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1001 2, 65 | proved in opposition ~to the truth which he knows.~Aquin.:
1002 2, 65 | God is according to the truth" (Rm. 2:2), and it was foretold ~
1003 2, 65 | a faithful record of the truth of the matter, ~wherefore
1004 2, 65 | knowledge ~is aware of the truth, he should pay no heed to
1005 2, 65 | sentence according to the truth which he knows.~Aquin.:
1006 2, 65 | against his conscience ~of the truth.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[67] A[
1007 2, 65 | judges ought to judge the truth in accordance with the ~
1008 2, 65 | judgment is based on the truth which He Himself knows,
1009 2, 65 | His own knowledge of the ~truth, whereas man does not, as
1010 2, 66 | consists in hiding the truth about a crime." But seemingly
1011 2, 66 | Not everyone who hides the truth about a crime is guilty
1012 2, 67 | a mortal sin to deny the truth which would lead to ~one'
1013 2, 67 | without a mortal sin, deny the truth which would lead to ~one'
1014 2, 67 | without a mortal sin, deny the truth which ~would lead to one'
1015 2, 67 | accused were to confess ~the truth in court, he would lay bare
1016 2, 67 | is not bound to tell the truth: and so he does not sin ~
1017 2, 67 | the accused denies ~the truth in court, in order to escape
1018 2, 67 | bound to tell the judge the truth which ~the latter exacts
1019 2, 67 | if he ~refuse to tell the truth which he is under obligation
1020 2, 67 | namely an avowal of the truth.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[69] A[
1021 2, 67 | one thing to withhold the truth, and another to ~utter a
1022 2, 67 | not bound ~to divulge all truth, but only such as the judge
1023 2, 67 | himself by withholding the truth that he is not bound ~to
1024 2, 67 | falsehood, or to withhold a truth that he is bound to avow,
1025 2, 68 | my sister," he wished the truth to ~be concealed and not
1026 2, 68 | told. Now, by hiding the truth a man ~abstains from giving
1027 2, 68 | Both he who conceals ~the truth and he who tells a lie are
1028 2, 68 | what he can to declare the truth to someone ~who may profit
1029 2, 68 | of justice; since if the truth of ~such a matter be concealed,
1030 2, 68 | speaking of concealment of the truth in a case ~when a man is
1031 2, 68 | authority to declare the ~truth, and when such concealment
1032 2, 68 | certitude. Now certitude of the truth ~is not obtained by the
1033 2, 68 | of no use for proving the truth in court.~Aquin.: SMT SS
1034 2, 68 | such as may reach ~the truth in the greater number, cases,
1035 2, 68 | witnesses contains the ~truth rather than the assertion
1036 2, 68 | perpetual stability of ~truth."~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[70] A[
1037 2, 68 | give evidence against the truth.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[70] A[
1038 2, 69 | evidence. Now justice and truth do not incline to one side
1039 2, 71 | without subtracting from the truth: for instance, when one
1040 2, 71 | crimes which a man has in truth committed. Therefore not
1041 2, 71 | because ~he detracts from the truth, but because he lessens
1042 2, 71 | the less they see of the ~truth?" Therefore backbiting is
1043 2, 71 | thus his ~knowledge of the truth becomes less and less. This
1044 2, 71 | wise speak against ~the truth." Now sometimes a person
1045 2, 71 | sometimes a person tells the truth while backbiting, as ~stated
1046 2, 71 | that he ~is speaking the truth: rather ought one to reprove
1047 2, 75 | should not depart from the truth, nor ~inflict an unjust
1048 2, 75 | all or to tell them the truth about matters pertaining
1049 2, 75 | speaking to tell ~everyone the truth about matters pertaining
1050 2, 75 | when, unless he tells the truth, his conduct would endanger ~
1051 2, 78 | gratitude, revenge, observance, truth." Now revenge is seemingly
1052 2, 78 | to justice is ~annexed "truth," whereby, as Tully says (
1053 2, 79 | gratitude, (5) revenge, (6) truth, (7) friendship, (8) ~liberality, (
1054 2, 79 | on the consideration of truth: nor is it a ~moral virtue,
1055 2, 79 | adore ~Him in spirit and in truth." Now external acts pertain,
1056 2, 81 | adore . . . in spirit and in truth."~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[83] A[
1057 2, 81 | adore Him in spirit and in truth." But prayer is not in spirit
1058 2, 81 | To pray in spirit and in truth is to set about praying ~
1059 2, 81 | authority. And yet there is truth in ~the saying if it refers
1060 2, 82 | Father in ~spirit and in truth." Now what is done in spirit
1061 2, 82 | advent of the ~spiritual truth of the Gospel, according
1062 2, 84 | ceased when the foreshadowed truth was ~actually present. But
1063 2, 87 | right [jus reddere] of truth to God." Therefore to swear
1064 2, 87 | account of ~man's lack of truth, for many give way to lying,
1065 2, 87 | knowledge and ~unerring truth.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[89] A[
1066 2, 87 | that he may ~make known the truth about what is alleged. Now
1067 2, 87 | one ~way He reveals the truth simply, either by inward
