Part, Question

 4501   1, 46  |                1~Whether it belongs to God alone to create?~Aquin.:
 4502   1, 46  |             that it does not belong to God alone to create, ~because,
 4503   1, 46  |            treating of the infinity of God (Q[7], AA[2],3,4). Therefore
 4504   1, 46  |            create can be the action of God alone. For ~the more universal
 4505   1, 46  |          universal ~cause, and that is God. Hence also it is said (
 4506   1, 46  |         creation is ~the proper act of God alone.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[
 4507   1, 46  |          separate substance created by God created another after itself,
 4508   1, 46  |             says (Sent. iv, D, 5) that God can communicate to a creature
 4509   1, 46  |              Now ~the proper effect of God creating is what is presupposed
 4510   1, 46  |               the nature of being; for God alone is His own ~being,
 4511   1, 46  |         therefore to create belongs to God ~according to His being,
 4512   1, 46  |             the knowledge ~and will of God, God is the cause of things
 4513   1, 46  |            knowledge ~and will of God, God is the cause of things by
 4514   1, 46  |                some object. Hence also God the Father made ~the creature
 4515   1, 46  |               Although every effect of God proceeds from each attribute, ~
 4516   1, 47  |              article of Faith?~(3) How God is said to have created
 4517   1, 47  |              Para. 1/1~OBJ 8: Further, God is before the world either
 4518   1, 47  |                only, therefore, ~since God is eternal, the world also
 4519   1, 47  |                also is eternal. But if God is prior by ~duration; since
 4520   1, 47  |            make the effect follow. But God is the sufficient cause ~
 4521   1, 47  |                 3,4). Since ~therefore God is eternal, the world is
 4522   1, 47  |             effect. But the ~action of God is His substance, which
 4523   1, 47  |            answer that, Nothing except God can be eternal. And this
 4524   1, 47  |                A[4]) ~that the will of God is the cause of things.
 4525   1, 47  |       according as it is necessary for God to will them, since the ~
 4526   1, 47  |               it is not necessary that God should will anything except
 4527   1, 47  |                therefore necessary for God to will that the world should
 4528   1, 47  |              world exists forasmuch as God wills it to exist, since
 4529   1, 47  |           world depends on the will of God, as on its cause. It is
 4530   1, 47  |       according to the active power of God; and also, according as
 4531   1, 47  |              not correct to say so ~of God Who produces form and matter
 4532   1, 47  |               8 Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 8: God is prior to the world by
 4533   1, 47  |                    Therefore, although God was from eternity the sufficient
 4534   1, 47  |            from the eternal action ~of God an eternal effect did not
 4535   1, 47  |          follow; but such an effect as God ~willed, an effect, to wit,
 4536   1, 47  |           proved demonstratively ~that God is the effective cause of
 4537   1, 47  |            that the world was made by ~God, it must therefore have
 4538   1, 47  |                kinds of craftsmen. But God acts by ~intellect: therefore
 4539   1, 47  |                nothing can be equal to God. But if ~the world had always
 4540   1, 47  |             been, it would be equal to God in duration. ~Therefore
 4541   1, 47  |             not" (Heb. 11:1). But that God is ~the Creator of the world:
 4542   1, 47  |              we say, "I believe in one God," etc. And again, Gregory
 4543   1, 47  |             saying, "In the ~beginning God created heaven and earth":
 4544   1, 47  |               by will. For the will of God cannot be investigated by ~
 4545   1, 47  |             regards those things which God must will of necessity; ~
 4546   1, 47  |              of the world was not from God, which is an ~intolerable
 4547   1, 47  |              eternal, although made by God. For ~they hold that the
 4548   1, 47  |             not follow necessarily ~if God is the active cause of the
 4549   1, 47  |             that the world was made by God from nothing, not that it
 4550   1, 47  |              it would not be ~equal to God in eternity, as Boethius
 4551   1, 47  |                1:1): "In the beginning God created ~heaven and earth."~
 4552   1, 47  |             Genesis, "In the beginning God created ~heaven and earth,"
 4553   1, 47  |              it may be understood that God made all things in the ~
 4554   1, 47  |       corporeal things were created by God through the medium ~of spiritual
 4555   1, 47  |              i.e. before all things - "God created heaven and earth." ~
 4556   1, 48  |        distinction of things come from God?~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[47] A[
 4557   1, 48  |             things does ~not come from God. For one naturally always
 4558   1, 48  |        naturally always makes one. But God is ~supremely one, as appears
 4559   1, 48  |      assimilated to its exemplar. But ~God is the exemplar cause of
 4560   1, 48  |                  A[3]). ~Therefore, as God is one, His effect is one
 4561   1, 48  |                Therefore the effect of God is but one.~Aquin.: SMT
 4562   1, 48  |               is said (Gn. 1:4,7) that God "divided the light from ~
 4563   1, 48  |            multitude of things is from God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[47] A[
 4564   1, 48  |           matter itself was created by God. Hence we must ~reduce whatever
 4565   1, 48  |                Avicenna, who said that God by understanding Himself,
 4566   1, 48  |              that to create belongs to God alone, and hence ~what can
 4567   1, 48  |                creation is produced by God alone - viz. all ~those
 4568   1, 48  |                the first agent, who is God. For He brought things into ~
 4569   1, 48  |                 For goodness, which in God ~is simple and uniform,
 4570   1, 48  |                distinct by the word of God, ~which is the concept of
 4571   1, 48  |                we read in Gn. ~1:3,4: "God said: Be light made . . .
