Part, Question

 6501   2, 42  |              we are commanded to ~fear God, according to Ps. 33:10: "
 6502   2, 42  |         inflict that evil. In this way God is feared by man, inasmuch
 6503   2, 42  |               fears to be severed from God." Now nothing but sin severs ~
 6504   2, 42  |                but sin severs ~us from God; according to Is. 59:2: "
 6505   2, 42  |          divided ~between you and your God." Therefore the evil of
 6506   2, 42  |           Reply OBJ 1: Separation from God is a punishment resulting
 6507   2, 43  |              instance, through fear of God's punishments, man keeps
 6508   2, 45  |                because they think that God comes to the ~assistance
 6509   2, 47  |                can do ~nothing against God; since it is written (Job
 6510   2, 47  |               do against Him?" And yet God is spoken of ~as being angry
 6511   2, 47  |                1: We speak of anger in God, not as of a passion of
 6512   2, 47  |          sinner, by sinning, cannot do God any actual harm: but ~so
 6513   2, 47  |             concerned, he acts against God in two ways. ~First, in
 6514   2, 47  |               in so far as he despises God in His commandments. Secondly,
 6515   2, 47  |               which injury redounds to God, ~inasmuch as the person
 6516   2, 47  |                injured is an object of God's providence and ~protection.~
 6517   2, 49  |              as is clearly the case in God.~Aquin.: SMT FS Q[49] A[
 6518   2, 50  |            above all other ~things, in God's goodness." But that which
 6519   2, 50  |       themselves unto conformity with ~God, and therefore not by means
 6520   2, 50  |                be pure act ~belongs to God alone), therefore, as far
 6521   2, 50  |              act (for this ~belongs to God alone), but with an admixture
 6522   2, 50  |           attains to the perfection of God, but all are ~infinitely
 6523   2, 50  |          reason, in order to attain to God ~Himself, through intellect
 6524   2, 50  |             them they are made like to God.~Aquin.: SMT FS Q[50] A[
 6525   2, 51  |           habits are infused in man by God? ~(tm)Aquin.: SMT FS Q[51]
 6526   2, 51  |               things, which belongs to God alone. Because that by which
 6527   2, 51  |           habits are infused in man by God?~Aquin.: SMT FS Q[51] A[
 6528   2, 51  |             habit is infused in man by God. For God ~treats all equally.
 6529   2, 51  |             infused in man by God. For God ~treats all equally. If
 6530   2, 51  |              Para. 1/1~OBJ 2: Further, God works in all things according
 6531   2, 51  |               above (A[2]). Therefore ~God does not cause habits to
 6532   2, 51  |           habit be infused into man by God, man can by that ~habit
 6533   2, 51  |                not infused into man by God.~Aquin.: SMT FS Q[51] A[
 6534   2, 51  |               written (Ecclus. 15:5): "God filled him with the ~spirit
 6535   2, 51  |                are infused into man by God.~Aquin.: SMT FS Q[51] A[
 6536   2, 51  |             Some habits are infused by God into man, for two reasons.~
 6537   2, 51  |               other reason is, because God can produce the effects
 6538   2, 51  |               1 Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 1: God, in respect of His Nature,
 6539   2, 51  |            Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 2: That God works in all according to
 6540   2, 51  |           their mode, does not ~hinder God from doing what nature cannot
 6541   2, 54  |             anyone, if it be done ~for God's sake, is an act of charity;
 6542   2, 55  |               be disposed by virtue is God Himself, as ~Augustine proves (
 6543   2, 55  |               the soul in reference to God, likening it, as it were,
 6544   2, 55  |              Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 3: As God's substance is His act,
 6545   2, 55  |            highest likeness of man ~to God is in respect of some operation.
 6546   2, 55  |                perfectly ~conformed to God, and which is the end of
 6547   2, 55  |                can make bad use, which God works in ~us, without us."
 6548   2, 55  |               unsuitable to say ~that "God works virtue in us, without
 6549   2, 55  |                 Body Para. 4/4~Lastly, God is the efficient cause of
 6550   2, 55  |          expressed in the words "which God works ~in us without us."
 6551   2, 55  |              virtue is caused in us by God without any action on ~our
 6552   2, 55  |            sense of the words, ~"which God works in us without us."
