Part, Question
1 1, 1 | natural bent of the will ~ministers to charity. Hence the Apostle
2 1, 22 | king, that he should have ~ministers; through whose mediation
3 1, 22 | a king's dignity to have ministers who ~execute his providence.
4 1, 70 | the body, though the body ~ministers, as it were, to their production.
5 1, 71 | the body, though the body ~ministers, as it were, to their production.
6 1, 90 | Although the angels are the ministers of God, as regards ~what
7 1, 90 | the angels could act as ministers in the ~formation of the
8 1, 102 | requires to govern by ~means of ministers. Therefore God governs all
9 1, 102 | earthly king should have ministers to execute his ~laws is
10 1, 102 | because by the ordering of ministers the kingly power is brought
11 1, 108 | The holy angels are the ministers of the Divine wisdom. ~Hence
12 1, 110 | His angels spirits and His ministers a flame ~of fire" (Heb.
13 1, 110 | Those who act as God's ministers, either men or angels, are ~
14 1, 111 | assistants are superior to the ministers ~there will be more assistants
15 1, 111 | be more assistants than ministers. In this way, the words ~"
16 1, 111 | are as many assistants as ministers: but since it is written ~"
17 1, 111 | much more numerous than the ministers. Nor is this ~said to signify
18 1, 113 | power, by ~deputing certain ministers to assail man, as the angels
19 2, 98 | ye His Angels . . . you ministers of His." But the ~Old Law
20 2, 98 | should be given to men by the ministers of God, i.e. by the ~angels.
21 2, 101 | certain preparation of the ministers, with the view ~of fitting
22 2, 101 | of the ~people or of the ministers; and to this the "sacraments"
23 2, 102 | the ~direction of God's ministers, and through the cooperation
24 2, 102 | special vessels, and special ministers to be appointed for the
25 2, 102 | and for the upkeep of the ~ministers who served the tabernacle.
26 2, 102 | and Levites, who were the ~ministers of divine worship. Consequently,
27 2, 102 | others belonged to the ministers.~Aquin.: SMT FS Q[102] A[
28 2, 102 | divine worship, so were the ministers by some special purification
29 2, 102 | done in the institution of ministers: for first, they were ~purified;
30 2, 102 | be observed in the very ministers. ~Wherefore, in order to
31 2, 102 | obviate contempt for the ministers, it was ~prescribed that
32 2, 102 | denote the virtues of God's ministers. Now there are four ~things
33 2, 102 | are necessary to all His ministers, viz. chastity denoted by ~
34 2, 107 | exhibit ourselves as the ministers of ~God, in much patience,
35 2, 108 | observances ~pertaining to God's ministers, so also were there certain
36 2, 108 | have been prescribed to the ministers ~of God; as may be gathered
37 2, 108 | Eucharist, Orders of the ministers ~of the New Law, by the
38 2, 61 | account of us as of the ministers of Christ, ~and the dispensers
39 2, 62 | clerics, who are God's ministers and have spiritual power,
40 2, 62 | clerics to strike or kill: for ministers should ~imitate their master,
41 2, 62 | himself, so also are his ministers." The other reason is ~because
42 2, 62 | that they may be fitting ~ministers of the New Testament.~Aquin.:
43 2, 62 | Old ~Testament were the ministers of the Old Law, which appointed
44 2, 68 | 3: It is unbecoming for ministers of the altar to slay a man ~
45 2, 81 | is offered to God by the ministers of the Church ~representing
46 2, 81 | reasonably ordained that the ministers of the Church should say
47 2, 83 | immediately ~to God, but to the ministers of Divine worship.~Aquin.:
48 2, 84 | God or to the use of ~His ministers, it will be an oblation
49 2, 84 | Church, for instance if her ~ministers were without means of support.
50 2, 84 | secondly, through being ministers of the altar, ~and then
51 2, 84 | the needs of ~the Church's ministers.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[86] A[
52 2, 85 | and so would also be the ministers of the Church ~for dissembling.
