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501 2, 130 | deed loses its power to merit eternal life, if it be done
502 2, 145 | possible to sin and lose ~the merit of fasting, by partaking
503 2, 150 | greater virtue has greater merit. Therefore virginity is ~
504 2, 150 | Para. 1/1 ~Reply OBJ 1: Merit is measured not only by
505 2, 152 | things are the matter of merit and demerit. Now a man may
506 2, 152 | and demerit. Now a man may merit while he ~sleeps, as was
507 2, 152 | soul may have conspicuous merit on account of its good ~
508 2, 152 | Reply OBJ 1: Solomon did not merit to receive wisdom from God
509 2, 153 | concupiscence diminishes merit, whereas strength of ~concupiscence
510 2, 153 | of its ~cause, increases merit, whereas strength of concupiscence
511 2, 156 | not include ~the notion of merit or demerit, of praise or
512 2, 159 | 18:14) that through the merit of his humility "he went
513 2, 162 | are not meritorious, since merit ~is comprised under good,
514 2, 170 | are accorded not to the merit of ~those who do these things,
515 2, 175 | no grace is given through merit, since "if by grace, it ~
516 2, 175 | of either of them do not merit this grace directly, but
517 2, 175 | fault, and yet he does not merit it by his good ~works, which,
518 2, 176 | are accorded not ~to the merit of those who do these things,
519 2, 176 | impetration relies not on merit but on God's mercy, ~which
520 2, 176 | understood so far as the sinner's merit is ~concerned; yet it is
521 2, 180 | of them has the greater merit?~(3) Whether the contemplative
522 2, 180 | active life is of greater merit than the contemplative?~
523 2, 180 | active life is of greater merit than the ~contemplative.
524 2, 180 | the ~contemplative. For merit implies relation to meed;
525 2, 180 | active life is of ~greater merit than the contemplative.~
526 2, 180 | less of the character of merit than the active, ~but more
527 2, 180 | contemplative life is not of greater merit than the active.~Aquin.:
528 2, 180 | 114], A[4]), the root of merit is ~charity; and, while,
529 2, 180 | is generically of greater merit than the ~active life. This
530 2, 180 | contemplative life surpasses in merit the active life, because
531 2, 180 | reward; but the increase of merit with regard to the essential
532 2, 180 | room for advancement by merit; and if ~there were, the
533 2, 180 | and if ~there were, the merit would be more efficacious
534 2, 180 | not ~remove the idea of merit, but causes a yet greater
535 2, 180 | but causes a yet greater merit on account of ~the practice
536 2, 180 | does not mean ~that the merit of the active life is preferable
537 2, 180 | life is preferable to the merit of the ~contemplative life,
538 2, 182 | there be a ~monk, who by the merit of his exemplary life is
539 2, 182 | its genus is of greater merit if ~it be done out of greater
540 2, 184 | the character of praise or merit; whereas the ~necessity
541 2, 186 | should ~not acquire the merit of martyrdom in certain
542 2, 187 | not only do not ~sin, but merit a great reward. For it is
543 3, 2 | Incarnation falls under merit.~Aquin.: SMT TP Q[2] A[11]
544 3, 2 | Incarnation falls under merit.~Aquin.: SMT TP Q[2] A[11]
545 3, 2 | therefore it cannot fall under merit. Secondly, because ~grace
546 3, 2 | grace cannot fall under merit, for the principle of merit
547 3, 2 | merit, for the principle of merit does not fall ~under merit;
548 3, 2 | merit does not fall ~under merit; and therefore neither does
549 3, 2 | it is the principle of ~merit. Hence, still less does
550 3, 2 | the Incarnation fall under merit, since it ~is the principle
551 3, 2 | does not fall under the ~merit of any individual man, since
552 3, 2 | It is false that under merit falls everything without
553 3, 2 | for reward, but also for merit, as the Divine goodness
554 3, 2 | Incarnation is the ~principle of merit, because "of His fulness
555 3, 2 | inasmuch as it is not from merit; and it ~is said to be natural
556 3, 4 | assumed our nature, might merit for us. Thirdly, because
557 3, 5 | other no ~place is given to merit. Is He to be considered
558 3, 7 | Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 2: The merit of faith consists in this -
559 3, 7 | taught nothing pertaining to merit which He did ~not fulfil
560 3, 7 | to have grace enough to merit eternal ~life, which consists
561 3, 18 | Augustine says (De Pecc. Merit. et Remiss. i, 32). ~Hence
562 3, 19 | But comprehensors do not merit: because the charity of
563 3, 19 | seem to be the principle of merit, since merit ~and reward
564 3, 19 | principle of merit, since merit ~and reward are not the
565 3, 19 | before His passion did not ~merit, even as He does not merit
566 3, 19 | merit, even as He does not merit now.~Aquin.: SMT TP Q[19]
567 3, 19 | to Him, which ~other men merit by their works. And hence
568 3, 19 | the Word of God, could not merit anything for Himself.~Aquin.:
569 3, 19 | principle does not properly merit what ~flows from its possession.