 4572   1, 48  |               voluntary agent, such as God is, as was shown above (
 4573   1, 48  |          therefore, it is not against ~God's unity and simplicity to
 4574   1, 48  |             means to its end, which is God; and hence the ~multiplication
 4575   1, 48  |           inequality of things is from God?~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[47] A[
 4576   1, 48  |       inequality of things is not from God. For ~it belongs to the
 4577   1, 48  |               Therefore, it belongs to God, Who ~is the Best, to make
 4578   1, 48  |              Metaph. v, text 20). ~But God is one. Therefore, He has
 4579   1, 48  |                to unequal ~things. But God is just in all His works.
 4580   1, 48  |           things were created equal by God. ~For he asserted that God
 4581   1, 48  |             God. ~For he asserted that God first created only the rational
 4582   1, 48  |       free-will, some being ~turned to God more and some less, and
 4583   1, 48  |             and others less ~away from God. And so those rational creatures
 4584   1, 48  |         creatures which were turned to God by free-will, were promoted
 4585   1, 48  |              who were turned away from God were bound ~down to bodies
 4586   1, 48  |              effect of the goodness of God as communicated to ~creatures,
 4587   1, 48  |             contrary to what is said: "God saw all the things that
 4588   1, 48  |             said that as the wisdom of God is the cause of the ~distinction
 4589   1, 48  |               an eye. Thus, therefore, God also ~made the universe
 4590   1, 48  |                said of each creature, "God ~saw the light that it was
 4591   1, 48  |              all together it is said, "God saw all the things that ~
 4592   1, 48  |              is unfitting to say that ~God has created things without
 4593   1, 48  |                Q[25], A[2]). Therefore God has produced many worlds.~
 4594   1, 48  |                best and much more does God. But it ~is better for there
 4595   1, 48  |               worlds have been made by God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[47] A[
 4596   1, 48  |             order of things created by God shows the unity ~of the
 4597   1, 48  |              whatever things come from God, ~have relation of order
 4598   1, 48  |            order to each other, and to God Himself, as shown above ~(
 4599   1, 48  |                 text 52) the unity of ~God governing all; and Plato (
 4600   1, 49  |               is the greater good. But God makes always what is best,
 4601   1, 49  |            Therefore in things made by God there is no evil.~Aquin.:
 4602   1, 49  |               3 Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 3: God and nature and any other
 4603   1, 49  |                 and do sometimes fail, God not ~preventing this. This
 4604   1, 49  |          Augustine says (Enchir. 11), "God is so powerful ~that He
 4605   1, 49  |                would be ~taken away if God permitted no evil to exist;
 4606   1, 49  |             interposed between ~us and God, according to Is. 59:2: "
 4607   1, 49  |                divided between us and ~God." Yet the aforesaid aptitude
 4608   1, 49  |               forfeiting the vision of God; whereas the evil of fault
 4609   1, 49  |               taken from the fact that God is the author of ~the evil
 4610   1, 49  |              deprived of the vision of God, the creature ~forfeits
 4611   1, 50  |              Whether the supreme good, God, is the cause of evil?~(
 4612   1, 50  |              Whether the supreme good, God, is the cause of evil?~Aquin.:
 4613   1, 50  |            seem that the supreme good, God, is the cause of evil. ~
 4614   1, 50  |            Lord, and there is no other God, ~forming the light, and
 4615   1, 50  |               A[1]). ~Therefore, since God is the cause of every good,
 4616   1, 50  |                also every evil is from God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[49] A[
 4617   1, 50  |              the ship is the same. But God is the ~cause of the safety
 4618   1, 50  |                QQ. 83, qu. 21), that, "God is not the ~author of evil
 4619   1, 50  |           defect of the ~agent. But in God there is no defect, but
 4620   1, 50  |               agent, is not reduced to God ~as to its cause. ~Aquin.:
 4621   1, 50  |             some things is reduced ~to God as the cause. And this appears
 4622   1, 50  |          manifest that ~the form which God chiefly intends in things
 4623   1, 50  |              sometimes, fail. And thus God, by causing in ~things the
 4624   1, 50  |                 But when we read that "God hath not ~made death" (Wis.