 6553   2, 55  |          things which are done by ~us, God causes them in us, yet not
 6554   2, 56  |             direct man's affections to God or to his neighbor are ~
 6555   2, 57  |            pertaining to nature or ~to God. Therefore such like habits
 6556   2, 57  |               complete happiness, i.e. God, Who is the supreme object
 6557   2, 58  |         faithful and to do his duty to God." Now science is ~an intellectual
 6558   2, 58  |                sharing in the grace of God. ~(tm)Aquin.: SMT FS Q[58]
 6559   2, 58  |            virtuous and acceptable ~to God, without being vigorous
 6560   2, 59  |            sorrow that is according to God ~worketh penance steadfast
 6561   2, 59  |               that we are conformed to God, as ~Augustine declares (
 6562   2, 59  |               Eccl. vi, xi, xiii). But God does all ~things without
 6563   2, 59  |               no sensitive appetite in God and the angels, as ~there
 6564   2, 59  |         Consequently good operation in God and the angels is ~altogether
 6565   2, 60  |             whereby we pay our debt to God; "Piety," ~whereby we pay
 6566   2, 61  |                as exist in the mind of God." Now the Philosopher says ~(
 6567   2, 61  |            temperance, and prudence to God." Therefore these virtues
 6568   2, 61  |           exclusively to the things of God." But it seems wrong ~to
 6569   2, 61  |             virtue: this something is ~God: if we follow Him we shall
 6570   2, 61  |                must needs pre-exist in God, just as in Him pre-exist
 6571   2, 61  |                existing ~originally in God, and thus we speak of "exemplar"
 6572   2, 61  |         exemplar" virtues: so that in ~God the Divine Mind itself may
 6573   2, 61  |          temperance is ~the turning of God's gaze on Himself, even
 6574   2, 61  |                the appetite to reason. God's fortitude is His unchangeableness; ~
 6575   2, 61  |            contemplating the things of God, ~counts as nothing all
 6576   2, 61  |               thoughts ~of the soul to God alone: temperance, so far
 6577   2, 61  |          nought else but the things of God; ~temperance knows no earthly
 6578   2, 61  |            absurd to attribute them to God.~Aquin.: SMT FS Q[61] A[
 6579   2, 62  |            which are ~not in us but in God. Therefore the theological
 6580   2, 62  |             because they ~direct us to God, Who is the first beginning
 6581   2, 62  |          direct the reason and will to God.~Aquin.: SMT FS Q[62] A[
 6582   2, 62  |                virtues directing us to God. Therefore they ~are theological
 6583   2, 62  |             can obtain by the power of God alone, by a ~kind of participation
 6584   2, 62  |                for man to receive from God some additional principles, ~
 6585   2, 62  |                because their object is God, inasmuch as ~they direct
 6586   2, 62  |               they direct us aright to God: secondly, because they
 6587   2, 62  |             they are infused in us by ~God alone: thirdly, because
 6588   2, 62  |           called Divine, not as though God were ~virtuous by reason
 6589   2, 62  |              them, but because of them God makes us virtuous, ~and
 6590   2, 62  |              are naturally directed to God, inasmuch ~as He is the
 6591   2, 62  |              those which direct us to ~God. Now, among the intellectual
 6592   2, 62  |               one which directs us to ~God: this is wisdom, which is
 6593   2, 62  |                theological virtues is ~God Himself, Who is the last
 6594   2, 62  |           virtues direct man's soul to God. Now ~man's soul cannot
 6595   2, 62  |             soul cannot be directed to God, save through the intellective
 6596   2, 62  |              heart of man, what things God hath prepared for ~them
 6597   2, 62  |                 1:25: "The weakness of God is stronger than men."~Aquin.:
 6598   2, 63  |                 but is caused in us by God, according to Eph. 2:8: "
 6599   2, 63  |             sin except by the grace of God, ~according to Wis. 8:21: "
 6600   2, 63  |        otherwise be continent, ~except God gave it." Therefore neither
 6601   2, 63  |                but only by the gift of God.~Aquin.: SMT FS Q[63] A[
 6602   2, 63  |              inserts the words, "which God works ~in us without us" (
 6603   2, 63  |          virtues are ~infused in us by God. Because God does not do
 6604   2, 63  |          infused in us by God. Because God does not do by Himself,
 6605   2, 63  |                Coel. Hier. iv), "it is God's rule to bring about ~extremes
 6606   2, 63  |                superfluity is found in God's works than in ~the works
 6607   2, 63  |          needing to be caused in us by God.~Aquin.: SMT FS Q[63] A[
 6608   2, 63  |              suffices: ~much less does God. But God sowed the seeds
 6609   2, 63  |                much less does God. But God sowed the seeds of virtue
 6610   2, 63  |             which natural principles, ~God bestows on us the theological
 6611   2, 63  |               we need to receive ~from God other habits corresponding,
 6612   2, 63  |                for us to receive, from God ~immediately, others that
 6613   2, 63  |             end, inchoatively: i.e. to God Himself immediately. But
 6614   2, 63  |             things, yet in relation to God.~Aquin.: SMT FS Q[63] A[
 6615   2, 63  |              that which is ~wrought by God immediately, from that which
 6616   2, 63  |            creature. But ~the man whom God made, is of the same species
 6617   2, 63  |             contains the words, "which God works in us without us,"
 6618   2, 63  |                Douay: ~'domestics'] of God" (Eph. 2:19), differ from
 6619   2, 63  |               3 Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 3: God gave the man born blind
 6620   2, 63  |                It would be the same if God wished to give a man ~miraculously
 6621   2, 64  |             manner, i.e. according ~to God's word, and for the sake
 6622   2, 64  |             sinning by excess ~against God, Who is the object of theological
 6623   2, 64  |               of theological virtue is God Himself: because our faith ~
 6624   2, 64  |              so that never can we love God as ~much as He ought to
 6625   2, 64  |                cannot be borne towards God as much as we ought, yet ~
 6626   2, 64  |         through hoping to receive from God a good in excess of his
 6627   2, 64  |               hope in ~comparison with God, Whose goodness is infinite.