570 3, 19 | body. Hence ~Christ did not merit the glory of the body.~Aquin.:
571 3, 19 | Therefore Christ ~did not merit the manifestation of His
572 3, 19 | has anything by his own merit has it, in a ~manner, of
573 3, 19 | better to have a thing by merit than ~without merit.~Aquin.:
574 3, 19 | thing by merit than ~without merit.~Aquin.: SMT TP Q[19] A[
575 3, 19 | consequently He must have by merit what others have by merit;
576 3, 19 | merit what others have by merit; unless it ~be of such a
577 3, 19 | than would accrue to Him by merit. Hence He merited ~neither
578 3, 19 | Godhead, because, since merit regards only what is not
579 3, 19 | s dignity more ~than His merit would have increased it.
580 3, 19 | say that Christ had, by merit, the glory ~of His body
581 3, 19 | is clear that He could ~merit for Himself.~Aquin.: SMT
582 3, 19 | soul, which Christ did not merit. Hence if He merited by
583 3, 19 | does not follow that the merit and the reward are the same.
584 3, 19 | are the same. Nor did He ~merit by charity inasmuch as it
585 3, 19 | this He has partly without merit, and partly with merit,
586 3, 19 | without merit, and partly with merit, as is ~clear from what
587 3, 19 | body, in keeping with human merit; so that as ~man merits
588 3, 19 | of the body ~falls under merit, according to Rm. 8:11: "
589 3, 19 | could fall under Christ's merit.~Aquin.: SMT TP Q[19] A[
590 3, 19 | 1/1~Whether Christ could merit for others?~Aquin.: SMT
591 3, 19 | seem that Christ could not merit for others. For it is ~written (
592 3, 19 | having Christ's grace cannot merit for ~others. For it is written (
593 3, 19 | Hence Christ could not merit anything for us.~Aquin.:
594 3, 19 | Further, the "reward" that we merit is due "according to justice ~[
595 3, 19 | not save, since Christ's merit extends to all.~Aquin.:
596 3, 19 | more, therefore, does the merit of Christ ~reach others.~
597 3, 19 | hence it is that Christ's merit extends to others inasmuch
598 3, 19 | propagation. So, too, the ~merit of Christ, Who has been
599 3, 19 | it need not be that men merit ~for others, as Christ did.~
600 3, 19 | generation, so, too, the merit of Christ reaches others
601 3, 29 | them might have greater merit. Whereas ~other miracles
602 3, 34 | that same instant He could merit?~(4) Whether in that same
603 3, 34 | 1/1~Whether Christ could merit in the first instant of
604 3, 34 | seem that Christ could not merit in the first instant of ~
605 3, 34 | bears the same relation to merit as to ~demerit. But the
606 3, 34 | neither could ~Christ's soul merit in the first instant of
607 3, 34 | terminated. But we do not merit by what is natural to us, ~
608 3, 34 | it seems that he cannot merit the same thing again: ~for
609 3, 34 | Therefore Christ did not ~merit in the first instant of
610 3, 34 | 40] says: "Increase of merit was absolutely impossible
611 3, 34 | Christ." But increase of merit would have been possible
612 3, 34 | Consequently, Christ did merit in the first ~instant of
613 3, 34 | grace by which it could merit. And for this reason is ~
614 3, 34 | actions ~and sufferings to merit the glory of immortality,
615 3, 34 | instant of His conception. For merit precedes reward, as fault ~
616 3, 34 | A[3]), Christ did not merit the ~glory of the soul,
617 3, 36 | would have lessened the merit of faith, which He ~came
618 3, 43 | But ~miracles lessen the merit of faith; hence our Lord
