Part, Question

 6001   1, 110 |               2) How they are ~sent by God to the ministry of men; (
 6002   1, 110 |             faith is ~immediately from God, according to Eph. 2:8: "
 6003   1, 110 |      yourselves, for it is the gift of God." ~Therefore man is not
 6004   1, 110 |              angel; but immediately by God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[111] A[
 6005   1, 110 |                Further, on the words, "God hath manifested it to them" (
 6006   1, 110 |              Divine truths to men, but God also revealed them by His ~
 6007   1, 110 |              both are immediately from God - that ~is, natural reason
 6008   1, 110 |                the creature. Therefore God enlightens man ~immediately.~
 6009   1, 110 |              respect faith comes ~from God alone. Secondly, faith requires
 6010   1, 110 |              which is immediately from God, can be ~strengthened by
 6011   1, 110 |             more perfect knowledge ~of God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[111] A[
 6012   1, 110 |             change the will belongs to God alone, according to ~Prov.
 6013   1, 110 |              will to the thing willed, God alone can thus change ~the
 6014   1, 110 |            natural inclination is from God alone Who ~gives the nature,
 6015   1, 110 |        inclination of the will is from God alone, Who ~causes the will.~
 6016   1, 110 |             the will. In this way also God alone ~can move the will
 6017   1, 110 |                OBJ 1: Those who act as God's ministers, either men
 6018   1, 110 |              higher principle, namely, God, though they ~may be procured
 6019   1, 111 |                in the contemplation of God. So if they were ~sent,
 6020   1, 111 |                are sent in ministry by God. For, as we have ~already
 6021   1, 111 |             Godhead; for it belongs to God to be present everywhere,
 6022   1, 111 |               that an angel is sent by God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[112] A[
 6023   1, 111 |             who is sent, proceeds from God as ~from its first principle,
 6024   1, 111 |                work; and is reduced to God as to its last end. Now
 6025   1, 111 |            angels chiefly minister to ~God, and secondarily to us;
 6026   1, 111 |               or angel by cleaving to ~God is made one spirit with
 6027   1, 111 |                is made one spirit with God, he is thereby superior
 6028   1, 111 |            accomplished immediately by God ~without the action of the
 6029   1, 111 |              Nor can anyone doubt that God can immediately reveal things ~
 6030   1, 111 |                yet the supreme Spirit, God, ~is not limited."~Aquin.:
 6031   1, 111 |                holy angel is nearer to God than Satan is. Yet ~Satan
 6032   1, 111 |                is. Yet ~Satan assisted God, according to Job 1:6: "
 6033   1, 111 |             Job 1:6: "When the sons of God came to ~stand before the
 6034   1, 111 |            enlightened ~immediately by God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[112] A[
 6035   1, 111 |            immediately enlightened by ~God; while the higher ones among
 6036   1, 111 |                and more ~multiplied by God. Hence, as the assistants
 6037   1, 112 |                But men ~are guarded by God, according to Ps. 120:4: "
 6038   1, 112 |        prudence. As regards the first, God guards man immediately ~
 6039   1, 112 |                 as regards the second, God guards ~man as his universal
 6040   1, 112 |               from a ~special grace of God, as likewise that miracles
 6041   1, 112 |            lower things are brought to God through the medium ~of the
 6042   1, 112 |         providence concerning men. But God's providence acts ~differently
 6043   1, 112 |        manifest that the providence of God ~is chiefly exercised towards
 6044   1, 112 |                away, the providence of God acts so as to order their ~
 6045   1, 112 |                 Thus the providence of God ~is related to each man
 6046   1, 112 |            some things, enlightened by God directly; but ~as to other
 6047   1, 112 |                directly enlightened by God, ~and these reveal them
 6048   1, 112 |                to keep those chosen by God for the higher ~degree of
 6049   1, 112 |             immediately by the Word of God: ~wherefore He needed not
 6050   1, 112 |               exterior help granted by God to the whole human ~race -
 6051   1, 112 |        benefits which are conferred by God on man as a ~Christian,
 6052   1, 112 |           those which are conferred by God on man as a rational ~being,
 6053   1, 112 |              Para. 1/1~OBJ 2: Further, God's guardianship excels that
 6054   1, 112 |                that of the angels. But God ~forsakes man at times,
 6055   1, 112 |              according to Ps. 21:2: "O God, my God, look upon ~me:
 6056   1, 112 |                to Ps. 21:2: "O God, my God, look upon ~me: why hast
 6057   1, 112 |                from the ~providence of God: for in as far as a thing
 6058   1, 112 |                extends over all being. God indeed is ~said to forsake
 6059   1, 112 |              we attribute ~passions to God and the angels.~Aquin.:
 6060   1, 112 |              prayers being offered ~to God by Gabriel. And this resistance
 6061   1, 112 |           angels cannot know it unless God reveal it to them: and ~
 6062   1, 113 |                For angels ~are sent by God to guard man. But demons
 6063   1, 113 |             But demons are not sent by God: for the ~demons' intention
 6064   1, 113 |             the loss of souls; whereas God's is the salvation of ~souls.
