Part, Question

 8501   2, 15  |             words, "I am the ~Lord thy God, Who brought thee out of
 8502   2, 15  |                Lord thy [Vulg.: 'our'] God is ~one," precede the recording
 8503   2, 15  |                whereby we believe that God is, which is the first and
 8504   2, 15  |                 we presuppose faith in God, whereby man's mind is subjected
 8505   2, 15  |        presupposing their faith in one God, no ~other precepts of faith
 8506   2, 15  |           faith, ~namely belief in one God, when He said: "You believe
 8507   2, 15  |               He said: "You believe in God," and ~commanded something,
 8508   2, 15  |     Incarnation whereby one Person ~is God and man. This explanation
 8509   2, 15  |                Therefore faith in ~one God being presupposed, prohibitive
 8510   2, 15  |         presuppose man's submission to God by faith: so that the Old
 8511   2, 15  |               whereby we ~believe that God is; hence it begins, "Ye
 8512   2, 15  |         chiefly to those things ~which God promises to them that obey
 8513   2, 15  |              continual ~remembrance of God's commandments is signified,
 8514   2, 15  |                of those who believe in God ~consist in the precepts
 8515   2, 15  |           other hand, the doctrine of ~God's law is not so bound up
 8516   2, 15  |               pertaining to the law of God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[16] A[
 8517   2, 15  |                man should ~meditate on God's law of sleeping, but during
 8518   2, 15  |                 meditate on the law of God when he is preparing to
 8519   2, 16  |            results from merits, since "God works virtue ~in us without
 8520   2, 16  |             remote and excelling, viz. God: wherefore every human act
 8521   2, 16  |                which attains reason or God Himself. Now the act of
 8522   2, 16  |         whereof ~we speak now, attains God. For, as we have already
 8523   2, 16  |          assistance, our ~hope attains God Himself, on Whose help it
 8524   2, 16  |            hoping, the ~due rule, viz. God. Consequently man cannot
 8525   2, 16  |             use of hope which ~attains God, as neither can he make
 8526   2, 16  |          attains his proper rule, viz. God, on Whose help he leans.~
 8527   2, 16  |              is lawful for man to pray God not only for eternal happiness,
 8528   2, 16  |           which we speak now, ~attains God by leaning on His help in
 8529   2, 16  |              we ought to hope for from God properly and chiefly is
 8530   2, 16  |           consists in the enjoyment of God Himself. For ~we should
 8531   2, 16  |                2: We ought not to pray God for any other goods, except
 8532   2, 16  |              things, for which we pray God, it regards secondarily ~
 8533   2, 16  |       happiness: just as faith regards God ~principally, and, secondarily,
 8534   2, 16  |           things which are referred to God, as ~stated above (Q[1],
 8535   2, 16  |            Further, whatever we ask of God, we hope to obtain from
 8536   2, 16  |           obtain from Him. But ~we ask God to bring others to eternal
 8537   2, 16  |            charity whereby a man loves God, himself, and his neighbor,
 8538   2, 16  |     theological virtue is one that has God for its object. Now hope
 8539   2, 16  |               for ~its object not only God but also other goods which
 8540   2, 16  |                we hope to obtain from ~God. Therefore hope is not a
 8541   2, 16  |               Hence it is evident that God ~is the principal object
 8542   2, 16  |     theological virtue is one that has God for its object, as ~stated
 8543   2, 16  |                for it in ~reference to God as the last end, or as the
 8544   2, 16  |          Further, by hope man tends to God. But this belongs properly
 8545   2, 16  |                theological from having God for ~the object to which
 8546   2, 16  |             charity makes us adhere to God for His own ~sake, uniting
 8547   2, 16  |             sake, uniting our minds to God by the emotion of love.~
 8548   2, 16  |               faith make man adhere to God as to a ~principle wherefrom
 8549   2, 16  |              to us. Now we derive from God ~both knowledge of truth
 8550   2, 16  |               faith makes us adhere to God, as the source whence we
 8551   2, 16  |             since we believe that what God tells us is true: ~while
 8552   2, 16  |                hope makes us adhere to God, as the source whence we
 8553   2, 16  |               1 Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 1: God is the object of these virtues
 8554   2, 16  |               3: Hope makes us tend to God, as to a good to be obtained ~
 8555   2, 16  |             speaking, makes us tend to God, by uniting our affections
 8556   2, 16  |             not for ourselves, but for God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[17] A[
 8557   2, 16  |               11:6: "He that cometh to God, must believe that He is, ~
 8558   2, 16  |            desires. The first ~love of God pertains to charity, which
 8559   2, 16  |              charity, which adheres to God for His own sake; ~while
 8560   2, 16  |               as a ~man is led to love God, through fear of being punished
 8561   2, 16  |              hoping to be rewarded ~by God, is encouraged to love God
 8562   2, 16  |             God, is encouraged to love God and obey His commandments.