53 2, 85 | for the sustenance of the ~ministers of God. Hence it is written (
54 2, 85 | proportion to be offered to the ministers of divine worship does ~
55 2, 85 | should give less to the ministers of the New ~Testament than
56 2, 85 | people of the Old Law to the ministers of the Old ~Testament; for
57 2, 85 | heaven," ~and, moreover, the ministers of the New Testament are
58 2, 85 | greater dignity ~than the ministers of the Old Testament, as
59 2, 85 | directed to be ~given to the ministers of the divine worship: but
60 2, 85 | not ~by paying them to ministers, but for the purpose of
61 2, 85 | tithes that are given to the ministers of the Church should be
62 2, 85 | Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 5: The ministers of the Church ought to be
63 2, 85 | them. ~In like manner the ministers of the Church rightly refrain
64 2, 85 | which are offered to the ministers. Therefore neither ~should
65 2, 85 | to the support of God's ministers if they did not pay ~tithes
66 2, 85 | trade profits. Moreover the ministers of the New Law are ~more
67 2, 85 | country and the ~needs of the ministers: hence Augustine, whose
68 2, 85 | but for the sake of the ministers, to whose dignity it is ~
69 2, 85 | debt in virtue of which the ministers of the altar have a right ~
70 2, 85 | receiving being reserved to ~the ministers of the Church. The motive
71 2, 85 | due to the clergy as being ministers of the altar and sowers
72 2, 89 | ordain that in this See the ministers of the sacred altar must
73 2, 91 | worship which is offered by ministers impersonating the whole ~
74 2, 93 | time of persecution, ~the ministers of God do not agree as to
75 2, 97 | called divines, as being the ministers of divine ~providence, according
76 2, 97 | according to Wis. 6:5, "Being ministers of His kingdom, you ~have
77 2, 97 | apparel of the Church and its ministers; and those things, whether ~
78 2, 97 | deputed to the upkeep of the ministers. ~And whoever sins against
79 2, 98 | account of us as of the ~ministers of Christ, and the dispensers
80 2, 98 | and the dispensers of the ministers of God."~Aquin.: SMT SS
81 2, 98 | are dispensed through the ~ministers of the Church, whom the
82 2, 98 | Church, or benefit of her ~ministers), he becomes worthy of an
83 2, 98 | Lord, Whose ~stewards and ministers are the prelates of churches,
84 2, 147 | others: to bishops and all ministers of the ~Church, who should
85 2, 167 | apparently sinful, since even the ministers of the altar ~use most precious
86 2, 167 | of dignity, or again the ~ministers of the altar, are attired
87 2, 172 | the New Testament, whose ministers take ~precedence even of
88 2, 181 | servants, and the order of his ministers . . . she had ~no longer
89 2, 182 | light-giving, that of the ministers is cleansing and discretive."
90 2, 183 | account of us as of the ministers of Christ, and the dispensers
91 2, 183 | worship and the ~needs of its ministers. Hence it is said (XII,
92 2, 183 | use of the poor, or the ministers, or ~for the ecclesiastical
93 2, 183 | given to the poor, or to the ministers for ~their use, or expended
94 2, 185 | prelates. Secondly, if they be ministers of the altar, according
95 2, 185 | faithful): "if they be ministers of the altar and dispensers
96 2, 186 | the active life, which ~ministers to our neighbor's needs,
97 3, 22 | that even the angels were ministers of His ~priesthood, according
98 3, 25 | and for God's sake, whose ministers the saints were.~Aquin.:
99 3, 26 | inasmuch as they are the ministers of the true Mediator ~by
100 3, 27 | Who) hath made us fit ministers of the New ~Testament."
101 3, 36 | by angels, who are the ~ministers of God. Wherefore also a
102 3, 38 | to the world, so do the ministers of the Church, ~after instructing
103 3, 60 | the priests, who were ~the ministers of those sacraments, according
104 3, 63 | character belongs to God's ministers: and a ~minister is a kind
105 3, 64 | Whether the angels can be ministers of the sacraments?~(8) Whether
106 3, 64 | But it belongs to ~the ministers of the Church "to cleanse,
107 3, 64 | of God, but also of the ministers ~of the Church.~Aquin.:
108 3, 64 | it is attributed to the ministers of ~the Church is not a
109 3, 64 | instruments, which are the ministers of the Church and the ~sacraments
110 3, 64 | Christ could communicate to ministers the power which He had in ~
111 3, 64 | could not communicate to ministers the power ~which He had
112 3, 64 | communicate His power to ministers, it seems that He could ~
113 3, 64 | communicate that power to ministers.~Aquin.: SMT TP Q[64] A[
114 3, 64 | communicate His power to ministers.~Aquin.: SMT TP Q[64] A[
115 3, 64 | communicate His power to ministers.~Aquin.: SMT TP Q[64] A[
116 3, 64 | He could ~communicate to ministers; namely, by giving them
117 3, 64 | refrained from ~communicating to ministers His power of excellence,
118 3, 64 | authority in comparison to other ministers. Whence on 1 Cor. 1:13: ~"
119 3, 64 | unwilling to communicate to ministers His ~power of excellence.