 6628   2, 64  |             with ~its object, which is God, in Whom we cannot believe
 6629   2, 65  |               Rm. 5:5: "The charity of God is poured forth in ~our
 6630   2, 65  |               acts, but are infused by God. Such like moral virtues
 6631   2, 65  |                reason for this is that God operates no less perfectly
 6632   2, 65  |              of faith is to believe in God; and since to ~believe is
 6633   2, 65  |                consists in looking to ~God for future bliss. This act
 6634   2, 65  |                 charity is the love of God. But it is possible for
 6635   2, 65  |                possible for us to love God ~naturally, without already
 6636   2, 65  |               is ~impossible to please God"; and this evidently belongs
 6637   2, 65  |         signifies not only the love of God, but also a ~certain friendship
 6638   2, 65  |         abideth in charity, abideth in God, and God in him," and from
 6639   2, 65  |           charity, abideth in God, and God in him," and from 1 ~Cor.
 6640   2, 65  |               9, where it is written: "God is faithful, by Whom you
 6641   2, 65  |            this fellowship of man with God, ~which consists in a certain
 6642   2, 65  |                so too, friendship with God, which is charity, is impossible
 6643   2, 65  |           fellowship and colloquy with God, and to ~hope to attain
 6644   2, 65  |                not any kind of love of God, but that love of ~God,
 6645   2, 65  |              of God, but that love of ~God, by which He is loved as
 6646   2, 66  |              infused virtues, are from God Whose power is ~uniform
 6647   2, 66  |               3 Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 3: God does not work by necessity
 6648   2, 66  |             hath his ~proper gift from God; one after this manner,
 6649   2, 66  |              than another to a man, if God infused ~all the virtues
 6650   2, 66  |               or again by the grace of God.~Aquin.: SMT FS Q[66] A[
 6651   2, 66  |       according to Job 26:26: ~"Behold God is great, exceeding our
 6652   2, 66  |                Supreme Cause, which is God, as stated at the beginning
 6653   2, 66  |             principal object, which is God, it follows that the act
 6654   2, 66  |              to ~which knowledge about God pertains, is beyond the
 6655   2, 66  |      possession: for this "belongs to ~God alone" (Metaph. i, 2): and
 6656   2, 66  |            this little knowledge about God which ~we can have through
 6657   2, 66  |               Supreme Cause, ~which is God. And so wisdom makes use
 6658   2, 66  |           theological ~virtues look at God as their proper object,
 6659   2, 66  |         abideth in charity, abideth in God, and God in him."~Aquin.:
 6660   2, 66  |           charity, abideth in God, and God in him."~Aquin.: SMT FS
 6661   2, 66  |         appetitive movement tending to God, ~which movement belongs
 6662   2, 67  |           prefer nor equal any good to God; fortitude will adhere to
 6663   2, 67  |                 viz. "to be subject to God": because even in this life ~
 6664   2, 67  |              the object of hope, ~viz. God. Therefore they do not hope.~
 6665   2, 67  |                 viz. the enjoyment of ~God, it will no longer be possible
 6666   2, 67  |               to its object, which is ~God. But the acts of the moral
 6667   2, 67  |                an act of ~reverence to God, and with regard to this
 6668   2, 67  |              lest we be separated from God, and as regards this act,
 6669   2, 67  |                Because separation from God is in the nature of an evil: ~
 6670   2, 67  |                 for thus its object is God, and not a created good; ~
 6671   2, 67  |                   in the knowledge ~of God"; yet this light is imperfect
 6672   2, 67  |           which remains the same, viz. God ~Himself.~Aquin.: SMT FS
 6673   2, 67  |                 more perfectly we know God, the more perfectly we love
 6674   2, 68  |                are infused into us ~by God. Wherefore in this respect
 6675   2, 68  |                extrinsic to him, ~viz. God, as stated above (Q[9],
 6676   2, 68  |                disposed to be moved by God. These perfections ~are
 6677   2, 68  |            because they are infused by God, but also ~because by them
 6678   2, 68  |             perfecting man as moved by God. Hence the Philosopher (
 6679   2, 68  |               thing is opposed both to God and to reason, whose light
 6680   2, 68  |                whose light flows from ~God.~Aquin.: SMT FS Q[68] A[
 6681   2, 68  |          defined as something given by God in relation to His motion;
 6682   2, 68  |          follow well the promptings of God.~Aquin.: SMT FS Q[68] A[
 6683   2, 68  |            well ~in matters concerning God and matters concerning man.
 6684   2, 68  |                 Now man's behavior ~to God is sufficiently directed
 6685   2, 68  |               is written (Wis. 7:28): "God loveth none but him that
 6686   2, 68  |          amenable to the promptings of God. ~Wherefore in those matters
 6687   2, 68  |               s reason is perfected by God in two ways: first, with
 6688   2, 68  |                 since we love and know God ~imperfectly. Now it is
 6689   2, 68  |             excluding the operation of God, Who works inwardly in every ~
 6690   2, 68  |               special ~promptings from God, this will be out of God'
 6691   2, 68  |               God, this will be out of God's superabundant goodness: ~
 6692   2, 68  |               are led by the Spirit of God, they are sons of ~God . . .