1068 2, 87 | that God possesses unerring truth and ~universal knowledge
1069 2, 87 | justice, judgment, and truth?~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[89] A[
1070 2, 87 | that justice, judgment and truth are unsuitably ~assigned
1071 2, 87 | includes another, since truth is a part of justice, according ~
1072 2, 87 | contrary to justice and truth, or without judgment, ~according
1073 2, 87 | As the ~Lord liveth, in truth, and in judgment, and in
1074 2, 87 | accompanied by ~these conditions, truth, judgment and justice."~
1075 2, 87 | and this requires both truth, so that one employ an oath
1076 2, 87 | judgment, a false oath lacks truth, and a wicked or ~unlawful
1077 2, 87 | as stated above. Nor is truth here to be ~taken for the
1078 2, 87 | reason of His unfailing truth and His universal knowledge; ~
1079 2, 87 | faith, is based on God's truth. Now faith is ~essentially
1080 2, 87 | about God Who is the very truth, and secondarily ~about
1081 2, 87 | creatures in which God's truth is reflected, as stated
1082 2, 87 | as reflecting the Divine ~truth. Thus we swear by the Gospel,
1083 2, 87 | Gospel, i.e. by God Whose truth is made known ~in the Gospel;
1084 2, 87 | saints who believed this truth and kept it.~Aquin.: SMT
1085 2, 87 | though he appealed to the truth of ~God's justice which
1086 2, 87 | in order to confirm the truth of an assertion. But when
1087 2, 87 | present, should contain the truth, so too ought the oath which
1088 2, 87 | sworn, else his oath lacks truth.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[89] A[
1089 2, 87 | can for the fulfilment of truth; provided always that ~the
1090 2, 87 | because it suffices for the truth ~of an assertion, that a
1091 2, 87 | an oath ~results from the truth of God Whose testimony is
1092 2, 87 | Since therefore ~God's truth is something greater than
1093 2, 87 | dispense from an oath. Just as ~truth is required for a declaratory
1094 2, 87 | man from swearing to the truth about ~present or past things.
1095 2, 87 | dispense a man from ~making truth that which he has promised
1096 2, 87 | one should doubt about the truth of what he ~says, wherefore "
1097 2, 88 | however much they speak the truth."~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[90] A[
1098 2, 91 | says that "after the Gospel truth had been preached the legal ~
1099 2, 91 | which ~is contrary to the truth. But just as a thing is
1100 2, 91 | Reply OBJ 1: Since God is truth, to invoke God is to worship
1101 2, 91 | worship Him in ~spirit and truth, according to Jn. 4:23.
1102 2, 91 | in no way contrary to the truth: wherefore we must observe
1103 2, 92 | in ~spirit and in truth": and Augustine says (Enchiridion
1104 2, 93 | certain intelligence of the truth. Therefore it seems that ~
1105 2, 93 | seems lawful to seek the truth from one who knows, if ~
1106 2, 93 | he ~sometimes tells the truth, to accustom men to believe
1107 2, 93 | the demon confessed the truth, Christ ~put a stop to his
1108 2, 93 | lest together with the truth he should publish ~his wickedness
1109 2, 93 | he may seem to speak the truth. For it is wicked, while
1110 2, 93 | power of God, to tell ~the truth) and another to invoke a
1111 2, 93 | unfrequently forecast the truth by ~observing the stars
1112 2, 93 | many ~cases foretell the truth, especially in public occurrences
1113 2, 93 | When astrologers tell the ~truth, it must be allowed that
1114 2, 93 | especially of those who tell the truth, lest his ~soul become the
1115 2, 94 | anyone . . . that seeketh the truth from the dead": ~which search
1116 2, 94 | magic art, knowledge of the truth is sought "by means of certain ~
1117 2, 94 | experienced a certain degree of ~truth in these observances is
1118 2, 95 | test God's power or the truth of His word, and ~this of
1119 2, 95 | opposed to the virtue of truth. Therefore temptation of
1120 2, 95 | not to religion, but to truth.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[97] A[
1121 2, 95 | directly opposed to the truth.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[97] A[
1122 2, 95 | error, than if he doubt ~the truth of faith, so, too, a man
1123 2, 96 | justice no less than by truth. ~Since therefore perjury
1124 2, 96 | incurred through lack of truth, it is incurred ~likewise
1125 2, 96 | rather than in a lack of truth in the human statement which
1126 2, 96 | perjurer while swearing to the truth. ~Therefore falsehood is
1127 2, 96 | perjury consists in a lack of truth, for the reason stated in
1128 2, 96 | when a man swears to the ~truth by false gods, yet perjury
1129 2, 96 | as he ~that swears to the truth thinking it false. For Augustine
1130 2, 96 | either that God ignores the ~truth or that He is willing to
1131 2, 96 | the ~man will speak the truth). "This is the evil whereof
1132 2, 98 | since this is ~not a sale of truth or science, but a hiring
1133 2, 98 | amount to a sale ~of the truth, and consequently he would
1134 2, 102 | to cease on the advent of truth. And the comparison with ~
1135 2, 106 | is in accordance with the truth of the ~divine judgment.