 8563   2, 16  |              hopes to obtain good from God, as from a friend.~Aquin.:
 8564   2, 17  |            soul is not apprehensive of God save as regards the ~mind
 8565   2, 17  |              theological virtue having God for its ~object. Since therefore
 8566   2, 17  |             blessed enjoy the sight of God. Therefore hope ~has no
 8567   2, 17  |           obtain by the ~assistance of God, as stated above (Q[17],
 8568   2, 17  |                as ~to the enjoyment of God, nevertheless He was, at
 8569   2, 17  |             body but the enjoyment ~of God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[18] A[
 8570   2, 17  |               because through enjoying God they become partakers, as
 8571   2, 17  |              partakers, as it were, of God's ~eternity which surpasses
 8572   2, 17  |              theological virtue having God for its ~object, its principal
 8573   2, 17  |          consists in ~the enjoyment of God, and not the glory of the
 8574   2, 17  |              already received, but ~on God's omnipotence and mercy,
 8575   2, 17  |               has faith is ~certain of God's omnipotence and mercy.~
 8576   2, 17  |              not to any ~deficiency in God's power or mercy, in which
 8577   2, 18  |                of inquiry:~(1) Whether God is to be feared?~(2) Of
 8578   2, 18  |                Thes. Para. 1/1~Whether God can be feared?~Aquin.: SMT
 8579   2, 18  |              OBJ 1: It would seem that God cannot be feared. For the
 8580   2, 18  |               FS, Q[41], AA[2],3). But God is free ~of all evil, since
 8581   2, 18  |             goodness itself. Therefore God cannot be feared.~Aquin.:
 8582   2, 18  |                to hope. Now we hope in God. Therefore ~we cannot fear
 8583   2, 18  |             evil comes to us, not from God, but ~from ourselves, according
 8584   2, 18  |                      in Me." Therefore God is not to be feared.~Aquin.:
 8585   2, 18  |          Accordingly, in the first way God, Who is goodness itself,
 8586   2, 18  |               Para. 3/3~In relation to God the evil of fault can come
 8587   2, 18  |              from Him: and in this way God can and ought to be feared.~
 8588   2, 18  |              Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 2: In God, we may consider both His
 8589   2, 18  |                 so that, ~accordingly, God is the object of both hope
 8590   2, 18  |              evil of fault is not from God as its author but from ~
 8591   2, 18  |               in for far as we forsake God: while the evil of punishment
 8592   2, 18  |            evil of punishment is from ~God as its author, in so far
 8593   2, 18  |              written (Wis. 1:13,16): ~"God made not death . . . but
 8594   2, 18  |              us ~turn, so to speak, to God or away from Him. For, since
 8595   2, 18  |             fears, man withdraws ~from God, and this is called human
 8596   2, 18  |            evils he fears, he turns to God and adheres to Him. This
 8597   2, 18  |           Accordingly if a man turn to God and adhere to Him, through
 8598   2, 18  |             taken from its relation to God, as explained ~above.~Aquin.:
 8599   2, 18  |         consists chiefly in turning to God, while moral ~evil consists
 8600   2, 18  |         because by the love of charity God becomes our Father, according
 8601   2, 18  |             which turns man away from ~God, and which God's enemies
 8602   2, 18  |              away from ~God, and which God's enemies sometimes inflict
 8603   2, 18  |              whereby men are drawn to ~God, and which is inflicted
 8604   2, 18  |             inflicted or threatened by God. Servile fear regards ~this
 8605   2, 18  |            whether man turns away from God ~through fear of losing
 8606   2, 18  |             however lead man away from God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[19] A[
 8607   2, 18  |              18:2) that he "feared not God, nor regarded man." Therefore
 8608   2, 18  |             our natural gifts are from God. Now it is natural to man
 8609   2, 18  |               is evil is ~forbidden by God. Therefore worldly fear
 8610   2, 18  |                of the natural image of God: and in this way those ~
 8611   2, 18  |              as being in opposition to God, and thus it is praiseworthy
 8612   2, 18  |              from sin, it is acting as God's minister, according to
 8613   2, 18  |               to Rm. ~13:4, "For he is God's minister, an avenger to
 8614   2, 18  |               loves the ~friendship of God which he has lost, his fear
 8615   2, 18  |              punishment is directed to God as its end, and that, consequently,
 8616   2, 18  |         Mercenary love is that whereby God is loved for the sake of ~
 8617   2, 18  |            fear, since they both fear ~God. Therefore servile and filial