120 3, 64 | can be conferred by evil ministers?~Aquin.: SMT TP Q[64] A[
121 3, 64 | cannot be conferred by evil ~ministers. For the sacraments of the
122 3, 64 | stated above (A[1]), the ministers of the Church work ~instrumentally
123 3, 64 | silver or lead. Therefore the ministers ~of the Church can confer
124 3, 64 | Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 1: The ministers of the Church do not by
125 3, 64 | are enlikened not to the ~ministers but to Christ.~Aquin.: SMT
126 3, 64 | fitness. And in this way ~good ministers are required for a sacrament.~
127 3, 64 | do them." But if wicked ministers sin in administering ~sacraments,
128 3, 64 | that it is fitting for the ministers of sacraments ~to be righteous;
129 3, 64 | to be righteous; because ministers should be like unto their
130 3, 64 | himself, so also are his ~ministers." Consequently, there can
131 3, 64 | conversely. But angels are higher ministers in the ~hierarchical order
132 3, 64 | Therefore, since men can be ministers of sacraments, it seems ~
133 3, 64 | when in heaven, can be ministers of the ~sacraments; since
134 3, 64 | seems that angels too can be ministers of ~sacraments.~Aquin.:
135 3, 64 | Therefore ~they are not ordained ministers in the things that appertain
136 3, 64 | He bind His power to the ~ministers of the Church so as to be
137 3, 64 | nature, angels also do, as ~ministers of a higher degree, in a
138 3, 64 | not attend. But sometimes ministers of sacraments do not attend
139 3, 65 | actions. The agents are the ministers of the Church; ~and to these
140 3, 65 | for the sustenance of the ministers and ~the poor, but also
141 3, 66 | our Lord attributed to the ministers the ~act of baptizing, when
142 3, 67 | Out. Para. 1/1 - OF THE MINISTERS BY WHOM THE SACRAMENT OF
143 3, 67 | have now to consider the ministers by whom the sacrament of
144 3, 67 | are so called from being "ministers"; because, ~to wit, it is
145 3, 68 | Secondly, He works through ministers, by the ~outward application
146 3, 71 | belongs to the office of ~ministers to operate on the unclean,
147 3, 71 | but rather to that of the ministers.~Aquin.: SMT TP Q[71] A[
148 3, 71 | is read in the church by ministers: for just as the Old ~Testament
149 3, 71 | And thus it belongs to the ministers to ~catechize. In like manner
150 3, 71 | belongs, seemingly, to the ministers to ~exorcize. For Isidore
151 3, 71 | sacrament. And so the ~highest ministers who are called deacons co-operate
152 3, 71 | Chalice"; while the inferior ministers assist ~the priest in those
153 3, 71 | indeed, principally, but as ministers of the priest ~in these
154 3, 71 | belongs secondarily to the ~ministers, primarily to the priests.
155 3, 72 | bestowed ~this sacrament as ministers of the sacraments. And then,
156 3, 74 | Christ gave no power to the ministers of the Church ~regarding
157 3, 74 | The power of the Church's ministers is ordained for two ~purposes:
158 3, 80 | eaten in the ~morning, the ministers who have taken it shall
159 3, 82 | priests are the appointed ministers of the sacraments. ~But
160 3, 82 | Lord has good and ~wicked ministers or servants. Hence (Mt.
161 3, 82 | account of us as of the ministers of ~Christ"; and afterwards
162 3, 82 | because the malice of the ministers cannot affect Christ's ~
163 3, 82 | the sin of the unworthy ~ministers.~Aquin.: SMT TP Q[82] A[
164 3, 83 | the chalice, and of the ministers, and of other such ~things.
165 3, 83 | belong to ~the Church's ministers, just as the ordering of
166 3, 83 | man so esteem us as the ministers of Christ end the ~dispensers
167 3, 83 | belongs to the Church's ~ministers; but their consecration
168 3, 83 | Consequently, the ~Church's ministers can make no ordinances regarding
169 3, 83 | priest, and not some by the ministers, and ~some by the choir.~
170 3, 83 | which is read by the higher ~ministers, that is, by the Deacons.
