperfect from the perfect. But considered as ~receptive
275 1, 77 | receptive principles, the more perfect powers are principles with
276 1, 77 | opposed to one another, as ~perfect and imperfect; as also are
277 1, 77 | things naturally proceed from perfect things.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[
278 1, 39 | figure," or: "This man is of perfect virtue." In like manner,
279 1, 39 | Trin. vi, 10): ~"As the perfect Word, not wanting in anything,
280 1, 41 | creatures their substance: but perfect birth gave the Son ~a nature
281 1, 41 | of God, ~subsists in the perfect likeness of God."~Aquin.:
282 1, 41 | as the generation is more perfect. Since, therefore, the ~
283 1, 41 | divine generation is most perfect, that by which the Begetter
284 1, 41 | For this reason is the Son perfect, that the entire divine
285 1, 42 | forasmuch as it is more or less, perfect in heat. Now this ~virtual
286 1, 42 | be better," for the more ~perfect a thing is the better it
287 1, 42 | forasmuch as things of a more perfect nature are of ~longer duration;
288 1, 42 | forasmuch as things of a more ~perfect nature are more powerful
289 1, 42 | but also is it in both in ~perfect equality, therefore we say
290 1, 42 | the Father's nature was perfect ~from eternity; and again
291 1, 42 | instance, we see that the more perfect the nature, the greater
292 1, 45 | so as to be more or less perfect, are caused by ~one First
293 1, 45 | imperfect thing is caused by one perfect. For the ~first principle
294 1, 45 | first principle must be most perfect, as Aristotle says (Metaph.
295 1, 46 | Therefore a change is more ~perfect and excellent when the term "
296 1, 46 | Similarly creation ~is more perfect and excellent than generation
297 1, 46 | Anima ii, text 34), what is ~perfect can make its own likeness.
298 1, 46 | immaterial creatures are more ~perfect than material creatures,
299 1, 46 | Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 1: A perfect thing participating any
300 1, 46 | what is after; and what is perfect is the ~cause of what is
301 1, 46 | the creature: and is more perfect, because the ~divine Person
302 1, 46 | divine Person proceeds in perfect similitude of its principle;
303 1, 46 | However, for the generation of perfect animals the universal agent
304 1, 48 | uncreated image, which is perfect, is only one. ~But no creature
305 1, 48 | the mixed things are more perfect than ~the elements, and
306 1, 48 | these one species is more perfect than ~others. Therefore,
307 1, 48 | the universe would not be perfect if only one ~grade of goodness
308 1, 48 | that the house may be made perfect of ~different parts, the
309 1, 49 | all the better and more perfect if some ~things in it can
310 1, 49 | fault to fail as regards ~perfect action, of which he is master
311 1, 49 | destroyed by fault is the more ~perfect good of the agent, since
312 1, 50 | Therefore, as the more ~perfect the fire is in strength,
313 1, 50 | good is the highest and perfect ~good which pre-contains
314 1, 50 | intensified by ~approach to the perfect term; but privation and
315 1, 51 | to God Himself. And the perfect assimilation of an effect
316 1, 51 | text 43) that ~those more perfect natures bear relation to
317 1, 51 | creation of things, the more perfect some things ~are, in so
318 1, 51 | OBJ 4: Further, the more perfect a thing is in nature, the
319 1, 51 | we say that fire ~is more perfect than air: and in this way
320 1, 51 | Damascene is dealing with perfect immortality, which ~includes
321 1, 51 | iii). The angels obtain perfect ~immutability only by favor,
322 1, 52 | 3: Further, life is more perfect in the angels than in souls.