619 3, 43 | OBJ 3: Miracles lessen the merit of faith in so far as those
620 3, 48 | our salvation by way of merit?~(2) Whether it was by way
621 3, 48 | our salvation by way of merit?~Aquin.: SMT TP Q[48] A[
622 3, 48 | our ~salvation by way of merit. For the sources of our
623 3, 48 | wrought nothing by ~way of merit.~Aquin.: SMT TP Q[48] A[
624 3, 48 | But it is ~superfluous to merit over again what has been
625 3, 48 | His Passion Christ did not merit our salvation.~Aquin.: SMT
626 3, 48 | Further, the source of merit is charity. But Christ's
627 3, 48 | before. Therefore He did not ~merit our salvation by suffering
628 3, 48 | agent to ~operate by way of merit and by way of efficiency,
629 3, 48 | else. But it was by way of merit that ~Christ's Passion accomplished
630 3, 49 | meriting, does not come under merit. But God's love ~is the
631 3, 49 | seems that Christ did not merit to be exalted on account
632 3, 49 | account of any preceding merit, but from the very union ~
633 3, 49 | had He exaltation from the merit of the Passion but ~from
634 3, 49 | charity is the principle ~of merit, it seems that He did not
635 3, 49 | it seems that He did not merit exaltation from the Passion
636 3, 49 | Passion Christ did not ~merit exaltation as to the glory
637 3, 49 | Therefore neither did ~He merit exaltation, as to the glory
638 3, 49 | Para. 1/2~I answer that, Merit implies a certain equality
639 3, 49 | to be ~acquired in Him by merit, like the perfection of
640 3, 49 | thereby the instrument of His merit.~Aquin.: SMT TP Q[49] A[
641 3, 49 | His previous merits did merit exaltation on ~behalf of
642 3, 50 | our salvation by way of merit. ~But Christ's death could
643 3, 50 | our salvation by ~way of merit, but only by way of causality,
644 3, 50 | our salvation by way of merit, yet it did so by way of
645 3, 53 | Further, no one is said to merit, or ask from another, that
646 3, 55 | public reward due for public merit. But, as Augustine says (
647 3, 55 | Hom. xxvi): "Faith has no merit where ~human reason supplies
648 3, 55 | Christ's office to ~void the merit of faith. Consequently,
649 3, 55 | Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 2: The merit of faith arises from this,
650 3, 55 | only that reason debars ~merit of faith which enables one
651 3, 55 | stated already (ad 2), the merit of beatitude, which ~comes
652 3, 55 | him of faith ~nor of the merit of faith: just as Thomas,
653 3, 56 | soul, since they shared in merit or sin, as Dionysius says (
654 3, 56 | consequently not in a ~state of merit. Therefore, Christ's Resurrection
655 3, 56 | resurrection of souls pertains to merit, which is the ~effect of
656 3, 57 | same thing is ~not both merit and reward, just as neither
657 3, 57 | salvation by way not ~of merit, but of efficiency, as was
658 3, 57 | sin, and also by ~way of merit: whereas Christ's Ascension
659 3, 59 | to ~Christ by reason of merit, but follows the personal
660 3, 59 | but likewise "from the merit of the lowliness of His
661 3, 59 | yet He obtained it from merit, so that, in ~accordance
662 3, 59 | from being His due from merit.~Aquin.: SMT TP Q[59] A[
663 3, 59 | the same appears from the merit of His death; because, ~
664 3, 59 | punishment correspond with merit and demerit. ~But merit
665 3, 59 | merit and demerit. ~But merit and demerit bear relation
666 3, 62 | by way of efficiency and merit, ~but also by way of satisfaction.