1136 2, 107 | 109] Out. Para. 1/1 - OF TRUTH (FOUR ARTICLES)~We must
1137 2, 107 | ARTICLES)~We must now consider truth and the vices opposed thereto.
1138 2, 107 | opposed thereto. Concerning ~truth there are four points of
1139 2, 107 | of inquiry:~(1) Whether truth is a virtue?~(2) Whether
1140 2, 107 | Thes. Para. 1/1~Whether truth is a virtue?~Aquin.: SMT
1141 2, 107 | 1/1~OBJ 1: It seems that truth is not a virtue. For the
1142 2, 107 | faith, whose object is truth. Since then the object precedes
1143 2, 107 | and the act, it seems that truth is not a virtue, but something
1144 2, 107 | iv, 7), it belongs ~to truth that a man should state
1145 2, 107 | not ~hid it." Therefore truth is not a virtue.~Aquin.:
1146 2, 107 | intellectual, or ~moral. Now truth is not a theological virtue,
1147 2, 107 | Invent. Rhet. ii) that by ~"truth we faithfully represent
1148 2, 107 | for the more one tells the truth, the better it is. Therefore ~
1149 2, 107 | better it is. Therefore ~truth is not a virtue.~Aquin.:
1150 2, 107 | Fourth ~Book of Ethics places truth among the other virtues.~
1151 2, 107 | Para. 1/1~I answer that, Truth can be taken in two ways.
1152 2, 107 | said to be true, and thus truth is not a virtue, but ~the
1153 2, 107 | because, taken in this way, truth is not a ~habit, which is
1154 2, 107 | Q[21], A[2]. Secondly, truth may stand for that by which
1155 2, 107 | said to be truthful. This truth ~or truthfulness must needs
1156 2, 107 | OBJ 1: This argument takes truth in the first sense.~Aquin.:
1157 2, 107 | command of the will. Wherefore truth is neither a ~theological,
1158 2, 107 | that says ~more than the truth about himself, and one that
1159 2, 107 | that says less than the truth. ~On the part of the act,
1160 2, 107 | the mean is to tell the truth, when ~one ought, and as
1161 2, 107 | Thes. Para. 1/1~Whether truth is a special virtue?~Aquin.:
1162 2, 107 | 1/1~OBJ 1: It seems that truth is not a special virtue.
1163 2, 107 | possessor good." Therefore ~truth is not a special virtue.~
1164 2, 107 | to oneself is an act of truth ~as we understand it here.
1165 2, 107 | by its own act. Therefore truth is not a ~special virtue.~
1166 2, 107 | 1/1~OBJ 3: Further, the truth of life is the truth whereby
1167 2, 107 | the truth of life is the truth whereby one lives aright, ~
1168 2, 107 | have walked before Thee in truth, and with a perfect heart."
1169 2, 107 | Q[55], A[4]). Therefore truth is not a special virtue.~
1170 2, 107 | Para. 1/1~OBJ 4: Further, truth seems to be the same as
1171 2, 107 | virtue. ~Therefore neither is truth a special virtue.~Aquin.:
1172 2, 107 | perfected by the ~virtue of truth. Wherefore it is evident
1173 2, 107 | Wherefore it is evident that truth is a special virtue.~Aquin.:
1174 2, 107 | goodness, it ~is possible for truth to be a special virtue,
1175 2, 107 | belongs ~to the virtue of truth, as something directly intended:
1176 2, 107 | Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 3: The truth of life is the truth whereby
1177 2, 107 | The truth of life is the truth whereby a thing is true,
1178 2, 107 | conformity to that law. ~This truth or rectitude is common to
1179 2, 107 | Thes. Para. 1/1~Whether truth is a part of justice?~Aquin.:
1180 2, 107 | 1/1~OBJ 1: It seems that truth is not a part of justice.