323 1, 52 | must presuppose something perfect in ~that genus. Therefore
324 1, 52 | united to a ~body is more perfect than one which is united
325 1, 53 | since no one of them ~is a perfect mover, because no one man'
326 1, 53 | immediately by way of a perfect container, as was said (
327 1, 56 | thus is something less ~perfect: for he would have but an
328 1, 56 | In this way it is more perfect to know a thing in the ~
329 1, 56 | contained in it, is more perfect than ~one which cannot.~
330 1, 58 | higher beings ~to be more perfect than the lower; and for
331 1, 59 | as the act ~of something perfect, that is, of one actually
332 1, 59 | the intellectual light is perfect ~in the angel, for he is
333 1, 59 | 10): "When that which is ~perfect is come, then that which
334 1, 59 | compared to it ~as the less perfect to the perfect. Therefore
335 1, 59 | the less perfect to the perfect. Therefore the evening knowledge ~
336 1, 59 | On the coming of what is perfect, the opposite imperfect
337 1, 59 | mediums, one of which is more perfect and the other less ~perfect;
338 1, 59 | perfect and the other less ~perfect; just as we can have a demonstrative
339 1, 60 | movement is the act of a perfect agent, as stated in De Anima ~
340 1, 60 | intellectual nature is more perfect than in the lower. But the
341 1, 60 | Consequently an angel would not be perfect in his nature, if his ~intellect
342 1, 61 | nature of the angels is perfect, only natural and not ~deductive
343 1, 62 | secondly, how they were made perfect in grace or glory; and thirdly,
344 1, 62 | universe. But no part is perfect if separate from the whole.
345 1, 62 | that God, Whose "works are perfect," as it is said Dt. ~32:
346 1, 63 | from its creation was ~made perfect and complete; nor did its
347 1, 63 | happiness consists in ~his most perfect contemplation, whereby in
348 1, 63 | God. The first ~is by the perfect love of God; this belongs
349 1, 63 | Para. 1/4~I answer that, Perfect beatitude is natural only
350 1, 63 | principle of meriting, ~and by perfect grace, which is the principle
351 1, 63 | 10): "When that which is ~perfect is come, then that which
352 1, 63 | can fail. But from its ~perfect union with the uncreated
353 1, 63 | principle of merit. But there is perfect charity in ~the angels.
354 1, 63 | charity of this life; whereas perfect charity does not merit but
355 1, 63 | acquired ~habit is both perfect and enjoyable. In the same
356 1, 63 | the same way the act of perfect ~charity has no quality
357 1, 63 | of the nature of what is perfect, considered as ~perfect. ~
358 1, 63 | perfect, considered as ~perfect. ~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[62] A[
359 1, 64 | 28:15): "Thou didst walk ~perfect [*Vulg.: 'Thou hast walked
360 1, 64 | stones of fire; ~thou wast perfect . . .'] in thy ways from
361 1, 65 | substances, ~although his perfect happiness consists in knowing
362 1, 66 | must be made before the perfect: and it is impossible that ~
363 1, 67 | God is an agent absolutely perfect; wherefore it is said of
364 1, 67 | The works of God are perfect." Therefore the work of
365 1, 67 | can, therefore, produce a perfect thing in an ~instant, according
366 1, 67 | where some forms are more perfect ~than others, and contain
367 1, 67 | is in potentiality to a ~perfect form, and "vice versa."
368 1, 69 | imperfect things ~stand towards perfect. But bodies of composite
369 1, 70 | of due distinction and of perfect beauty, and in respect of
370 1, 70 | the heavenly bodies, are perfect and stable ~in being, whereas
371 1, 70 | production of perfection of perfect species, from which ~the
372 1, 71 | which is distinct from perfect. For ~the perfection of
373 1, 71 | himself. For although the perfect is developed from the ~imperfect
374 1, 71 | natural processes, yet the perfect must exist simply before ~
375 1, 71 | Further, land animals are more perfect than birds and fishes ~which
376 1, 71 | forth eggs. But the more perfect has precedence in ~the order
377 1, 71 | generation also the more perfect is reached through the less
378 1, 71 | reached through the less perfect.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[72] Out.