 4625   1, 50  |               1:13), the sense is that God does not will death for ~
 4626   1, 50  |                out to ~sinners. And so God is the author of the evil
 4627   1, 50  |              bad action, is reduced to God as the cause; ~whereas whatever
 4628   1, 50  |              is in it is not caused by God, but by the ~deficient secondary
 4629   1, 50  |                the ship ~requires; but God does not fail in doing what
 4630   1, 51  |                 and not in relation to God, is ~not absolutely incorporeal.
 4631   1, 51  |           regards us; but ~compared to God it is corporeal and material.
 4632   1, 51  |              corporeal. Now angels are God's creatures, ~as appears
 4633   1, 51  |                principally intended by God in creatures is good, and
 4634   1, 51  |           consists in ~assimilation to God Himself. And the perfect
 4635   1, 51  |               as heat makes heat. Now, God ~produces the creature by
 4636   1, 51  |                substances rank between God and corporeal ~creatures.
 4637   1, 51  |               that angels, compared to God, are material and corporeal,
 4638   1, 51  |               act, for this belongs to God alone. Therefore an angel ~
 4639   1, 51  |            this way also it apprehends God ~(Q[3]).~Aquin.: SMT FP
 4640   1, 51  |                the runner runs. But in God "existence" and "what is"
 4641   1, 51  |              above (Q[3], A[4]). Hence God alone is pure ~act.~Aquin.:
 4642   1, 51  |           nature approaches nearest to God. Therefore since God ~is
 4643   1, 51  |                to God. Therefore since God ~is supremely one, it seems
 4644   1, 51  |         natural things, which manifest God's almighty ~power. It is,
 4645   1, 51  |        perfection of the universe that God ~chiefly intends in the
 4646   1, 51  |             excess are they created by God. Now, as in ~bodies such
 4647   1, 51  |          nature being the nighest unto God, it must ~needs have least
 4648   1, 51  |               the ~angels were made by God, it would appear that they
 4649   1, 51  |          nothing, unless preserved by ~God, it is not to be gathered
 4650   1, 51  |              angels is dependent ~upon God as its cause. For a thing
 4651   1, 51  |        corruptible not merely ~because God can reduce it to non-existence,
 4652   1, 52  |                 Peri Archon i): "It is God's attribute alone - that
 4653   1, 52  |              us assign incorporeity to God alone even as ~we do immortality,
 4654   1, 52  |               that some even held that God was the soul of the ~world,
 4655   1, 52  |              Faith, which asserts that God is exalted above all things, ~
 4656   1, 52  |        refusing to say such a thing of God, followed the above ~opinion
 4657   1, 52  |         speaking; ~hence it belongs to God, as is said (1 Kgs. 2:6): "
 4658   1, 52  |            indication that the Word of God would take a human body;
 4659   1, 52  |                 one whereby the Son of God appeared in the flesh.~Aquin.:
 4660   1, 52  |              previously adored them as God ~(Gn. 18). Therefore the
 4661   1, 52  |           related: "After the sons of ~God went in to the daughters
 4662   1, 52  |               which cannot be ~said of God. Accordingly, although God
 4663   1, 52  |             God. Accordingly, although God is not moved when the things
 4664   1, 52  |            nevertheless, he worshipped God, as God is wont to be in
 4665   1, 52  |    nevertheless, he worshipped God, as God is wont to be in the prophets,
 4666   1, 52  |               is folly to deny it. But God's ~holy angels could not
 4667   1, 52  |          deluge. Hence by ~the sons of God are to be understood the
 4668   1, 53  |                 infinite: consequently God through His power touches
 4669   1, 53  |               compared as one thing to God's universal power, so is
 4670   1, 53  |              body, to an angel, and to God. For a body is in a place ~
 4671   1, 53  |              he is not in another. But God is neither circumscriptively ~
 4672   1, 55  |        substance, ~for this belongs to God only, as is evident from
 4673   1, 55  |           opposed to potentiality. But God alone is ~pure act. Hence
 4674   1, 55  |                pure act. Hence only in God is His substance the same
 4675   1, 55  |         neither be distinguished from ~God's substance, which is His
 4676   1, 55  |              one in genus and species; God's being alone is ~simply
 4677   1, 55  |               Confess. xii) says, that God made the angelic ~nature "
 4678   1, 55  |             matter, as being closer to God. But primary matter is its ~
 4679   1, 55  |               potentiality is to ~act. God alone is such a form: and
 4680   1, 56  |               says (Div. Nom. iv) that God ~"enfolds the whole in the
 4681   1, 56  |            things in Itself. Therefore God alone knows all things by ~
 4682   1, 56  |              to their own formality in God's essence, as in ~the first
 4683   1, 56  |          common to anything. Therefore God has a proper knowledge of
 4684   1, 56  |             whereby they received from God the species of things known, ~
 4685   1, 56  |               from creatures, but from God, Who is the cause of ~creatures,
 4686   1, 56  |           fashioned, is in the Word of God before the ~creature which
 4687   1, 56  |               unto the first, which is God. ~Now in God the whole plenitude
 4688   1, 56  |           first, which is God. ~Now in God the whole plenitude of intellectual
 4689   1, 56  |               Divine essence, by which God knows all ~things. This
 4690   1, 56  |                know by many forms what God knows by one, and by ~so
 4691   1, 56  |              things are in the Word of God; or at least in the order
 4692   1, 57  |                 3) Does the angel know God by his own natural principles?~
 4693   1, 57  |               it would follow that, if God were now ~to create another
 4694   1, 57  |                eternity in the Word of God, came forth from Him in
 4695   1, 57  |              mind in such a way, ~that God impressed upon the angelic
 4696   1, 57  |              being. Now in the Word of God from eternity there existed
 4697   1, 57  |               impressed by the Word of God; yet so that in every angel ~
 4698   1, 57  |               4 Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 4: God made every creature proportionate
 4699   1, 57  |      determined to make. Therefore had God resolved to make more angels
 4700   1, 57  |                foundations. Hence, for God to add a ~new creature to
 4701   1, 57  |               1~Whether an angle knows God by his own natural principles?~
 4702   1, 57  |            that the angels cannot know God by their natural ~principles.