1181 2, 107 | due. But, by telling the truth, one does not seem to give
1182 2, 107 | parts of justice. Therefore truth is not a part of justice.~
1183 2, 107 | Para. 1/1~OBJ 2: Further, truth pertains to the intellect:
1184 2, 107 | Q[58], A[4]). Therefore truth is not a part of ~justice.~
1185 2, 107 | Further, according to Jerome truth is threefold, namely, "truth ~
1186 2, 107 | truth is threefold, namely, "truth ~of life," "truth of justice,"
1187 2, 107 | namely, "truth ~of life," "truth of justice," and "truth
1188 2, 107 | truth of justice," and "truth of doctrine." But none of
1189 2, 107 | is a part of justice. For truth of life comprises all virtues,
1190 2, 107 | stated ~above (A[2], ad 3): truth of justice is the same as
1191 2, 107 | not one of its parts; and truth of doctrine belongs rather
1192 2, 107 | intellectual virtues. Therefore truth is nowise a part of justice.~
1193 2, 107 | Invent. Rhet. ii) reckons truth among the ~parts of justice.~
1194 2, 107 | thereof. Now ~the virtue of truth has two things in common
1195 2, 107 | stated to be an act of truth, is directed to another,
1196 2, 107 | and this ~the virtue of truth does also, for it equals
1197 2, 107 | another a manifestation of the truth. ~Therefore truth is a part
1198 2, 107 | of the truth. ~Therefore truth is a part of justice, being
1199 2, 107 | another, as declaring the truth one to another. Hence the
1200 2, 107 | another. Hence the virtue of truth ~does, in a manner, regard
1201 2, 107 | 2 Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 2: Truth, as known, belongs to the
1202 2, 107 | in order to manifest the truth, and in this way the manifestation
1203 2, 107 | the manifestation of the ~truth is an act of the will.~Aquin.:
1204 2, 107 | Para. 1/3~Reply OBJ 3: The truth of which we are speaking
1205 2, 107 | speaking now differs from the ~truth of life, as stated in the
1206 2, 107 | Para. 2/3~We speak of the truth of justice in two ways.
1207 2, 107 | law; and in this way the truth of justice differs ~from
1208 2, 107 | justice differs ~from the truth of life, because by the
1209 2, 107 | of life, because by the truth of life a man lives aright ~
1210 2, 107 | himself, whereas by the truth of justice a man observes
1211 2, 107 | and in this ~sense the truth of justice has nothing to
1212 2, 107 | has nothing to do with the truth of which we ~speak now,
1213 2, 107 | now, as neither has the truth of life. In another way
1214 2, 107 | life. In another way the truth of ~justice may be understood
1215 2, 107 | justice, ~a man manifests the truth, as for instance when a
1216 2, 107 | when a man confesses the ~truth, or gives true evidence
1217 2, 107 | a court of justice. This truth is a ~particular act of
1218 2, 107 | pertain directly to this truth of ~which we are now speaking,
1219 2, 107 | this manifestation of the ~truth a man's chief intention
1220 2, 107 | 3] R.O. 3 Para. 3/3~The truth of doctrine consists in
1221 2, 107 | wherefore neither does this truth directly pertain to ~this
1222 2, 107 | this virtue, but only that truth whereby a man, both in life
1223 2, 107 | virtue, in this sense the truth of doctrine may pertain ~
1224 2, 107 | well as any other kind of truth whereby a man ~manifests,
1225 2, 107 | 1~Whether the virtue of truth inclines rather to that
1226 2, 107 | seems that the virtue of truth does not incline to that
1227 2, 107 | Therefore the virtue of truth ~does not incline to that
1228 2, 107 | timidity. But the mean of truth is not nearer to one extreme
1229 2, 107 | than to the ~other; because truth, since it is a kind of equality,
1230 2, 107 | the exact ~mean. Therefore truth does not more incline to
1231 2, 107 | Further, to forsake the truth for that which is less seems
1232 2, 107 | amount to a denial of the truth, since this is to subtract
1233 2, 107 | therefrom; and ~to forsake the truth for that which is greater
1234 2, 107 | thereto. Now to deny the truth is more repugnant to truth
1235 2, 107 | truth is more repugnant to truth than ~to add something to
1236 2, 107 | something to it, because truth is incompatible with the
1237 2, 107 | incompatible with the denial of ~truth, whereas it is compatible
1238 2, 107 | Therefore it seems that ~truth should incline to that which
1239 2, 107 | declines rather from the truth towards that which is less."~
1240 2, 107 | ways of declining from the truth to that ~which is less.