 8618   2, 18  |             just as man hopes to enjoy God and to obtain favors from ~
 8619   2, 18  |              fear to be separated from God and to be punished by Him. ~
 8620   2, 18  |               whereby we hope to enjoy God, and to receive ~other favors
 8621   2, 18  |                we fear separation from God, is the same as servile ~
 8622   2, 18  |            since each of them believes God and believes in a God, but
 8623   2, 18  |         believes God and believes in a God, but in ~respect of something
 8624   2, 18  |              filial fear do not regard God in the same ~light. For
 8625   2, 18  |                servile fear looks upon God as the cause of the infliction
 8626   2, 18  |               identity of object, viz. God, does not prove a ~specific
 8627   2, 18  |           Reply OBJ 3: Hope looks upon God as the principle not only
 8628   2, 18  |              only of the ~enjoyment of God, but also of any other favor
 8629   2, 18  |               Further, "The charity of God is poured forth in our hearts,
 8630   2, 18  |                s own good. Now love of God drives away ~self-love,
 8631   2, 18  |             xiv, 28) that "the love of God unto the contempt of self ~
 8632   2, 18  |            self ~builds up the city of God." Therefore it seems that
 8633   2, 18  |                himself for the sake of God and in God. In a third way,
 8634   2, 18  |             for the sake of God and in God. In a third way, it is indeed ~
 8635   2, 18  |            charity which is founded on God, ~when we love him by reason
 8636   2, 18  |                because separation from God is a punishment, which charity
 8637   2, 18  |          because it separates him from God, but because it is ~hurtful
 8638   2, 18  |       Therefore it seems that ~fear of God is not the beginning of
 8639   2, 18  |          ordained to the ~enjoyment of God, and is directed thereto
 8640   2, 18  |             only as being cognizant of God, as it is with the ~philosophers,
 8641   2, 18  |             man must first of all fear God and submit himself to ~Him:
 8642   2, 18  |             things he will be ruled by God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[19] A[
 8643   2, 18  |               Reply OBJ 2: The fear of God is compared to a man's whole
 8644   2, 18  |           whole life that is ~ruled by God's wisdom, as the root to
 8645   2, 18  |               the tree, so the fear of God is said to be wisdom.~Aquin.:
 8646   2, 18  |          Ecclus. 25:16): "The fear ~of God is the beginning of love:
 8647   2, 18  |            Ecclus. 25:16, "The fear of God is the ~beginning of love."
 8648   2, 18  |             theological virtue to have God for its ~object. But fear
 8649   2, 18  |              its ~object. But fear has God for its object, in so far
 8650   2, 18  |               its object, in so far as God is feared. ~Therefore fear
 8651   2, 18  |             xviii), "that is a gift of God" - for it was by this fear
 8652   2, 18  |            therefore, that the fear of God, which is numbered among
 8653   2, 18  |               since ~thereby we revere God and avoid separating ourselves
 8654   2, 18  |              what we hope to obtain by God's ~help, but lest we withdraw
 8655   2, 18  |                as stated above (A[1]), God cannot be an object ~of
 8656   2, 18  |            virtue of hope, we trust in God's ~help, not only to obtain
 8657   2, 18  |                but, chiefly, to obtain God ~Himself, as the principal
 8658   2, 18  |                follow that the fear of God is not a distinct habit
 8659   2, 18  |          charity which is ~the love of God, since love is the origin
 8660   2, 18  |                man is to fall off from God," that is to refuse submission
 8661   2, 18  |                to refuse submission to God, and ~this is opposed to
 8662   2, 18  |             filial fear, which reveres God. Thus fear cuts off the ~
 8663   2, 18  |                 36) that "the fear of ~God not only begins but also
 8664   2, 18  |                wisdom, whereby we love God above ~all things, and our
 8665   2, 18  |             since the more a man loves God, ~the less he fears punishment;
 8666   2, 18  |              not imply separation from God, but ~submission to Him,
 8667   2, 18  |               in so far as a man loves God more than himself ~and more
 8668   2, 18  |               men will be conformed to God, according to 1 ~Jn. 3:2, "
 8669   2, 18  |             shall be like to Him." But God fears ~nothing. Therefore,
 8670   2, 18  |                that it should be under God and above other ~creatures.
 8671   2, 18  |               it, if it ~submit not to God, by presumptuously revolt
 8672   2, 18  |         consists in non-subjection to ~God, and is possible to nature,
 8673   2, 18  |                to wit, they wonder ~at God's supereminence and incomprehensibility.
