Part, Question

 9001   2, 25  |              much as he loves to enjoy God; since this is the ~highest
 9002   2, 25  |               out ~of charity, to love God more than himself.~Aquin.:
 9003   2, 25  |               him also thou lovest for God's sake." Now "the cause
 9004   2, 25  |            Therefore man ought to love God more than himself.~Aquin.:
 9005   2, 25  |               The good we receive from God is twofold, the good of ~
 9006   2, 25  |               goods ~bestowed on us by God is the foundation of natural
 9007   2, 25  |              remains unimpaired, loves God ~above all things and more
 9008   2, 25  |                out of charity, to love God, Who is the common good ~
 9009   2, 25  |         himself: since happiness is in God as in the universal ~and
 9010   2, 25  |             That a man wishes to enjoy God pertains to that love of
 9011   2, 25  |               pertains to that love of God ~which is love of concupiscence.
 9012   2, 25  |             concupiscence. Now we love God with the love of ~friendship
 9013   2, 25  |              charity, man simply loves God more than himself.~Aquin.:
 9014   2, 25  |        principal object of charity is ~God, as stated above (A[2];
 9015   2, 25  |              is more closely united to God than we are ourselves. Therefore
 9016   2, 25  |              above ~(Q[25], AA[1],12), God is loved as the principle
 9017   2, 25  |           certain union in relation to God. ~Wherefore just as unity
 9018   2, 25  |              from its ~object which is God, but also from the lover,
 9019   2, 25  |           better neighbor is nearer to God, yet ~because he is not
 9020   2, 25  |             neighbors, which reason is God, as ~Augustine states (De
 9021   2, 25  |              the ~principle of love is God, and the person who loves,
 9022   2, 25  |             not all equally related to God; some are ~nearer to Him,
 9023   2, 25  |           above all, man is likened to God. But God ~loves more the
 9024   2, 25  |             man is likened to God. But God ~loves more the better man.
 9025   2, 25  |            object of charity's love is God, and man is the lover. Therefore ~
 9026   2, 25  |             depends on his relation to God, so ~that, out of charity,
 9027   2, 25  |               to one who is nearer ~to God; for though the good which
 9028   2, 25  |             belongs to charity to wish God's ~justice to be maintained,
 9029   2, 25  |              wherein some are close to God, can come and go, ~increase
 9030   2, 25  |                obstacle between us and God. ~In this respect they are
 9031   2, 25  |                Charity conforms man to God proportionately, by making
 9032   2, 25  |                towards what is his, as God does towards what is His.
 9033   2, 25  |                as becoming to us which God ~does not will, because
 9034   2, 25  |            affections are conformed to God by charity. But ~God loves
 9035   2, 25  |                to God by charity. But ~God loves His children more
 9036   2, 25  |               says: "We ought to ~love God first, then our parents,
 9037   2, 25  |               is, and the more like to God, the more is ~it to be loved:
 9038   2, 25  |             exalted good and more like God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[26] A[
 9039   2, 25  |              De Doctr. Christ. i, 32), God loves us ~for our good and
 9040   2, 25  |               us as principle, even as God is, it belongs properly
 9041   2, 25  |              from his father, but from God by creation, as stated in
 9042   2, 25  |                that "man ought to love God ~the Father of all, and
 9043   2, 25  |                 of all things lovable, God is to be loved most, and
 9044   2, 25  |               3 Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 3: God also loves us more than
 9045   2, 25  |             prefer such benefactors as God and our parents, from ~whom
 9046   2, 25  |             conformed in all things to God's will: and ~there to be
 9047   2, 25  |              love will be entirely for God's sake, for then ~will be
 9048   2, 25  |           words of 1 Cor. 15:28: "That God may be all in ~all." Therefore
 9049   2, 25  |             Therefore he who is nearer God will be loved more, so that
 9050   2, 25  |                as ~regards the love of God above all things. For this
 9051   2, 25  |            simply when man shall enjoy God perfectly. But, as regards
 9052   2, 25  |               the limits determined by God. But in the second way a
 9053   2, 25  |                charity is ~bestowed by God on each one, namely, that
 9054   2, 25  |                all direct his ~mind to God, and this pertains to a
 9055   2, 25  |               things to be directed to God, and ~even work for that
 9056   2, 25  |               directing their minds to God, ~wherefore the entire ordering
 9057   2, 25  |              be ruled with respect to ~God, so that each one will love
 9058   2, 25  |                those who are nearer to God. For then one man will no
 9059   2, 25  |              is taken from nighness to God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[26] A[
 9060   2, 25  |                reason of his love, for God is man's charity directs
 9061   2, 25  |                charity directs man ~to God perfectly, and this belongs
 9062   2, 25  |               3 Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 3: God will be to each one the
 9063   2, 25  |               reason of his love, for ~God is man's entire good. For
 9064   2, 25  |           impossible supposition that ~God were not man's good, He
 9065   2, 25  |              more than all ~else after God.~
 9066   2, 26  |              as ~goodwill?~(3) Whether God should be loved for His
 9067   2, 26  |              His own sake?~(4) Whether God can be loved immediately
 9068   2, 26  |              in this life?~(5) Whether God can be loved wholly?~(6)
 9069   2, 26  |                 6) Whether the love of God is according to measure?~(
