Part, Question

501   2, 159 |           admonishes us to seek the better things, according to 1 Cor. ~
502   2, 159 |             31, "Be zealous for the better gifts." Therefore it belongs
503   2, 159 |             let each ~esteem others better than themselves."~Aquin.:
504   2, 159 |           Phil. 2:3, "Esteem others better than ~themselves," says: "
505   2, 159 |             to us and whereby he is better than we are, although our ~
506   2, 159 |           whereby we are apparently better than he, be not hidden."~
507   2, 159 |              are in some hidden way better than you, although outwardly
508   2, 159 |          although outwardly you are better ~than they." Again, without
509   2, 161 |            the head, he should live better, and give an ~example of
510   2, 161 |             Now he who ~ought to do better, sins more grievously, if
511   2, 162 |           the former opinion is the better.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[164] A[
512   2, 165 |          order to be ~encouraged to better deeds by the deeds of our
513   2, 170 |             FP, ~Q[84], A[6], it is better to have recourse to another
514   2, 172 |       propounds, is shown to have a better understanding than ~one
515   2, 172 |           latter from ~being simply better than the former: thus the
516   2, 173 |       aerial and starry heavens, or better still, in relation ~to the
517   2, 174 |          the gift of ~tongues spoke better in their own language; since
518   2, 174 |           prophecy. For, seemingly, better things are proper to better ~
519   2, 174 |         better things are proper to better ~persons, according to the
520   2, 178 |     Philosopher ~(Ethic. x, 7), "is better than the life which is according
521   2, 179 |           choose for themselves the better part," namely the ~contemplative
522   2, 180 |          For "that which belongs to better men would seem to be ~worthier
523   2, 180 |            seem to be ~worthier and better," as the Philosopher says (
524   2, 180 |            31): "Be zealous for the better gifts." Now some are taken
525   2, 180 |          badly but - She has chosen better. Why better? Listen - because
526   2, 180 |          She has chosen better. Why better? Listen - because it ~shall
527   2, 180 |              Topic. iii, 2): "It is better to be wise than to be ~rich,
528   2, 180 |           one who is in need, it is better to be rich . . ."~Aquin.:
529   2, 180 |       things which precede and are ~better than others, wherefore it
530   2, 181 |         earthly commonwealth is the better preserved by a ~distinction
531   2, 182 |             be chosen for something better," namely the clerical state, "
532   2, 182 |        through being desirous of a ~better life must be allowed by
533   2, 182 |       clearly promoted to something better, as stated: ~this is indicated
534   2, 183 |       definitively?~(3) Whether the better man should be chosen for
535   2, 183 |            being unwilling to forgo better ~things in order to adhere
536   2, 183 |         active, and the love of God better than ~the love of our neighbor,
537   2, 183 |          the episcopate ought to be better than ~others?~Aquin.: SMT
538   2, 183 |             episcopate ought ~to be better than others. For our Lord,
539   2, 183 |           others. Now a ~man is the better through loving God the more.
540   2, 183 |      episcopal office except he be ~better than others.~Aquin.: SMT
541   2, 183 |          knowledge and holiness is ~better. Therefore a man ought not
542   2, 183 |            episcopate ~unless he be better than others.~Aquin.: SMT
543   2, 183 |              Therefore he should be better than others.~Aquin.: SMT
544   2, 183 |            necessary to choose the ~better man."~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[185]
545   2, 183 |       despite of a poor man who is ~better instructed and holier?"~
546   2, 183 |             that he esteem ~himself better than others, for this would
547   2, 183 |         with Christ, a thing by far better. But to ~abide still in
548   2, 184 |             which is described as ~"better and lighter," rather than
549   2, 184 |             be no contempt of doing better things, ~which contempt
550   2, 184 |            about certain particular better actions, ~which can be omitted
551   2, 184 |             not mean that ~"it were better not to give: but he feared
552   2, 184 |           you declare that those do better who retain the ~use of their
553   2, 184 |             them to the poor: it is better to give them away once ~
554   2, 184 |            chastity of ~celibacy is better than the chastity of marriage,
555   2, 184 |            attain to that which is ~better.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[186] A[
556   2, 184 |         obligation ~that compels to better things."~Aquin.: SMT SS
557   2, 184 |         connected with the end, the better it is.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[
558   2, 184 |           even as I scarcely ~found better men than those who made
559   2, 185 |           affairs, so as to be ~the better able to attend to the amendment
560   2, 185 |            he who works abroad any ~better than he who devotes himself
561   2, 185 |             for one's livelihood is better ~than to give to the poor
562   2, 186 |     directed to the greater good is better. ~Therefore it would seem
563   2, 186 |    contemplation. For even as it is better to ~enlighten than merely
564   2, 186 |           merely to shine, so is it better to give to others the ~fruits
565   2, 186 |            of the active life it is better to ransom ~captives than
566   2, 186 |       contemplative ~life prayer is better than study. Again one will
567   2, 186 |         sake of the end, a thing is better, not for being a greater
568   2, 186 |           simply, since to excel in better things is to be better ~
569   2, 186 |           in better things is to be better ~simply.~Aquin.: SMT SS
570   2, 186 |       written (Eccles. 4:9): "It is better . . . that two should be ~
571   2, 186 |          them." But ~nothing can be better than the fellowship of Christ.