 8674   2, 18  |              are both ~like and unlike God. They are like by reason
 8675   2, 18  |              as they can, they imitate God ~Who cannot be imitated
 8676   2, 18  |                 if there be no fear in God (since there is none above
 8677   2, 18  |               in perfect subjection to God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[19] A[
 8678   2, 18  |               infinitely distant from ~God, and this defect will remain
 8679   2, 18  |              be called the children of God," seems ~above all to correspond
 8680   2, 18  |               the glory of the sons of God." Therefore that ~beatitude
 8681   2, 18  |            reverence and submission to God, ~whatever results from
 8682   2, 18  |             fact that a man submits to God, it follows that he ceases ~
 8683   2, 18  |          another but seeks it only in ~God. For that would be inconsistent
 8684   2, 18  |             with perfect subjection to God, ~wherefore it is written (
 8685   2, 18  |             upon the name of . . . our God." It follows that ~if a
 8686   2, 18  |            follows that ~if a man fear God perfectly, he does not,
 8687   2, 18  |          opposed to that submission to God which is the result of ~
 8688   2, 18  |              fear, since whoever fears God and is subject to Him, takes
 8689   2, 18  |           delight in things other than God. Nevertheless, pleasure
 8690   2, 18  |             which hinder submission to God, fittingly corresponds to
 8691   2, 19  |                good root, viz. fear of God, or from horror ~at the
 8692   2, 19  |         opinion of the intellect about God is that from Him ~comes
 8693   2, 19  |                the false opinion about God, is ~vicious and sinful.~
 8694   2, 19  |               theological virtues have God for their ~object, the sins
 8695   2, 19  |                them, such as hatred of God, ~despair and unbelief,
 8696   2, 19  |                that is a deserter from God, must necessarily turn to ~
 8697   2, 19  |            intends, not to depart from God, but to enjoy ~carnal pleasure,
 8698   2, 19  |                is that he departs from God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[20] A[
 8699   2, 19  |              die." In this way fear of God or horror of one's ~own
 8700   2, 19  |              prefer one's own guilt to God's mercy and goodness, ~is
 8701   2, 19  |                to deny the infinity of God's goodness and mercy, and
 8702   2, 19  |              judge, in universal, that God's mercy is ~not infinite,
 8703   2, 19  |                13. Therefore hatred of God is a greater sin than ~despair.~
 8704   2, 19  |              inordinate ~aversion from God: whereas in other sins there
 8705   2, 19  |              inordinate ~aversion from God, but also an inordinate
 8706   2, 19  |               theological virtues have God for their object, the sins
 8707   2, 19  |               them imply aversion from God directly and principally.
 8708   2, 19  |              of its ~turning away from God, for if it were possible
 8709   2, 19  |              without turning away from God, it would not be a ~mortal
 8710   2, 19  |                 includes aversion from God, is most grievous among
 8711   2, 19  |        unbelief, despair and hatred of God are opposed to the theological ~
 8712   2, 19  |                if we compare hatred of God and unbelief to ~despair,
 8713   2, 19  |                to a man not ~believing God's own truth; while the hatred
 8714   2, 19  |             truth; while the hatred of God arises from man's will ~
 8715   2, 19  |               s will ~being opposed to God's goodness itself; whereas
 8716   2, 19  |         ceasing to hope for a share of God's goodness. Hence it is
 8717   2, 19  |                 unbelief and hatred of God are against God as He is
 8718   2, 19  |              hatred of God are against God as He is in Himself, while ~
 8719   2, 19  |             grievous sin to disbelieve God's ~truth, or to hate God,
 8720   2, 19  |               God's ~truth, or to hate God, than not to hope to receive
 8721   2, 19  |               should be shown how much God loves us. Now what greater
 8722   2, 19  |                 have of this than that God's Son should deign to unite
 8723   2, 20  |          Whether presumption trusts in God or in our own power?~Aquin.:
 8724   2, 20  |            Holy ~Ghost, trusts, not in God, but in our own power. For
 8725   2, 20  |               man's power is less than God's. Therefore it is a more
 8726   2, 20  |                presume on the power of God. Now the sin ~against the
 8727   2, 20  |     presumption whereby he presumes on God, ~since self-love is the
 8728   2, 20  |               turning to the power of ~God, which is an immutable good.~
 8729   2, 20  |              sinner. Now justice is in God even as ~mercy is. Therefore,
 8730   2, 20  |              consists in aversion from God, so ~presumption consists
 8731   2, 20  |              secondly, by the power of God ~alone. With regard to either
 8732   2, 20  |             man relies on the power of God, there may ~be presumption
 8733   2, 20  |              by the power and mercy of God, whereas it ~is not possible,
 8734   2, 20  |                a sin which ~is against God is, in its genus, graver
 8735   2, 20  |                whereby a man relies on God inordinately, is a more
 8736   2, 20  |        obtaining what is unbecoming to God, is to ~depreciate the Divine
 8737   2, 20  |               presumes inordinately on God, ~includes self-love, whereby
 8738   2, 20  |            Reply OBJ 3: Presumption on God's mercy implies both conversion
 8739   2, 20  |              thus man turns ~away from God's power.~Aquin.: SMT SS
 8740   2, 20  |             why man should be heard by God. Yet, through presumption
 8741   2, 20  |         presumption some are ~heard by God, for it is written (Judith
 8742   2, 20  |              Therefore ~presumption on God's mercy is not a sin.~Aquin.:
 8743   2, 20  |               of that hope which is in God, since His power and mercy
 8744   2, 20  |               just as it is false that God does not ~pardon the repentant,
 8745   2, 20  |         goodness, it is more proper to God to have ~mercy and to spare,