 6065   1, 113 |          therefore ~to be permitted by God, the author of all justice,
 6066   1, 113 |               for ~man's exercise. But God permits His elect to be
 6067   1, 113 |           assail man, as the angels of God in their ~various offices
 6068   1, 113 |                of the ~assault is from God, Who knows how to make orderly
 6069   1, 113 |          thereof are to be referred to God as ~their first author.~
 6070   1, 113 |              thus they are not sent by God to assail us, ~but are sometimes
 6071   1, 113 |        permitted to do so according to God's just judgments. ~But sometimes
 6072   1, 113 |             and thus they are ~sent by God; as the lying spirit was
 6073   1, 113 |              punishment is referred to God ~as its first author. Nevertheless
 6074   1, 113 |               whereas they are sent by God on account of ~His justice.~
 6075   1, 113 |      principally ~through the grace of God, secondarily through the
 6076   1, 113 |               proper to the devil. For God ~is said to tempt, according
 6077   1, 113 |                according to Gn. 22:1, "God tempted Abraham." Moreover ~
 6078   1, 113 |           Again, man is said to tempt ~God, and to tempt man. Therefore
 6079   1, 113 |            reason it is a sin to tempt God; for man, ~being uncertain
 6080   1, 113 |               to make an experiment of God's ~power. Sometimes too
 6081   1, 113 |                minister of the devil. ~God is said to tempt that He
 6082   1, 113 |                 13:3): "The ~Lord your God trieth you, that it may
 6083   1, 113 |              inward disposition of man God alone knows, Who is the "
 6084   1, 113 |            wrought by the servants of ~God."~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[114]
 6085   1, 113 |              nor can any creature, but God alone: since in the strict
 6086   1, 113 |               latter, for the glory of God: the ~former, by certain
 6087   1, 113 |             assistance ~and command of God, to Whom every creature
 6088   1, 113 |             But this is not befitting ~God's mercy. Therefore the conquered
 6089   1, 113 |            this. One is on the part of God's clemency; for as Chrysostom
 6090   1, 113 |             likes, but for as ~long as God allows; for although He
 6091   1, 114 |               not acted upon; this is ~God: there are things that both
 6092   1, 114 |            pure ~potentiality, just as God is pure act. Now a body
 6093   1, 114 |             which is most distant from God; for it ~participates something
 6094   1, 114 |             which is most distant from God is primary matter; which ~
 6095   1, 114 |              originally in the Word of God, as "typal ideas." ~Secondly,
 6096   1, 114 |               used to any purpose that God ~commands. But miracles
 6097   1, 114 |               that all things are like God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[115] A[
 6098   1, 114 |              do so in order to "defame God's ~creature," namely, the
 6099   1, 114 |             token of ~the honor due to God, of which they are covetous.~
 6100   1, 115 |              the Divine intellect. For God alone can change the ~will,
 6101   1, 115 |              will, must be ascribed to God ~alone.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[
 6102   1, 115 |          thereby the ~will or power of God, let him keep to his opinion,
 6103   1, 115 |               not in creatures, but in God. Therefore ~fate is not
 6104   1, 115 |                not in creatures but in God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[116] A[
 6105   1, 115 |                accident here below, is God alone, ~as stated above (
 6106   1, 115 |                   Therefore fate is in God, and not in creatures.~Aquin.:
 6107   1, 115 |               not in creatures, but in God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[116] A[
 6108   1, 115 |            ways. ~Firstly, as being in God Himself: and thus the ordering
 6109   1, 115 |              mediate causes ordered by God to the production of certain
 6110   1, 115 |              themselves, as ordered by God ~to the production of their
 6111   1, 115 |                 except as dependent on God. Wherefore the Divine power
 6112   1, 115 |              first principle, ~namely, God, by Whom they are ordered.