379 1, 71 | generally ~speaking, more perfect than birds and fishes, not
380 1, 71 | on account of their more perfect life, and seems to imply
381 1, 71 | man, as being ~the most perfect grade, is not said to be
382 1, 71 | the corruption of the less perfect the more perfect should
383 1, 71 | the less perfect the more perfect should be ~generated. Hence
384 1, 72 | superfluous, for a thing is called perfect ~to which nothing is wanting
385 1, 72 | a thing is substantially perfect, and this perfection ~is
386 1, 72 | the whole universe, is the perfect ~beatitude of the Saints
387 1, 74 | species of colors one is more perfect than ~another; and the same
388 1, 74 | compared to one another as the perfect to the imperfect, since
389 1, 75 | from ~one another, as the perfect and imperfect; as in the
390 1, 75 | things, the ~animate are more perfect than the inanimate, and
391 1, 75 | inanimate, and animals more perfect ~than plants, and man than
392 1, 75 | is supplanted by a more perfect ~soul, which is both sensitive
393 1, 75 | universally of all more ~perfect forms with regard to the
394 1, 75 | is added is ~always more perfect. Therefore that form which
395 1, 75 | and so on, is the most ~perfect: and yet it inheres to matter
396 1, 75 | is susceptible of a more perfect form should itself be more
397 1, 75 | form should itself be more perfect. But the intellectual soul
398 1, 75 | intellectual soul is the most perfect of souls. ~Therefore since
399 1, 75 | greater variety of parts in perfect than in imperfect animals;
400 1, 75 | already said (A[4]), the more ~perfect form virtually contains
401 1, 75 | and specially the soul of perfect animals, is ~not equally
402 1, 76 | of things cannot acquire perfect goodness, but they ~acquire
403 1, 76 | to a higher order acquire perfect goodness by many movements;
404 1, 76 | those yet higher acquire perfect goodness by few movements;
405 1, 76 | those things which acquire perfect ~goodness without any movement
406 1, 76 | disposed is he who can acquire perfect health by means ~of many
407 1, 76 | best of ~all is he who has perfect health without any remedies.
408 1, 76 | can acquire universal and perfect goodness, because he can
409 1, 76 | in being able to acquire perfect goodness; ~although by many
410 1, 76 | it falls short of more ~perfect creatures.~Aquin.: SMT FP
411 1, 76 | the power ~of growth is perfect quantity, which is the end
412 1, 76 | they are to one another as ~perfect and imperfect.~Aquin.: SMT
413 1, 76 | of nature, forasmuch as perfect ~things are by their nature
414 1, 76 | imperfect, a ~thing comes to be perfect. Thus, according to the
415 1, 76 | agent and the end are more perfect, ~while the receptive principle,
416 1, 76 | principle, as such, is less perfect; it follows that ~those
417 1, 76 | as the imperfect from the perfect. But considered as ~receptive
418 1, 76 | receptive principles, the more perfect powers are principles with
419 1, 76 | opposed to one another, as ~perfect and imperfect; as also are
420 1, 76 | things naturally proceed from perfect things.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[
421 1, 77 | have locomotive powers, as perfect animals, which require many
422 1, 77 | principles of movement in ~perfect animals, yet sense and appetite,
423 1, 77 | thing which is ~already perfect to "produce another like
424 1, 77 | these things in a more ~perfect way); and because those
425 1, 77 | most spiritual, the most perfect, and the most ~universal
426 1, 77 | while local motion is more perfect than, and naturally prior
427 1, 77 | suffice for the ~life of a perfect animal. If any of these
428 1, 77 | observe that for the life of a perfect animal, the animal ~should
429 1, 77 | may observe specially in perfect animals, which are ~moved
430 1, 77 | power, though in a less perfect manner.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[
431 1, 77 | but ~the same, yet more perfect than in other animals.~Aquin.:
432 1, 78 | essentially such, ~immovable and perfect. Now the human soul is called
433 1, 78 | intelligible. Just as in ~other perfect natural things, besides
434 1, 78 | in like manner with other perfect animals. Now ~among these
435 1, 78 | lower things nothing is more perfect than the human soul. ~Wherefore
436 1, 78 | to their ~nature, possess perfect knowledge of intelligible
437 1, 78 | which one belongs to the perfect, the other ~to the imperfect.
438 1, 78 | is compared to ~it as the perfect to the imperfect.~Aquin.:
439 1, 78 | necessary things which have perfect being in truth; since it
440 1, 78 | imperfect being and truth. Now perfect and imperfect in ~the action
441 1, 78 | are variously ~compared as perfect and imperfect.~Aquin.: SMT
442 1, 79 | is found to have a more perfect ~existence in those things
443 1, 81 | regards the universal and perfect good, its capacity is not ~
444 1, 81 | from imperfect things to perfect. And this also appears in
445 1, 81 | will is a more noble and perfect power than the intellect.~
446 1, 81 | perfections ~to what they make perfect. But the habit which perfects
447 1, 81 | noble than the habits which perfect the ~intellect: for it is
448 1, 81 | generation and time is less ~perfect: for in one and in the same
449 1, 81 | order of nature is more perfect: for thus act precedes potentiality.