 8746   2, 20  |                 for the former becomes God in ~Himself, the latter
 8747   2, 20  |            right hope which we have in God seems to be presumption,
 8748   2, 20  |           immensity of the goodness of God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[21] A[
 8749   2, 20  |          though man ~hoped too much in God; but through man hoping
 8750   2, 20  |              man hoping to obtain from God ~something unbecoming to
 8751   2, 20  |                punishment arising from God's ~justice, the remission
 8752   2, 20  |         denotes an inordinate ~hope in God. And since things are more
 8753   2, 20  |             himself as to esteem that ~God would not punish him or
 8754   2, 21  |               is man's duty to hope in God, he had to be induced to
 8755   2, 21  |               of fear. For the fear of God is about things which are
 8756   2, 21  |                what doth ~the Lord thy God require of thee, but that
 8757   2, 21  |            that thou fear the Lord thy God?" ~But He requires of us
 8758   2, 21  |           precept that man should fear God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[22] A[
 8759   2, 21  |               which shows reverence to God, is a sort of ~genus in
 8760   2, 21  |              in respect of the love of God, and a kind of principle
 8761   2, 21  |           connected with reverence for God. Hence precepts of filial ~
 8762   2, 21  |              to have fear, to walk in ~God's ways," by worshipping
 8763   2, 22  |              charity is of man towards God and the ~angels, "whose
 8764   2, 22  |          flattery, but by the ~fear of God, and the study of the Divine
 8765   2, 22  |          communication between man and God, ~inasmuch as He communicates
 8766   2, 22  |                written (1 ~Cor. 1:9): "God is faithful: by Whom you
 8767   2, 22  |              the friendship of man for God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[23] A[
 8768   2, 22  |              fellowship between us and God or the angels. The ~other
 8769   2, 22  |         fellowship between us and both God and the angels, ~imperfectly
 8770   2, 22  |              of charity in relation to God, to Whom the friendship
 8771   2, 22  |                of charity, we love for God's sake.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[
 8772   2, 22  |               loveth love itself." Now God is love. Therefore it follows ~
 8773   2, 22  |              it follows ~that he loves God in the first place. Again
 8774   2, 22  |                xv, 17): ~"It was said: God is Charity, even as it was
 8775   2, 22  |          Charity, even as it was said: God is a Spirit." ~Therefore
 8776   2, 22  |            created in the soul, but is God ~Himself.~Aquin.: SMT SS
 8777   2, 22  |              Para. 1/1~OBJ 2: Further, God is the life of the soul
 8778   2, 22  |           quickens the body. Therefore God quickens the soul by ~Himself.
 8779   2, 22  |              the brethren." ~Therefore God is charity itself.~Aquin.:
 8780   2, 22  |               towards the enjoyment of God for His own ~sake." But
 8781   2, 22  |                of love whereby we love God is the Holy ~Ghost Himself,
 8782   2, 22  |                 that action. Wherefore God, Who moves all things to
 8783   2, 22  |            with the goodness ~which is God, and wise with the wisdom
 8784   2, 22  |               with the wisdom which is God (since the goodness ~whereby
 8785   2, 22  |               2 Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 2: God is effectively the life
 8786   2, 22  |              the soul, it unites it to God, this proves the ~infinity
 8787   2, 22  |       perfectly ordered, unites us to ~God, for by it we love Him."~
 8788   2, 22  |                 viz. human reason and ~God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[23] A[
 8789   2, 22  |          virtue ~consists in attaining God, as also stated above with
 8790   2, 22  |             for, since charity attains God, it unites us to God, as ~
 8791   2, 22  |           attains God, it unites us to God, as ~evidenced by the authority
 8792   2, 22  |                but on the goodness ~of God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[23] A[
 8793   2, 22  |               charity whereby we love ~God" [*The reference should
 8794   2, 22  |              two objects of ~charity - God and our neighbor - which
 8795   2, 22  |               many aspects under which God is an ~object of love, because
 8796   2, 22  |               On the contrary, Just as God is the object of faith,
 8797   2, 22  |              of friendship ~of man for God. Now the different species
 8798   2, 22  |                namely, the goodness of God; and the fellowship of ~
 8799   2, 22  |                argument would hold, if God and our neighbor were ~equally
 8800   2, 22  |              But this is not true: for God is the ~principal object
 8801   2, 22  |              loved out of charity ~for God's sake.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[
 8802   2, 22  |               2 Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 2: God is loved by charity for
 8803   2, 22  |          aspect of lovableness, namely God's goodness, ~which is His
 8804   2, 22  |              namely, human ~reason and God: yet God is the first rule,
 8805   2, 22  |             human ~reason and God: yet God is the first rule, whereby,
 8806   2, 22  |            rule, since their object is God, are more excellent ~than
 8807   2, 22  |          belongs to that which attains God most.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[23]
 8808   2, 22  |              But faith and hope attain God indeed in so far as we derive
 8809   2, 22  |               whereas charity ~attains God Himself that it may rest
 8810   2, 22  |                above us, especially of God, ~ranks before the knowledge
 8811   2, 22  |               man is the enjoyment ~of God, according to Ps. 72:28: "
 8812   2, 22  |               good for me to adhere to God," and ~to this good man
 8813   2, 22  |      possession of some ~other gift of God, whether faith, or hope,
 8814   2, 23  |              human virtues are, but by God's wisdom, and transcends