1241 2, 107 | done without prejudice to truth, since the lesser is contained
1242 2, 107 | foolish: for I will ~say the truth. But I forbear, lest any
1243 2, 107 | be less repugnant to the truth, not indeed as regards the
1244 2, 107 | regards the proper ~aspect of truth, but as regards the aspect
1245 2, 108 | 1/1 - VICES OPPOSED TO TRUTH (QQ[110]-114)~OF THE VICES
1246 2, 108 | OF THE VICES OPPOSED TO TRUTH, AND FIRST OF LYING (FOUR
1247 2, 108 | consider the vices opposed to truth, and (1) lying: (2) ~dissimulation
1248 2, 108 | falsehood, is always opposed to truth?~(2) Of the species of lying;~(
1249 2, 108 | lying is always opposed to truth?~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[110] A[
1250 2, 108 | is not always opposed to truth. For opposites ~are incompatible
1251 2, 108 | lying is compatible with truth, ~since that speaks the
1252 2, 108 | since that speaks the truth, thinking it to be false,
1253 2, 108 | lying is not opposed to truth.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[110] A[
1254 2, 108 | Further, the virtue of truth applies not only to words
1255 2, 108 | this ~virtue one tells the truth both in one's speech and
1256 2, 108 | opposed to the virtue of truth.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[110] A[
1257 2, 108 | But this is not opposed to truth, but ~rather to benevolence
1258 2, 108 | lying is not opposed to truth.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[110] A[
1259 2, 108 | But this is ~opposed to truth. Therefore lying is opposed
1260 2, 108 | Therefore lying is opposed to truth.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[110] A[
1261 2, 108 | ad 3) that the virtue of ~truth - and consequently the opposite
1262 2, 108 | falseness essentially and truth accidentally, and ~attains
1263 2, 108 | opposed to the virtue of truth.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[110] A[
1264 2, 108 | is more in opposition to truth, considered as a ~moral
1265 2, 108 | moral virtue, to tell the truth with the intention of telling
1266 2, 108 | intention of telling the truth.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[110] A[
1267 2, 108 | boasting," which exceeds the truth in speech, and "irony,"
1268 2, 108 | which falls ~short of the truth by saying something less:
1269 2, 108 | lie which goes beyond the truth, and this ~belongs to "boasting,"
1270 2, 108 | which stops short of the truth, and ~this belongs to "irony."
1271 2, 108 | lying as such is opposed to truth, as stated in the ~preceding
1272 2, 108 | preceding Article: and truth is a kind of equality, to
1273 2, 108 | that in order to ~know the truth it is necessary to get at
1274 2, 108 | sister, he wished to hide the truth, not to tell a lie, for ~
1275 2, 108 | that her words ~contain truth in some mystical sense.~
1276 2, 108 | it is ~lawful to hide the truth prudently, by keeping it
1277 2, 108 | the ~charity of God, whose truth one hides or corrupts by
1278 2, 108 | position to safeguard the truth: because they are ~bound
1279 2, 108 | bound to safeguard the truth by virtue of their office
1280 2, 109 | Whether it is opposed to truth?~(4) Whether it is a mortal
1281 2, 109 | belongs ~to the virtue of truth to show oneself outwardly
1282 2, 109 | just as it is contrary to truth to signify by words something ~
1283 2, 109 | also is it contrary to ~truth to employ signs of deeds
1284 2, 109 | a representation of the truth." And he cites figures of ~
1285 2, 109 | contrary to the virtue of truth?~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[111] A[
1286 2, 109 | contrary to the virtue of truth. ~For in dissimulation or
1287 2, 109 | opposed to the virtue of ~truth.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[111] A[
1288 2, 109 | dissimulation is not ~opposed to truth, but rather to prudence
1289 2, 109 | not directly opposed ~to truth, it seems that neither is
1290 2, 109 | lie is directly opposed to truth. Therefore dissimulation
1291 2, 109 | it is directly opposed to truth ~whereby a man shows himself
1292 2, 109 | opposed to that virtue, but to truth, inasmuch as he ~wishes
1293 2, 109 | the same as the virtue of truth as stated above (Q[109],
1294 2, 109 | between them, because by ~truth we mean the concordance
1295 2, 110 | opposed to the virtue of truth?~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[112] A[
1296 2, 110 | opposed to the virtue of truth. For ~lying is opposed to
1297 2, 110 | For ~lying is opposed to truth. But it is possible to boast
1298 2, 110 | opposed ~to the virtue of truth.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[112] A[
1299 2, 110 | boasting is opposed, not to truth, but to humility.~Aquin.:
1300 2, 110 | boasting is not opposed to truth.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[112] A[
1301 2, 110 | boasting is opposed to truth.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[112] A[
1302 2, 110 | so called is opposed to truth by way of excess.~Aquin.:
1303 2, 110 | and thus it is opposed to truth; ~as stated (in the body
1304 2, 111 | First so as to safeguard truth, as when a man conceals
1305 2, 111 | himself by forsaking the truth, for instance by ascribing
1306 2, 111 | arrogance so as ~to forsake truth": and Gregory says (Moral.
1307 2, 111 | a sin through forsaking truth, which is a kind of ~equality.