 6113   1, 115 |                true and necessary: "If God ~foreknew that this would
 6114   1, 115 |         creatures are ~changeable, and God alone is truly unchangeable,
 6115   1, 115 |          causes to effects foreseen by God. Whatever, therefore, is
 6116   1, 115 |                is done immediately ~by God, since it is not subject
 6117   1, 115 |               things which are nigh to God have a state of immobility,
 6118   1, 115 |               this passage are done by God by ~means of second causes;
 6119   1, 116 |                to men the honor due to God." Therefore to be a ~master
 6120   1, 116 |               properly an honor due to God. But it belongs to a master
 6121   1, 116 |           teach, and this is proper to God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[117] A[
 6122   1, 116 |             But both of these are from God. Therefore ~as of God is
 6123   1, 116 |             from God. Therefore ~as of God is it written: "Who healeth
 6124   1, 116 |            That the manifold wisdom of God may be made known to the ~
 6125   1, 116 |            concerning Divine things by God, can instruct the inferior
 6126   1, 116 |           Divine things by the Word of God; as appears ~principally
 6127   1, 116 |                of all, in these days ~(God) hath spoken to us by His
 6128   1, 116 |          hearts: because it belongs to God alone to ~know the heart'
 6129   1, 116 |               hidden ~from eternity in God. Hidden, yet so that the
 6130   1, 116 |                the multiform wisdom of God was ~made known to the principalities
 6131   1, 116 |               the ~angels, not only in God, but also here where when
 6132   1, 116 |            immediately by the Word of ~God, not according to His Divinity,
 6133   1, 116 |                Corporeal matter ~obeys God alone at will."~Aquin.:
 6134   1, 116 |              of matter and form, or by God Himself, in whom both matter
 6135   1, 116 |                  Those who are sons of God, in power, as John says -
 6136   1, 116 |              is also possible that by ~God's permission, or from some
 6137   1, 116 |                though, by the power of God, it ~can exceed those limits.~
 6138   1, 117 |             the ~semen, but created by God. For every perfect substance,
 6139   1, 117 |                animals are ~created by God (Q[65], A[4]). This opinion
 6140   1, 117 |                 it cannot be said that God concurs in sin. But if the ~
 6141   1, 117 |            rational soul be created by God, sometimes God concurs in
 6142   1, 117 |              created by God, sometimes God concurs in the sin of ~adultery,
 6143   1, 117 |        rational soul is not created by God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[118] A[
 6144   1, 117 |              only through ~creation by God. Therefore to hold that
 6145   1, 117 |                a higher ~agent, namely God enlightening (the soul)
 6146   1, 117 |                caused by the action of God is ~something subsistent:
 6147   1, 117 |        intellectual soul is created by God at the end of ~human generation,
 6148   1, 117 |         spiritual power, especially of God. Therefore nothing hinders
 6149   1, 117 |              intellectual soul is from God alone.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[
 6150   1, 117 |               nature is good; ~in this God concurs. But what there
 6151   1, 117 |      inordinate lust is evil; in ~this God does not concur.~Aquin.:
 6152   1, 117 |              it is written (Gn. 2:2): "God rested Him from ~all His
 6153   1, 117 |                where it is said ~that "God ended" all "His work."~Aquin.:
 6154   1, 117 |                it was not fitting that God should begin His ~work with
 6155   1, 117 |               1 Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 1: God is said to have rested on
 6156   1, 117 |               it was ~not fitting that God should make the soul without
 6157   1, 117 |               written (Wis. 1:13,16): "God made not death . . . ~but
 6158   1, 118 |                 P.], WHO IS ABOVE ALL ~GOD FOR EVER BLESSED. Amen.~
 6159   2      |             man is said to be ~made in God's image, in so far as the
 6160   2      |         treated of ~the exemplar, i.e. God, and of those things which
 6161   2      |               forth from the ~power of God in accordance with His will;
 6162   2, 1   |             nature is in comparison to God as an instrument to ~the
 6163   2, 1   |              is written ~(Wis. 11:21), God disposes all things "in
 6164   2, 1   |           written (Phil. 3:19): "Whose god is their belly": ~viz. because
 6165   2, 1   |                man's beginning - i.e. ~God - is also the beginning
 6166   2, 1   |              says (Div. Nom. iv) that "God turns all things ~to Himself
 6167   2, 1   |               in man's last end, since God is the ~last end of man
 6168   2, 1   |              end by knowing and loving God: this is not possible ~to
 6169   2, 2   |         Further, that which belongs to God and to persons of great ~
 6170   2, 2   |                17): "To . . . the only God be honor and glory." ~Therefore
 6171   2, 2   |           Reply OBJ 2: Honor is due to God and to persons of great
 6172   2, 2   |            knowledge otherwise than to God's knowledge: for human ~
 6173   2, 2   |              the things known, whereas God's knowledge is the ~cause
 6174   2, 2   |                 man's ~good depends on God's knowledge as its cause.
 6175   2, 2   |               glory which man has with God; ~according to Ps. 90:15,
 6176   2, 2   |        frequently deceptive. But since God cannot be ~deceived, His
 6177   2, 2   |                 is approved . . . whom God commendeth."~Aquin.: SMT
 6178   2, 2   |                the glory which is from God, with His Angels. Hence
 6179   2, 2   |               desire to become like to God, as to their last end and
 6180   2, 2   |             power, to ~be most like to God: hence also in Scripture
 6181   2, 2   |                Para. 1/1 ~Reply OBJ 1: God's power is His goodness:
 6182   2, 2   |         happiness, that he become like God in power, unless he ~become
 6183   2, 2   |           according to Ecclus. 15:14: "God made man ~from the beginning
 6184   2, 2   |                man is to ~be loved for God's sake. Therefore happiness
 6185   2, 2   |               the life of the body, so God is man's life of happiness:
 6186   2, 2   |             Happy is that people whose God is the Lord' (Ps. 143:15)."~
 6187   2, 2   |                in any creature, but in God ~alone; because every creature
 6188   2, 2   |              participation. Wherefore ~God alone can satisfy the will
 6189   2, 2   |                good things." Therefore God alone ~constitutes man's
 6190   2, 2   |                end, but is ordained to God, as to its ~last end. Therefore
 6191   2, 2   |             good of the universe, ~but God himself.~Aquin.: SMT FS
 6192   2, 3   |              the sole contemplation of God seen in His ~Essence?~Aquin.:
 6193   2, 3   |                must needs confess that God is happiness ~itself."~Aquin.:
 6194   2, 3   |                good. But it belongs to God to ~be the supreme good.