 8815   2, 23  |          easier it is to love it. ~Now God is supremely lovable, since
 8816   2, 23  |             need one in order ~to love God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[24] A[
 8817   2, 23  |              Rm. 5:5): "The charity of God is ~poured forth in our
 8818   2, 23  |               a friendship of ~man for God, founded upon the fellowship
 8819   2, 23  |                Rm. 6:23, "the grace of God is life everlasting": ~wherefore
 8820   2, 23  |                speaking of the love of God, which is founded ~on the
 8821   2, 23  |               1/1~Reply OBJ 2: Just as God is supremely knowable in
 8822   2, 23  |              sensible things, ~so too, God is supremely lovable in
 8823   2, 23  |            evident that for us to love God above all things in this
 8824   2, 23  |                Q[23], A[7]). Therefore God infuses ~charity into man
 8825   2, 23  |               in accordance with which God gives His gifts to ~each
 8826   2, 23  |                our being on the way to God, Who is the last end ~of
 8827   2, 23  |              advance as we get nigh to God, Who is ~approached, "not
 8828   2, 23  |                it unites man's mind to God. Consequently it is ~essential
 8829   2, 23  |             the increase of charity is God's work, even as the ~causing
 8830   2, 23  |                your justice." Now when God first infuses charity, He
 8831   2, 23  |            distinction of thought. For God is able to ~increase a bodily
 8832   2, 23  |              less ~there. This is what God does when He increases charity,
 8833   2, 23  |              stand still in the way to God is to go back." Now no man
 8834   2, 23  |             goes forward in the way to God. Therefore charity ~increases
 8835   2, 23  |             Man advances in the way to God, not merely by actual ~increase
 8836   2, 23  |              increase of charity, viz. God, is possessed of ~infinite
 8837   2, 23  |             much as it is lovable. Now God is as lovable as He is ~
 8838   2, 23  |              this way; ~the charity of God alone can, whereby He loves
 8839   2, 23  |          always actually borne towards God: this is the perfection ~
 8840   2, 23  |              think always ~actually of God, and to be moved by love
 8841   2, 23  |           endeavor to give his time to God and Divine things, ~while
 8842   2, 23  |               gives his whole heart to God habitually, viz. by neither
 8843   2, 23  |                contrary to the love of God; and this perfection is ~
 8844   2, 23  |           union with and ~enjoyment of God: this belongs to the perfect
 8845   2, 23  |           directed towards union ~with God. And though both the beginner
 8846   2, 23  |                 Augustine, speaking to God, says (Confess. x) "He loves ~
 8847   2, 23  |                loves something besides God, can increase in man. ~Therefore
 8848   2, 23  |                Gen. ad lit. viii, 12) "God makes the ~just man, by
 8849   2, 23  |               the man turns ~away from God, he no longer retains the
 8850   2, 23  |                we may gather that when God preserves charity in man,
 8851   2, 23  |              first infusion of charity God infuses less charity into
 8852   2, 23  |           human acts, but is caused by God alone, ~as stated above (
 8853   2, 23  |               caused except ~either by God or by some sinful act. Now
 8854   2, 23  |             defect is caused in us by ~God, except by way of punishment,
 8855   2, 23  |             charity, he deserves that ~God should withdraw charity
 8856   2, 23  |                in a great matter. ~For God does not turn away from
 8857   2, 23  |                 x). This makes us love God less (i.e. less ~than we
 8858   2, 23  |              venial ~sin, is loved for God's sake habitually though
 8859   2, 23  |                   Whosoever is born of God, ~committeth not sin; for
 8860   2, 23  |                  because he is born of God." But none save the children
 8861   2, 23  |              none save the children of God have ~charity, for it is
 8862   2, 23  |         distinguishes "the children of God from the ~children of perdition,"
 8863   2, 23  |       Pentecost (In Evang. xxx) ~that "God's love works great things
 8864   2, 23  |             Who moves the soul to love God, and ~in this respect charity
 8865   2, 23  |        reckoned among the blessings of God whereby "whoever is ~delivered,
 8866   2, 23  |               that mind is directed to God, is possessed ~by its subject
 8867   2, 23  |           always ~actually directed to God: so that when it is not
 8868   2, 23  |              not actually directed to ~God, something may occur whereby
 8869   2, 23  |               that is in heaven, where God is seen in His Essence,
 8870   2, 23  |             can, because in this state God is not seen ~in His Essence,
 8871   2, 23  |               Reply OBJ 3: The love of God ever works great things
 8872   2, 23  |                charity denotes love of God and our neighbor. Now, ~
 8873   2, 23  |             and yet retain the love of God ~and one's neighbor; because
 8874   2, 23  |              Therefore charity towards God can endure, though there
 8875   2, 23  |               know Thee the . . . true God, and Jesus Christ Whom Thou
 8876   2, 23  |               consists in man's loving God above all things, and ~subjecting
 8877   2, 23  |           referring all that is his to God. ~It is therefore essential
 8878   2, 23  |                that man should so love God as to ~wish to submit to
 8879   2, 23  |               depends on the action of God ~Who infuses it, Who stands
 8880   2, 23  |               outpouring of charity by God into the soul.~Aquin.: SMT
 8881   2, 23  |              sin which is contrary to ~God's commandments, an obstacle
 8882   2, 23  |               chooses to prefer sin to God's ~friendship, which requires
 8883   2, 23  |            that "man is enlightened by God's ~presence, but he is darkened
 8884   2, 23  |              he is darkened at once by God's absence, because distance ~
 8885   2, 23  |             Charity denotes union with God, whereas faith and hope
 8886   2, 23  |              consists in aversion from God, as stated above ~(Gen.