667 3, 62 | of concupiscence, and to merit eternal life. ~Aquin.: SMT
668 3, 64 | minister, but through the merit of ~Christ's Passion, the
669 3, 64 | First in this, that the merit and power ~of His Passion
670 3, 64 | sacrament indeed, but gains no merit for himself.~Aquin.: SMT
671 3, 66 | except by reason of His merit, which ~was chiefly in His
672 3, 67 | reason for ~this was that the merit and wisdom of the minister
673 3, 68 | Infant Baptism (De Pecc. ~Merit. et Remiss. i), "the effect
674 3, 68 | Infant Baptism (De Pecc. Merit. et ~Remiss. i); and this
675 3, 68 | Augustine says (De Pecc. Merit. et Remiss. i): "The Church,
676 3, 69 | Infant ~Baptism (De Pecc. Merit. et Remiss. i), that "in
677 3, 69 | Infant Baptism (De Pecc. ~Merit. et Remiss. i) "the effect
678 3, 69 | Infant Baptism (De Pecc. ~Merit. et Remiss. i) that "the
679 3, 75 | this may ~redound to the merit of faith.~Aquin.: SMT TP
680 3, 89 | to the act, remain as ~to merit, in so far as they are acceptable
681 3, 89 | glory ~according to the merit of his previous works; so
682 3, 89 | But this fruit is ~the merit of good works which was
683 Suppl, 2 | acts in virtue of Christ's merit, Who had infinite ~power
684 Suppl, 2 | contrition, in addition to the merit of Christ, an act ~of ours
685 Suppl, 7 | 2/2 ~Further, we do not merit except by acts of virtue.
686 Suppl, 8 | punishment, owing to the ~merit derived from his confession
687 Suppl, 9 | which is the ~principle of merit. But in so far as it is
688 Suppl, 10| have received, nor is his ~merit so great. Moreover he is
689 Suppl, 12| satisfaction is not, since merit is gratuitous, while satisfaction ~
690 Suppl, 12| necessity. For debt diminishes merit through being ~necessary
691 Suppl, 12| necessity, the element of merit is not forfeited.~Aquin.:
692 Suppl, 13| sin in virtue of Christ's merit, which ~was, in a way, infinite.
693 Suppl, 13| punishment ~for another. Because merit is requisite for satisfaction.
694 Suppl, 13| satisfaction. Now one man ~cannot merit or demerit for another,
695 Suppl, 13| by his good ~actions, may merit an increase of grace for
696 Suppl, 13| But this is by way of ~merit rather than of satisfaction.
697 Suppl, 13| act, so one man does not merit the ~essential reward for
698 Suppl, 13| for another, unless his merit has infinite efficacy, as ~
699 Suppl, 13| infinite efficacy, as ~the merit of Christ, whereby children
700 Suppl, 13| Consequently one man can merit for another as regards ~
701 Suppl, 13| punishment, whereas in merit we regard the root which
702 Suppl, 14| works done without charity merit any good?~(5) Whether such
703 Suppl, 14| works done without charity merit any, at least temporal,
704 Suppl, 14| works done without charity merit some, at ~least a temporal,
705 Suppl, 14| is not given except for merit. Now some reward is ~given
706 Suppl, 14| Therefore those works merit some good.~Aquin.: SMT XP
707 Suppl, 14| eats." Therefore he cannot merit anything from God.~Aquin.:
708 Suppl, 14| he that is nothing, can merit nothing. But a sinner, through ~
709 Suppl, 14| 13:2. Therefore he can merit nothing.~Aquin.: SMT XP
710 Suppl, 14| that, Properly speaking a merit is an action on account
711 Suppl, 14| befitting." And in this way ~merit is also twofold. The first
712 Suppl, 14| something, and this is called merit of ~"condignity." The second
713 Suppl, 14| wherefore it is ~called merit of "congruity." Now since
714 Suppl, 14| perfection, a man is said to merit ~congruously some good by
715 Suppl, 14| Since, ~however, this is not merit properly so called, we should
716 Suppl, 14| Consequently no work of ours can merit a reward by ~reason of its
717 Suppl, 14| without charity does not merit ~condign reward.~Aquin.:
718 Suppl, 14| These arguments consider merit of congruity; while ~the
719 Suppl, 14| other arguments consider merit of condignity.~Aquin.: SMT
720 Suppl, 14| These works do, however merit a diminution or postponement
721 Suppl, 15| penality of ~the work, so, in merit, we must observe its difficulty.
722 Suppl, 15| things being equal, ~the merit is also diminished; but
723 Suppl, 15| this does not diminish the merit, ~but increases it; and,
724 Suppl, 15| A[2]). ~But we do not merit except by what is in our
725 Suppl, 17| above obstacle, through the ~merit of His Passion, which also