 6195   2, 3   |               happiness is the same as God.~Aquin.: SMT FS Q[3] A[1]
 6196   2, 3   |                else as an end, but to ~God, Who alone is to be enjoyed,
 6197   2, 3   |               happiness is the same as God.~Aquin.: SMT FS Q[3] A[1]
 6198   2, 3   |                uncreated good, namely, God, Who alone by His ~infinite
 6199   2, 3   |               1 Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 1: God is happiness by His Essence:
 6200   2, 3   |                man's happiness; for of God alone is it true that His
 6201   2, 3   |               know Thee, the only true God."~Aquin.: SMT FS Q[3] A[
 6202   2, 3   |          applied to happiness. For ~in God there is happiness essentially;
 6203   2, 3   |              whereby man is united ~to God: but this operation neither
 6204   2, 3   |                 but only as men." ~But God has promised us perfect
 6205   2, 3   |               s mind will be united to God by ~one, continual, everlasting
 6206   2, 3   |                man's mind is united to God will not ~depend on the
 6207   2, 3   |             operation. But the love of God, which is an act of the ~
 6208   2, 3   |               know Thee, the only true God." Now eternal life is the
 6209   2, 3   |          consists in the ~knowledge of God, which is an act of the
 6210   2, 3   |              consists in becoming like God. ~But man is like God, by
 6211   2, 3   |             like God. ~But man is like God, by his practical intellect,
 6212   2, 3   |            things above him, viz. with God and ~the angels, to whom
 6213   2, 3   |             the practical intellect to God is ~one of proportion; that
 6214   2, 3   |         relation ~to what it knows, as God does to what He knows. But
 6215   2, 3   |               speculative intellect to God is one of union and "information";
 6216   2, 3   |           known, which is His Essence, God has not practical ~but merely
 6217   2, 3   |               outside of ~him, to wit, God, to Whom we reach out by
 6218   2, 3   |               only in the knowledge of God.~Aquin.: SMT FS Q[3] A[7]
 6219   2, 3   |              participation: because in God alone is His Being His ~
 6220   2, 3   |               together with them, also God ~Himself.~Aquin.: SMT FS
 6221   2, 3   |            intellect is by union with ~God, Who is the first principle
 6222   2, 3   |            intellect, man is united to God as to something ~altogether
 6223   2, 3   |         happiness, does not consist in God being seen in His Essence.~
 6224   2, 3   |               effect, knows no more of God than "that He is"; the perfection
 6225   2, 3   |          perfection through union with God as with that object, in
 6226   2, 3   |               then in the happiness of God, Who, in understanding his ~
 6227   2, 4   |          happiness consists ~in seeing God, as stated above (Q[3],
 6228   2, 4   |               OBJ 2: The very sight of God causes delight. Consequently,
 6229   2, 4   |             Consequently, he who ~sees God cannot need delight.~Aquin.:
 6230   2, 4   |                Verb. Dom.]): "To reach God with the mind is happiness,
 6231   2, 4   |       sufficiently perfected by seeing God, and the will by enjoying
 6232   2, 4   |               itself finite. Wherefore God cannot be thus comprehended ~
 6233   2, 4   |             what I said in a prayer: O God, Who didst will ~none but
 6234   2, 4   |              heart; for they shall see God": and (Heb. 12:14): "Follow
 6235   2, 4   |         without which no man shall see God."~Aquin.: SMT FS Q[4] A[
 6236   2, 4   |                who sees the Essence of God, ~of necessity, loves, whatever
 6237   2, 4   |             loves, in subordination to God; just as ~the will of him
 6238   2, 4   |               will of him who sees not God's Essence, of necessity,
 6239   2, 4   |            consisting in the vision of God. Now it ~is evident that
 6240   2, 4   |              consists in the vision of God, some have ~maintained that
 6241   2, 4   |             from their ~bodies, are in God's presence; wherefore the
 6242   2, 4   |                 seeing the Essence ~of God, wherein is true Happiness. ~
 6243   2, 4   |              the soul desires to enjoy God in such a way ~that the
 6244   2, 4   |        therefore, as long as it enjoys God, without the fellowship
 6245   2, 4   |                of the departed see not God as the angels do," is not
 6246   2, 4   |               the angels, ~thus seeing God more clearly than the lower
 6247   2, 4   |              they shall see and enjoy ~God, but also that their bodies
 6248   2, 4   |                Ep. ad ~Dioscor.) that "God gave the soul such a powerful
 6249   2, 4   |       intellect whereby the Essence of God is seen, yet it might prove
 6250   2, 4   |            good for me to adhere to my God." ~Therefore nothing further
 6251   2, 4   |               which consists in seeing God. The reason of this is that
 6252   2, 4   |               which consists in seeing God, will be either in the soul
 6253   2, 4   |             wealth, the sufficiency of God for man; the ~kingdom, the
 6254   2, 4   |          lifting up of man to union of God.~Aquin.: SMT FS Q[4] A[7]
 6255   2, 4   |          charity includes ~the love of God and of our neighbor. Therefore