 8887   2, 23  |                ultimate form regarding God under the ~aspect of last
 8888   2, 24  |                 Whether we should love God alone, out of charity, or
 8889   2, 24  |               love of charity stops at God, or extends to our neighbor?~
 8890   2, 24  |               love of charity stops at God and does not ~extend to
 8891   2, 24  |                neighbor. For as we owe God love, so do we owe Him fear, ~
 8892   2, 24  |                 what doth the Lord thy God require ~of thee, but that
 8893   2, 24  |               fear ~with which we fear God, and which is either servile
 8894   2, 24  |                love with which we love God, is distinct from the love
 8895   2, 24  |         honored." Now the honor due to God, which is known as "latria," ~
 8896   2, 24  |             the love wherewith we love God, is distinct from that ~
 8897   2, 24  |                 Now ~hope is so due to God that it is reprehensible
 8898   2, 24  |        Therefore charity ~is so due to God, as not to extend to our
 8899   2, 24  |              commandment we have ~from God, that he, who loveth God,
 8900   2, 24  |               God, that he, who loveth God, love also his brother."~
 8901   2, 24  |            neighbor is to be loved, is God, since ~what we ought to
 8902   2, 24  |          neighbor is that he may be in God. Hence it ~is clear that
 8903   2, 24  |               same act whereby we love God, and ~whereby we love our
 8904   2, 24  |                not only to the love of God, but also to the love of
 8905   2, 24  |             distinct ~from the fear of God, and the same applies to
 8906   2, 24  |              account of what he has of God; as when we fear the ~secular
 8907   2, 24  |             exercising the ministry of God for the ~punishment of evildoers,
 8908   2, 24  |              not distinct from fear of God, as neither is such like
 8909   2, 24  |           common to them all, which is God; whereas we give ~various
 8910   2, 24  |               virtue, and ~likewise to God we give the singular honor
 8911   2, 24  |                us ministerially ~under God. In like manner it would
 8912   2, 24  |               not, if he loved him for God's sake; ~and this is what
 8913   2, 24  |              since ~charity is neither God nor our neighbor. Therefore
 8914   2, 24  |               1 Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 1: God and our neighbor are those
 8915   2, 24  |            charity, since we love both God ~and our neighbor, in so
 8916   2, 24  |              and our neighbor to love ~God, and this is to love charity.~
 8917   2, 24  |              that we are conformed to ~God. Now God loves irrational
 8918   2, 24  |             are conformed to ~God. Now God loves irrational creatures
 8919   2, 24  |                 charity is referred to God principally, and extends
 8920   2, 24  |           other things as referable to God. Now just as the rational
 8921   2, 24  |              creature is ~referable to God, in as much as it bears
 8922   2, 24  |               the object of charity is God. so is the object ~of faith.
