Part, Question

 9501   2, 50  |              them: and it is thus that God causes in the ~blessed a
 9502   2, 50  |              observation, namely, that God moves the ~mind of the blessed
 9503   2, 50  |             wayfarer, in another. ~For God moves the mind of the wayfarer
 9504   2, 50  |               for ~they simply turn to God; and this is to take counsel
 9505   2, 50  |             this is to take counsel of God, for as ~Augustine says (
 9506   2, 50  |             the angels take counsel of God about ~things beneath them":
 9507   2, 50  |               which they receive from ~God in such matters is called "
 9508   2, 50  |              the blessed, in so far as God ~preserves in them the knowledge
 9509   2, 50  |               as the acts ~of praising God, or of helping on others
 9510   2, 50  |             Reply OBJ 3: Counsel is in God, not as receiving but as
 9511   2, 50  |                heaven are conformed to God, as receivers to the source ~
 9512   2, 51  |               trust in the guidance of God alone, because "as we know ~
 9513   2, 51  |              can only turn our eyes to God," according to 2 Paral ~
 9514   2, 51  |              be content with ~awaiting God's assistance, he would seem
 9515   2, 51  |                 he would seem to tempt God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[53] A[
 9516   2, 52  |                7:19): "He that feareth God, ~neglecteth nothing." But
 9517   2, 52  |               Reply OBJ 4: The fear of God helps us to avoid all sins,
 9518   2, 52  |               that "too little love of God aggravates the former,"
 9519   2, 52  |                mortal sin, the love of God is done ~away with altogether.
 9520   2, 52  |        altogether from the ~charity of God, such negligence is a mortal
 9521   2, 52  |                Man may be said to love God less in two ways. First
 9522   2, 52  |               we ~say that a man loves God less when he loves Him with
 9523   2, 53  |        contrary, No man is an enemy to God save for wickedness according ~
 9524   2, 53  |           according ~to Wis. 14:9, "To God the wicked and his wickedness
 9525   2, 53  |              the flesh ~is an enemy to God." Therefore prudence of
 9526   2, 53  |              this implies ~contempt of God. Now "the prudence [Douay: '
 9527   2, 53  |              not subject to the law of God" (Rm. 8:7). Therefore prudence
 9528   2, 53  |               be subject to the law of God" (Rm. 8:7), and so it seems
 9529   2, 53  |             because he turns away from God by so doing, since he cannot ~
 9530   2, 53  |             without ~turning away from God by a mortal sin; in which
 9531   2, 53  |              be subject to the law of ~God," this does not mean that
 9532   2, 53  |               and submit to the law of God, but that carnal prudence
 9533   2, 53  |           itself ~cannot be subject to God's law, even as neither can
 9534   2, 53  |              adulterating the ~word of God." Therefore craftiness is
 9535   2, 53  |               own souls; it is through God's just judgment that ~what
 9536   2, 53  |            greater favors ~bestowed by God on man, independently of
 9537   2, 53  |         account of the care with which God ~watches over animals and
 9538   2, 53  |              when we ~see a servant of God taking thought lest he lack
 9539   2, 53  |               who oppose themselves to God for the sake of these ~things."~
 9540   2, 55  |            before all, subjects man to God: for Augustine ~says (De
 9541   2, 55  |                justice is love serving God alone, and ~consequently
 9542   2, 55  |             and since we cannot offer ~God an equal return, it follows
 9543   2, 55  |                 fas," because, to wit, God is satisfied if we accomplish
 9544   2, 55  |                tends to make man repay God as much as he can, ~by subjecting
 9545   2, 55  |                which is promulgated by God. Such ~things are partly
 9546   2, 55  |                partly are made just by God's decree. Hence also ~Divine
 9547   2, 56  |              no will is perpetual save God's. If therefore justice
 9548   2, 56  |               is ~a perpetual will, in God alone will there be justice.~
 9549   2, 56  |               justice is ~love serving God alone." Therefore it does
 9550   2, 56  |             endures for ever, and thus God's will alone ~is perpetual.
 9551   2, 56  |           Reply OBJ 6: Just as love of God includes love of our neighbor,
 9552   2, 56  |                  so too the service of God includes rendering ~to each
 9553   2, 56  |               22) that "the justice of God is by faith of Jesus ~Christ."
