Part, Question

 7501   2, 102 |              set up for the worship of God. Therefore ~it should have
 7502   2, 102 |                 1/1~OBJ 8: Further, in God's works nothing should be
 7503   2, 102 |           instituted for the praise of God. Therefore it was not fitting
 7504   2, 102 |                man may give worship to God. Now man's tendency is to
 7505   2, 102 |              to greater ~reverence for God.~Aquin.: SMT FS Q[102] A[
 7506   2, 102 |          pertaining to the ~worship of God. ~Aquin.: SMT FS Q[102]
 7507   2, 102 |            regards two things: namely, God Who is ~worshipped; and
 7508   2, 102 |               worship Him. Accordingly God, Who is worshipped, ~is
 7509   2, 102 |              set up for the worship of God, for two reasons. First,
 7510   2, 102 |               aside for the worship of God, they might approach thither ~
 7511   2, 102 |                not in order to contain God, as abiding ~therein locally,
 7512   2, 102 |              therein locally, but that God might be made known there
 7513   2, 102 |                Abraham, ~instructed by God, had chosen for the purpose
 7514   2, 102 |              chosen for the worship of God. Hence it is written (Dt. ~
 7515   2, 102 |              place which the Lord your God shall ~choose . . . and
 7516   2, 102 |              fixed ~for the worship of God. This is the literal reason
 7517   2, 102 |             the unity of the ~Godhead, God wished sacrifices to be
 7518   2, 102 |                of itself acceptable to God; and ~consequently the multiplication
 7519   2, 102 |               the spiritual worship of God, ~consisting in the teaching
 7520   2, 102 |             together for the praise of God; just as now there are ~
 7521   2, 102 |                betokened the ~unity of God, or the unity of the Church,
 7522   2, 102 |            things that are ~subject to God, and from which we arise
 7523   2, 102 |                arise to the worship of God. Now the ~tabernacle was
 7524   2, 102 |             ordained to the worship of God. ~Because the different
 7525   2, 102 |              the saints ~underwent for God; scarlet twice dyed, signifying
 7526   2, 102 |         signifying the twofold love of God ~and our neighbor; and violet,
 7527   2, 102 |                 to be the very seat of God. For this reason it was
 7528   2, 102 |              obedience, as it were, to God: while the ark of the ~testament
 7529   2, 102 |             that higher world: namely, God ~Who is above all, and incomprehensible
 7530   2, 102 |             creature, which is beneath God, as ~the seat under the
 7531   2, 102 |           commanded to worship but one God. ~Moreover there are, enclosed
 7532   2, 102 |               through ~the goodness of God that it was granted to man,
 7533   2, 102 |                to bring ~the people to God: and this was signified
 7534   2, 102 |               the people acceptable to God: for it is written (Apoc.
 7535   2, 102 |               is the mediator ~between God and the people, governing
 7536   2, 102 |               the rod; and offering to God the fruit of His government,
 7537   2, 102 |               the benefit conferred by God on the children of ~Israel
 7538   2, 102 |             possessed were offered ~to God: and consequently the people
 7539   2, 102 |            offered these sacrifices to God ~by the hands of the priest
 7540   2, 102 |             was to offer the people to God, could approach ~the inner
 7541   2, 102 |             the people was ~offered to God. And this altar was put
 7542   2, 102 |                 Let all the angels of ~God adore Him." He is also signified
 7543   2, 102 |               must be offered to us to God through Him; both those ~
 7544   2, 102 |               of mind, are ~offered to God in Christ, by the spiritual
 7545   2, 102 |          sacrifice of praise always to God."~Aquin.: SMT FS Q[102]
 7546   2, 102 |      sacrifices and gifts, in honor of God, and for the upkeep of the ~
 7547   2, 102 |             the altar of the Lord thy ~God": since idolaters were wont
 7548   2, 102 |            constructed to the honor of God, ~there was no longer reason
 7549   2, 102 |            enlightened by the ~love of God and our neighbor." The coverings
 7550   2, 102 |               at the prayer of ~Moses, God forgave the people's sin
 7551   2, 102 |             being protected and led by God ~through the desert, where
 7552   2, 102 |              promise; to signify ~that God had brought them through
 7553   2, 102 |           Christ, Who is the "Lamb of ~God," according to Heb. 13:8: "
 7554   2, 102 |                 until they come to see God, as stated in Ps. 83:8. ~(
 7555   2, 102 |                 manner to the Lord thy God: for they have done to their
 7556   2, 102 |                done for the worship of God ~should be marked with decorum
 7557   2, 102 |        something impure. But as far as God is concerned, no bodily
 7558   2, 102 |                 because all bodies are God's creatures; and "every ~
 7559   2, 102 |                and "every ~creature of God is good, and nothing to
 7560   2, 102 |           shall not offer bread to his God . . . if he be blind, if
 7561   2, 102 |                unreasonable is done by God, for it is written (Ps. ~
 7562   2, 102 |          applied to the worshippers of God for their ~consecration
 7563   2, 102 |          depute them to the worship of God. ~Now the worship of God
 7564   2, 102 |               God. ~Now the worship of God belonged in a general way
 7565   2, 102 |               the state of worshipping God: and this institution was ~
 7566   2, 102 |             ordained to the worship of God for the time being, and ~
 7567   2, 102 |              profess his belief in one God. And because Abraham was