 8923   2, 24  |              and earth were created by God, that the fishes and birds
 8924   2, 24  |            charity extends to none but God and our ~neighbor. But the
 8925   2, 24  |             for their preservation, to God's honor and man's use; ~
 8926   2, 24  |              man's use; ~thus too does God love them out of charity.~
 8927   2, 24  |         denoting man's friendship with God in the first place, and, ~
 8928   2, 24  |       consequently, with the things of God, among which things is man
 8929   2, 24  |                because they pertain to God, he loves also himself out
 8930   2, 24  |        fellowship in the ~enjoyment of God. But the body can have no
 8931   2, 24  |             Manicheans pretend, but by God. Hence we can use it for
 8932   2, 24  |                Hence we can use it for God's service, ~according to
 8933   2, 24  |           instruments of ~justice unto God." Consequently, out of the
 8934   2, 24  |            charity with which we ~love God, we ought to love our bodies
 8935   2, 24  |               to hinder it from seeing God. ~Hence he says expressly: "
 8936   2, 24  |             bodies are unable to enjoy God by knowing and ~loving Him,
 8937   2, 24  |               the perfect knowledge of God. Hence from the enjoyment
 8938   2, 24  |              wicked of the land": ~and God commanded (Ex. 22:18): "
 8939   2, 24  |              nature, which he has from God, he has a ~capacity for
 8940   2, 24  |              their guilt is opposed to God, and is an obstacle to ~
 8941   2, 24  |           whereby they are opposed ~to God, all sinners are to be hated,
 8942   2, 24  |             truly, out of charity, for God's sake.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[
 8943   2, 24  |                to Wis. 1:13, not even ~God "hath pleasure in the destruction
 8944   2, 24  |            reaches "to the contempt of God," as ~stated in the passage
 8945   2, 24  |                 namely, that in loving God and our neighbor, we should ~
 8946   2, 24  |                 and love his enemy for God's ~sake, without it being
 8947   2, 24  |         neighbor, out of charity, ~for God's sake, the more he loves
 8948   2, 24  |                sake, the more he loves God, the more does he put enmities ~
 8949   2, 24  |               OBJ 3: Further, not only God but also our neighbor is
 8950   2, 24  |            Evang. xxx), that ~"love of God cannot be idle for wherever
 8951   2, 24  |              twofold love: the love of God and of our neighbor. Now
 8952   2, 24  |               contained in the love of God, since they are created
 8953   2, 24  |              shall be as the angels of God in heaven." It ~is therefore
 8954   2, 24  |                 for those spirits whom God has condemned eternally,
 8955   2, 24  |      opposition to our charity towards God whereby we approve of ~His
 8956   2, 24  |               endure, to give glory to God and ~be useful to man, as
 8957   2, 24  |              their natural gifts, unto God's glory.~Aquin.: SMT SS
 8958   2, 24  |                not with them, but with God, Who turns their perverse ~
 8959   2, 24  |            loved out of charity, ~viz. God, our neighbor, our body
 8960   2, 24  |                out of charity, to wit: God, our neighbor, our body,
 8961   2, 24  |         lxxxiii), "he ~that loveth not God, loveth not himself." Hence
 8962   2, 24  |                included in the love of God. Therefore love of oneself
 8963   2, 24  |             distinct ~from the love of God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[25] A[
 8964   2, 24  |             which is above us," namely God, "another, ~which is ourselves,
 8965   2, 24  |               happiness flows, ~namely God; a second is that which
 8966   2, 24  |            between the human lover and God is different from his relation ~
 8967   2, 25  |              Whether man ought to love God more than his neighbor?~(
 8968   2, 25  |               love of charity tends to God as to the principle of happiness,
 8969   2, 25  |       principle of that love, which is God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[26] A[
 8970   2, 25  |                as it is chiefly ~about God, and secondarily about things
 8971   2, 25  |               about things referred to God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[26] A[
 8972   2, 25  |                Thes. Para. 1/1~Whether God ought to be loved more than
 8973   2, 25  |              OBJ 1: It would seem that God ought not to be loved more
 8974   2, 25  |              he seeth, how can he love God, Whom he seeth not?" Whence
 8975   2, 25  |                to Ethic. ix, 5,12. Now God is less ~visible than our
 8976   2, 25  |               to his neighbor than ~to God. Therefore man loves his
 8977   2, 25  |           charity, more than he ~loves God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[26] A[
 8978   2, 25  |                loves in a neighbor, is God, according to ~Augustine (
 8979   2, 25  |                 Christ. i, 22,27). Now God is not greater in Himself ~
 8980   2, 25  |         Therefore we ought not to love God more ~than our neighbor.~
 8981   2, 25  |               to hate our neighbor for God's sake, ~if, to wit, he
 8982   2, 25  |                he leads us astray from God, according to Lk. 14:26: "
 8983   2, 25  |             Therefore we ought to love God, out of charity, more than
 8984   2, 25  |               consists ~essentially in God, as the First Principle,
 8985   2, 25  |               Body Para. 2/2~Therefore God ought to be loved chiefly
 8986   2, 25  |         neighbor, neither does he love God, not because ~his neighbor
 8987   2, 25  |               to demand ~our love: and God is more lovable by reason
 8988   2, 25  |                The likeness we have to God precedes and causes the ~
 8989   2, 25  |                something received from God, we become ~like to our
 8990   2, 25  |             likeness we ought to love ~God more than we love our neighbor.~
 8991   2, 25  |           Considered in His substance, God is equally in all, in ~whomsoever
 8992   2, 25  |              neighbor does not possess God's goodness equally with
 8993   2, 25  |                s goodness equally with God, for ~God has it essentially,
 8994   2, 25  |        goodness equally with God, for ~God has it essentially, and
 8995   2, 25  |          charity, man is bound to love God more than himself?~Aquin.:
 8996   2, 25  |                out of charity, to love God ~more than himself. For
 8997   2, 25  |              to love himself more than God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[26] A[
 8998   2, 25  |             Therefore he does not love God more than himself.~Aquin.:
 8999   2, 25  |                3: Further, a man loves God as much as he loves to enjoy
 9000   2, 25  |              much as he loves to enjoy God. But a ~man loves himself