 6693   2, 68  |              of God, they are sons of ~God . . . and if sons, heirs
 6694   2, 68  |            mentioned in the objection. God, ~however, to Whose knowledge
 6695   2, 68  |              is moved by the Spirit of God, as stated above (AA[1],
 6696   2, 68  |              is moved by the Spirit of God, he is somewhat like an
 6697   2, 68  |                than any, direct us to ~God. Since, then, the gifts
 6698   2, 68  |            according as he is moved by God, ~it seems that some gifts,
 6699   2, 68  |                OBJ 4: Further, even as God is an object of fear, so
 6700   2, 68  |               moved by the instinct of God, as by a superior power.
 6701   2, 68  |              pleasures through fear of God.~Aquin.: SMT FS Q[68] A[
 6702   2, 68  |                our country. And ~since God is the Father of all, the
 6703   2, 68  |          Father of all, the worship of God is also called piety, ~as
 6704   2, 68  |                  through reverence for God, works good to all, is fittingly
 6705   2, 68  |               primal union of man with God is by faith, hope and charity: ~
 6706   2, 68  |             good for their object. Now God is ~the Sovereign Good:
 6707   2, 68  |             virtues which unite man to God. On the ~other hand, the
 6708   2, 68  |              which can nowise apply to God: ~hence fear does not denote
 6709   2, 68  |             does not denote union with God, but withdrawal from certain ~
 6710   2, 68  |           things through reverence for God. Hence it does not give
 6711   2, 68  |           principal reason for fearing God is taken from a consideration
 6712   2, 68  |               Rm. 5:5: "The charity of God is poured ~forth in our
 6713   2, 68  |           Sancto i, 20): "The city of ~God, the heavenly Jerusalem
 6714   2, 68  |             realized in heaven, ~where God will be "all in all" (1
 6715   2, 68  |                 more ~than the others, God requires of man. Now God
 6716   2, 68  |               God requires of man. Now God requires of man fear, more ~
 6717   2, 68  |                 what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but that
 6718   2, 68  |                thou fear the Lord ~thy God?" and (Malachi 1:6): "If . . .
 6719   2, 68  |              is not compared ~with all God's gifts, but only with "
 6720   2, 68  |               of charity: "No gift ~of God is more excellent than this.
 6721   2, 68  |               man's mind is ~united to God; the intellectual virtues
 6722   2, 68  |                and dignity, as love of God precedes love of ~our neighbor:
 6723   2, 68  |             neighbor precedes love ~of God, as regards the act: and
 6724   2, 68  |              be rightly subordinate to God.~Aquin.: SMT FS Q[68] A[
 6725   2, 69  |          future life that we shall see God, and that our Divine sonship
 6726   2, 69  |                 We are now the sons of God; ~and it hath not yet appeared
 6727   2, 69  |                this life, men "obtain" God's "Mercy." Again, the eye ~
 6728   2, 69  |                can, so to speak, "see ~God." Likewise, in this life,
 6729   2, 69  |                approach to likeness to God, and are called "the children ~
 6730   2, 69  |               called "the children ~of God." Nevertheless these things
 6731   2, 69  |                Blessed is the man whom God correcteth"; and ~(Ps. i,
 6732   2, 69  |              so that man, according to God's will, is ~altogether undisturbed
 6733   2, 69  |                 through reverence ~for God, we consider only the needs
 6734   2, 69  |                 above. Because to "see God" corresponds to the gift
 6735   2, 69  |         understanding; and ~to be like God by being adoptive "children
 6736   2, 69  |            being adoptive "children of God," corresponds to the ~gift
 6737   2, 69  |              meekness is reverence for God, which belongs to ~piety.
 6738   2, 69  |           motive for being merciful is God's counsel, according to
 6739   2, 69  |                should seek it, viz. in God, but in temporal and perishable ~
 6740   2, 69  |            abundance of good things in God. Hence Our ~Lord promised
 6741   2, 69  |           promised that they shall see God. ~Again, to make peace either
 6742   2, 69  |               man to be ~a follower of God, Who is the God of unity
 6743   2, 69  |            follower of God, Who is the God of unity and peace. Hence,
 6744   2, 69  |      consisting in perfect ~union with God through consummate wisdom.~
 6745   2, 69  |              And yet more is it to see God, even as he is a greater
 6746   2, 70  |                   Whosoever is born of God, committeth no sin, for
 6747   2, 70  |               that man must delight in God for ~His own sake, as being
 6748   2, 70  |         movement of the soul in loving God and our neighbor." It is
 6749   2, 70  |                  5:5): "The charity of God is poured forth in our hearts
 6750   2, 70  |              always actual presence in God Whom it loves, according
 6751   2, 70  |         abideth in charity, abideth in God, and God in Him": ~wherefore
 6752   2, 70  |           charity, abideth in God, and God in Him": ~wherefore the
 6753   2, 70  |             them in their enjoyment of God. Secondly, as regards the
 6754   2, 70  |            faith whereby we believe in God, then man is directed thereby
 6755   2, 70  |      consequently, all that is his, to God.~Aquin.: SMT FS Q[70] A[
 6756   2, 70  |         whereby the soul is ~wedded to God: wherein also is true chastity.