572   2, 186 |            Therefore it would ~seem better to live in community than
573   2, 186 |         obedience and ~humility are better observed in company than
574   2, 186 |          Solomon shows that two are better than one, on account of ~
575   2, 187 |            counsels conduces to the better observance of the precepts.
576   2, 187 |            us only to that which is better. Therefore it is better ~
577   2, 187 |             better. Therefore it is better ~to bind oneself by vow
578   2, 187 |        necessity that compels us to better things."~Aquin.: SMT SS
579   2, 187 |      strengthening of the will ~for better things, and consequently,
580   2, 187 |       remain in religion. For it is better not to enter ~religion than
581   2, 187 |             Pt. 2:21, "It had ~been better for them not to have known
582   2, 187 |              1/1~Reply OBJ 1: It is better to enter religion with the
583   2, 187 |          order if the observance is better. Hence in the Conferences
584   3, 1   |            when the end is attained better ~and more conveniently,
585   3, 4   |             race; yet God judged it better to assume ~human nature
586   3, 5   |            did not despise what was better and more capable of ~prudence;
587   3, 5   |        hence it is necessary that a better ~disposed body should correspond
588   3, 7   |         make something greater and ~better than the habitual grace
589   3, 9   |             is thereby enabled the ~better to understand the probable
590   3, 11  |             knowledge is not simply better or more excellent than the
591   3, 12  |               Hence, ~just as it is better to be taught by God than
592   3, 12  |           God than by man, so it is better to ~receive our knowledge
593   3, 15  |          house of God, who seeks to better whatever He sees to ~be
594   3, 19  |            in Christ. Now in ~order better to understand their erroneous
595   3, 19  |             of himself. Hence it is better to have a thing by merit
596   3, 20  |            not added; and yet it is better to add this ~qualification
597   3, 22  |             4: "Being made so ~much better than the angels, as He hath
598   3, 24  |           Para. 2/3~It is therefore better to say that the antecedence
599   3, 27  |              4/4~Therefore it seems better to say that by the sanctification
600   3, 29  |       willing to take her away" are better ~rendered as meaning, "not
601   3, 30  |             Brev. O.P.]. But it was better that her mind should be
602   3, 36  |             something which we know better, so knowledge given by signs
603   3, 39  |           baptism, "yet is it still better," as he ~says, "to be slightly
604   3, 40  |        converted from a sinful to a better ~life: and consequently
605   3, 41  |        envies those ~who strive for better things."~Aquin.: SMT TP
606   3, 41  |         envies those who strive for better things," as Ambrose says (
607   3, 42  |            to grasp: and yet it was better for them to be ~instructed
608   3, 43  |             by miracles. Yet it is ~better for them to be converted
609   3, 44  |         whole world changed for the better by the virtue of His Passion.~
610   3, 45  |           chosen. For everyone is a better witness of things that he ~
611   3, 46  |         things made by miracles are better than others, as Chrysostom
612   3, 46  |    proportion as he knows it to be ~better; and yet he exposes it for
613   3, 47  |           Kgs. 15:22: "Obedience is better than ~sacrifices." Therefore
614   3, 47  |            as they did to ~Stephen. Better still is it to say that
615   3, 52  |     Augustine, however, furnishes a better exposition of the text in
616   3, 57  |            on account of something ~better. But it was no better thing
617   3, 57  |    something ~better. But it was no better thing for Christ to be in
618   3, 59  |         conversely, or from good to better, or from evil to worse.