 9070   2, 26  |                 is the better, to love God, or one's neighbor?~Aquin.:
 9071   2, 26  |               1~Whether out of charity God ought to be loved for Himself?~
 9072   2, 26  |              OBJ 1: It would seem that God is loved out of charity,
 9073   2, 26  |              of the senses. ~Therefore God is to be loved for the sake
 9074   2, 26  |            love follows knowledge. But God is known through ~something
 9075   2, 26  |                The invisible things of God are ~clearly seen, being
 9076   2, 26  |               to obtain something from God, while fear shuns ~something
 9077   2, 26  |              which can be inflicted by God. Therefore it seems that
 9078   2, 26  |                Therefore it seems that God is ~to be loved on account
 9079   2, 26  |       something for its own sake. Now "God is to be enjoyed" as ~he
 9080   2, 26  |               the same book. Therefore God is to be loved for Himself.~
 9081   2, 26  |              first three ways, we love God, not for ~anything else,
 9082   2, 26  |              Reply OBJ 2: Knowledge of God is indeed acquired through
 9083   2, 26  |                Thes. Para. 1/1~Whether God can be loved immediately
 9084   2, 26  |              OBJ 1: It would seem that God cannot be loved immediately
 9085   2, 26  |                1). Now ~we do not know God immediately in this life,
 9086   2, 26  |                 Now it is more to love God than to know Him, since "
 9087   2, 26  |           since "he who is joined" to ~God by love, is "one spirit
 9088   2, 26  |              17). But man cannot know ~God immediately. Therefore much
 9089   2, 26  |           Further, man is severed from God by sin, according to Is.
 9090   2, 26  |           divided between you and your God." Now sin is in ~the will
 9091   2, 26  |              man is less able to love ~God immediately than to know
 9092   2, 26  |             the contrary, Knowledge of God, through being mediate,
 9093   2, 26  |          charity of the way adheres to God immediately.~Aquin.: SMT
 9094   2, 26  |                of things is such, that God is knowable and ~lovable
 9095   2, 26  |                state of life, tends to God first, and ~flows on from
 9096   2, 26  |               this sense charity loves God ~immediately, and other
 9097   2, 26  |               and other things through God. On the other hand, with
 9098   2, 26  |             the reverse, since we know God through other things, ~either
 9099   2, 26  |             Reply OBJ 2: Since to love God is something greater than
 9100   2, 26  |                it follows that love of God presupposes ~knowledge of
 9101   2, 26  |              presupposes ~knowledge of God. And because this knowledge
 9102   2, 26  |               from creatures, tends to God, and love begins with God
 9103   2, 26  |              God, and love begins with God as the last ~end, and passes
 9104   2, 26  |             Reply OBJ 3: Aversion from God, which is brought about
 9105   2, 26  |              hence charity, by loving ~God, unites the soul immediately
 9106   2, 26  |                Thes. Para. 1/1~Whether God can be loved wholly? [*Cf.
 9107   2, 26  |              OBJ 1: It would seem that God cannot be loved wholly.
 9108   2, 26  |                follows ~knowledge. Now God cannot be wholly known by
 9109   2, 26  |             cannot be wholly united to God, because "God is ~greater
 9110   2, 26  |                united to God, because "God is ~greater than our heart" (
 9111   2, 26  |                 1 Jn. 3:20). Therefore God cannot be loved ~wholly.~
 9112   2, 26  |              Para. 1/1~OBJ 3: Further, God loves Himself wholly. If
 9113   2, 26  |               will love Him as much as God loves Himself. ~But this
 9114   2, 26  |                unreasonable. Therefore God cannot be wholly loved by
 9115   2, 26  |               shalt love the Lord thy ~God with thy whole heart."~Aquin.:
 9116   2, 26  |           beloved, when we ask whether God can be wholly loved, the
 9117   2, 26  |              the thing loved, and thus God is to be loved wholly, since ~
 9118   2, 26  |              love all that pertains to God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[27] A[
 9119   2, 26  |             the lover: ~and thus again God ought to be loved wholly,
 9120   2, 26  |                since man ought to love God ~with all his might, and
 9121   2, 26  |              all he has to the love of God, according ~to Dt. 6:5: "
 9122   2, 26  |                shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart." ~
 9123   2, 26  |           proportion to ~its goodness, God is infinitely lovable, since
 9124   2, 26  |               Now no creature can love God infinitely, because all
 9125   2, 26  |            Para. 1/1~Whether in loving God we ought to observe any
 9126   2, 26  |            observe some mode in loving God. ~For the notion of good
 9127   2, 26  |              iii, iv). Now the love of God is the best thing in ~man,
 9128   2, 26  |               be a mode of the love of God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[27] A[
 9129   2, 26  |               is a mode of the love of God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[27] A[
 9130   2, 26  |             also the ~interior love of God requires a mode.~Aquin.:
 9131   2, 26  |                De Dilig. Deum 1) that "God is the cause ~of our loving
 9132   2, 26  |               the cause ~of our loving God; the measure is to love
 9133   2, 26  |              affections is the love of God, ~whereby principally we
 9134   2, 26  |                the mode in the love of God, must not be taken as in
 9135   2, 26  |               so that the more we love God the better our ~love is.~
 9136   2, 26  |               measure of our ~love for God is to love Him with our
 9137   2, 26  |              the Divine love which is ~God surpasses the judgment of