 7568   2, 102 |               blessing of being led by God out of Egypt. Hence by ~
 7569   2, 102 |         belonged to that people ~which God had taken to Himself out
 7570   2, 102 |               devotion of the mind to ~God; and corporal, consisting
 7571   2, 102 |           belonging to the ~worship of God, so that when they did approach,
 7572   2, 102 |             kept away from worshipping God through fear of ~coming
 7573   2, 102 |               the seed is ~the word of God." The uncleanness of sexual
 7574   2, 102 |             sense of this was that "to God the ~wicked and his wickedness
 7575   2, 102 |             read in Num. 19. For there God commanded them to take a ~
 7576   2, 102 |                by fire, either because God appeared to ~Moses in a
 7577   2, 102 |               ordained to the glory of God. Then he offered two he-goats
 7578   2, 102 |              men and to the worship of God. It happened sometimes,
 7579   2, 102 |              men and to the worship of God, to wit, after seven days. ~
 7580   2, 102 |            they ~should be obedient to God's law in offering the sacrifices (
 7581   2, 102 |          excluding from the worship of God whatever might be an ~object
 7582   2, 102 |            destined to the ~service of God was not to be made in a
 7583   2, 102 |            golden plate was a token of God, the governor of the ~universe.~
 7584   2, 102 |        vestments denote the virtues of God's ministers. Now there are
 7585   2, 102 |              continual recollection of God in ~their thoughts; and
 7586   2, 102 |             forehead, with the name of God engraved thereon. Secondly,
 7587   2, 102 |                4), "every ~creature of God is good, and nothing to
 7588   2, 102 |              Further, to be mindful of God's commandments concerns
 7589   2, 102 |              bind" the commandments of God "as a sign" on ~their hands;
 7590   2, 102 |         Apostle says (1 Cor. 9:9) that God does not "take ~care for
 7591   2, 102 |             instructed by the Lord thy God": from which words we may
 7592   2, 102 |         observances were instituted by God to be a special prerogative
 7593   2, 102 |              chosen for the worship of God, and among them the priests
 7594   2, 102 |               worthy of the worship of God; so too in that people's, ~
 7595   2, 102 |          fittingness to the worship of God; ~secondly, according as
 7596   2, 102 |               to ~be burnt in honor of God; and, again, because blood
 7597   2, 102 |           clean by nature, because all God's creatures ~are good: yet
 7598   2, 102 |              signifies those who fight God's ~cause, and at the same
 7599   2, 102 |                an animal. Consequently God being wishful to ~bring
 7600   2, 102 |               fruits, were offered to ~God: and from the fifth year
 7601   2, 102 |           Christ, was to be offered to God. ~Or again, that we must
 7602   2, 102 |            behaves to animals, because God has ~subjected all things
 7603   2, 102 |                the ~Apostle says that "God has no care for oxen"; because
 7604   2, 102 |                care for oxen"; because God does not ask of ~man what
 7605   2, 102 |            anathematized as hateful in God's sight. This is clear from
 7606   2, 102 |                wit: "For ~the Lord thy God walketh in the midst of
 7607   2, 102 |               may become acceptable to God, according to Ps. 31:1: "
 7608   2, 103 |                priest of the most high God." ~Therefore the sacramental
 7609   2, 103 |                    which the Lord your God commanded that I should
 7610   2, 103 |               purpose; the ~worship of God, and the foreshadowing of
 7611   2, 103 |           Christ. Now whoever worships God ~must needs worship Him
 7612   2, 103 |        devotion of those ~that worship God. Since, however, even before
 7613   2, 103 |               prompted them to worship God in a ~certain definite way,
 7614   2, 103 |                to offer up in honor of God ~those things which they
 7615   2, 103 |          testify that ~they worshipped God Who is the beginning and
 7616   2, 103 |          thought that the honor due to God demanded that certain places
 7617   2, 103 |             established by command of ~God before the Law. Hence it
 7618   2, 103 |            among those who worshipped ~God, the priesthood was in existence
 7619   2, 103 |              that by which man pleases God pertains to justification, ~
 7620   2, 103 |            justice." But ~some pleased God by means of ceremonies,
 7621   2, 103 |             OBJ 2: The priests pleased God in the ceremonies by their ~
 7622   2, 103 |           miraculously by the power of God, ~but not in virtue of the
 7623   2, 103 |                of ~the commandments of God, and the law that is for
 7624   2, 103 |             ordained to the worship of God, besides the fact that they
 7625   2, 103 |            ordained ~to the worship of God as stated above (Q[101],
 7626   2, 103 |                in regard to worship of God ~will be figurative; there
 7627   2, 103 |           temple therein: for the Lord God ~Almighty is the temple
 7628   2, 103 |                in that he believed in ~God's promise concerning his
 7629   2, 103 |               the ~interior worship of God consists. Now man can make
 7630   2, 103 |         unlawful, and as prohibited by God ~for all time; whereas the
 7631   2, 103 |           Passion, being instituted by God as a figure of Christ.~Aquin.:
 7632   2, 104 |          ceremonial precepts relate to God, so do the ~judicial precepts
 7633   2, 104 |              to man's subordination to God, they are ~called "ceremonial"
 7634   2, 104 |            precepts which direct us to God, some are ~moral precepts,
 7635   2, 104 |                by ~faith; such as that God is to be loved and worshipped.