1308 2, 111 | But one does not forsake truth by exceeding it any more
1309 2, 112 | equity, the manifestation of ~truth without which human society
1310 2, 112 | live in society without truth, so likewise, not without
1311 2, 113 | depriving it of the rigidity of truth and renders it susceptive ~
1312 2, 114 | intends either to ~deny the truth, or to hold up the speaker
1313 2, 120 | swearing, which is ~without truth, and unjust swearing, which
1314 2, 120 | is not supported by the ~truth. on the other hand, when
1315 2, 120 | levity, if he swear to the truth, there is no vanity on the
1316 2, 120 | to the protestation of ~truth, which it is unlawful to
1317 2, 122 | reason consists ~in the truth as its proper object, and
1318 2, 122 | essentially in standing firmly to truth and justice against the
1319 2, 122 | witness is borne to ~the truth alone. Now one is not called
1320 2, 122 | bearing witness to ~any truth, but only for witnessing
1321 2, 122 | witnessing to the Divine truth, otherwise a man ~would
1322 2, 122 | to die for confessing a truth of geometry or ~some other
1323 2, 122 | they bear witness to ~the truth; not indeed to any truth,
1324 2, 122 | truth; not indeed to any truth, but to the truth which
1325 2, 122 | to any truth, but to the truth which is in ~accordance
1326 2, 122 | His witnesses. Now this truth is the truth of faith. ~
1327 2, 122 | witnesses. Now this truth is the truth of faith. ~Wherefore the
1328 2, 122 | of all martyrdom is the truth of faith.~Aquin.: SMT SS
1329 2, 122 | Body Para. 2/2~But the truth of faith includes not only
1330 2, 122 | Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 2: The truth of other sciences has no
1331 2, 122 | hence it is not called truth according to ~godliness,
1332 2, 122 | avoidance of a lie, to whatever truth it may be ~contrary, may
1333 2, 127 | irony, not as opposed to truth, and so as either to say
1334 2, 127 | all concealment of the ~truth indicates a defect, since
1335 2, 128 | ability, is sometimes in very truth something great, simply
1336 2, 128 | magnanimity, not in any ~truth, but in people's opinion.
1337 2, 130 | that he cares more for truth than for opinion. Again
1338 2, 130 | desirous of vainglory does in truth fall short ~of being magnanimous,
1339 2, 142 | because he is certain of the truth or because of its effect.
1340 2, 142 | effect. Certitude of ~the truth attaches to a person's attestations
1341 2, 142 | judgments hold fast to ~the truth: so, too, the attestation
1342 2, 143 | own worth, such as virtue, truth, ~knowledge." And this suffices
1343 2, 143 | honored by some people, but in truth it is only the ~good man
1344 2, 150 | of the contemplation of ~truth, this is not sinful, but
1345 2, 150 | to the contemplation of truth, this is in accordance with ~
1346 2, 150 | of the contemplation of truth: as Plato ~alone is related
1347 2, 154 | difficult to bring back to the truth one who errs as to the principle; ~
1348 2, 155 | to man's free judgment of truth: ~wherefore meekness above
1349 2, 155 | contradict the words ~of truth, which many do through being
1350 2, 155 | clearer insight of the truth."~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[157]
1351 2, 157 | be "savage as regards the truth," on ~account of some likeness
1352 2, 158 | admonishing them ~that resist the truth." Now admonishing wrong-doers
1353 2, 159 | should take the part of truth, not of falsehood." Now
1354 2, 159 | esteem; but we ~should in truth think it possible for another
1355 2, 159 | Now the virtues are ~in truth infused by God. Wherefore
1356 2, 160 | mind is an ~obstacle to truth, for the swelling shuts
1357 2, 160 | Now the ~knowledge of truth pertains, not to the irascible
1358 2, 160 | Reply OBJ 1: Knowledge of truth is twofold. One is purely
1359 2, 160 | receive the knowledge ~of truth from Him, according to Mt.
1360 2, 160 | The other knowledge of truth is affective, and this is ~
1361 2, 160 | disdain the excellence of truth; thus Gregory says ~(Moral.