 9138   2, 26  |               in his soul ~cleaving to God, according to Ps. 72:28: "
 9139   2, 26  |                for me to adhere to ~my God"; whereas the exterior acts
 9140   2, 26  |                the perfect children of God to love ~their enemies,
 9141   2, 26  |               Para. 1/4~I answer that, God is the reason for our loving
 9142   2, 26  |                for another reason than God, whereas God is the only
 9143   2, 26  |               reason than God, whereas God is the only reason ~for
 9144   2, 26  |               that both are ~loved for God, our love for God is proved
 9145   2, 26  |            loved for God, our love for God is proved to be all the
 9146   2, 26  |            objects. Hence our love for God is proved to be so much
 9147   2, 26  |          friends is not meritorious in God's sight when ~we love them
 9148   2, 26  |      meritorious, if we ~love them for God's sake, and not merely because
 9149   2, 26  |                s neighbor than to love God?~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[27] A[
 9150   2, 26  |               s neighbor ~than to love God. For the more meritorious
 9151   2, 26  |               neighbor ~to the love of God, according to Rm. 9:3: "
 9152   2, 26  |                s neighbor than to love God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[27] A[
 9153   2, 26  |               stated above (A[7]). Now God is our chief friend, ~since "
 9154   2, 26  |              less ~meritorious to love God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[27] A[
 9155   2, 26  |               Now it is easier to love God than to love one's neighbor, ~
 9156   2, 26  |                because all things love God naturally, and because there
 9157   2, 26  |               is nothing ~unlovable in God, and this cannot be said
 9158   2, 26  |                s neighbor than to love God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[27] A[
 9159   2, 26  |                 of his being loved for God's sake. Therefore the love
 9160   2, 26  |            sake. Therefore the love of God is more ~meritorious than
 9161   2, 26  |            without doubt, the love of ~God is the more meritorious,
 9162   2, 26  |             reward is the enjoyment of God, to Whom the ~movement of
 9163   2, 26  |            promised to him that ~loves God (Jn. 14:21): "He that loveth
 9164   2, 26  |              to be between the love of God alone on the one side, and
 9165   2, 26  |             love of one's neighbor for God's sake, on the other. In
 9166   2, 26  |              neighbor includes love of God, while love of God does
 9167   2, 26  |             love of God, while love of God does not include ~love of
 9168   2, 26  |               between perfect love ~of God, extending also to our neighbor,
 9169   2, 26  |      inadequate and imperfect love ~of God, for "this commandment we
 9170   2, 26  |               commandment we have from God, that he, who loveth God, ~
 9171   2, 26  |               God, that he, who loveth God, ~love also his brother" (
 9172   2, 26  |                his neighbor ~more than God, but that he loved God more
 9173   2, 26  |            than God, but that he loved God more than himself. For he
 9174   2, 26  |                one self, in order that God might be honored in his
 9175   2, 26  |                pertains to the love of God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[27] A[
 9176   2, 26  |        friendship of charity, which is God. Hence that God ~be loved
 9177   2, 26  |               which is God. Hence that God ~be loved for His own sake
 9178   2, 27  |            sorrow rather than joy. But God, Whom we ~love by charity,
 9179   2, 27  |              Rm. 5:5): "The charity of God is poured ~forth in our
 9180   2, 27  |                14:17: "The kingdom of ~God is not meat and drink, but
 9181   2, 27  |                 Now charity is love of God, Whose good is unchangeable,
 9182   2, 27  |         abideth in charity, abideth in God, and God in him." Therefore
 9183   2, 27  |           charity, abideth in God, and God in him." Therefore spiritual ~
 9184   2, 27  |         spiritual ~joy, which is about God, is caused by charity.~Aquin.:
 9185   2, 27  |               this spiritual joy about God, since to ~rejoice in a
 9186   2, 27  |             can be spiritual joy about God in two ways. First, ~when
 9187   2, 27  |                ad 3), a twofold joy in God arises ~from charity. One,
 9188   2, 27  |             sins divide between us and God, according to Is. 59:2; ~
 9189   2, 27  |             For the more we rejoice in God, the more is our joy in ~
 9190   2, 27  |             that we ~should rejoice in God, since His goodness which
 9191   2, 27  |               finite. Therefore joy in God can never be ~filled.~Aquin.:
 9192   2, 27  |            another's. Therefore joy in God cannot be filled in a creature.~
 9193   2, 27  |      appetitive power. Since therefore God cannot be comprehended by ~
 9194   2, 27  |              that no creature's joy in God can be filled.~Aquin.: SMT
 9195   2, 27  |                rejoice in it, and thus God's joy alone in ~Himself
 9196   2, 27  |               the infinite goodness of God: but the joy of any creature
 9197   2, 27  |               us to approach nearer to God by grace, as was shown above ~(
 9198   2, 27  |             will be ~full enjoyment of God, wherein man will obtain
 9199   2, 27  |               not only our ~desire for God, but all our desires: so
 9200   2, 27  |              heart of man, what things God hath prepared for them that
 9201   2, 27  |              the joy condignly ~due to God, it follows that this perfectly
 9202   2, 27  |               will ~approach nearer to God than others. Hence each
 9203   2, 27  |                the other hand love of ~God is accounted a special virtue,
 9204   2, 28  |               written (1 Cor. 16:33): "God is not the God of ~dissension
 9205   2, 28  |                16:33): "God is not the God of ~dissension but of peace."