 6256   2, 4   |             consists in ~contemplating God. Consequently nothing else
 6257   2, 4   |           fulness of his perfection in God. But the ~fellowship of
 6258   2, 4   |                another and rejoice ~in God, at their fellowship."~Aquin.:
 6259   2, 4   |             has, not with man but with God.~Aquin.: SMT FS Q[4] A[8]
 6260   2, 4   |               because man possesses in God a sufficiency of every good.~
 6261   2, 4   |          Happiness, as to the ~love of God, but not as to the love
 6262   2, 4   |             were but one soul enjoying God, it would be happy, though
 6263   2, 4   |           results from perfect love of God. Consequently, friendship
 6264   2, 5   |               may ~obtain Happiness of God?~(8) Whether every man desires
 6265   2, 5   |           Happiness consists in seeing God, Who is pure ~Truth. But
 6266   2, 5   |               mount is midway ~between God and human nature; it seems
 6267   2, 5   |               man is capable of seeing God, as stated in FP, ~Q[12],
 6268   2, 5   |               Sovereign Good, namely, ~God, by enjoying Whom, men are
 6269   2, 5   |              Now, that one man enjoys ~God more than another, happens
 6270   2, 5   |                 by ~knowing and loving God, albeit imperfectly. Therefore
 6271   2, 5   |         Happiness, in itself, ~namely, God: imperfectly, however, in
 6272   2, 5   |      comparison with the way in which ~God enjoys Himself. This imperfection
 6273   2, 5   |            righteous that "they ~shall god . . . into life everlasting,"
 6274   2, 5   |                lose Happiness, through God taking it away from him.
 6275   2, 5   |              it cannot be enforced ~by God, the just Judge, except
 6276   2, 5   |                fault; and he that sees God ~cannot fall into a fault,
 6277   2, 5   |                mind that is united to ~God is raised above all other
 6278   2, 5   |              heart of man, what things God hath prepared for them that
 6279   2, 5   |             Essence. Now the vision of God's ~Essence surpasses the
 6280   2, 5   |             with which he ~can turn to God, that He may make him happy. "
 6281   2, 5   |             outside the universe, i.e. God. Therefore man is made happy,
 6282   2, 5   |           above nature, it is done ~by God immediately; such as raising
 6283   2, 5   |                of any creature: but by God alone ~is man made happy,
 6284   2, 5   |              the First Agent, which is God.~Aquin.: SMT FS Q[5] A[6]
 6285   2, 5   |               light of glory, ~whereby God is seen, is in God perfectly
 6286   2, 5   |             whereby God is seen, is in God perfectly and naturally;
 6287   2, 5   |             immediately enlightened by God.~Aquin.: SMT FS Q[5] A[7]
 6288   2, 5   |                receive happiness from ~God?~Aquin.: SMT FS Q[5] A[7]
 6289   2, 5   |             may ~obtain Happiness from God. For since God is an agent
 6290   2, 5   |          Happiness from God. For since God is an agent of infinite
 6291   2, 5   |        dispositions thereto. Therefore God ~who does not require dispositions
 6292   2, 5   |                OBJ 2: Further, just as God is the immediate cause of
 6293   2, 5   |              cause of nature. But when God first established nature, ~
 6294   2, 5   |                is of the man ~"to whom God reputeth justice without
 6295   2, 5   |            precede his ~Happiness: for God could make a will having
 6296   2, 5   |        Happiness naturally belongs to ~God alone. Therefore it belongs
 6297   2, 5   |                Therefore it belongs to God alone not to be moved towards ~
 6298   2, 5   |               2 Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 2: God produced the first creatures
 6299   2, 5   |          others through Christ, who is God ~and Man, "Who," according
 6300   2, 6   |               3 Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 3: God moves man to act, not only
 6301   2, 6   |              of nature, ~proceeds from God as the First Mover. And
 6302   2, 6   |               natural movement be from God as the First Mover, ~inasmuch
 6303   2, 6   |             nature is an instrument of God moving it: so it is not ~
 6304   2, 6   |              act, that it proceed from God, ~inasmuch as the will is
 6305   2, 6   |                as the will is moved by God. Nevertheless both natural
 6306   2, 6   |           there is ~something, namely, God, that is more powerful than
 6307   2, 6   |               1 Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 1: God Who is more powerful than
 6308   2, 9   |           Whether the will is moved by God alone as by an extrinsic
 6309   2, 9   |           Whether the will is moved by God alone, as exterior principle?~
 6310   2, 9   |               the will is not moved by God alone as exterior ~principle.
 6311   2, 9   |              the will of man and below God, namely, the ~angel. Therefore
 6312   2, 9   |              is reduced to act, not by God alone, but also by the ~
 6313   2, 9   |              Para. 1/1~OBJ 3: Further, God is not the cause of other
 6314   2, 9   |                according to Gn. 1:31: "God saw all the things that
 6315   2, 9   |               man's will were moved by God alone, it ~would never be
 6316   2, 9   |           written (Phil. 2:13): "It is God Who worketh in ~us" [Vulg.'