 4703   1, 57  |                says (Div. Nom. i) that God "by His ~incomprehensible
 4704   1, 57  |              Para. 1/1~OBJ 2: Further, God is infinitely above the
 4705   1, 57  |             that an ~angel cannot know God by his natural principles.~
 4706   1, 57  |              is a twofold knowledge of God; the one, whereby He is
 4707   1, 57  |              derive their knowledge of God from sensible things, as ~
 4708   1, 57  |       Therefore the angels cannot know God ~by their natural powers.~
 4709   1, 57  |            than men. Yet men ~can know God through their natural principles;
 4710   1, 57  |               1:19: ~"what is known of God is manifest in them." Therefore
 4711   1, 57  |             can have some knowledge of God by their own ~principles.
 4712   1, 57  |                class that knowledge of God is likened by which He is ~
 4713   1, 57  |              knowledge whereby we know God while we are ~on earth,
 4714   1, 57  |                The invisible things of God are clearly seen, being
 4715   1, 57  |                too, we are said to see God in a mirror. ~But the knowledge,
 4716   1, 57  |            principles the angel ~knows God, stands midway between these
 4717   1, 57  |         abstracted from it. ~For since God's image is impressed on
 4718   1, 57  |               essence, the angel knows God in as much as he is the
 4719   1, 57  |             much as he is the image of God. Yet he ~does not behold
 4720   1, 57  |                Yet he ~does not behold God's essence; because no created
 4721   1, 57  |           expressly state. In this way God is not known by any created ~
 4722   1, 57  |                infinitely ~remote from God, it follows that he cannot
 4723   1, 57  |        comprehend Him; nor can he see ~God's essence through his own
 4724   1, 57  |                Him at all: because, as God is ~infinitely remote from
 4725   1, 57  |                 so the knowledge which God has of ~Himself is infinitely
 4726   1, 57  |        knowledge which an angel has of God is midway between ~these
 4727   1, 58  |              simplicity. Therefore, in God, as in the highest source
 4728   1, 58  |              the angels are nearest to God, and resemble Him most;
 4729   1, 58  |             and less perfectly than in God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[57] A[
 4730   1, 58  |             own ~nature. Therefore, as God knows material things by
 4731   1, 58  |              us, should be unknown ~to God (De Anima i, text. 80; Metaph.
 4732   1, 58  |                 as things proceed from God in order that they may ~
 4733   1, 58  |                there comes forth ~from God not only whatever belongs
 4734   1, 58  |            which He causes all things, God is the ~likeness of all
 4735   1, 58  |                in this way there is in God a ~resemblance of all things,
 4736   1, 58  |                 in this way belongs to God alone; and not merely to
 4737   1, 58  |                 and chance events; for God sees all things in His eternity,
 4738   1, 58  |               all time. And therefore ~God's one glance is cast over
 4739   1, 58  |               before when dealing with God's knowledge (Q[14], A[13]).