 9206   2, 28  |              of the soul finds rest in God, yet there are certain things ~
 9207   2, 28  |                 in so far as man loves God with his whole heart, by ~
 9208   2, 28  |              be called the children of God." Therefore ~peace is a
 9209   2, 28  |        precisely because it is love of God and ~of our neighbor, as
 9210   2, 28  |              on thy own soul, pleasing God" [*Cf. Q[106], A[3], ad
 9211   2, 28  |              pity. For it is proper to God to be merciful, ~wherefore
 9212   2, 28  |              But there is no defect in God. Therefore a defect cannot
 9213   2, 28  |               1 Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 1: God takes pity on us through
 9214   2, 28  |          virtue, and, since it has not God for its object, neither ~
 9215   2, 28  |           virtues. For the ~worship of God seems a most virtuous act.
 9216   2, 28  |       preferred before ~the worship of God, according to Osee 6:6 and
 9217   2, 28  |                virtue makes a man like God, the ~better is that virtue:
 9218   2, 28  |             better for being more like God. ~Now this is chiefly the
 9219   2, 28  |              result of mercy, since of God is it said (Ps. ~144:9)
 9220   2, 28  |              on . . . ~as the elect of God . . . the bowels of mercy,"
 9221   2, 28  |          accounted ~as being proper to God: and therein His omnipotence
 9222   2, 28  |                as regards man, who has God ~above him, charity which
 9223   2, 28  |            charity which unites him to God, is greater than mercy, ~
 9224   2, 28  |                Reply OBJ 1: We worship God by external sacrifices and
 9225   2, 28  |                 for by such sacrifices God's favor is obtained."~Aquin.:
 9226   2, 28  |              whereby we are ~united to God preponderates over both
 9227   2, 28  |                3: Charity likens us to God by uniting us to Him in
 9228   2, 28  |              mercy, which likens us to God as regards ~similarity of
 9229   2, 29  |         charity is chiefly directed to God. Now we cannot benefit God,
 9230   2, 29  |             God. Now we cannot benefit God, according ~to Job 35:7: "
 9231   2, 29  |               is not for us to benefit God, but to honor Him by obeying
 9232   2, 29  |            next to it. ~In like manner God pours forth the gifts of
 9233   2, 30  |              offering of sacrifices to God is an act of religion. ~
 9234   2, 30  |                offering a sacrifice to God, according to Heb. 13:16: ~"
 9235   2, 30  |                 for by such sacrifices God's ~favor is obtained." Therefore
 9236   2, 30  |                how doth the charity of God abide in him?"~Aquin.: SMT
 9237   2, 30  |              out of compassion and for God's ~sake," which motive belongs
 9238   2, 30  |                alms formally, i.e. for God's sake, with delight and
 9239   2, 30  |                is directed ~to placate God, it has the character of
 9240   2, 30  |                by asking for help from God, and in this respect we
 9241   2, 30  |               it be committed against ~God or our neighbor, it is not
 9242   2, 30  |          corporal alms out of love for God and his neighbor, and in ~
 9243   2, 30  |            king who was not subject to God's Law, ~wherefore such things
 9244   2, 30  |               The temporal goods which God grants us, are ours as to
 9245   2, 30  |        temporal goods, "as coming from God, is He ~unjust because He
 9246   2, 30  |             sacrifices or oblations to God: "Thou shalt not offer the ~
 9247   2, 30  |              in the house of . . . thy God." In like manner ~gains
 9248   2, 30  |          filthy and against the Law of God, ~yet the woman does not
 9249   2, 30  |        dwellings unless the ~saints of God? And who are they that shall
 9250   2, 30  |           giver; but the sense is that God does not wish a man to lavish
 9251   2, 31  |          Accursed be he who ~says that God has commanded any. thing
 9252   2, 31  |                  Consider the works of God, that no man can correct
 9253   2, 31  |      correcting them, with the hope of God's help.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[
 9254   2, 31  |               and this is signified by God's condemnation of those
 9255   2, 31  |                account of scandal. Now God's commandments are vital
 9256   2, 31  |              all follow the example of God, ~according to Eph. 5:1,
 9257   2, 31  |               1,2: "Be ye followers of God, as most dear children, ~
 9258   2, 31  |                 and walk in love." Now God sometimes punishes a man
 9259   2, 31  |        Whatever is hidden, is known to God, wherefore hidden sins ~