 6317   2, 9   |            will can be none other than God. And this is ~evident for
 6318   2, 9   |               soul, which is caused by God alone, by creation, as was
 6319   2, 9   |              cause of the will, except God Himself, Who is the universal
 6320   2, 9   |               3 Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 3: God moves man's will, as the
 6321   2, 9   |                Nevertheless, sometimes God moves some specially to
 6322   2, 10  |                exterior mover which is God?~Aquin.: SMT FS Q[10] A[
 6323   2, 10  |           determinate disposition. But God's will, ~which is pure act,
 6324   2, 10  |                exterior mover which is God?~Aquin.: SMT FS Q[10] A[
 6325   2, 10  |               is moved of necessity by God. For ~every agent that cannot
 6326   2, 10  |                moves of necessity. But God cannot be ~resisted, because
 6327   2, 10  |         resisteth His will?" Therefore God moves the will of ~necessity.~
 6328   2, 10  |               2], ad 3). But "whatever God does in a ~thing is natural
 6329   2, 10  |          necessity everything to which God moves it.~Aquin.: SMT FS
 6330   2, 10  |            does not will that to which God moves it: because in that ~
 6331   2, 10  |              it: because in that ~case God's operation would be ineffectual.
 6332   2, 10  |              not to will that to which God moves it. Therefore it wills ~
 6333   2, 10  |              written (Ecclus. 15:14): "God made man from the ~beginning,
 6334   2, 10  |               relation to many things, God so moves ~it, that He does
 6335   2, 10  |              natural to a thing, which God so works in it that ~it
 6336   2, 10  |              to a thing, ~according as God wishes it to be becoming.
 6337   2, 10  |              Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 3: If God moves the will to anything,
 6338   2, 10  |             that the will is moved ~by God necessarily.~
 6339   2, 11  |             Accordingly the vision of ~God, as vision, is an act of
 6340   2, 11  |         uncreated good alone, which is God. Therefore ~enjoyment is
 6341   2, 11  |           something else. Accordingly ~God is the last end, as that
 6342   2, 11  |              last end. And so, just as God is ~not one end, and the
 6343   2, 11  |              end, and the enjoyment of God, another: so it is the same ~
 6344   2, 11  |             enjoyment whereby we enjoy God, and whereby we enjoy our
 6345   2, 11  |                enjoy our enjoyment of ~God. And the same applies to
 6346   2, 12  |              of ~the heart is a cry to God." But God is the last end
 6347   2, 12  |            heart is a cry to God." But God is the last end of the human
 6348   2, 12  |               heart is called a cry to God, not that ~God is always
 6349   2, 12  |                a cry to God, not that ~God is always the object of
 6350   2, 12  |                direct our intention to God, which intention ~has the
 6351   2, 12  |           directed at the same time to God and to bodily ~benefits.
 6352   2, 12  |                direct his attention to God and to bodily benefits,
 6353   2, 12  |             being moved to its end ~by God, as the arrow is moved by
 6354   2, 13  |             fortitude for the love ~of God, that act is materially
 6355   2, 14  |              reason it is not found in God, Whose knowledge is not
 6356   2, 14  |             But counsel is ascribed to God: for it ~is written (Eph.
 6357   2, 14  |              The things that we say of God must be understood without ~
 6358   2, 14  |              but science when ~said of God means sure knowledge of
 6359   2, 14  |           manner we ascribe counsel to God, ~as to the certainty of
 6360   2, 14  |                inquiry has no place in God; ~wherefore in this respect
 6361   2, 14  |          respect it is not ascribed to God: in which sense ~Damascene
 6362   2, 14  |                De Fide Orth. ii, 22): "God takes not counsel: those
 6363   2, 14  |              adultery is ~forbidden by God, or that man cannot live
 6364   2, 16  |         judgment of things created ~by God belongs to the speculative
 6365   2, 16  |                Holy Ghost, since He is God, is the last end. ~Therefore
 6366   2, 16  |                   No one rightly uses ~God, but one enjoys Him." But
 6367   2, 16  |               but one enjoys Him." But God alone is the last end. Therefore
 6368   2, 17  |                 corporeal matter obeys God alone, to the effect of ~
 6369   2, 17  |                soul is in the body, as God is in the world. But God
 6370   2, 17  |               God is in the world. But God is ~in the world in such
 6371   2, 17  |          respect: because, to wit, ~as God moves the world, so the
 6372   2, 17  |               body out of nothing, as ~God created the world; for which
 6373   2, 17  |             for its rebellion ~against God, by the insubmission of
 6374   2, 17  |                supernatural gift which God had bestowed on man, we ~
 6375   2, 18  |                FP, Q[5], AA[1],3. ~But God alone has the whole plenitude
 6376   2, 18  |              man becomes abominable to God on ~account of the malice
 6377   2, 19  |             reason against the ~law of God?~(7) Whether the goodness
 6378   2, 19  |                a higher power, namely, God Whose power is supreme.