1362 2, 165 | done by the knowledge of truth. For Dionysius says (Div. ~
1363 2, 165 | consists in knowing the truth. Therefore the ~vice of
1364 2, 165 | etc. Again, by knowing the truth man is likened to God, since "
1365 2, 165 | however abundant knowledge of ~truth may be, it is not evil but
1366 2, 165 | intellective ~knowledge of truth.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[167] A[
1367 2, 165 | the knowledge ~itself of truth, and of the desire and study
1368 2, 165 | pursuit of the ~knowledge of truth. For the knowledge of truth,
1369 2, 165 | truth. For the knowledge of truth, strictly speaking, is ~
1370 2, 165 | takes pride in knowing the truth, according to 1 Cor. 8:1, ~"
1371 2, 165 | one uses the knowledge of truth in ~order to sin.~Aquin.:
1372 2, 165 | pursuing the knowledge of ~truth may be right or wrong. First,
1373 2, 165 | study to the ~knowledge of truth as having evil accidentally
1374 2, 165 | those who study to know the truth that they may take pride
1375 2, 165 | directed ~to the learning of truth being itself inordinate;
1376 2, 165 | man desires to know the truth about creatures, without ~
1377 2, 165 | man studies to know the truth above the capacity of his ~
1378 2, 165 | consists in the knowledge of truth; yet man's ~sovereign good
1379 2, 165 | in the knowledge of any truth, but in the ~perfect knowledge
1380 2, 165 | knowledge of the sovereign truth, as the Philosopher states ~(
1381 2, 165 | knowledge of the sovereign truth, wherein supreme happiness ~
1382 2, 165 | shows that the knowledge of truth is ~good in itself, this
1383 2, 165 | misusing the knowledge ~of truth for an evil purpose, or
1384 2, 165 | desiring the knowledge of truth ~inordinately, since even
1385 2, 165 | commendable, on account of the truth which the philosophers acquired ~
1386 2, 165 | philosophers misuse the truth in order to assail the faith,
1387 2, 165 | the study of intelligible truth, this ~studiousness about
1388 2, 167 | regarding the knowledge of truth. Nor ~is there a theological
1389 2, 167 | handiwork, a distortion of the truth. Thou shalt not be able
1390 2, 169 | distance, "and foretell the truth ~about things to come."~
1391 2, 169 | things with ~unchangeable truth." Now issues pertain to
1392 2, 169 | future contingencies, ~the truth of which is indeterminate.
1393 2, 169 | Divine light is the first truth, which the prophets do not
1394 2, 169 | him speak My word with ~truth." Therefore the prophet
1395 2, 169 | written (Jer. 26:15): "In truth the Lord sent me to ~you,
1396 2, 169 | from Him they hear the truth, so that they reproach themselves
1397 2, 169 | things with ~invariable truth." Now the truth of prophecy
1398 2, 169 | invariable truth." Now the truth of prophecy would not be
1399 2, 169 | Divine revelation. Now the truth of knowledge ~is the same
1400 2, 169 | Consequently the same truth must needs be in prophetic
1401 2, 169 | not by its ~unchangeable truth exclude the contingency
1402 2, 169 | Reply OBJ 3: Since the same truth of prophecy is the same
1403 2, 169 | prophecy is the same as the truth ~of Divine foreknowledge,
1404 2, 170 | according to the unchangeable truth" [*Q[171], A[3], ~OBJ[1]],
1405 2, 170 | demons ever foretell the truth?~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[172] A[
1406 2, 170 | demons never foretell the ~truth. For Ambrose [*Hilary the
1407 2, 170 | 12:3] ~says that "Every truth, by whomsoever spoken, is
1408 2, 170 | they ~never foretell the truth.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[172] A[
1409 2, 170 | inspired by the Spirit of ~truth, so the prophets of the
1410 2, 170 | of the demons never speak truth.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[172] A[
1411 2, 170 | minister to declare ~the truth, since "light hath no fellowship
1412 2, 170 | demons never foretell the truth.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[172] A[
1413 2, 170 | the demons ~foretell the truth.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[172] A[
1414 2, 170 | without some mixture of truth. Hence Bede says ~[*Comment.
1415 2, 170 | false that it never mingles truth with falsehood." Hence ~
1416 2, 170 | falsehood by the semblance of truth, even as the will is ~seduced
1417 2, 170 | prophets, both that the ~truth may be rendered more credible,
1418 2, 170 | be more easily ~led on to truth. Wherefore also the Sibyls
1419 2, 170 | demons, they ~foretell the truth, sometimes by virtue of
1420 2, 170 | so that even then ~this truth which the demons proclaim
1421 2, 170 | inspired by the Spirit of truth, ~in Whom there is no falsehood,
1422 2, 170 | sometimes even by the Spirit of truth. Even the very spirit ~of
1423 2, 170 | they sometimes foretell the truth, as stated ~above (ad 1).
1424 2, 170 | of them to make known the truth ~which is to be accomplished
1425 2, 171 | that "in that eternal ~truth from which all temporal
1426 2, 171 | prophets "with ~unchangeable truth." Now future contingencies
1427 2, 171 | far as ~a likeness of the truth of the Divine foreknowledge
1428 2, 171 | foreknowledge, inasmuch as the truth is reflected from God's ~
1429 2, 171 | said to see in the First Truth the type of his ~existence,
1430 2, 171 | as the image of the First Truth shines forth on ~man's mind,
1431 2, 171 | according to unalterable truth, it follows that God can
1432 2, 171 | images, but by the very truth of ~things. Therefore it
1433 2, 171 | judging according to Divine ~truth, of the things which a man
1434 2, 171 | so as to accord with the truth to be revealed, and then ~
1435 2, 171 | prophetic light, since a ~deeper truth is gathered from these pictures
1436 2, 172 | denunciation, because the aspect of truth is the same in both. But
1437 2, 172 | is the manifestation of a truth that ~surpasses the faculty
1438 2, 172 | manifestation of divine truth by means of the bare contemplation
1439 2, 172 | bare contemplation of ~the truth itself, is more effective
1440 2, 172 | heavenly ~vision whereby the truth is seen in God's essence.