 9260   2, 31  |                 are to the judgment of God, just what public sins are
 9261   2, 31  |         judgment of ~man. Nevertheless God does rebuke sinners sometimes
 9262   2, 31  |               Reply OBJ 2: Our Lord as God knew the sin of Judas as
 9263   2, 31  |           denounced by Peter acting as God's executor, by ~Whose revelation
 9264   2, 31  |                5:29: "We ought to obey God rather then men." Therefore ~
 9265   2, 31  |           judge of secret things, but ~God alone is, wherefore he has
 9266   2, 32  |         Whether it is possible to hate God?~(2) Whether hatred of God
 9267   2, 32  |             God?~(2) Whether hatred of God is the greatest of sins?~(
 9268   2, 32  |            possible for anyone to hate God?~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[34] A[
 9269   2, 32  |              seem that no man can hate God. For Dionysius says (Div. ~
 9270   2, 32  |                 dilection to all." But God is goodness and beauty itself.
 9271   2, 32  |               like ~of her works." Now God is the very truth according
 9272   2, 32  |              14:6. Therefore ~all love God, and none can hate Him.~
 9273   2, 32  |               Dionysius ~(Div. Nom. i) God draws all things to Himself.
 9274   2, 32  |            something ~apprehended. Now God can be apprehended by man
 9275   2, 32  |               the invisible things" of God . . . "are clearly seen, ~
 9276   2, 32  |              are made" (Rm. 1:20). Now God in His ~Essence is goodness
 9277   2, 32  |            impossible for one who sees God in His ~Essence, to hate
 9278   2, 32  |                  which are ~effects of God, are desirable and lovable
 9279   2, 32  |                to all. Wherefore again God ~cannot be an object of
 9280   2, 32  |            such ~like effects. Some of God's effects, however, are
 9281   2, 32  |             the consideration of them, God may ~be an object of hatred
 9282   2, 32  |               is true of those who see God's Essence, which ~is the
 9283   2, 32  |          argument is true in so far as God is apprehended as ~the cause
 9284   2, 32  |               3 Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 3: God draws all things to Himself,
 9285   2, 32  |             they are, tend to be ~like God, Who is Being itself.~Aquin.:
 9286   2, 32  |            Para. 1/1~Whether hatred of God is the greatest of sins?~
 9287   2, 32  |              would seem that hatred of God is not the greatest of sins.
 9288   2, 32  |               Mt. 12:32. Now hatred of God is not reckoned ~among the
 9289   2, 32  |               2]). Therefore hatred of God is ~not the most grievous
 9290   2, 32  |               withdrawing oneself from God. Now an ~unbeliever who
 9291   2, 32  |              has not even knowledge of God seems to be further away ~
 9292   2, 32  |           believer, who though he hate God, nevertheless knows Him. ~
 9293   2, 32  |             the sin of ~hatred against God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[34] A[
 9294   2, 32  |              Para. 1/1~OBJ 3: Further, God is an object of hatred,
 9295   2, 32  |              sin. ~Therefore hatred of God is not the most grievous
 9296   2, 32  |               viii, 10). But hatred of God is contrary to the love ~
 9297   2, 32  |               contrary to the love ~of God, wherein man's best consists.
 9298   2, 32  |          consists. Therefore hatred of God is man's ~worst sin.~Aquin.:
 9299   2, 32  |          consists in its aversion from God, as ~stated above (Q[10],
 9300   2, 32  |                voluntary aversion from God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[34] A[
 9301   2, 32  |                voluntary aversion from God is directly implied in the
 9302   2, 32  |              implied in the hatred ~of God, but in other sins, by participation
 9303   2, 32  |                 Hence when a man hates God, his will is directly averted
 9304   2, 32  |              is directly averted from ~God, whereas in other sins,
 9305   2, 32  |                 a man turns away ~from God, not directly, but indirectly,
 9306   2, 32  |                 to which aversion from God is connected. Now that ~
 9307   2, 32  |           another. Wherefore hatred of God is more grievous than other
 9308   2, 32  |              This implies that to hate God, the giver of all good things,
 9309   2, 32  |                 evident that hatred of God is chiefly a sin against
 9310   2, 32  |             sinfulness from hatred ~of God, Whose truth is the object
 9311   2, 32  |               its effect, so hatred of God is a greater sin than unbelief.~
 9312   2, 32  |            hates his punishment, hates God the author ~of punishments.