 6757   2, 70  |            waged against the Gospel of God, is opposed to peace. Against ~
 6758   2, 71  |                contrary to ~the Law of God," as Augustine shows (Contra
 6759   2, 71  |             xxii, 27). But the Law ~of God is above nature. Therefore
 6760   2, 71  |               nature, as such, is from God; and is a vicious ~nature,
 6761   2, 71  |               being against the law of God.~Aquin.: SMT FS Q[71] A[
 6762   2, 71  |              the eternal law, which is God's reason, so to ~speak.
 6763   2, 71  |         chiefly as an offense against ~God; and the moral philosopher,
 6764   2, 72  |                deed, or desire against God's law." Now ~words, deeds,
 6765   2, 72  |             consists in departing from God's law. Of these two, one
 6766   2, 72  |               divided into sin against God, against oneself, ~and against
 6767   2, 72  |              divided into sin against ~God, against one's neighbor,
 6768   2, 72  |              to all sins to be against God: for it is stated in ~the
 6769   2, 72  |                sin that it is "against God's law," as stated above ~(
 6770   2, 72  |                  Therefore sin against God should not be reckoned a
 6771   2, 72  |           against himself and against ~God. Therefore sin is not fittingly
 6772   2, 72  |              from things external. But God ~and our neighbor are external
 6773   2, 72  |               against himself, against God, and ~against his neighbor."~
 6774   2, 72  |          comprised under the ~order of God Himself. Yet some things
 6775   2, 72  |          comprised under the order of ~God, which surpass the human
 6776   2, 72  |              faith, and things ~due to God alone. Hence he that sins
 6777   2, 72  |                 is said to sin against God. In like ~manner, the first
 6778   2, 72  |             whereby man is directed to God, his neighbor, and himself ~
 6779   2, 72  |            virtues man ~is directed to God; by temperance and fortitude,
 6780   2, 72  |            Reply OBJ 1: To sin against God is common to all sins, in
 6781   2, 72  |                so far as the ~order to God includes every human order;
 6782   2, 72  |              but in so far as order to God ~surpasses the other two
 6783   2, 72  |                two orders, sin against God is a special kind of sin.~
 6784   2, 72  |                1~Reply OBJ 3: Although God and our neighbor are external
 6785   2, 72  |                from its last end, viz. God, to Whom it is united by
 6786   2, 72  |             without turning away from ~God, there is venial sin. For
 6787   2, 72  |             without turning away ~from God, by the very nature of his
 6788   2, 72  |         essential to sin to be against God's law, for this ~is part
 6789   2, 72  |            said (Q[71], ~A[6]). Now in God's law, the affirmative precepts,
 6790   2, 72  |              Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 2: In God's law, the necessity for
 6791   2, 72  |                so far as to presume on God's mercy or to give ~himself
 6792   2, 73  |                because, as the love of God, which builds ~the city
 6793   2, 73  |              which builds ~the city of God, is the beginning and root
 6794   2, 73  |              passage, so that the same God is despised in every sin;
 6795   2, 73  |                through his contempt of God, which is the origin of
 6796   2, 73  |               by turning man away from God. ~Yet one act, even of mortal
 6797   2, 73  |               Reply OBJ 3: The love of God is unitive, in as much as
 6798   2, 73  |           which flow from ~the love of God, are connected together.
 6799   2, 73  |                is further directed to ~God as his end. Wherefore a
 6800   2, 73  |             committed directly against God, e.g. ~unbelief, blasphemy,
 6801   2, 73  |               of love, but the love of God: hence ~not any kind of
 6802   2, 73  |            directly, but the hatred of God, ~which is the most grievous
 6803   2, 73  |                it is proper to turn to God, and to turn away from Him;
 6804   2, 73  |                order ~of charity, than God and his neighbor, against
 6805   2, 73  |                its turning away ~(from God). But circumstances affect
 6806   2, 73  |                man's turning away from God, to Whom man ought to be
 6807   2, 73  |           himself: and no one can harm God, according to Job ~35:6,
 6808   2, 73  |             grievous than sins against God or oneself.~Aquin.: SMT
 6809   2, 73  |              which man commits against God, and in some which he commits
 6810   2, 73  |            that although no man can do God any harm ~in His substance,
 6811   2, 73  |                respect of persons with God" (Col. 3:25), according
 6812   2, 73  |                against the servants of God. Thus it is written (3 Kgs.