726 Suppl, 18| lastly on account of the merit of the shame.~Aquin.: SMT
727 Suppl, 19| consider Him as ~God, by merit, if we consider Him as man [*
728 Suppl, 19| their efficacy from the merit of Christ's Passion. Now ~
729 Suppl, 19| is Christ as God, and by merit is Christ as man,* it follows
730 Suppl, 19| are remitted, nor can he merit sufficiently, so that he
731 Suppl, 19| Although a mere man cannot merit grace for another man ~condignly,
732 Suppl, 19| man ~condignly, yet the merit of one man can co-operate
733 Suppl, 19| instrumentally through the merit of ~Christ, and this requires
734 Suppl, 19| virtue of the keys, but by merit of ~congruity. Hence He
735 Suppl, 19| efficacious through the merit of Christ. Yet in both ways
736 Suppl, 21| to those who have it, or merit grace for those who have ~
737 Suppl, 21| be ~credited to him as a merit), and either seek absolution
738 Suppl, 21| if he submit humbly, the merit ~of his humility will compensate
739 Suppl, 25| who toils most gains most merit. This, however, is to ~be
740 Suppl, 26| chiefly on account of the merit of Christ. ~Consequently
741 Suppl, 27| sin. For one person can merit grace and many other good
742 Suppl, 27| person so that he could merit grace (by way of congruity
743 Suppl, 27| mortal sin so that he could merit something, ~as the foregoing
744 Suppl, 27| eternal life, ~religious merit more by observing their
745 Suppl, 27| is a lesser good, they ~merit less. Nor again do indulgences
746 Suppl, 32| recipient, the personal merit of the ~minister, and the
747 Suppl, 34| esteem himself lower in merit, not in ~office; and orders
748 Suppl, 35| they be above ~them by the merit of holiness. Hence they
749 Suppl, 36| Orders is obtained by mere merit of life?~(4) Whether he
750 Suppl, 36| degrees of Order by the merit of one's life?~Aquin.: SMT
751 Suppl, 36| degrees of order by the mere ~merit of his life. For, according
752 Suppl, 36| becomes a saint by ~the merit of his life. Consequently
753 Suppl, 36| Hier. iv). Now it is by merit of holiness and ~knowledge
754 Suppl, 36| not ~consist in the mere merit of holiness.~Aquin.: SMT
755 Suppl, 41| affords them no meed." Now merit ~bears a relation to meed.
756 Suppl, 41| received. But a man does not merit by receiving ~a favor. Therefore
757 Suppl, 41| Para. 1/1~OBJ 4: Further, merit like virtue, consists in
758 Suppl, 41| meritorious, for a man cannot both merit and demerit at the same
759 Suppl, 41| Reply OBJ 1: The root of merit, as regards the essential
760 Suppl, 41| accidental reward, the reason for merit ~consists in the difficulty
761 Suppl, 41| difficulty required for merit of the accidental reward ~
762 Suppl, 67| the time of the Law would merit ~eternal life. For this
763 Suppl, 69| movement, so in ~souls there is merit or demerit whereby they
764 Suppl, 69| cannot find rest save by the ~merit of faith, because "he that
765 Suppl, 69| they due on account of merit. Now there is only one abode
766 Suppl, 69| abode due on account ~of merit, namely paradise. Therefore
767 Suppl, 69| is one place where they merit or demerit. ~Therefore only
768 Suppl, 69| merits. Now the degrees of merit and sin are ~infinite. Therefore
769 Suppl, 69| the same person is able to merit and demerit: wherefore it
770 Suppl, 69| assigned after the state of merit or demerit.~Aquin.: SMT
771 Suppl, 70| soul's powers co-operate in merit more even than the ~body,
772 Suppl, 70| since it co-operated in merit. Much more, therefore, is
773 Suppl, 70| The body co-operates in merit, as an essential part of
774 Suppl, 70| elicited in the body the merit of that ~affection.~Aquin.:
775 Suppl, 71| ways: first, by ~way of merit; secondly, by way of prayer:
776 Suppl, 71| the difference being that merit ~relies on justice, and
777 Suppl, 71| acquiring a state by way of merit, so that, to wit, a man
778 Suppl, 71| to wit, a man be able to ~merit eternal life by the works
779 Suppl, 71| prayer but even by way of merit: and this ~happens in two
780 Suppl, 71| less, therefore, can he merit for another.~Aquin.: SMT
781 Suppl, 71| another be ~not in a state of merit, his act may be meritorious
782 Suppl, 71| pleading for them by the merit of their prayers before ~
783 Suppl, 71| especially as regards the ~merit of the essential reward