 4740   1, 58  |          intellect, fall far short of ~God's eternity; hence the future
 4741   1, 58  |                in their causes, or by ~God's revelation. The angels
 4742   1, 58  |               Gen. ad lit. viii) that "God moves the spiritual creature ~
 4743   1, 58  |            contrary, What is proper to God does not belong to the angels. ~
 4744   1, 58  |           angels. ~But it is proper to God to read the secrets of hearts,
 4745   1, 58  |              are in the will: and thus God alone can know the ~thoughts
 4746   1, 58  |        rational creature is subject to God only, and He alone can ~
 4747   1, 58  |              on the will, are known to God ~alone. Now it is evident
 4748   1, 58  |             This mystery was hidden in God through the ages, yet so ~
 4749   1, 58  |          wisdom. But the angels behold God's wisdom, which is His ~
 4750   1, 58  |               Amos 3:7): "For the Lord God doth nothing without ~revealing
 4751   1, 58  |           depend upon the pure will of God: ~and if an angel cannot
 4752   1, 58  |            what depends ~entirely upon God's will. The Apostle reasons
 4753   1, 58  |                things also that are of God no man knoweth but the Spirit
 4754   1, 58  |             knoweth but the Spirit of ~God."~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[57] A[
 4755   1, 58  |              them equally; but just as God wills them to learn by ~
 4756   1, 58  |               1 Cor. 2:10): "But to us God hath ~revealed them through
 4757   1, 58  |            mysteries ~in the vision of God, which mysteries they communicate
 4758   1, 58  |              the angels. And ~although God revealed in general to the
 4759   1, 59  |               to desire the ~vision of God with regard to fresh revelations,
 4760   1, 59  |               which they receive from ~God to fit them for the tasks
 4761   1, 59  |               what may be dependent on God's supernatural ~ordinance.
 4762   1, 59  |                may judge Him not to be God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[58] A[
 4763   1, 59  |        interprets the six days wherein God made all ~things, not as
 4764   1, 59  |             this back to the praise of God, in Whom, as in ~their principle,
 4765   1, 59  |                as the angels refer to ~God's praise their knowledge
 4766   1, 59  |         referred to their knowledge of God Himself, Who has ~neither
 4767   1, 59  |              they are always beholding God and things in God, ~according
 4768   1, 59  |            beholding God and things in God, ~according to Mt. 18:10.
 4769   1, 59  |                as it is in the Word of God, and as ~it is in its own
 4770   1, 59  |              the things themselves; as God by contemplating ~Himself
 4771   1, 60  |          understanding, and ~will. But God's image is found not only
 4772   1, 60  |             also is capable of knowing God. Therefore ~there is will
 4773   1, 60  |              wills; that is to say, in God, Who wills nothing ~beyond
 4774   1, 60  |            creature. It is not so with God, ~for He has within Himself
 4775   1, 60  |                sometimes attributed to God; - on account of the ~resemblance
 4776   1, 61  |                Whether the angel loves God more than self with natural
 4777   1, 61  |            angel by natural love loves God more than he loves himself?~
 4778   1, 61  |                the angel does not love God by natural love ~more than
 4779   1, 61  |          natural love, the angel loves God less ~than self, or even
 4780   1, 61  |               the angel ~does not love God more than self with natural
 4781   1, 61  |                the angel does not love God ~more than himself from
 4782   1, 61  |              proper to charity to love God more than self. But ~to
 4783   1, 61  |       Therefore the angels do not love God more than ~themselves by
 4784   1, 61  |              endures. But the love of ~God more than self does not
 4785   1, 61  |              self unto the contempt of God has made the earthly city; ~
 4786   1, 61  |           earthly city; ~while love of God unto the contempt of self
 4787   1, 61  |              it is not natural to love God more than self.~Aquin.:
 4788   1, 61  |              But the precept of loving God more than self is a moral
 4789   1, 61  |           natural love the angel loves God more than himself.~Aquin.:
 4790   1, 61  |        maintained that an angel loves ~God more than himself with natural
 4791   1, 61  |              desires a greater good to God than to himself; ~because
 4792   1, 61  |            because he naturally wishes God to be God, while as for
 4793   1, 61  |             naturally wishes God to be God, while as for himself, he
 4794   1, 61  |              himself more than he does God, because he naturally loves ~
 4795   1, 61  |        naturally loves ~himself before God, and with greater intensity.~
 4796   1, 61  |                3/3~Consequently, since God is the universal good, and
 4797   1, 61  |             being naturally belongs to God, it follows that from ~natural
 4798   1, 61  |               angel and man alike love God before themselves and with
 4799   1, 61  |              them loved self more than God, it ~would follow that natural
 4800   1, 61  |              own ~individual good. Now God is not only the good of
 4801   1, 61  |               own way naturally ~loves God more than itself.~Aquin.:
 4802   1, 61  |                2: When it is said that God is loved by an angel "in
 4803   1, 61  |                does not naturally love God for his own good, ~but for
 4804   1, 61  |             for his own good, ~but for God's sake. If it denotes the
 4805   1, 61  |               nature of anyone to love God, ~except from this - that
 4806   1, 61  |        dependent on that good which is God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[60] A[
 4807   1, 61  |               4 Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 4: God, in so far as He is the
 4808   1, 61  |                 1/1~Reply OBJ 5: Since God's substance and universal
 4809   1, 61  |               the same, all who behold God's essence are by the same
 4810   1, 61  |              way they are said to hate God; yet ~nevertheless, so far
 4811   1, 61  |           every thing ~naturally loves God more than itself.~
 4812   1, 62  |            treats of things created by God. But ~there is no mention