450 1, 83 | the thing ~known, the more perfect is its knowledge. Therefore
451 1, 83 | conditions of matter, has more perfect knowledge than the ~senses,
452 1, 83 | senses, sight has ~the most perfect knowledge, because it is
453 1, 83 | among intellects the more perfect is ~the more immaterial.~
454 1, 83 | the Divine Essence is a perfect likeness of all, whatsoever ~
455 1, 83 | knowledge is the total and perfect cause of intellectual ~knowledge,
456 1, 83 | a sensible thing. Now a perfect ~judgment concerning anything
457 1, 83 | our intellect to form a perfect judgment, while the senses
458 1, 84 | before accomplishing the ~perfect act. The perfect act of
459 1, 84 | accomplishing the ~perfect act. The perfect act of the intellect is
460 1, 84 | to potentiality, and the ~perfect to the imperfect: thus the
461 1, 84 | intellect does not acquire perfect knowledge by the ~first
462 1, 84 | is clear that there is a perfect understanding, than ~which
463 1, 84 | which none other is more perfect: and therefore there are
464 1, 84 | and ~whose sight is more perfect. The same applies to the
465 1, 84 | intellect itself, which is more perfect. For ~it is plain that the
466 1, 84 | intelligible causes. But in ~perfect knowledge, the knowledge
467 1, 86 | Essence of God, the pure and perfect act, is ~simply and perfectly
468 1, 86 | a habit fails in being a perfect act, it ~falls short in
469 1, 87 | potentiality. Now a subject is made perfect and receives its perfection ~
470 1, 87 | we come to the point of perfect union ~between ourselves
471 1, 87 | very few, could reach to perfect felicity; which is against
472 1, 87 | an operation according to perfect virtue"; and after enumerating
473 1, 87 | knowledge of itself gives it a ~perfect and absolute knowledge of
474 1, 87 | immaterial things, but not to the perfect knowledge thereof; for there ~
475 1, 87 | there existed in our souls a perfect image of God, as ~the Son
476 1, 87 | God, as ~the Son is the perfect image of the Father, our
477 1, 88 | understanding was not so perfect as regards what was possible
478 1, 88 | intellect fail to acquire perfect knowledge through the universal ~
479 1, 88 | knowledge, so far from ~being perfect, would be confused and general.
480 1, 88 | for human souls to possess perfect and proper knowledge, they ~
481 1, 88 | substances. For the soul is more perfect when joined to the body ~
482 1, 88 | part of a whole is more perfect when it exists in that ~
483 1, 88 | apart from the ~body has perfect knowledge of other separated
484 1, 88 | separated soul is, indeed, less perfect considering its ~nature
485 1, 88 | which, however, fail to give perfect knowledge ~of them, forasmuch
486 1, 88 | species does not receive perfect knowledge, but only a ~general
487 1, 88 | as the angels have to the perfect knowledge ~thereof. Now
488 1, 88 | here by study is proper and perfect; the ~knowledge of which
489 1, 88 | species the ~angels have a perfect and proper knowledge of
490 1, 88 | angels, by reason of their ~perfect intellect, through these
491 1, 89 | Para. 1/1~OBJ 3: Further, "perfect is that which can produce
492 1, 89 | substances are much more perfect than ~corporeal. Therefore,
493 1, 89 | the first things in ~their perfect natural state, as their
494 1, 90 | I answer that, As God is perfect in His works, He bestowed
495 1, 90 | capacity: "God's works are perfect" (Dt. ~32:4). He Himself
496 1, 90 | 4). He Himself is simply perfect by the fact that "all things
497 1, 90 | 2 Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 2: Perfect animals, produced from seed,
498 1, 90 | are ~required to produce a perfect than an imperfect thing.~
499 1, 90 | Para. 1/1~OBJ 2: Further, perfect is what lacks nothing. But
500 1, 90 | the other ~senses, is more perfect in man than in any other
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