784 Suppl, 71| 1/1~OBJ 2: Further, the merit of the whole Church is more
785 Suppl, 71| one person. Now personal merit serves as a suffrage for
786 Suppl, 71| more therefore ~does the merit of the Church whereon indulgences
787 Suppl, 71| 1/1~Reply OBJ 2: Such a merit is conditional, for in this
788 Suppl, 71| that they did not directly merit the assistance of those
789 Suppl, 71| does not follow that their merit is rendered ~unavailing.~
790 Suppl, 71| and simply an object of merit, but ~conditionally as it
791 Suppl, 72| saints are not in a state to merit for ~themselves, when once
792 Suppl, 72| they are in a state to merit ~for others, or rather to
793 Suppl, 72| reason of their previous merit: ~for while living they
794 Suppl, 72| impetratory ~on another. For merit consists in a certain equation
795 Suppl, 74| conformed ~to Him by grace and merit.~Aquin.: SMT XP Q[77] A[
796 Suppl, 76| different works, whether of merit or of demerit. Therefore
797 Suppl, 77| OBJ 3: The acts whereby we merit are not the acts, properly ~
798 Suppl, 79| should be proportionate to merit. Now some of ~the saints
799 Suppl, 79| the saints were greater in merit than others. Therefore,
800 Suppl, 82| by reason of its greater merit, so too will the body differ
801 Suppl, 82| is not thus but rather by merit of ~virtue that the glorified
802 Suppl, 82| glorified body results from the merit of ~the will and therefore
803 Suppl, 83| co-operates with the soul in merit, so does it ~co-operate
804 Suppl, 86| riches will have greater merit than many of ~the voluntarily
805 Suppl, 86| Secondly, by reason of merit, since ~exaltation corresponds
806 Suppl, 86| exaltation corresponds by way of merit to humility. Now of all
807 Suppl, 86| does ~not suffice alone to merit judicial power, but is the
808 Suppl, 86| even those who have higher merit ~in respect of the essential
809 Suppl, 86| however, this difference: that merit exalts, whereas sin debases. ~
810 Suppl, 86| the excellence of their merit will be so far exalted as
811 Suppl, 86| reward corresponding to his merit. But there is no ~discussion
812 Suppl, 86| notable admixture of evil merit, are not ~subjected to a
813 Suppl, 86| is in itself directed to merit, and consequently they will ~
814 Suppl, 86| have prompted to deeds of merit, while the wicked will have
815 Suppl, 88| reward. Now where there is no merit, there can be no reward.
816 Suppl, 88| very reason man did not merit that they ~should be renewed,
817 Suppl, 88| renewed, since no one can merit for another, or even for ~
818 Suppl, 90| reward which is the end of merit.~Aquin.: SMT XP Q[93] A[
819 Suppl, 90| remote principle is the merit by which they ~have obtained
820 Suppl, 90| Hence the diversity of merit ~is all traced to the diversity
821 Suppl, 90| distinguish the mansions by way of merit. ~Aquin.: SMT XP Q[93] A[
822 Suppl, 90| the formal complement of merit in relation ~to glory, and
823 Suppl, 90| virtue whatever is ~not a merit to which a reward is due,
824 Suppl, 90| principle ~and reason of merit in the act: and consequently
825 Suppl, 90| observing a certain degree of merit in the act considered generically, ~
826 Suppl, 91| afflictions, as helping us to merit life: "My brethren, count
827 Suppl, 93| Further, reward corresponds to merit. Now charity is the root
828 Suppl, 93| charity is the root of ~all merit. Since then the "aurea"
829 Suppl, 93| reward is due to higher merit. If, then, the ~"aurea"
830 Suppl, 93| both with reference to merit which is ~gained by a kind
831 Suppl, 93| this has the ~character of merit on two counts, whence also
832 Suppl, 93| excellent not in intensity of merit but in the manner ~of meriting;
833 Suppl, 93| it corresponds to higher merit as regards the way of ~meriting.
834 Suppl, 93| since reward ~corresponds to merit, a more excellent reward
835 Suppl, 93| we gather the ~notion of merit in works from the very genus
836 Suppl, 93| always if we gauge the merit from its root, charity:
837 Suppl, 93| is the first principle of merit: but our actions ~are the
838 Suppl, 93| so to speak, whereby we merit. Now in order to ~obtain
839 Suppl, 93| not in some way. But men merit ~beatitude by different
840 Suppl, 93| Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 5: The merit arising from charity is
841 Suppl, 93| reward corresponding ~to merit by reason of charity, however