1441 2, 172 | prophecy whereby a supernatural truth is seen by intellectual
1442 2, 172 | in which a supernatural truth is manifested ~by means
1443 2, 172 | grasp the bare intelligible ~truth the master propounds, is
1444 2, 172 | particular supernatural truth has to be revealed by ~means
1445 2, 172 | which the ~bare intelligible truth is revealed is greater than
1446 2, 172 | manifestation of ~the intelligible truth. Wherefore prophecy is all
1447 2, 172 | remoteness from the intelligible truth; wherefore the name ~of
1448 2, 172 | vision, provided the same truth be revealed in either case. ~
1449 2, 172 | the certitude of divine truth, of things that can be known
1450 2, 172 | leading to a supernatural truth. It was ~this kind of prophecy
1451 2, 172 | intelligible light, a supernatural truth is revealed through an ~
1452 2, 172 | wherein a ~supernatural truth is revealed without imaginary
1453 2, 172 | not attain to supernatural truth. The prophecy wherein ~supernatural
1454 2, 172 | prophecy wherein ~supernatural truth is manifested through imaginary
1455 2, 172 | whereby the intelligible truth is ~conveyed. And since
1456 2, 172 | expressive signs of intelligible ~truth, it would seem to be a higher
1457 2, 172 | expressive of an intelligible truth, ~than when he sees things
1458 2, 172 | things significative of truth, for instance "the seven ~
1459 2, 172 | intelligible and supernatural truth is shown without any imaginary ~
1460 2, 172 | intelligible and supernatural truth, without any imaginary ~
1461 2, 172 | vision of some supernatural truth as ~being far remote from
1462 2, 172 | to wit, the supernatural truth is not ~known in itself,
1463 2, 172 | of its effects; and this truth will be more ~remote if
1464 2, 172 | God Himself declares the truth by His messenger: even as
1465 2, 172 | the ~knowledge of Divine truth, by the contemplation of
1466 2, 172 | forth Thy light and Thy truth: they have conducted me."
1467 2, 173 | he should understand the truth through sensible things. ~
1468 2, 173 | contemplation of divine ~truth in three ways. First, so
1469 2, 173 | contemplates the divine truth through its ~intelligible
1470 2, 174 | signify an intelligible truth, and this again is ~signified
1471 2, 174 | to know an intelligible truth. Wherefore, as the ~prophetic
1472 2, 175 | Take not Thou the word of truth utterly out of my mouth"
1473 2, 175 | mouth" that ~"the word of truth is that which Almighty God
1474 2, 175 | as the contemplation of truth is greater than its utterance. ~
1475 2, 176 | arrive at the intelligible ~truth through its sensible effects.
1476 2, 176 | for the ~confirmation of truth declared, in another way
1477 2, 177 | on the contemplation ~of truth, while others are especially
1478 2, 177 | the knowledge itself of truth, which pertains to the ~
1479 2, 177 | to the consideration of truth belong to the contemplative
1480 2, 178 | the consideration of any truth whatever pertains to the ~
1481 2, 178 | end of ~contemplation is truth." Now truth pertains wholly
1482 2, 178 | contemplation is truth." Now truth pertains wholly to the intellect. ~
1483 2, 178 | on the contemplation of truth. Now ~intention is an act
1484 2, 178 | From the very fact that truth is the end of contemplation, ~
1485 2, 178 | is the consideration of truth: and as the Philosopher
1486 2, 178 | to the consideration of truth, "has ~little influence
1487 2, 178 | that an angel perceives the truth by ~simple apprehension,
1488 2, 178 | perception of a simple ~truth by a process from several
1489 2, 178 | namely ~the contemplation of truth, and from this act it derives
1490 2, 178 | to the ~contemplation of truth; others are concerned with
1491 2, 178 | from the ~principles, the truth, the knowledge of which
1492 2, 178 | contemplation itself of the truth.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[180] A[
1493 2, 178 | intends to gather one simple truth. Hence cogitation may comprise
1494 2, 178 | anything that conduces to the truth in view: ~although, according
1495 2, 178 | the ~contemplation of some truth: and "consideration" has
1496 2, 178 | simple act of ~gazing on the truth; wherefore Richard says
1497 2, 178 | occupied ~in searching for the truth: and cogitation is the mind'
1498 2, 178 | contemplation of the sublime truth. For it was stated above ~(
1499 2, 178 | reaches the knowledge of truth in two ways. First, by ~
1500 2, 178 | the consideration of any truth whatever?~Aquin.: SMT SS
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