619   3, 62  |            4~And therefore it seems better to say that Circumcision
620   3, 64  |      sacramental effect is made no ~better by a better minister. And
621   3, 64  |             is made no ~better by a better minister. And yet something
622   3, 64  |           Consequently, others with better reason hold that the minister
623   3, 67  |            instructed by his father better than by a ~stranger: for,
624   3, 67  |             1~OBJ 3: Further, it is better for several to instruct
625   3, 67  |           godchildren, it ~would be better to have several godparents
626   3, 68  |            them we do ~not look for better instruction or fuller conversion.
627   3, 68  |            be baptized, it would be better for the mother ~to be opened,
628   3, 68  |             danger ~otherwise it is better to wait until the time when
629   3, 69  |            s will to that ~which is better, works in Baptism. But the
630   3, 70  |          the Jews. Wherefore it is ~better to say with Hugh of St.
631   3, 77  |         return of ~matter, it seems better to say that in the actual
632   3, 78  |         body of Christ, and this is better ~expressed by the word "
633   3, 80  |           it seems that sinners are better off than ~good people, which
634   3, 80  |     sacrament, so that they are not better off on that account; and ~
635   3, 81  |         because he became none the ~better for approaching, neither
636   3, 82  |           Christ. But Baptism is no better when conferred by a better ~
637   3, 82  |          better when conferred by a better ~priest, as was said above (
638   3, 82  |    Therefore neither is a ~mass the better, which is celebrated by
639   3, 82  |            which is celebrated by a better priest.~Aquin.: SMT TP Q[
640   3, 82  |            point of being ~good and better, so they likewise differ
641   3, 82  |      Consequently, if the mass of a better priest be itself better,
642   3, 82  |             better priest be itself better, it ~follows that the mass
643   3, 82  |            neither is the mass of a better priest the better.~Aquin.:
644   3, 82  |         mass of a better priest the better.~Aquin.: SMT TP Q[82] A[
645   3, 82  |           but that the ~mass of the better priest is the more fruitful.
646   3, 83  |             less, is blessed by the better." But Christ, ~Who is in
647   3, 86  |            progress so as to be any better, ~but if he continue in
648   3, 89  |         cannot say that it would be better for the schismatic that
649   3, 90  |           change one's life for the better, which is the end, so ~to