171 3, 83 | words are ~uttered by the ministers, such as the doctrine of
172 3, 83 | to the peoples ~through ministers sent by God. And there are
173 3, 83 | as that the priests and ministers ~were purified with water
174 3, 83 | faithful by the work of His ministers, according to 2 Cor. 2:14: ~"
175 3, 83 | of which the ~priest and ministers or even the people communicate,
176 3, 84 | sacrament; (5) The power of the ministers, which pertains to the keys; ~(
177 3, 84 | are shown forth by the ~ministers of Christ, according to
178 3, 84 | account of us ~as of the ministers of Christ, and the dispensers
179 3, 84 | is not conferred by the ministers of Christ, but is ~inspired
180 3, 84 | as it were, united to the ministers in whom ~grace should be
181 3, 84 | part to be taken by the ministers, this was ~fixed by our
182 3, 84 | least in general, to God's ministers. Wherefore the Lord said ~(
183 3, 86 | which is vested in the ~ministers, who furnish the formal
184 Suppl, 5 | Eucharist belongs to the ministers ~of the Church: wherefore
185 Suppl, 5 | been forgiven through the ministers of the Church, although
186 Suppl, 6 | baptized, submits to the ministers of the Church, to whom the ~
187 Suppl, 6 | 1/1~I answer that, The ministers of the Church are appointed
188 Suppl, 6 | and the sacraments, the ministers of the Church have no power
189 Suppl, 10| latter a man submits to the ministers of the ~Church, who are
190 Suppl, 17| consider the power of the ministers of this sacrament, which ~
191 Suppl, 17| use of the keys; (3) the ministers of the ~keys; (4) those
192 Suppl, 17| keys in the ~hands of her ministers.~Aquin.: SMT XP Q[17] A[
193 Suppl, 17| that he ~dispenses. But the ministers of the Church are the dispensers
194 Suppl, 17| obstacle is bestowed on the ministers of ~the Church, who are
195 Suppl, 18| belongs to God, but that, as ~ministers, they may declare [*See
196 Suppl, 18| ascribed to the power of the ~ministers must be consistent with
197 Suppl, 18| those who act merely as ministers.~
198 Suppl, 19| Out. Para. 1/1 - OF THE MINISTERS OF THE KEYS (SIX ARTICLES)~
199 Suppl, 19| We must now consider the ministers and the use of the keys:
200 Suppl, 19| in a higher way than His ministers, ~wherefore He is said to
201 Suppl, 25| Further, the power of the ministers of the Church was given
202 Suppl, 25| Therefore the power of the ministers of the Church does not extend
203 Suppl, 28| church. He then ~orders the ministers to put them out of the church,
204 Suppl, 29| hierarchy, as regards the ~ministers, their actions, and the
205 Suppl, 29| Nor does the plurality of ministers ~destroy the unity of this
206 Suppl, 29| through the medium of the ministers who dispense the ~sacraments,
207 Suppl, 29| sacraments, and to the lower ministers through the medium of the
208 Suppl, 29| the medium of the higher ~ministers who sanctify the matter.
209 Suppl, 36| fulness of grace; so in the ministers of the Church, to ~whom
210 Suppl, 36| higher degree. But the ministers of the Church are placed
211 Suppl, 36| belongs to God alone), but as ministers, and as instruments, so
212 Suppl, 36| the Church needs not only ministers for the dispensation ~of
213 Suppl, 36| which is ~promoted by good ministers. For a man would be unfaithful
214 Suppl, 36| abandons His Church that apt ministers are not ~to be found sufficient
215 Suppl, 36| impossible to ~find as many ministers as there are now, it were
216 Suppl, 36| better to have few good ~ministers than many bad ones, as the
217 Suppl, 37| priests, ~but also their ministers, the Levites, were consecrated.
218 Suppl, 37| priests but also their ~ministers should be consecrated by
219 Suppl, 37| this does not exclude the ministers having a power which is ~
220 Suppl, 37| and cleansing to all ~the ministers. Wherefore others suit the
221 Suppl, 37| consecrated, so do the ministers who are ordained for the
222 Suppl, 37| The co-operation of the ministers is directed either to ~the
223 Suppl, 37| account of the fewness of ~ministers, all the lower ministries
224 Suppl, 37| where he says: "Some of the ministers ~stand at the closed door