 7636   2, 104 |                Divine institution. Now God is concerned not only with
 7637   2, 104 |           Because men ~are ordained to God as to their end; wherefore
 7638   2, 104 |             end; wherefore it concerns God and, ~consequently, is a
 7639   2, 104 |               the ~relations of man to God, there are more precepts
 7640   2, 104 |              whereby he is directed to God. For ~the same reason there
 7641   2, 104 |         figures, because the things of God are above our ~reason, as
 7642   2, 104 |             relating to the worship of God and ~the mystery of Christ.
 7643   2, 104 |           Jewish people were chosen by God that Christ might be ~born
 7644   2, 104 |             referred to the worship of God, it was above reason: and
 7645   2, 105 |             Divine government, whereby God rules the world from the
 7646   2, 105 |            people in things concerning God, as stated in Heb. 5:1;
 7647   2, 105 |              under the special care of God: ~wherefore it is written (
 7648   2, 105 |                Dt. 7:6): "The Lord thy God hath chosen thee to ~be
 7649   2, 105 |                16): ~"May the Lord the God of the spirits of all the
 7650   2, 105 |               this multitude." Thus by God's orders Josue was set at
 7651   2, 105 |              who ~succeeded Josue that God "raised . . . up a saviour"
 7652   2, 105 |             set him whom the Lord thy ~God shall choose."~Aquin.: SMT
 7653   2, 105 |            conduct ~themselves towards God: namely, that they should
 7654   2, 105 |        continually read and ~ponder on God's Law, and should ever fear
 7655   2, 105 |              should ever fear and obey God. Moreover, He ~decided how
 7656   2, 105 |                how doth the charity of God abide in him?" Hence the
 7657   2, 105 |             some chief place chosen by God, ~where there would be both
 7658   2, 105 |              place, which the Lord thy God shall choose; and ~thou
 7659   2, 105 |            which are committed against God, and for ~murder, for stealing
 7660   2, 105 |        prescribed by the Law: because ~God was worshipped by that people
 7661   2, 105 |             very deed I ~perceive that God is not a respecter of persons,
 7662   2, 105 |           those who ~are acceptable to God should not be excluded from
 7663   2, 105 |            excluded from the Church of God. ~Therefore it is unsuitably
 7664   2, 105 |                putting their trust in ~God. And in order that they
 7665   2, 105 |                them by ~promising them God's aid. Thirdly, it prescribed
 7666   2, 105 |            nation from the worship of ~God and from things pertaining
 7667   2, 105 |             pertaining to the grace of God, eunuchs were not discriminated
 7668   2, 105 |             men who had fought against God's people; whereas the women
 7669   2, 105 |                crimes, to punish which God sent the Israelites as executor
 7670   2, 105 |                bound to the service of God, He ~did not wish them to
 7671   2, 105 |           shall be ~my people, and thy God my God." Accordingly it
 7672   2, 105 |              my people, and thy God my God." Accordingly it was not
 7673   2, 106 |              she maketh the friends of God ~and prophets." Therefore
 7674   2, 106 |             the Divine laws written by God Himself on our hearts, but
 7675   2, 106 |              justified unless he obeys God's law, according to Heb.
 7676   2, 106 |           trodden underfoot the Son of God," etc.? Therefore the New
 7677   2, 106 |   justification is an effect proper to God, according to ~Rm. 8:33: "
 7678   2, 106 |               according to ~Rm. 8:33: "God that justifieth." But the
 7679   2, 106 |               But the Old Law was from God just as the ~New Law. Therefore
 7680   2, 106 |              for it is in the power of God unto salvation to everyone
 7681   2, 106 |                1~Reply OBJ 3: The same God gave both the New and the
 7682   2, 106 |                respect of persons with God" ~(Rm. 2:11). But "all"
 7683   2, 106 |               and do need the glory of God" (Rm. ~3:23). Therefore
 7684   2, 106 |            live in ~various times. But God, "Who will have all men
 7685   2, 106 |              is a temporal matter. But God provided ~man from the beginning
 7686   2, 106 |            Spirit of life," he adds: ~"God sending His own Son, in
 7687   2, 106 |               respect of ~persons with God, from the fact that He did
 7688   2, 107 |                to those who believe in God: since ~"without faith it
 7689   2, 107 |                is impossible to please God," according to Heb. 11:6. ~
 7690   2, 107 |               shalt ~love the Lord thy God" (Dt. 6:5). In like manner
 7691   2, 107 |            namely, man's subjection to God; and there is but one God
 7692   2, 107 |              God; and there is but one God of the New and ~of the Old
 7693   2, 107 |                to Rm. 3:30: "It is one God that ~justifieth circumcision
 7694   2, 107 |               faith were acceptable to God, in this respect they ~belonged
 7695   2, 107 |               16): "This man is not of God, who keepeth not the sabbath."