 6379   2, 19  |            reason is not derived ~from God, yet the erring reason puts
 6380   2, 19  |     consequently as being derived from God, from Whom is all truth.~
 6381   2, 19  |       dictating something contrary ~to God's commandment, he would
 6382   2, 19  |        something as being commanded by God, then to scorn the dictate
 6383   2, 19  |               scorn the commandment of God.~Aquin.: SMT FS Q[19] A[
 6384   2, 19  |          abides by the ~commandment of God and the eternal law. But
 6385   2, 19  |                But the eternal law and God's ~commandment are proposed
 6386   2, 19  |             that he doth a ~service to God." Therefore the will can
 6387   2, 19  |               Further, to wish to keep God's commandment, belongs to
 6388   2, 19  |       covetousness, by willing to obey God for the sake of temporal
 6389   2, 19  |             says (Confess. ix, 3) that God rewards the ~intention.
 6390   2, 19  |            rewards the ~intention. But God rewards a thing because
 6391   2, 19  |                a man wills to fast for God's sake; ~because the act
 6392   2, 19  |              fact that ~it is done for God's sake. Wherefore, since
 6393   2, 19  |             may afterwards refer it to God. And then the goodness of ~
 6394   2, 19  |                as in the estimation of God, Who ~considers principally
 6395   2, 19  |          intention, according to which God judges our works." For the
 6396   2, 19  |               act to be meritorious in God's ~sight.~Aquin.: SMT FS
 6397   2, 19  |             require to be conformed to God's knowledge; since God knows
 6398   2, 19  |              to God's knowledge; since God knows many things ~that
 6399   2, 19  |                cannot ~be conformed to God's. Therefore neither can
 6400   2, 19  |                upright and to ~tend to God," as Augustine expounds
 6401   2, 19  |                Sovereign Good, namely, God, as stated above (Q[1],
 6402   2, 19  |            Sovereign Good, that is, to God.~Aquin.: SMT FS Q[19] A[
 6403   2, 19  |               conformed to the will of God so as ~to equal it, but
 6404   2, 19  |                things we know not what God wills. Therefore the human
 6405   2, 19  |              Para. 1/1~OBJ 2: Further, God wills to damn the man whom
 6406   2, 19  |               if man were to will what God wills, this would sometimes
 6407   2, 19  |              piety: for instance, when God wills the death of a father:
 6408   2, 19  |          upright heart, who wills what God wills." But ~everyone is
 6409   2, 19  |        everyone is bound ~to will what God wills.~(2) Moreover, the
 6410   2, 19  |                which is apprehended by God, Who is the ~Maker and Governor
 6411   2, 19  |        particular aspect, ~which thing God wills not, under a universal
 6412   2, 19  |           thing, comes to a thing from God as its efficient cause. ~
 6413   2, 19  |            will, because it wills what God wishes him to ~will.~Aquin.:
 6414   2, 19  |             something from charity, as God wills it. And ~this conformity
 6415   2, 19  |             know in a general way what God wills. For we know ~that
 6416   2, 19  |             For we know ~that whatever God wills, He wills it under
 6417   2, 19  |          willed. But ~we know not what God wills in particular: and
 6418   2, 19  |         relation of that thing to what God wills in that particular ~
 6419   2, 19  |               will conform his will to God in all things not ~only
 6420   2, 19  |               2 Para. 1/5~Reply OBJ 2: God does not will the damnation
 6421   2, 19  |               to will the upholding of God's justice and of the ~natural
 6422   2, 19  |               who conforms his will to God's, in the aspect of reason
 6423   2, 19  |               thing willed, wills what God wills, more than the man,
 6424   2, 19  |              who conforms his ~will to God's, in the point of the very
 6425   2, 20  |       witnesses of the will. Therefore God seeks ~for works not on
 6426   2, 20  |              be estimated according to God's judgment rather than according ~
 6427   2, 20  |              afterwards the service of God. Therefore one and the same ~
 6428   2, 21  |                or demeritorious before God?~Aquin.: SMT FS Q[21] A[
 6429   2, 21  |                or demeritorious before God, ~according as it is good
 6430   2, 21  |          demeritorious in the sight of God. Because, as stated ~above (
 6431   2, 21  |               does no good or ~harm to God; for it is written (Job
 6432   2, 21  |          demeritorious in the sight of God.~Aquin.: SMT FS Q[21] A[
 6433   2, 21  |                 or demerits nothing in God's sight, by good or evil
 6434   2, 21  |                actions are ordained to God. ~Therefore not every good
 6435   2, 21  |          acquires merit or demerit in ~God's sight.~Aquin.: SMT FS
 6436   2, 21  |             All things that are ~done, God will bring into judgment . . .