225 Suppl, 37| latter belongs to the ~higher ministers. Therefore the reading of
226 Suppl, 37| remote and is effected by the ministers: another is ~proximate,
227 Suppl, 37| doctrine is entrusted to the ~ministers. But the doctrine of the
228 Suppl, 37| entrusted to the higher ministers, and that of the Old Testament
229 Suppl, 37| Testament to the ~lower ministers. Moreover the doctrine of
230 Suppl, 37| principal acts of the higher ministers, than the acts of the other
231 Suppl, 37| 1~OBJ 3: Further, as the ministers are consecrated, even so
232 Suppl, 37| consecrated, even so are the ~ministers' vestments. Now the blessing
233 Suppl, 37| dispensers, the former ~as ministers. But by the anointing they
234 Suppl, 38| Para. 1/3~On the contrary, Ministers are applied by their Orders
235 Suppl, 38| does the ~consecration of ministers.~Aquin.: SMT XP Q[38] A[
236 Suppl, 39| Christ slain, to whom all the ministers of the aforesaid sacrament
237 Suppl, 39| comparison fails between the ministers of ~the Old Testament and
238 Suppl, 39| blood is unbecoming to ~the ministers of that sacrament.~Aquin.:
239 Suppl, 40| Whether the vestments of the ministers are fittingly instituted
240 Suppl, 40| round" (Jer. 49:32). Now the ministers ~of Christ should not be
241 Suppl, 40| it would seem that the ministers of the ~Church should not
242 Suppl, 40| lay brothers, who ~are not ministers of the Church, receive a
243 Suppl, 40| is superabundant. But the ministers of the Church should cast ~
244 Suppl, 40| for a covering." ~But the ministers of the altar should have
245 Suppl, 40| things pertaining to ~the ministers of the New Testament were
246 Suppl, 40| 1/1~I answer that, The ministers of the Church are severed
247 Suppl, 40| performed by the whole ~body of ministers in common, for instance
248 Suppl, 40| Further, the justice of the ministers of the New Testament ought ~
249 Suppl, 40| abound more than that of the ministers of the Old Testament (Mt. ~
250 Suppl, 40| Testament (Mt. ~5:20). But the ministers of the Old Testament, namely
251 Suppl, 40| Therefore neither should the ministers of the New Testament.~Aquin.:
252 Suppl, 40| that He instituted other ~ministers and founded the Church.
253 Suppl, 40| Whether the vestments of the ministers are fittingly instituted
254 Suppl, 40| that the vestments of the ministers are not ~fittingly instituted
255 Suppl, 40| instituted in the Church. For the ministers of the New ~Testament are
256 Suppl, 40| to chastity than were the ministers of the Old ~Testament. Now
257 Suppl, 40| vestments of the Church's ministers.~Aquin.: SMT XP Q[40] A[
258 Suppl, 40| Order to the ~Orders of ministers. Now the bishop uses the
259 Suppl, 40| uses the vestments of the ministers, ~namely the dalmatic, which
260 Suppl, 40| Further, the things which the ministers of the Church wear ~outwardly
261 Suppl, 40| that, The vestments of the ministers denote the qualifications ~
262 Suppl, 40| so ~exacted of the lower ministers, therefore certain vestments
263 Suppl, 40| vestments are common to ~all the ministers, while some pertain to the
264 Suppl, 40| some pertain to the higher ministers only. ~Accordingly it is
265 Suppl, 40| it is becoming to all the ministers to wear the "amice" which ~
266 Suppl, 40| offering sacrifices. But the ministers of the New ~Testament are
267 Suppl, 40| OBJ 3: The power of the ministers resides in the bishop as
268 Suppl, 45| complete except by means of the ministers of the Church, who are the ~
269 Suppl, 47| account of us as of the ministers of Christ, and the ~dispensers
270 Suppl, 53| in those who are Christ's ministers, ~those namely who are ordained.
271 Suppl, 54| control of the Church's ~ministers than baptism which is a
272 Suppl, 59| dispensation of the ~Church's ministers, it is nevertheless competent
273 Suppl, 64| is speaking only of the ministers of the ~Church, and not
274 Suppl, 65| born to Christ both of good ministers denoted by the ~free woman
275 Suppl, 65| free woman and of evil ministers denoted by the bondswoman." ~
276 Suppl, 86| judgment the angels will act as ministers of the Judge and, according
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