 6813   2, 73  |                 ends of human acts are God, man himself, and his neighbor:
 6814   2, 73  |                2~First, on the part of God, to Whom man is the more
 6815   2, 73  |             virtuous or more sacred to God: so that an injury inflicted
 6816   2, 73  |                a person redounds on to God according to Zach. 2:8: "
 6817   2, 73  |                more closely ~united to God by reason of personal sanctity,
 6818   2, 73  |              no respect for persons if God punishes more ~severely
 6819   2, 73  |           great chiefly by cleaving to God, ~according to Ecclus. 25:
 6820   2, 73  |             the ~more a man cleaves to God, the less is a sin imputed
 6821   2, 73  |                heart seek the Lord the God of their ~fathers; and will
 6822   2, 73  |                respect of persons with God" (Rm. 2:11). ~Therefore
 6823   2, 73  |               man excels, is a gift of God, to Whom man ~is ungrateful
 6824   2, 73  |               2 Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 2: God does not respect persons
 6825   2, 74  |               law. For if it thinks of God's ~law, it holds it in actual
 6826   2, 74  |         movement in ~things concerning God, if it be deliberate, is
 6827   2, 74  |                 contrary to the law of God, it sins more grievously
 6828   2, 74  |                contrary to the law of ~God. Now it is possible for
 6829   2, 74  |          eternal ~law, i.e. the law of God, is consulted, or can be
 6830   2, 74  |                 thus the existence ~of God may be considered, either
 6831   2, 75  |          desire contrary to the law of God." ~Therefore sin has a cause.~
 6832   2, 75  |                 the will inwardly save God alone, who cannot be a cause
 6833   2, 76  |             deed or desire contrary to God's law," as stated above (
 6834   2, 76  |               acquired by acts, but by God's favor.~Aquin.: SMT FS
 6835   2, 76  |              not that the benignity of God leadeth thee to penance?"
 6836   2, 77  |               amounting to contempt of God, builds up the city of Babylon."
 6837   2, 77  |                 leading to contempt of God, that Augustine (De Civ.
 6838   2, 77  |               to the reason to turn to God, or to turn away ~from Him,
 6839   2, 77  |             from our last end which is God, which aversion pertains
 6840   2, 77  |                so as to turn away from God, or turn to Him. If, however,
 6841   2, 78  |            purpose ~have revolted from God [Vulg.: 'Him'], and would
 6842   2, 78  |              ways." Now to revolt from God is to sin. Therefore some
 6843   2, 78  |            pleasure without ~offending God; but with the two set before
 6844   2, 78  |          sinning and thereby incurring God's anger, to being deprived
 6845   2, 78  |            consisting in ~the grace of God or charity. Wherefore it
 6846   2, 79  |                and (1) on the part of ~God; (2) on the part of the
 6847   2, 79  |                of inquiry:~(1) Whether God is a cause of sin?~(2) Whether
 6848   2, 79  |         Whether the act of sin is from God?~(3) Whether God is the
 6849   2, 79  |               is from God?~(3) Whether God is the cause of spiritual
 6850   2, 79  |                Thes. Para. 1/1~Whether God is a cause of sin?~Aquin.:
 6851   2, 79  |              OBJ 1: It would seem that God is a cause of sin. For the
 6852   2, 79  |              certain ones (Rm. 1:28): "God delivered them up to a reprobate
 6853   2, 79  |                on this by saying that "God works in men's hearts, by
 6854   2, 79  |           inclined to ~evil. Therefore God is to man a cause of sin.~
 6855   2, 79  |              14:11): "The creatures of God are ~turned to an abomination;
 6856   2, 79  |                 creatures were made by God alone, as was established
 6857   2, 79  |              44], ~A[1], it seems that God is a cause of sin, by provoking
 6858   2, 79  |              cause of the effect. Now ~God is the cause of the free-will,
 6859   2, 79  |               cause of sin. ~Therefore God is the cause of sin.~Aquin.:
 6860   2, 79  |             But it is not contrary to ~God's goodness that He should
 6861   2, 79  |                written (Is. 45:7) that God creates evil, and (Amos
 6862   2, 79  |              be evil in the city which God [Vulg.: 'the Lord'] hath
 6863   2, 79  |               is not incompatible with God's goodness that He ~should
 6864   2, 79  |             which Thou hast made." Now God hates sin, according to
 6865   2, 79  |           according to Wis. ~14:9: "To God the wicked and his wickedness
 6866   2, 79  |                are hateful." Therefore God ~is not a cause of sin.~
 6867   2, 79  |                blood at thy hand." Now God cannot be directly the cause ~