 7696   2, 107 |             the Law could not do . . . God sending His own Son in ~
 7697   2, 107 |           Whatever are the promises of God, in Him," i.e. in Christ, "
 7698   2, 107 |             thus: "All the promises of God are ~in Him, 'It is'."]
 7699   2, 107 |         ourselves as the ministers of ~God, in much patience, in tribulation,
 7700   2, 107 |                 Ep. lv) that, "whereas God ~in His mercy wished religion
 7701   2, 108 |             world." But the kingdom of God consists not in exterior,
 7702   2, 108 |                 17:21: "The kingdom of God is ~within you"; and Rm.
 7703   2, 108 |                 14:17: "The kingdom of God is not meat and drink; ~
 7704   2, 108 |       receivers of this grace through ~God's Son made man, Whose humanity
 7705   2, 108 |            Reply OBJ 1: The kingdom of God consists chiefly in internal
 7706   2, 108 |                 also to the kingdom of God. Thus if the kingdom of
 7707   2, 108 |                 Thus if the kingdom of God is internal ~righteousness,
 7708   2, 108 |           opposition to the kingdom of God; and consequently should
 7709   2, 108 |             not part of the kingdom of God; wherefore the Apostle says ~
 7710   2, 108 |                quoted: "The kingdom of God is not meat and drink."~
 7711   2, 108 |             observances ~pertaining to God's ministers, so also were
 7712   2, 108 |        prescribed to the ministers ~of God; as may be gathered from
 7713   2, 108 |            decalogue ~directing man to God and his neighbor. But Our
 7714   2, 108 |              by ~imploring the help of God; by striving to enter by
 7715   2, 108 |              proceed from reverence to God. Hence Our Lord shows that
 7716   2, 108 |             the ~voice of the Lord thy God . . . He will make thee
 7717   2, 108 |                that we ought ~to serve God, with these things as the
 7718   2, 108 |               does ~for the worship of God, comes under the head of
 7719   2, 108 |             our end in them, nor serve God for the sake of ~the necessities
 7720   2, 108 |               things, as to despair of God's help: wherefore Our Lord
 7721   2, 108 |               our own efforts ~without God's help: such solicitude
 7722   2, 109 |          principle of human acts, i.e. God, in ~so far as, through
 7723   2, 109 |             must consider the grace of God; secondly, its cause; thirdly,
 7724   2, 109 |          anything?~(2) Whether without God's grace man can do or wish
 7725   2, 109 |             without grace man can love God above all things?~(4) Whether
 7726   2, 109 |              sun so as to be seen. Now God ~Himself is He Whom sheds
 7727   2, 109 |                our sufficiency is from God." Therefore man cannot,
 7728   2, 109 |           having said in the prayer, O God, Who dost wish the sinless
 7729   2, 109 |          Create a clean heart in me, O God, and renew a right spirit
 7730   2, 109 |             simple First Mover, Who is God. And ~hence no matter how
 7731   2, 109 |              act unless it be moved by God; but this ~motion is according
 7732   2, 109 |             only is every ~motion from God as from the First Mover,
 7733   2, 109 |                whatsoever depends upon God in two ways: first, ~inasmuch
 7734   2, 109 |          bestowed on created things by God has power for a ~determined
 7735   2, 109 |              intellect may be moved by God to its act. But ~he does
 7736   2, 109 |            knowledge. And yet at times God miraculously instructs some
 7737   2, 109 |               intelligible Sun, Who is God, shines within us. Hence
 7738   2, 109 |              bestowed upon the soul is God's enlightenment, whereby
 7739   2, 109 |            Reply OBJ 3: We always need God's help for every thought,
 7740   2, 109 |                namely to run, "but ~of God that showeth mercy." And
 7741   2, 109 |               nature needs the help of God as First Mover, to do or
 7742   2, 109 |             the human ~mind, to wit by God, as the Philosopher proves
 7743   2, 109 |                not need to be moved by God; ~and much more the free-will
 7744   2, 109 |                 unless it is upheld by God.~Aquin.: SMT FS Q[109] A[
 7745   2, 109 |             without grace man can love God ~above all things?~Aquin.:
 7746   2, 109 |          without grace man cannot love God above all ~things by his
 7747   2, 109 |            natural powers. For to love God above all things is the ~
 7748   2, 109 |         charity, since the "charity of God is poured forth in our hearts
 7749   2, 109 |               powers alone cannot love God above all things.~Aquin.:
 7750   2, 109 |              above itself. But to love God above ~all things is to
 7751   2, 109 |                created nature can love God above itself.~Aquin.: SMT
 7752   2, 109 |                 1/1~OBJ 3: Further, to God, Who is the Highest Good,
 7753   2, 109 |              is not ~capable of giving God the best love, which is
 7754   2, 109 |              powers alone, cannot love God above all things. ~Aquin.:
 7755   2, 109 |              is manifest that he loved God to some ~extent. But he
 7756   2, 109 |            extent. But he did not love God equally with himself, or
 7757   2, 109 |             sinned. Therefore he loved God above ~himself. Therefore
 7758   2, 109 |         natural powers alone, can love God more ~than himself and above
 7759   2, 109 |               not ~without the help of God moving him. Now to love
 7760   2, 109 |                moving him. Now to love God above all things is ~natural
 7761   2, 109 |               whole universe, which is God. Hence Dionysius says (Div.