 6437   2, 21  |          acquires merit ~or demerit in God's sight.~Aquin.: SMT FS
 6438   2, 21  |               demerit, in the sight of God. On the part ~of God Himself,
 6439   2, 21  |                of God. On the part ~of God Himself, inasmuch as He
 6440   2, 21  |            evil deed, not referable to God, does not ~give God the
 6441   2, 21  |       referable to God, does not ~give God the honor due to Him as
 6442   2, 21  |             ill in ~the community. Now God is the governor and ruler
 6443   2, 21  |            actions are no business ~of God's.~Aquin.: SMT FS Q[21]
 6444   2, 21  |               1 Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 1: God in Himself neither gains
 6445   2, 21  |             part, takes something from God, or offers ~something to
 6446   2, 21  |               the order ~instituted by God.~Aquin.: SMT FS Q[21] A[
 6447   2, 21  |            moved, as an instrument, by God, that, at the ~same time,
 6448   2, 21  |          acquires merit or ~demerit in God's sight.~Aquin.: SMT FS
 6449   2, 21  |               has, must be referred to God: and therefore every ~action
 6450   2, 21  |               demerit in the ~sight of God, as far as the action itself
 6451   2, 22  |           Supreme Perfection, i.e. ~to God, there is but little potentiality
 6452   2, 22  |          ascribed by the Scriptures to God and the angels. ~Therefore
 6453   2, 22  |               the like are ascribed to God or the ~angels, or to man
 6454   2, 24  |                man's action is like to God, the better it ~is: hence
 6455   2, 24  |                1): "Be ye followers of God, as most ~dear children."
 6456   2, 24  |             most ~dear children." But "God and the holy angels feel
 6457   2, 24  |            have rejoiced in the living God": where by ~"heart" we are
 6458   2, 24  |              Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 2: In God and the angels there is
 6459   2, 26  |            possible for man to tend to God by love, ~being as it were
 6460   2, 27  |              known: ~thus in this life God can be loved in Himself,
 6461   2, 27  |                applies ~to the love of God.~Aquin.: SMT FS Q[27] A[
 6462   2, 28  |         abideth in charity ~abideth in God, and God in him." Now charity
 6463   2, 28  |           charity ~abideth in God, and God in him." Now charity is
 6464   2, 28  |             Now charity is the love of God. ~Therefore, for the same
 6465   2, 28  |      concerning the Holy Ghost, Who is God's Love, that He ~"searcheth
 6466   2, 28  |                 yea the deep things of God" (1 Cor. 2:10).~Aquin.:
 6467   2, 28  |           produces ecstasy," and that "God Himself suffered ecstasy
 6468   2, 28  |        Dionysius says (Div. Nom. iv): "God is said to be a ~zealot,
 6469   2, 28  |               is said to be zealous on God's behalf, when he endeavors,
 6470   2, 28  |               to the honor or will of ~God; according to 3 Kgs. 19:
 6471   2, 28  |        bettered chiefly by the love of God: but ~is wounded and worsened
 6472   2, 30  |                for the commandments of God is not in the ~sensitive
 6473   2, 30  |              is good." But desire ~for God's commandments is an act
 6474   2, 30  |            have rejoiced in the living God."~Aquin.: SMT FS Q[30] A[
 6475   2, 31  |               appetite cannot reach to God; only the intellectual ~
 6476   2, 31  |                for thus it is ~also in God and the angels. Hence the
 6477   2, 31  |                 Ethic. vii, 14) ~that "God rejoices by one simple act":
 6478   2, 31  |              but rejoice together with God with the gladness of incorruption."~
 6479   2, 32  |            What means this, O ~Lord my God, whereas Thou art everlasting
 6480   2, 32  |               Ps. 76:4): "I remembered God, and was delighted."~Aquin.:
 6481   2, 32  |               for himself, either from God or from man: ~for hope is
 6482   2, 33  |               of the angels, who know ~God perfectly, and delight in
 6483   2, 34  |             from reason and the law of God.~Aquin.: SMT FS Q[34] A[
 6484   2, 34  |                 because they have from God their natural appetite,
 6485   2, 34  |               all else, in which sense God is the Supreme Good; ~whereas
 6486   2, 34  |               may be said to be either God Who is ~the Supreme Good
 6487   2, 34  |            simply; or the enjoyment of God, which implies a certain ~
 6488   2, 34  |                of ~hearts and reins is God," says: "The end of care
 6489   2, 35  |            sorrow that is according to God, worketh penance steadfast
 6490   2, 35  |             salvation." Now to look at God belongs to the higher reason,
 6491   2, 35  |           sorrow which is according to God," is not caused by ~the
 6492   2, 35  |               contrary to ~the love of God.~Aquin.: SMT FS Q[35] A[
 6493   2, 37  |            them." But the judgments of God and tribulation cause sorrow
 6494   2, 37  |               more apt to be taught by God.~Aquin.: SMT FS Q[37] A[
 6495   2, 37  |            made sorrowful according to God, how great carefulness it ~
 6496   2, 37  |          sorrow which is ~according to God, because it brings with
 6497   2, 39  |               opposed to the decree of God, to Whose providence whatever
 6498   2, 39  |           actually happen, not because God wills, but ~because He permits
 6499   2, 39  |              happen actually, even by ~God's will. But it is not necessary
 6500   2, 42  |                there can be no evil in God. But we are commanded to ~