 6868   2, 79  |             from the order which is to God as the end: whereas God
 6869   2, 79  |                God as the end: whereas God inclines and turns ~all
 6870   2, 79  |        indirectly. For it happens that God does not give some ~the
 6871   2, 79  |              is therefore evident that God is nowise a cause of sin.~
 6872   2, 79  |           clear from ~the text. For if God delivered some up to a reprobate
 6873   2, 79  |             taken) to the effect that "God inclines men's wills to
 6874   2, 79  |              is said the "creatures of God are turned 'to' an ~abomination,
 6875   2, 79  |                imply ~causality.]; for God did not make the creatures
 6876   2, 79  |             against the commandment of God, is not ~attributed to God
 6877   2, 79  |             God, is not ~attributed to God as being its cause.~Aquin.:
 6878   2, 79  |               good of subordination to God; and so it is directly opposed
 6879   2, 79  |         Whether the act of sin is from God?~Aquin.: SMT FS Q[79] A[
 6880   2, 79  |             the act of sin is not from God. For Augustine ~says (De
 6881   2, 79  |                  Now ~whatever is from God is a thing. Therefore the
 6882   2, 79  |             the act of sin is not from God.~Aquin.: SMT FS Q[79] A[
 6883   2, 79  |             states (Div. Nom. iv). Now God is not a cause of sin, as
 6884   2, 79  |                above (A[1]). Therefore God is not the cause of the
 6885   2, 79  |              its species. If therefore God ~caused the act of sin,
 6886   2, 79  |                above (A[1]). Therefore God is not the cause of the
 6887   2, 79  |           free-will. Now "the ~will of God is the cause of every movement,"
 6888   2, 79  |             Trin. iii, 4,9). Therefore God's will is the cause of the
 6889   2, 79  |              both ~respects it is from God. Because every being, whatever
 6890   2, 79  |         reduced to the First Act, viz. God, as to its cause, Who ~is
 6891   2, 79  |              by His Essence. Therefore God is the cause of every action,
 6892   2, 79  |               of the First Agent, viz. God. Consequently ~this defect
 6893   2, 79  |               defect is not reduced to God as its cause, but to the
 6894   2, 79  |               the limping. Accordingly God is the cause of the act
 6895   2, 79  |                cause of the sin: while God is the cause of the act,
 6896   2, 79  |             consists in not being from God, belongs to the species ~
 6897   2, 79  |                Thes. Para. 1/1~Whether God is the cause of spiritual
 6898   2, 79  |              OBJ 1: It would seem that God is not the cause of spiritual
 6899   2, 79  |               Qq. lxxxiii, qu. 3) that God ~is not the cause of that
 6900   2, 79  |           hardness of heart. Therefore God is not the cause ~of spiritual
 6901   2, 79  |               Dupl. Praedest. i, 19): "God does ~not punish what He
 6902   2, 79  |            punish what He causes." Now God punishes the hardened heart, ~
 6903   2, 79  |               at the last." ~Therefore God is not the cause of hardness
 6904   2, 79  |          according to 2 Cor. 4:4: "The god of this world hath blinded
 6905   2, 79  |           causes seem to be opposed to God. Therefore God is ~not the
 6906   2, 79  |              opposed to God. Therefore God is ~not the cause of spiritual
 6907   2, 79  |            light; and as regards this, God is not the ~cause of spiritual
 6908   2, 79  |             mind is not enlightened by God to see aright, and ~man'
 6909   2, 79  |            aright; and as regards this God is ~the cause of spiritual
 6910   2, 79  |              Now we must consider that God is the universal cause of
 6911   2, 79  |           necessity of nature, whereas God works ~freely, through the
 6912   2, 79  |           shutters. On the other hand, God, of His own ~accord, withholds
 6913   2, 79  |                 obstacle to grace; but God, Who, of His own accord,
 6914   2, 79  |               His grace. ~In this way, God is the cause of spiritual
 6915   2, 79  |               Enchiridion xi) that "as God is supremely good, He would ~
 6916   2, 79  |              Himself is the cause. Now God is the cause of blindness
 6917   2, 79  |              written (Wis. 1:13) that "God hath no pleasure in ~the
 6918   2, 79  |               of the ungodly [*Vulg.: 'God made not death, neither
 6919   2, 79  |            medicine for him. Therefore God turns blindness to ~the
 6920   2, 79  |             Para. 1/1~OBJ 3: Further, "God is not a respecter of persons" (
 6921   2, 79  |                Evang. ~iii). Therefore God turns all blindness to the
 6922   2, 79  |        blindness is an evil. Therefore God does not ~blind some for
 6923   2, 79  |               to another, by reason of God's mercy or providence, viz.