 9313   2, 32  |       Augustine says (Confess. x) that God commands us to bear with ~
 9314   2, 32  |              break out into ~hatred of God when He inflicts those punishments,
 9315   2, 32  |                punishments, is to hate God's very ~justice, and that
 9316   2, 32  |             commanded or counselled by God, according to Prov. 8:8: ~"
 9317   2, 32  |             nothing wherein we imitate God can be a sin. But it is ~
 9318   2, 32  |             But it is ~in imitation of God that we hate certain people:
 9319   2, 32  |                 Detractors, hateful to God." Therefore it is possible
 9320   2, 32  |         respect of what he ~holds from God, i.e. in respect of nature
 9321   2, 32  |               1: By the commandment of God (Ex. 20:12) we must honor
 9322   2, 32  |               2 Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 2: God hates the sin which is in
 9323   2, 32  |                they have received from God: wherefore, in this respect,
 9324   2, 32  |                referred to our love of God, as stated above (Q[25],
 9325   2, 32  |              referred to our hatred of God. But ~hatred of God does
 9326   2, 32  |          hatred of God. But ~hatred of God does not arise from envy,
 9327   2, 32  |              is good, which flows from God to creatures, wherefore
 9328   2, 32  |              wherefore love is due ~to God in the first place, and
 9329   2, 32  |            evil, which has no place in God Himself, but only in ~His
 9330   2, 32  |              stated above (A[1]), that God ~is not an object of hatred,
 9331   2, 32  |               before being directed to God. Therefore, since envy of
 9332   2, 32  |                cause of hatred towards God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[34] A[
 9333   2, 33  |            things he has received from God, this, far from being a
 9334   2, 33  |          spiritual good which leads to God, else it would be a mortal
 9335   2, 33  |              not sorrow "according to ~God," which is contrasted with
 9336   2, 33  |            effect of ~charity, whereby God dwells in us. Wherefore
 9337   2, 33  |            effect of charity is joy in God, as ~stated above (Q[28],
 9338   2, 33  |           commands the mind to rest in God: and sorrow of the mind
 9339   2, 33  |               have to do something for God's sake.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[
 9340   2, 34  |               so disposed according to God's just ordinance, either
 9341   2, 34  |             sorrow for the increase of God's grace, and not merely
 9342   2, 35  |             seem to be ~a sin, because God's will alone, and not our
 9343   2, 35  |              not obtain the kingdom of God." ~Now nothing, save mortal
 9344   2, 35  |                man from the kingdom of God. ~Therefore discord is a
 9345   2, 35  |            intend a good pertaining to God's honor, or our ~neighbor'
 9346   2, 35  |             neighbor's will adheres to God's ~will, it becomes in consequence,
 9347   2, 35  |             man's will that adheres to God is a right rule, ~to disaccord
 9348   2, 35  |               will that is opposed to ~God is a perverse rule, to disaccord
 9349   2, 36  |           seems to have contended with God, according to Job ~39:32: "
 9350   2, 36  |                he that contendeth with God be so easily silenced?"
 9351   2, 36  |              not obtain the kingdom of God." Now ~whatever excludes
 9352   2, 36  |                man from the kingdom of God and is against a precept, ~
 9353   2, 36  |               I desire to reason with ~God": yet he intended not to
 9354   2, 37  |           divided between you and your God." Therefore schism is not
 9355   2, 37  |          groweth unto ~the increase of God." Now this Head is Christ
 9356   2, 37  |               division between man and God that results from sin is ~
 9357   2, 37  |               have blasphemed the Lord God." Moreover the ten tribes
 9358   2, 37  |                a sin committed against God is graver than a sin committed
 9359   2, 37  |                a sin committed against God Himself, ~according as He
 9360   2, 37  |                 and a lesser good than God Himself. Wherefore it is ~
 9361   2, 37  |            received that there was one God, and that no other God was ~
 9362   2, 37  |             one God, and that no other God was ~to be worshipped by
 9363   2, 37  |           object of faith, for this is God Himself; and so these sins
 9364   2, 37  |              the other hand, hatred of God, which is ~opposed to charity
 9365   2, 37  |               therein man acts only as God's instrument, so that sacramental
 9366   2, 37  |               according to Nahum 1:9: "God will not judge the same
 9367   2, 38  |              sword in vain: for ~he is God's minister, an avenger to
 9368   2, 38  |             authority, so to speak, of God, is not to "take ~the sword,"
 9369   2, 38  |                defense of ~Christians, God will give him a heavenly
 9370   2, 38  |          Divine things, the praise of ~God, and prayers for the people,
 9371   2, 38  |              No man being a soldier to God, entangleth ~himself with
 9372   2, 38  |            carnal, ~but mighty through God." Such are salutary warnings,
 9373   2, 38  |              our time to the things of God. Hence they are ~included
 9374   2, 38  |          because ~it would be to tempt God, if notwithstanding such
 9375   2, 39  |              not obtain the kingdom of God." Therefore strifes are