 7762   2, 109 |             says (Div. Nom. iv) that ~"God leads everything to love
 7763   2, 109 |           other things to the ~love of God as to its end; and thus
 7764   2, 109 |             its end; and thus he loved God more than himself and ~above
 7765   2, 109 |                 unless it is cured by ~God's grace, follows its private
 7766   2, 109 |          endowments, in order to ~love God above all things naturally,
 7767   2, 109 |          naturally, although he needed God's help to ~move him to it;
 7768   2, 109 |             Reply OBJ 1: Charity loves God above all things in a higher
 7769   2, 109 |          nature does. For nature loves God above all things inasmuch
 7770   2, 109 |             spiritual ~fellowship with God. Moreover charity adds to
 7771   2, 109 |                adds to natural love of God a ~certain quickness and
 7772   2, 109 |               our natural knowledge of God. ~But we are to understand
 7773   2, 109 |              its strength. Now to love God above all things is not
 7774   2, 109 |             that whereby charity loves God as the ~giver of beatitude,
 7775   2, 109 |              they are anathema who say God has laid impossibilities ~
 7776   2, 109 |                shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart" (Mt. ~
 7777   2, 109 |                this command by ~loving God above all things, as stated
 7778   2, 109 |           states they need the help of God's motion in order to fulfil
 7779   2, 109 |            restore in us ~the image of God, after which we were naturally
 7780   2, 109 |               confess we still require God's help."~Aquin.: SMT FS
 7781   2, 109 |                 precept of the love of God, as stated above (A[3]).~
 7782   2, 109 |             wage of reward bestowed by God on ~men, according to Mt.
 7783   2, 109 |             wage or reward is meted by God to everyone according to
 7784   2, 109 |               Rm. 6:23): "The grace of God is life ~everlasting." And
 7785   2, 109 |                we may understand ~that God, of His own mercy, leads
 7786   2, 109 |              be prepared with grace by God.~Aquin.: SMT FS Q[109] A[
 7787   2, 109 |                Rm. 6:23, "The grace of God is life ~everlasting," says, "
 7788   2, 109 |           which it is meted, belong to God's grace." And it ~has been
 7789   2, 109 |           nothing more than to turn to God. Therefore it seems that
 7790   2, 109 |             does what is in him to do, God will not deny him ~grace,
 7791   2, 109 |                written (Mt. 7:11) that God gives His good Spirit "to ~
 7792   2, 109 |           operate rightly and to enjoy God; ~and this preparation of
 7793   2, 109 |        presuppose a gratuitous gift of God, Who ~moves the soul inwardly
 7794   2, 109 |              that we ~need the help of God to move us, is manifest.
 7795   2, 109 |        standard-bearer. And thus since God is the ~First Mover, simply,
 7796   2, 109 |                seeks to be ~likened to God in its own way. Hence Dionysius
 7797   2, 109 |             says (Div. Nom. iv) that ~"God turns all to Himself." But
 7798   2, 109 |            good for Me to adhere to my God." And that ~they are "turned"
 7799   2, 109 |             that ~they are "turned" to God can only spring from God'
 7800   2, 109 |               God can only spring from God's having "turned" them. ~
 7801   2, 109 |               it were, to be turned to God; ~just as, whoever has his
 7802   2, 109 |              by the gratuitous help of God moving him inwardly.~Aquin.:
 7803   2, 109 |                OBJ 1: Man's turning to God is by free-will; and thus
 7804   2, 109 |              bidden to turn himself to God. But free-will can only
 7805   2, 109 |        free-will can only be turned to God, ~when God turns it, according
 7806   2, 109 |                be turned to God, ~when God turns it, according to Jer.