 4813   1, 62  |            angels were not created by ~God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[61] A[
 4814   1, 62  |           everything existing, ~except God, were made by God. God alone
 4815   1, 62  |               except God, were made by God. God alone is His own existence;
 4816   1, 62  |          except God, were made by God. God alone is His own existence;
 4817   1, 62  |             From this it is clear that God alone exists of His ~own
 4818   1, 62  |                necessity, were made by God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[61] A[
 4819   1, 62  |              the angel was produced by God from eternity?~Aquin.: SMT
 4820   1, 62  |              the angel was produced by God from eternity. ~For God
 4821   1, 62  |                God from eternity. ~For God is the cause of the angel
 4822   1, 62  |               the ~angels were made by God. Therefore at one time the
 4823   1, 62  |               Para. 1/1~I answer that, God alone, Father, Son and Holy
 4824   1, 62  |             rejected as heretical. For God so produced creatures that
 4825   1, 62  |               1 Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 1: God's being is His will. So
 4826   1, 62  |             His will. So the fact that God produced the ~angels and
 4827   1, 62  |              19], A[3]; Q[46], A[1]~), God's will does not act by necessity
 4828   1, 62  |                lit. viii, 20,21) that "God moves the spiritual ~creature
 4829   1, 62  |               bestowed upon them when ~God Himself willed it. Consequently
 4830   1, 62  |               the ~other orders served God?" Damascene also says (De
 4831   1, 62  |                1:1): "In the beginning God created ~heaven and earth."
 4832   1, 62  |    Consequently ~it is improbable that God, Whose "works are perfect,"
 4833   1, 62  |               2 Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 2: God is not a part of, but far
 4834   1, 62  |              Gn. 1, "In the ~beginning God created heaven and earth,"
 4835   1, 62  |             the text "In the beginning God ~created heaven and earth,"
 4836   1, 62  |              heaven is the ~Lord's thy God, and the heaven of heaven."~
 4837   1, 62  |             their being ~made; because God could have created them
 4838   1, 62  |                equal in some manner to God, as will ~appear later on (
 4839   1, 63  |              grace in order to turn to God?~(3) Were they created in
 4840   1, 63  |                  Therefore neither did God create the angelic nature
 4841   1, 63  |           beatitude, whereby it enjoys God. Therefore it was created
 4842   1, 63  |       intelligible object; and that is God. Above this happiness there
 4843   1, 63  |                 whereby "we shall ~see God as He is." This is beyond
 4844   1, 63  |              grace in order to turn to God?~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[62] A[
 4845   1, 63  |              grace in order to turn to God. For, we have no need of
 4846   1, 63  |               angel naturally turns to God: because he loves God ~naturally,
 4847   1, 63  |               to God: because he loves God ~naturally, as is clear
 4848   1, 63  |              grace in order to turn to God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[62] A[
 4849   1, 63  |               for the angel to turn to God; because there was ~no obstacle
 4850   1, 63  |              grace in order to turn to God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[62] A[
 4851   1, 63  |            Further, to turn oneself to God is to dispose oneself for
 4852   1, 63  |             not ~need grace to turn to God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[62] A[
 4853   1, 63  |         contrary, It was by turning to God that the angel reached to ~
 4854   1, 63  |              grace in order to turn to God, it ~would follow that he
 4855   1, 63  |              Rm. ~6:23): "The grace of God is life everlasting."~Aquin.:
 4856   1, 63  |             grace in order to turn to ~God, as the object of beatitude.
 4857   1, 63  |               when we were treating of God's ~knowledge, that to see
 4858   1, 63  |                 knowledge, that to see God in His essence, wherein
 4859   1, 63  |           Reply OBJ 1: The angel loves God naturally, so far as God
 4860   1, 63  |               God naturally, so far as God is the author ~of his natural
 4861   1, 63  |             are speaking of turning to God, so far ~as God bestows
 4862   1, 63  |             turning to God, so far ~as God bestows beatitude by the
 4863   1, 63  |           movement of the will towards God can be termed a ~conversion
 4864   1, 63  |                termed a ~conversion to God. And so there is a threefold
 4865   1, 63  |              is a threefold turning to God. The first ~is by the perfect
 4866   1, 63  |              is by the perfect love of God; this belongs to the creature
 4867   1, 63  |            enjoying the ~possession of God; and for such conversion,
 4868   1, 63  |         required. ~The next turning to God is that which merits beatitude;
 4869   1, 63  |        required; but the operation of ~God, Who draws the soul towards
 4870   1, 63  |              rational creature towards God. If, ~therefore, the angel
 4871   1, 63  |            ever have ~turned away from God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[62] A[
 4872   1, 63  |           produced by the operation of God, were created in the first
 4873   1, 63  |               is ~called the "seed" of God. As, then, in Augustine'
 4874   1, 63  |               for the angel to turn to God. Therefore he did not thereby ~
 4875   1, 63  |           beatitude is natural only to God, because ~existence and
 4876   1, 63  |             the same act of turning to God, so ~far as it comes of
 4877   1, 63  |              natural movement ~towards God; but by the movement of
 4878   1, 63  |              For grace is bestowed of ~God's absolute will. Therefore
 4879   1, 63  |             degree of grace depends on God's will, ~and not on the
 4880   1, 63  |           First of all, on the part of God, Who, in the order of His ~
 4881   1, 63  |             angelic nature was made by God for attaining grace and
 4882   1, 63  |                house. So it seems that God destined those angels for
 4883   1, 63  |                nature, were ~turned to God more mightily and efficaciously.