 9376   2, 41  |                contrary to ~the law of God." Therefore the definition
 9377   2, 41  |                necessary that whatever God foresees or ~foretells must
 9378   2, 41  |             somewhat from advancing in God's way, and that is at least
 9379   2, 41  |            every sin committed against God is a mortal sin, because ~
 9380   2, 41  |              alone turns man away from God. Now scandal is a sin against ~
 9381   2, 41  |              scandal is a sin against ~God, for the Apostle says (1
 9382   2, 41  |                 the perfect, adhere to God alone, Whose goodness is
 9383   2, 41  |           found in those who adhere to God ~perfectly by love, according
 9384   2, 41  |               others, from ~tending to God in the internal acts of
 9385   2, 41  |          separate us from ~the love of God."~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[43] A[
 9386   2, 42  |         prescribed that we should love God, "with ~thy whole heart"?~(
 9387   2, 42  |              On the contrary, Whatever God requires of us is included
 9388   2, 42  |            included in a precept. ~Now God requires that man should
 9389   2, 42  |         charity, ~which is the love of God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[44] A[
 9390   2, 42  |               is that man be united to God, and this ~union is effected
 9391   2, 42  |             pertain to the worship ~of God: and these three things
 9392   2, 42  |                of man that he may love God. ~For an impure heart is
 9393   2, 42  |               is withdrawn from loving God, on account of the ~passion
 9394   2, 42  |                gives man ~a horror for God's justice, through fear
 9395   2, 42  |               untrue representation of God, ~and separates him from
 9396   2, 42  |        separates him from the truth of God. Now in every genus that
 9397   2, 42  |               directed to the love ~of God and of our neighbor: and
 9398   2, 42  |                charity ~loves none but God in our neighbor. Now we
 9399   2, 42  |          sufficiently directed to love God by the precept, "Thou shalt
 9400   2, 42  |                shalt love the Lord thy God." Therefore ~there was no
 9401   2, 42  |             put not ~aside the love of God; indeed, it is written (
 9402   2, 42  |             the precept of the love of God is not distinct from ~the
 9403   2, 42  |              commandment we have ~from God, that he who loveth God,
 9404   2, 42  |                God, that he who loveth God, love also his brother."~
 9405   2, 42  |                 ad 1): and the love of God is the end to which the
 9406   2, 42  |               not only of the ~love of God but also of the love of
 9407   2, 42  |               2 Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 2: God is loved in our neighbor,
 9408   2, 42  |              neighbor includes love of God, as the end is ~included
 9409   2, 42  |               out of ~charity, namely, God, himself, his neighbor and
 9410   2, 42  |                we are induced to ~love God as our end, and another
 9411   2, 42  |              to love our neighbor ~for God's sake, as for the sake
 9412   2, 42  |            this is done by his ~loving God and his neighbor.~Aquin.:
 9413   2, 42  |         commanded that man should love God with his whole ~heart?~Aquin.:
 9414   2, 42  |        commanded that man should ~love God with his whole heart. For
 9415   2, 42  |                the mode of the love of God. ~Therefore it is unfittingly
 9416   2, 42  |         commanded that man should love God with his ~whole heart.~Aquin.:
 9417   2, 42  |               a matter of precept that God be loved ~with the whole
 9418   2, 42  |             pertaining to the love ~of God, acts counter to the precept,
 9419   2, 42  |             not pertain to the love of God. Therefore a venial sin ~
 9420   2, 42  |                OBJ 3: Further, to love God with one's whole heart belongs
 9421   2, 42  |               to be ~commanded to love God with our whole heart.~Aquin.:
 9422   2, 42  |               shalt love the Lord thy ~God with thy whole heart."~Aquin.:
 9423   2, 42  |            adapted to that matter. But God is to be loved as the last ~
 9424   2, 42  |                precept of the love ~of God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[44] A[
 9425   2, 42  |               1/1~Reply OBJ 2: To love God with one's whole heart has
 9426   2, 42  |           always ~actually directed to God: this is the perfection
 9427   2, 42  |              be habitually directed to God, so that ~it consent to
 9428   2, 42  |                contrary to the love of God, and this is the ~perfection
 9429   2, 42  |          movement of the heart towards God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[44] A[
 9430   2, 42  |                shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole ~heart,"
 9431   2, 42  |               shalt ~love the Lord thy God, with thy whole heart,"
 9432   2, 42  |                the body, since to love God is not a bodily action:
 9433   2, 42  |               shalt love the Lord thy ~God with thy whole heart," it
 9434   2, 42  |                our whole ~intention to God, and this is signified by
 9435   2, 42  |                submit our intellect to God, and this is expressed in
 9436   2, 42  |              our appetite according to God, ~in the words "with thy
 9437   2, 42  |               whole soul"; and to obey God in our external ~actions,