 7807   2, 109 |              for Thou art the Lord, my God"; and Lam. 5:21: "Convert
 7808   2, 109 |                nothing unless moved by God, according to Jn. ~15:5: "
 7809   2, 109 |           according as he is ~moved by God.~Aquin.: SMT FS Q[109] A[
 7810   2, 109 |            that man should be moved by God, no further motion is presupposed
 7811   2, 109 |            motion is presupposed since God is the First Mover. Hence
 7812   2, 109 |              this without the help of ~God moving him, and drawing
 7813   2, 109 |              will not being subject to God's; and this order being ~
 7814   2, 109 |             can be restored except by ~God. For since the lustre of
 7815   2, 109 |                be brought back, except God sheds His light ~anew: hence
 7816   2, 109 |                can ~only be subject to God when God draws man's will
 7817   2, 109 |            only be subject to God when God draws man's will to Himself,
 7818   2, 109 |         punishment can be remitted by ~God alone, against Whom the
 7819   2, 109 |                the internal ~motion of God.~Aquin.: SMT FS Q[109] A[
 7820   2, 109 |                his free-will, moved by God, ~strives to rise from sin,
 7821   2, 109 |              maintain that the help of God's grace is not necessary
 7822   2, 109 |              not have done it without ~God's help to uphold him in
 7823   2, 109 |             the mind, serve the law of God, but with the ~flesh, the
 7824   2, 109 |              the reason be ~subject to God, and should place in Him
 7825   2, 109 |                not entirely subject to God, ~the consequence is that
 7826   2, 109 |               heart is not so fixed on God as to be unwilling to be
 7827   2, 109 |                which a man strays from God and ~breaks His commandments,
 7828   2, 109 |             his will turned aside from God, unless, by grace, ~he is
 7829   2, 109 |              resounding and punishing, God by hidden ~inspirations
 7830   2, 109 |                not sufficient ~without God's help. Hence it is written (
 7831   2, 109 |                 Consider the ~works of God that no man can correct
 7832   2, 109 |                willing good, he has by God's assistance.~Aquin.: SMT
 7833   2, 109 |             that you are the temple of God, and that the ~Spirit of
 7834   2, 109 |                and that the ~Spirit of God dwelleth in you?" Now since
 7835   2, 109 |                Now since the Spirit of God is ~omnipotent, He is sufficient
 7836   2, 109 |                needs a twofold help of God - first, a habitual gift
 7837   2, 109 |               in order to ~be moved by God to act.~Aquin.: SMT FS Q[
 7838   2, 109 |                in order to be moved by God to act ~righteously, and
 7839   2, 109 |               be guided and guarded by God, Who knows and can do all
 7840   2, 109 |             been born again as sons of God, to say: "Lead ~us not into
 7841   2, 109 |               perseverance besought of God, if it is not bestowed by
 7842   2, 109 |               if it is not bestowed by God? For is it not a mocking ~
 7843   2, 109 |    perseverance ~to be given to him by God.~Aquin.: SMT FS Q[109] A[
 7844   2, 109 |              he still needs to beseech God for the ~aforesaid gift
 7845   2, 110 |            Para. 1/1 - OF THE GRACE OF GOD AS REGARDS ITS ESSENCE (
 7846   2, 110 |              now consider the grace of God as regards its essence;
 7847   2, 110 |              said to have the grace of God even as the grace of man.
 7848   2, 110 |            that a man has the grace of God, nothing is ~implied in
 7849   2, 110 |              quickens the body so does God quicken the ~soul; hence
 7850   2, 110 |              come as a medium ~between God and the soul. Hence grace
 7851   2, 110 |               in the soul, but only in God, Who does not impute the
 7852   2, 110 |             noted between the grace of God and the grace of man; for
 7853   2, 110 |               the creature ~flows from God's love, whereby He wishes
 7854   2, 110 |              clear that ~every love of God is followed at some time
 7855   2, 110 |         difference of good the love of God to the creature is looked
 7856   2, 110 |               it is by ~this love that God simply wishes the eternal
 7857   2, 110 |              said to have the grace of God, there is ~signified something
 7858   2, 110 |           something bestowed on man by God. Nevertheless the grace
 7859   2, 110 |              Nevertheless the grace of God ~sometimes signifies God'
 7860   2, 110 |               God ~sometimes signifies God's eternal love, as we say
 7861   2, 110 |            predestination, inasmuch as God gratuitously and not from
 7862   2, 110 |              as anyone is said to have God's grace - with this difference,
 7863   2, 110 |               whatever ~is pleasing to God in a man is caused by the
 7864   2, 110 |               2 Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 2: God is the life of the soul
 7865   2, 110 |                our reconciliation with God, ~you must not take it to
 7866   2, 110 |           therefore, but many other of God's ~gifts pertain to grace.