 4884   1, 63  |        earnestness of their turning to God. Hence it appears that the
 4885   1, 63  |               OBJ 1: As grace comes of God's will alone, so likewise
 4886   1, 63  |            nature of the angel: and as God's will ordained nature for
 4887   1, 63  |             nature is immediately from God. Accordingly it seems ~rather
 4888   1, 63  |              manner, an angel can know God by His essence, and this
 4889   1, 63  |              the same time he can know God by his own ~essence, which
 4890   1, 63  |           beatitude consists in seeing God through His essence. Now, ~
 4891   1, 63  |             through His essence. Now, ~God's essence is the very essence
 4892   1, 63  |      Consequently the angel ~beholding God is disposed towards God
 4893   1, 63  |                God is disposed towards God in the same way as anyone
 4894   1, 63  |                anyone else not ~seeing God is to the common form of
 4895   1, 63  |              except as aiming towards ~God. Now whoever wills or acts
 4896   1, 63  |              opposites ~with regard to God Himself, Whom they see to
 4897   1, 63  |            things their aim is towards God, which ever ~alternative
 4898   1, 63  |                Doctr. Christ. i) that "God makes use ~of us for our
 4899   1, 63  |              consists in the vision of God, ~as is clear from what
 4900   1, 63  |               it needs to be ~moved by God towards its beatitude. Therefore
 4901   1, 63  |               cannot, in the vision of God, consist ~precisely in that
 4902   1, 63  |    comprehension, ~for this belongs to God only; as is evident from
 4903   1, 63  |            required for ~comprehending God, while the creature's efficacy
 4904   1, 63  |          rational creature understands God ~more or less clearly according
 4905   1, 63  |         rational creature is so led by God to the end of its ~beatitude,
 4906   1, 63  |              its ~beatitude, that from God's predestination it is brought
 4907   1, 63  |               joy before the angels of God upon one sinner doing penance."
 4908   1, 64  |               movement of love towards God. ~Therefore such love cannot
 4909   1, 64  |               from them. But in loving God ~they do not sin. Consequently
 4910   1, 64  |               will is the sole rule of God's act, because it is not
 4911   1, 64  |               for the angel to turn to God by the movement ~of love,
 4912   1, 64  |        movement ~of love, according as God is the principle of his
 4913   1, 64  |                But for ~him to turn to God as the object of supernatural
 4914   1, 64  |              against the ~devil's will God makes use of man for the
 4915   1, 64  |             the devil desired to be as God?~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[63] A[
 4916   1, 64  |                did not desire to be as God. For ~what does not fall
 4917   1, 64  |             But for any creature to be God's equal does not fall under ~
 4918   1, 64  |              could not desire to be as God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[63] A[
 4919   1, 64  |                But ~to be likened unto God is the end to which every
 4920   1, 64  |             the angel desired to be as God, not by equality, ~but by
 4921   1, 64  |                an angel, still less of God; because choice regards
 4922   1, 64  |               sin by desiring to be as God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[63] A[
 4923   1, 64  |                 he wished to be called God."~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[63] A[
 4924   1, 64  |             sinned by seeking to be as God. ~But this can be understood
 4925   1, 64  |                could not seek to be as God in the first way; because
 4926   1, 64  |              it is quite ~evident that God surpasses the angels, not
 4927   1, 64  |            more to covet equality with God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[63] A[
 4928   1, 64  |                 2/4~To desire to be as God according to likeness can
 4929   1, 64  |               made to be likened ~unto God. And so, if anyone desire
 4930   1, 64  |               that he may obtain it of God. But he would sin were he
 4931   1, 64  |                desire ~to be like unto God even in the right way, as
 4932   1, 64  |                of his own, and not of ~God's power. In another way
 4933   1, 64  |             may desire to be like unto God in some ~respect which is
 4934   1, 64  |              earth, which is proper to God; in which desire there would
 4935   1, 64  |             the devil desired to be as God. Not that he ~desired to
 4936   1, 64  |                he ~desired to resemble God by being subject to no one
 4937   1, 64  |            holding its existence under God. But he desired resemblance ~
 4938   1, 64  |              desired resemblance ~with God in this respect - by desiring,
 4939   1, 64  |        beatitude, which is attained by God's ~grace. Or, if he desired
 4940   1, 64  |              last end that likeness of God which is ~bestowed by grace,
 4941   1, 64  |                assistance according to God's ordering. This ~harmonizes
 4942   1, 64  |              whereas this is proper to God alone.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[