650 Suppl, 3 |     learning a science, ~learns the better, and, in like manner, he
651 Suppl, 4 |            of this displeasure, the better it ~is, provided he exercises
652 Suppl, 6 |          though he does not await a better ~opportunity. unless it
653 Suppl, 13|            due, since sometimes the better man owes a greater ~debt
654 Suppl, 14|          according ~as he finds him better disposed.~Aquin.: SMT XP
655 Suppl, 15|            may also be replied, and better, that every prayer has the
656 Suppl, 17|             takes its name from the better of ~the two.~Aquin.: SMT
657 Suppl, 19|             by the greater [Vulg.: 'better']." Now "in ~spiritual matters,"
658 Suppl, 19|            De Trin. vi, 8), "to be ~better is to be greater." Therefore
659 Suppl, 19|             Therefore those who are better, i.e. who have ~more charity,
660 Suppl, 20|         spiritual matters should be better regulated than ~in temporal
661 Suppl, 20|       judgment of Penance should be better regulated than ~the judgment
662 Suppl, 25|        Reply OBJ 4: Grace affords a better remedy for the avoidance
663 Suppl, 34|              Let each esteem others better than themselves." Therefore
664 Suppl, 36|              Church if the laity be better than the clergy." Therefore
665 Suppl, 36|           as there are now, it were better to have few good ~ministers
666 Suppl, 37|        which one alone governs is a better government of the ~common
667 Suppl, 37|        secondary act, because it is better known and more proper to ~
668 Suppl, 39|    sometimes a woman is found to be better than ~many men as regards
669 Suppl, 40|             by the greater [Vulg.: 'better']"; hence a priest does
670 Suppl, 41|          the good of the species is better than the good of the ~individual, "
671 Suppl, 41|             virgin in marriage doth better [*Vulg.: 'He that giveth
672 Suppl, 41|            that giveth her not doth better']," namely ~than he that
673 Suppl, 42|           says (1 Cor. 7:9): "It is better to marry than to burn."
674 Suppl, 42|        saying (1 Cor. 7:9): ~"It is better to marry than to burn."
675 Suppl, 43|            at six months. but it is better to determine it according ~
676 Suppl, 46|       marriage. Now there can be no better interpretation of consent
677 Suppl, 49|          the good of the species is better and more exalted than ~the
678 Suppl, 49|            the shape of an equal or better good. Wherefore ~for a thing
679 Suppl, 49|           act ~which is generically better be sometimes interrupted
680 Suppl, 54|         similar to one ~another are better and more firmly united together.
681 Suppl, 61|       meanwhile seek the fruit of a better life. But ~by marital intercourse
682 Suppl, 64|             them be diseased, it is better to be thus than not at all.~
683 Suppl, 64|             we ought to presume the better things of everyone. Now ~
684 Suppl, 64|            for married people it is better to be continent than to
685 Suppl, 65|            places the right hand is better than the left according
686 Suppl, 66|         first reason however is the better.~Aquin.: SMT XP Q[66] A[
687 Suppl, 69|             40, "God providing some better thing for ~us - that the
688 Suppl, 70|           if we have ~to stop it is better to do so at the first step.~
689 Suppl, 71|             best he can. Now ~it is better to assist two than one.
690 Suppl, 71|             be ~enabled to carry it better, and yet his load would
691 Suppl, 71|              But a living person is better off in that ~he can be taken
692 Suppl, 71|         from being in some respects better ~off than the poor, for
693 Suppl, 71|            the poor are shown to be better off by the authority quoted.~
694 Suppl, 71|            2~On the contrary, It is better to assist many than one.
695 Suppl, 72|          shall also be changed to a better state, so that it is ~rendered
696 Suppl, 72|            restore two of them to a better ~fashion." Therefore it
697 Suppl, 74|          God has provided something better for us, lest they ~should
698 Suppl, 81|              A[1]). Wherefore it is better to ascribe it to the ~soul,
699 Suppl, 82|       remarked (Q[84], A[1]), it is better to say that this clarity
700 Suppl, 82|           the first ~explanation is better, because it safeguards better
701 Suppl, 82|       better, because it safeguards better the dignity of the ~glorified
702 Suppl, 88|            must needs also be made ~better.~Aquin.: SMT XP Q[91] A[
703 Suppl, 88|             will be renewed for the better. But the heaven ~is the
704 Suppl, 88|            will be ~altered for the better. But this cannot be unless
705 Suppl, 88|            will be changed for the ~better. Therefore animals and plants
706 Suppl, 89|             the intellect is still ~better a principle of knowledge.
707 Suppl, 89|           which it sees in the Word better than others. Hence it is
708 Suppl, 93|      efficient this ~power, and the better prepared the soil, the more
709 Suppl, 93|          give to them . . . a name ~better than sons and daughters":
710 Suppl, 94|            material, but that it is better to ~say that both are to
711 Suppl, 95|            v, 1). In this way it is better for the ~damned not to be
712 Suppl, 95|         said (Mt. 26:24): "It ~were better for him, if that man had
713 Suppl, 95|            Jerome observes: ~"It is better not to be than to be evilly."
714 Suppl, 96|      thought himself. Another and a better answer is that from the
715 Suppl, 96|             of mercy into something better. Hence the Psalm continues ~(
716 Suppl, 96|             Pt. 2:21): "It had been better for them not to ~have known
717 Suppl, 96|            2 Pt. 2:21, "it had been better for them not to have known ~
718 Appen1, 2|          Even so a person who has a better temperament is punished