 7867   2, 110 |         understood to be an ~effect of God's gratuitous will in whoever
 7868   2, 110 |                whoever is said to have God's grace. ~Now it was stated (
 7869   2, 110 |               1]) that man is aided by God's gratuitous ~will in two
 7870   2, 110 |              as man's soul is moved by God to know ~or will or do something,
 7871   2, 110 |             Secondly, man is helped by God's gratuitous will, ~inasmuch
 7872   2, 110 |            habitual gift is infused by God into the soul; and for this ~
 7873   2, 110 |            that it is not fitting that God should provide less for
 7874   2, 110 |              whereby they are moved by God ~become natural and easy
 7875   2, 110 |               what is substantially in God, becomes accidental in the
 7876   2, 110 |               it makes man pleasing to God, or is given ~gratuitously -
 7877   2, 110 |               to be born again sons of God.~Aquin.: SMT FS Q[110] A[
 7878   2, 110 |              we are born again sons of God. But generation ~terminates
 7879   2, 111 |                 For grace is a gift of God, as is ~clear from what
 7880   2, 111 |             not ~therefore pleasing to God because something is given
 7881   2, 111 |              something is given him by God, but ~rather on the contrary;
 7882   2, 111 |           something is freely given by God, because ~man is pleasing
 7883   2, 111 |              is ~given gratuitously by God. But nature is condivided
 7884   2, 111 |              those things that are of ~God are well ordered [Vulg.: '
 7885   2, 111 |              that are, are ordained by God]." Now ~the order of things
 7886   2, 111 |                 that things are led to God by other ~things, as Dionysius
 7887   2, 111 |                ordained to lead men to God, this takes place in a certain
 7888   2, 111 |               so that ~some are led to God by others.~Aquin.: SMT FS
 7889   2, 111 |              man himself is united to ~God, and this is called "sanctifying
 7890   2, 111 |              another in leading him to God, and this gift is ~called "
 7891   2, 111 |              to ~be called pleasing to God, according to Col. 1:21: "
 7892   2, 111 |                debt taken to mean that God is under an obligation to
 7893   2, 111 |        creature ought to be subject to God, that the Divine ~ordination
 7894   2, 111 |              it makes man pleasing ~to God. And hence gratuitous grace
 7895   2, 111 |              him that ~runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy." Therefore
 7896   2, 111 |          Gratia et Lib. Arbit. xvii): "God by ~cooperating with us,
 7897   2, 111 |                  But the operations of God whereby He moves us to ~
 7898   2, 111 |              as a Divine help, whereby God moves us to will and to
 7899   2, 111 |            does not move, but in which God is the sole mover, the ~
 7900   2, 111 |             operation is attributed to God, and it is with reference
 7901   2, 111 |              is not only attributed to God, but also ~to the soul;
 7902   2, 111 |            will is a thing ~moved, and God is the mover; and especially
 7903   2, 111 |                 And hence, inasmuch as God moves the ~human mind to
 7904   2, 111 |              to the ~will. And because God assists us in this act,
 7905   2, 111 |             thus if grace is taken for God's gratuitous motion ~whereby
 7906   2, 111 |                or makes it pleasing to God, ~is called operating grace;
 7907   2, 111 |               2 Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 2: God does not justify us without
 7908   2, 111 |                justified we consent to God's justification [justitiae]
 7909   2, 111 |         intended. Now man is helped by God to will the good, through
 7910   2, 111 |                of the Divine love. But God's love ~is never subsequent,
 7911   2, 111 |                 as though we had loved God, but because He hath first
 7912   2, 111 |             Para. 1/1~On the contrary, God's grace is the outcome of
 7913   2, 111 |               1 Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 1: God's love signifies something
 7914   2, 111 |               gift vouchsafed to us by God, may be called a ~gratuitous
 7915   2, 111 |              freely ~bestowed on us by God as regards both the good
 7916   2, 111 |                not make us pleasing to God. Hence ~gratuitous graces
 7917   2, 111 |                 And to these children ~God gave knowledge and understanding
 7918   2, 111 |              help another to be led to God. Now no man can ~help in
 7919   2, 111 |        interiorly (for this belongs to God alone), but ~only exteriorly
 7920   2, 111 |              sacred doctrine does what God alone can do, in miraculous
 7921   2, 111 |              when he can manifest what God alone can know, and these
 7922   2, 111 |                is ~ordained thereby to God.~Aquin.: SMT FS Q[111] A[
 7923   2, 111 |         separate common good, which is God. ~Hence sanctifying grace
 7924   2, 111 |             another to have union with God, which he himself has by
 7925   2, 112 |                of inquiry:~(1) Whether God alone is the efficient cause
 7926   2, 112 |                Thes. Para. 1/1~Whether God alone is the cause of grace?~
 7927   2, 112 |              OBJ 1: It would seem that God alone is not the cause of
 7928   2, 112 |            visible elements. Therefore God is ~not the only cause of
 7929   2, 112 |         perfected by grace. ~Therefore God is not the only cause of
 7930   2, 112 |               it is as ~necessary that God alone should deify, bestowing
 7931   2, 112 |             enter ~into the kingdom of God."~Aquin.: SMT FS Q[112]
 7932   2, 112 |                  Gal. 6:15). ~But only God, Who has infinite power,
 7933   2, 112 |               Be prepared to meet thy ~God, O Israel," and (1 Kgs.
 7934   2, 112 |           first, as a habitual gift of God. Secondly, as a help from
 7935   2, 112 |               Secondly, as a help from God, Who ~moves the soul to
 7936   2, 112 |               it signifies a help from God ~to move us to good, no
 7937   2, 112 |                 must be by the help of God moving the soul to good.
 7938   2, 112 |              of the free-will moved by God. And thus man ~is said to
 7939   2, 112 |             yet it is principally from God, Who moves the ~free-will.