 4943   1, 64  |      perversely wished to be like unto God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[63] A[
 4944   1, 64  |              the angels are created by God, so are men. But some ~men
 4945   1, 64  |               rapacious; ~yet they are God's creatures. Therefore,
 4946   1, 64  |                although the demons are God's ~creatures, they may be
 4947   1, 64  |              and when it is said ~that God said: "Be light made: and
 4948   1, 64  |                is written (Gn. 1:31): "God saw all the things that ~
 4949   1, 64  |           pleasures of the paradise of God," ~- consequently, this
 4950   1, 64  |                into existence, namely, God, ~cannot be the cause of
 4951   1, 64  |              be taken as ~according to God's foreknowledge. Hence Augustine
 4952   1, 64  |               that is in merit is from God; and consequently an angel ~
 4953   1, 64  |               4 Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 4: God did not distinguish between
 4954   1, 64  |               in the holy mountain ~of God." Now the order of the Cherubim
 4955   1, 64  |              Para. 1/1~OBJ 2: Further, God made intellectual nature
 4956   1, 64  |            more is he inclined towards God. Therefore so much the less
 4957   1, 64  |            less can he ~turn away from God by sinning. And so it seems
 4958   1, 64  |                creation is governed by God through the ~angels, as
 4959   1, 64  |                highest to stand before God. And in this sense Damascene ~
 4960   1, 64  |               those who are saved; for God knows beforehand the end
 4961   1, 64  |                creature was so made by God, that it ~lies within its
 4962   1, 64  |            higher angel rather than to God. Yet the sin of one angel ~
 4963   1, 64  |            subject to another ~against God, than to wish to be over
 4964   1, 64  |                be over another against God; because there ~is less
 4965   1, 64  |             the ardor of love and from God's ~indwelling, which are
 4966   1, 65  |                 the demons cannot know God, Who is most manifest of
 4967   1, 65  |              heart, ~whereby alone can God be seen. Therefore neither
 4968   1, 65  |             mystery of the ~kingdom of God, as Augustine says (Gen.
 4969   1, 65  |                 and ~produces love for God; which knowledge properly
 4970   1, 65  |              first substance, ~namely, God. But it is quite natural
 4971   1, 65  |             can of his own nature know God's ~substance. Yet on account
 4972   1, 65  |             have a higher knowledge of God than man can have. Such ~
 4973   1, 65  |               have. Such ~knowledge of God remains also in the demons.
 4974   1, 65  |          suffices for the knowledge of God which belongs to them ~from
 4975   1, 65  |               if it be not referred to God, as is the case with the
 4976   1, 65  |               that the darkness, which God separated from the light, "
 4977   1, 65  |              respecting the mystery of God's kingdom, which found its
 4978   1, 65  |                that He ~was the Son of God and the effect of His passion,
 4979   1, 65  |                1~OBJ 2: Further, since God's mercy is infinite, it
 4980   1, 65  |                of justice save through God's mercy. Therefore the ~
 4981   1, 65  |              Thou art, the holy one of God" (Mk. 1:24). ~"The demons"
 4982   1, 65  |               2 Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 2: God's mercy delivers from sin
 4983   1, 65  |           power ~over them who despise God's commandments, and he rejoices
 4984   1, 65  |              understood of the fear of God which restrains from ~sin.
 4985   1, 65  |            nature stand midway between God ~and men. Now the order
 4986   1, 66  |               words, "In the beginning God created heaven and earth";
 4987   1, 66  |           corporeal creatures are from God?~(2) Whether they were created
 4988   1, 66  |             were created on account of God's goodness?~(3) Whether
 4989   1, 66  |           Whether they were created by God through the medium of the
 4990   1, 66  |            angels or immediately from ~God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[65] A[
 4991   1, 66  |           corporeal creatures are from God?~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[65] A[
 4992   1, 66  |       corporeal creatures are not from God. For it ~is said (Eccles.
 4993   1, 66  |               that all the works which God hath ~made, continue for
 4994   1, 66  |                are eternal." Therefore God did not ~make visible bodies.~
 4995   1, 66  |                it is said (Gn. 1:31): "God saw all things that He had ~
 4996   1, 66  |                therefore, are not from God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[65] A[
 4997   1, 66  |               3: Further, what is from God does not withdraw us from
 4998   1, 66  |              does not withdraw us from God, but ~leads us to Him. But
 4999   1, 66  |             creatures withdraw us from God. Hence the ~Apostle (2 Cor.
 5000   1, 66  |                therefore, are not from God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[65] A[