842 Suppl, 93| are not due to the same merit. Now the aureole and ~the
843 Suppl, 93| fruit correspond to the same merit, according to a gloss ~on
844 Suppl, 93| correspond ~to the same merit according to the various
845 Suppl, 93| of necessity, ~since all merit depends on the will. But
846 Suppl, 93| that those virgins alone merit the aureole who by vow ~
847 Suppl, 93| may be said otherwise that merit is due to every virtuous
848 Suppl, 93| signification of a reward due ~to merit - although this purpose
849 Suppl, 93| this will ~count to her for merit, and will be a kind of martyrdom:
850 Suppl, 93| whence ~virginity derives its merit, is not inborn, but comes
851 Suppl, 93| must be called virgins and merit the aureole: for they ~make
852 Suppl, 93| they could, they do not merit the aureole. Hence Augustine
853 Suppl, 93| is accorded to surpassing merit.~Aquin.: SMT XP Q[96] A[
854 Suppl, 93| external martyrdom, since merit proceeds from will. Yet
855 Suppl, 93| 1/1~OBJ 12: Further, all merit proceeds from the free will.
856 Suppl, 93| Therefore they did not merit an aureole: and consequently
857 Suppl, 93| follow that he does not merit an aureole. For an aureole
858 Suppl, 93| suffered voluntarily: since we ~merit only through that which
859 Suppl, 93| adds to the ~character of merit or demerit, for as much
860 Suppl, 93| not reach ~the degree of merit due to actual martyrdom
861 Suppl, 93| we ~consider the root of merit since the will of one man
862 Suppl, 93| a martyr may by his will merit ~an essential reward equal
863 Suppl, 93| dying, he is believed to merit the aureole: although some
864 Suppl, 93| some say that he ~does not merit the aureole if he happen
865 Suppl, 93| in prison, he would still merit the aureole. Hence the ~
866 Suppl, 93| reason ~become a martyr, nor merit the aureole. Nor is it possible
867 Suppl, 93| love does ~not help one to merit an aureole: nor again can
868 Suppl, 93| it to Christ, he will not merit the aureole; but if he ~
869 Suppl, 93| refer it to Christ he will merit the aureole and he will
870 Suppl, 93| a man's study, since we merit not by our natural and acquired ~
871 Suppl, 93| perfection of ~surpassing merit. Now those things which
872 Suppl, 93| things which make for perfect merit in man ~are connatural to
873 Suppl, 93| state: wherefore they do not merit an aureole thereby.~Aquin.:
874 Suppl, 93| soul and in body is due to ~merit gained through the body.
875 Suppl, 93| OTC Para. 2/2~Further, all merit is from the soul. Therefore
876 Suppl, 93| reward given ~for excellent merit.~Aquin.: SMT XP Q[96] A[
877 Suppl, 93| 1/2~I answer that, Since merit is somewhat the cause of
878 Suppl, 93| remission ~of its cause. Now the merit of the aureole may be greater
879 Suppl, 93| observe, however, that the merit of an aureole may be ~intensified
880 Suppl, 93| corresponds to the intension of merit derived from its root; while ~
881 Suppl, 93| corresponds to intension of merit derived from ~the kind of
882 Suppl, 95| day ~there will be neither merit nor demerit. The reason
883 Suppl, 95| reason for this is because ~merit or demerit is directed to
884 Suppl, 95| the blessed will not be a merit but a ~reward, and evil
885 Suppl, 95| judgment day, both the good ~merit and the damned demerit.
886 Suppl, 95| opinion ~expressed here as to merit or demerit.].~Aquin.: SMT
887 Suppl, 95| opinion expressed ~here as to merit or demerit].~Aquin.: SMT
888 Suppl, 95| the glory which the saints merit ~to have.~Aquin.: SMT XP
889 Suppl, 96| Further, as reward is to merit, so is punishment to guilt.
890 Suppl, 96| reward is due to temporal merit: ~"Every one who seeth the
891 Suppl, 96| being is presupposed ~to merit and demerit, nor is being
892 Appen1, 1| children are in relation to the merit of ~Christ, so are unbaptized
893 Appen1, 1| life by virtue of Christ's merit. ~Therefore the unbaptized
894 Appen1, 1| himself for grace whereby to merit eternal life [*Cf. FS, Q[
895 Appen1, 2| then there will be ~neither merit nor demerit since, according
896 Appen1, 2| this life there can be no merit in respect of the ~essential
897 Appen2, 1| the labor of working ~for merit, and not of the labor of
898 Appen2, 1| the damned being lower in merit, are to ~be consigned to
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