 7940   2, 112 |              man's will is prepared by God, and that ~man's steps are
 7941   2, 112 |              man's steps are guided by God.~Aquin.: SMT FS Q[112] A[
 7942   2, 112 |              grace, and yet it is from God's motion. ~But it does not
 7943   2, 112 |               himself for grace unless God ~prevent and move him to
 7944   2, 112 |              It is easy in the eyes of God on a sudden to ~make the
 7945   2, 112 |              it sometimes happens that God moves a man to ~good, but
 7946   2, 112 |                was perfectly ~moved by God to hear, to learn, to come;
 7947   2, 112 |               form. So ~likewise, when God infuses grace into a soul,
 7948   2, 112 |                 etc. the gloss says: ~"God welcomes whoever flies to
 7949   2, 112 |               for injustice to be with God. Therefore ~it is impossible
 7950   2, 112 |        Therefore ~it is impossible for God not to welcome whoever flies
 7951   2, 112 |              iii) that the reason why ~God does not bestow grace on
 7952   2, 112 |           contrary, Man is compared to God as clay to the potter, according ~
 7953   2, 112 |         necessarily receive grace from God.~Aquin.: SMT FS Q[112] A[
 7954   2, 112 |         preparation for grace is ~from God, as Mover, and from the
 7955   2, 112 |                secondly, as it is from God the Mover, and thus it has
 7956   2, 112 |              what it is ordained to by God, since God's intention cannot
 7957   2, 112 |              ordained to by God, since God's intention cannot fail, ~
 7958   2, 112 |             Dono Persev. xiv) that "by God's good gifts whoever is ~
 7959   2, 112 |         certainly liberated." Hence if God intends, while ~moving,
 7960   2, 112 |             speaking of such as fly to God by a ~meritorious act of
 7961   2, 112 |             sense that man's flight to God is by a ~Divine motion,
 7962   2, 112 |                bestowal of grace is on God's according to Osee ~13:
 7963   2, 112 |                Highest Good, which ~is God. But as regards the subject,
 7964   2, 112 |              free-will is ~prepared by God. Hence the first cause of
 7965   2, 112 |             sought ~on the part of the God, Who dispenses His gifts
 7966   2, 112 |      inequality is found, ~inasmuch as God by His care provides greater
 7967   2, 112 |              as knowledge is a gift of God, so is grace. But whoever ~
 7968   2, 112 |                receives knowledge from God, knows that he has knowledge,
 7969   2, 112 |            whoever receives grace from God, knows ~that he has grace.~
 7970   2, 112 |              but the Spirit that is of God; that we may ~know the things
 7971   2, 112 |          things that are given us from God." Now grace is God's first ~
 7972   2, 112 |                from God." Now grace is God's first ~gift. Hence, the
 7973   2, 112 |                 know that thou fearest God," i.e. "I have made thee
 7974   2, 112 |                maketh a man ~worthy of God's love. Therefore no one
 7975   2, 112 |            know that he has grace, for God by a ~special privilege
 7976   2, 112 |                grace and its object is God, Who by reason of His very ~
 7977   2, 112 |        according to Job 36:26: "Behold God is ~great, exceeding our
 7978   2, 112 |             conscious of delighting in God, and of ~despising worldly
 7979   2, 112 |                Cor. 2:10): "But ~to us God hath revealed them by His
 7980   2, 112 |               that he ~had the fear of God. Or it may refer to a revelation.~
 7981   2, 113 |        justification of the ungodly is God's greatest work?~(10) Whether
 7982   2, 113 |               and we are afar off from God ~by sin. But one is called
 7983   2, 113 |           highest in man is subject to God, and the inferior powers
 7984   2, 113 |              receive this justice from God, as Adam is said to have
 7985   2, 113 |              of a mind ~not subject to God, may be called injustice,
 7986   2, 113 |        directing of the human ~mind to God by the intellect and will;
 7987   2, 113 |                 Being called refers to God's help moving and exciting
 7988   2, 113 |                sin, and this motion of God is not the remission of
 7989   2, 113 |               by sinning a man offends God as stated above (Q[71],
 7990   2, 113 |               is remitted to us, when ~God is at peace with us, and
 7991   2, 113 |           consists in the love whereby God ~loves us. Now God's love,
 7992   2, 113 |             whereby God ~loves us. Now God's love, considered on the
 7993   2, 113 |                a special goodwill. Now God's goodwill is said to be
 7994   2, 113 |              Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 2: As God's love consists not merely
 7995   2, 113 |               A[1]), so likewise, when God does not impute sin to a
 7996   2, 113 |                not imputed to a man by God.~Aquin.: SMT FS Q[113] A[
 7997   2, 113 |             part of their turning from God, wherein sin has its ~guilt.~
 7998   2, 113 |                sanctifying grace. ~Now God does not confine His power
 7999   2, 113 |             But Solomon received from ~God the gift of wisdom when
 8000   2, 113 |              is sometimes ~bestowed by God on man without the movement