 9438   2, 42  |           actions, and this is to love God with our whole "strength," "
 9439   2, 42  |                to be referred by us to God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[44] A[
 9440   2, 42  |                precept of the love of ~God?~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[44] A[
 9441   2, 42  |                 precept of the love of God. For according to Jerome [*
 9442   2, 42  |             anything ~impossible." But God gave this commandment, as
 9443   2, 42  |               shalt ~love the Lord thy God," etc. For as long as any
 9444   2, 42  |            continence, man cannot love God with ~all his heart.~Aquin.:
 9445   2, 42  |               military discipline. Now God intends by this precept
 9446   2, 42  |               realized in heaven, when God ~will be "all in all," according
 9447   2, 42  |           nothing against ~the love of God, does not sin mortally.~
 9448   2, 42  |               to the ~natural image of God, and as to the capacity
 9449   2, 42  |           should love his neighbor for God's sake, even as he loves ~
 9450   2, 42  |               as he loves ~himself for God's sake, so that his love
 9451   2, 42  |              On the contrary, Whatever God works in us by His grace,
 9452   2, 42  |                in their ~heart']." Now God causes in us the order of
 9453   2, 42  |               we are commanded to love God ~with our "whole heart,"
 9454   2, 43  |           simply the highest, which is God, is said to be wise simply,
 9455   2, 43  |                yea the ~deep things of God." Wherefore it is evident
 9456   2, 43  |             pertains to the worship of God is a ~manifestation of faith,
 9457   2, 43  |               of faith by ~worshipping God, so too, piety manifests
 9458   2, 43  |                a ~man fear and worship God, this shows that he has
 9459   2, 43  |               wisdom is the charity of God." Now ~charity is in the
 9460   2, 43  |            charity, which unites us to God, according to 1 Cor. 6:17: "
 9461   2, 43  |            seek the Beginning which is God, but in action we labor
 9462   2, 43  |            virtue, since it attains to God more intimately by a kind
 9463   2, 43  |              that) detain the truth of God ~in injustice." Therefore
 9464   2, 43  |         Nothing surpasses this gift of God, it is this alone that ~
 9465   2, 43  |                1 ~Cor. 1:30: "(Who) of God is made unto us wisdom."~
 9466   2, 43  |              mortal sin, is beloved of God; since ~he has charity,
 9467   2, 43  |              charity, whereby he loves God, and God loves them that
 9468   2, 43  |              whereby he loves God, and God loves them that love Him ~(
 9469   2, 43  |              written (Wis. 7:28) that "God loveth none but him ~that
 9470   2, 43  |                 We speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, a wisdom which
 9471   2, 43  |              be called the children of God." Now both ~these things
 9472   2, 43  |              Rm. 5:5), "the charity of God is poured forth in our hearts
 9473   2, 43  |              she maketh the friends of God and prophets": whereas ~
 9474   2, 43  |              be called the children of God." Now men are called ~the
 9475   2, 43  |                called ~the children of God in so far as they participate
 9476   2, 43  |       only-begotten and natural Son of God, according to Rm. 8:29, "
 9477   2, 43  |              attains to the sonship of God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[45] A[
 9478   2, 44  |               and makes us ~foolish in God's sight, as is evident from
 9479   2, 44  |              that are of the Spirit of God," ~even as sweet things
 9480   2, 44  |              world is foolishness with God." Now, according to Gregory (
 9481   2, 44  |            should have a distaste for ~God and His gifts. Hence Gregory
 9482   2, 44  |              folly, namely, "hatred of God" and "despair of the life
 9483   2, 44  |           wisdom itself is folly ~with God. Hence it does not follow
 9484   2, 45  |              hinders us in ~tending to God." Now love is said to discern
 9485   2, 47  |            their simple insight, as do God and the ~angels. On the
 9486   2, 50  |              are led by the ~Spirit of God, they are the sons of God."
 9487   2, 50  |              God, they are the sons of God." But counselling is not ~
 9488   2, 50  |              befitting the children of God, who "have received the ~
 9489   2, 50  |          motion of the Holy Ghost. Now God moves everything according
 9490   2, 50  |             requires to be directed by God who ~comprehends all things:
 9491   2, 50  |        directed as though counseled by God, just as, in human ~affairs,
 9492   2, 50  |            that a man be counselled by God as ~to what he ought to
 9493   2, 50  |           Reply OBJ 3: The children of God are moved by the Holy Ghost
 9494   2, 50  |              befitting the children of God in so far as the reason
 9495   2, 50  |             man ~should be directed by God, as stated above (A[1]).
 9496   2, 50  |           heaven are most conformed to God, ~according to 1 Jn. 3:2, "
 9497   2, 50  |             counsel is not becoming to God, according to Rm. 11:34, "
 9498   2, 50  |               the rational creature by God. ~Now we must observe two
 9499   2, 50  |           motion of the human mind by ~God. First, that the disposition
 9500   2, 50  |          lightened. In this way, then, God causes in us ~virtue and