 6924   2, 79  |                be healed, in so far as God permits some to fall into
 6925   2, 79  |              reprobation. But, through God's ~mercy, temporary blindness
 6926   2, 79  |           Reply OBJ 1: Every evil that God does, or permits to be done,
 6927   2, 79  |               2 Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 2: God does not take pleasure in
 6928   2, 79  |            Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 3: That God directs the blindness of
 6929   2, 79  |              not to all, does not make God a respecter of persons, ~
 6930   2, 80  |          Contra Jovin. ii, 2) that "as God is the ~perfecter of good,
 6931   2, 80  |                perfecter of evil." But God is ~directly the cause of
 6932   2, 80  |             evil things. Therefore, as God moves man to take good counsel,
 6933   2, 80  |               than the will itself, or God, as ~was shown above (Q[
 6934   2, 80  |           above (Q[9], AA[3],4,6). Now God cannot be the cause of sin,
 6935   2, 80  |             cause of our sins, even as God is in a certain way the
 6936   2, 80  |             the mode of causation: for God ~causes good things in us
 6937   2, 80  |               3 Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 3: God is the universal principle
 6938   2, 80  |              nature. Now it belongs to God alone to ~do anything beside
 6939   2, 80  |               7): "Be subject . . . to God, ~but resist the devil,
 6940   2, 80  |            unless he be restrained by ~God, can compel anyone to do
 6941   2, 80  |             man, can move man's ~will; God alone can do this, as stated
 6942   2, 81  |           punished by the ~judgment of God for the sin of their immediate
 6943   2, 81  |              to Ex. ~20:5: "I am . . . God . . . jealous, visiting
 6944   2, 81  |            gift of grace, conferred by God on ~all human nature in
 6945   2, 81  |       imitation, because every soul is God's immediate ~property, as
 6946   2, 81  |             death will be ~remitted by God, since He can also forgive
 6947   2, 81  |            anyone were to be formed by God out of human flesh, it is
 6948   2, 81  |               soul remained subject to God. Now privation of original
 6949   2, 81  |                 behooved the Mother of God "to shine with the greatest
 6950   2, 81  |           nothing is worthy to receive God ~unless it be pure, according
 6951   2, 82  |               29): "Behold the Lamb of God, ~behold Him Who taketh
 6952   2, 82  |           subjection of man's mind to ~God. Consequently original sin
 6953   2, 82  |               s will being subject to ~God: which subjection, first
 6954   2, 82  |            will being turned away from God, all the other powers of ~
 6955   2, 82  |               will was made subject to God, is the formal element ~
 6956   2, 82  |          original sin: for, ~supposing God were to grant to a man to
 6957   2, 83  |               rational soul created by God is infused into the ~body.
 6958   2, 83  |         creation or infusion: and thus God ~would be the cause of sin,
 6959   2, 83  |            infection of original sin, ~God, Who is wisdom itself, would
 6960   2, 83  |                sin is nowise caused by God, but ~by the sin alone of
 6961   2, 83  |                relation in the soul to God alone, it cannot be ~said
 6962   2, 83  |               implies relation both to God infusing and to the flesh
 6963   2, 83  |                 And so, with regard to God infusing, it cannot ~be
 6964   2, 83  |               private good. Wherefore ~God, according to His wisdom,
 6965   2, 83  |               the soul, because it was God's gift to human nature,
 6966   2, 84  |              desire for the immutable ~God; and consequently charity,
 6967   2, 84  |          charity, which is the love of God, is called the ~root of
 6968   2, 84  |             Douay: 'to fall off'] from God." But apostasy ~from God
 6969   2, 84  |               God." But apostasy ~from God is a sin. Therefore another
 6970   2, 84  |            denoting actual contempt of God, to the effect of not being ~
 6971   2, 84  |               sin as turning away from God, to Whose ~commandment man
 6972   2, 84  |         consists in turning away from ~God.~Aquin.: SMT FS Q[84] A[
 6973   2, 84  |             what follows (verse 17): ~"God hath overturned the thrones
 6974   2, 84  |             Reply OBJ 2: Apostasy from God is stated to be the beginning
 6975   2, 84  |            denotes a turning away from God, because from the fact ~
 6976   2, 84  |            wishes not to be subject to God, it follows that he desires ~
 6977   2, 84  |          passage quoted, apostasy from God does not denote the special
 6978   2, 84  |              in its turning ~away from God. It may also be said that
 6979   2, 84  |                said that apostasy from God is said to be ~the beginning
 6980   2, 84  |           superior, ~and especially to God; the result being that a
 6981   2, 84  |              far as it turns away from God, for in ~this respect it
 6982   2, 84  |               immutable good, which is God, whereas vice arises from
 6983   2, 85  |               itself was perfected ~by God, and was subject to Him.
 6984   2, 85  |            according to the justice of God Who inflicts them as punishments.~
 6985   2, 85  |                1 ~On the contrary, (1) God made in man whatever is
 6986   2, 85  |               is natural to him. Now ~"God made not death" (Wis. 1:
 6987   2, 85  |              substance, in which sense God is said by ~some to be "
 6988   2, 85  |                matter if it could. But God, to Whom every nature is
 6989   2, 85  |            sense that it is said that "God made not death," and ~that
 6990   2, 86  |                in the same relation to God: and so there ~is no comparison.~
 6991   2, 86  |              act of sin parts man from God, which parting causes the ~
 6992   2, 87  |                it is just, and is from God. Therefore it is not an
 6993   2, 87  |             and a ~third, inflicted by God.~Aquin.: SMT FS Q[87] A[
 6994   2, 87  |             may be inflicted either by God ~or by man: wherefore the
 6995   2, 87  |              just punishments are from God, as Augustine says (Qq. ~
 6996   2, 87  |               82). But sin is not from God, and is an injustice. Therefore ~
 6997   2, 87  |                punishment, and is from God, as stated above (Q[79],
 6998   2, 87  |              when he says: ~"Wherefore God gave them up to the desires
 6999   2, 87  |               1~Reply OBJ 1: Even when God punishes men by permitting
 7000   2, 87  |                for ~its own sake. But "God hath not pleasure in the