 9554   2, 56  |               direct to the service of God his ~authority over the
 9555   2, 56  |                Further, the justice of God is eternal. But nothing
 9556   2, 56  |               else is ~co-eternal with God. Therefore justice is not
 9557   2, 56  |               3 Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 3: God's justice is from eternity
 9558   2, 56  |            nothing is ~co-eternal with God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[58] A[
 9559   2, 56  |                 justice is the love of God and our ~neighbor which
 9560   2, 57  |           thereof, or as ~belonging to God, as His creature and image;
 9561   2, 57  |               but to the State and to ~God. Wherefore he is punished
 9562   2, 57  |              man violate the temple of God, him shall God destroy."~
 9563   2, 57  |               temple of God, him shall God destroy."~Aquin.: SMT SS
 9564   2, 57  |              is contrary to the law of God is a mortal sin. ~Now whoever
 9565   2, 57  |                contrary to the law of ~God, since it amounts either
 9566   2, 58  |              standeth or falleth." Now God ~is the Lord of all. Therefore
 9567   2, 58  |                A judge is appointed as God's servant; wherefore it
 9568   2, 58  |          because it is the judgment of God."~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[60] A[
 9569   2, 58  |               brethren understood that God by his hand would save ~
 9570   2, 58  |               did this out of zeal for God ~by Divine inspiration;
 9571   2, 59  |       retaliation. For the judgment of God is absolutely just. Now
 9572   2, 59  |             just. Now the judgment ~of God is such that a man has to
 9573   2, 60  |               the case of honor due to God and our ~parents, as the
 9574   2, 60  |            having in view the honor of God ~or the good of the Church,
 9575   2, 60  |                 is bound to restore to God more than he has received
 9576   2, 60  |               3 Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 3: God requires nothing from us
 9577   2, 60  |                other, or the fact that God expects from us the fruit
 9578   2, 60  |             gifts ~themselves are from God without us.~Aquin.: SMT
 9579   2, 60  |               he bound to reveal it to God in confession; and so he
 9580   2, 61  |             injustice or sin can be in God. Yet God seems to ~respect
 9581   2, 61  |              or sin can be in God. Yet God seems to ~respect persons,
 9582   2, 61  |                respect of persons with God [Vulg.: 'Him']," says that "
 9583   2, 61  |          whereby sinners are chosen by God. In such a giving there ~
 9584   2, 61  |            respect of persons, just as God sometimes bestows ~gratuitous
 9585   2, 61  |         dispensers of the mysteries of God." Sometimes however the ~
 9586   2, 61  |               wherein they are made to God's image, but wealth," so
 9587   2, 61  |             are honored as standing in God's place, and as representing ~
 9588   2, 61  |            fool honored if he stand in God's place or represent the
 9589   2, 61  |                share of the dignity of God Who is the Father and Lord
 9590   2, 62  |                resist the ordinance of God purchase to ~themselves
 9591   2, 62  |            resisteth the ~ordinance of God: and they that resist, purchase
 9592   2, 62  |                with the commandment of God ~Himself: for it is written (
 9593   2, 62  |               whatever is forbidden by God is a ~sin. Therefore it
 9594   2, 62  |               the order of His wisdom, God sometimes slays ~sinners
 9595   2, 62  |           dared to usurp a power which God has not given ~him."~Aquin.:
 9596   2, 62  |                called upon to ~imitate God and His saints. Now the
 9597   2, 62  |               His saints. Now the very God whom we worship puts ~evildoers
 9598   2, 62  |         secular and is more ~united to God. Now the secular power as "
 9599   2, 62  |              Now the secular power as "God's minister" lawfully puts ~
 9600   2, 62  |        therefore may ~clerics, who are God's ministers and have spiritual
 9601   2, 62  |               1 Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 1: God works in all things without
 9602   2, 62  |               everyone should ~imitate God in that which is specially
 9603   2, 62  |         becoming to him. Hence, though God ~slays evildoers even corporally,
 9604   2, 62  |           death sentence pronounced by God. The Priests or Levites
 9605   2, 62  |              Thirdly, ~because life is God's gift to man, and is subject
 9606   2, 62  |             his own life, sins against God, ~even as he who kills another'
 9607   2, 62  |                 him. For it belongs to God alone to pronounce sentence
 9608   2, 62  |                to the community and to God, it is sinful, by reason ~
 9609   2, 62  |          free-will but to the power of God. Hence it is not lawful
 9610   2, 62  |                consent to a sin, since God is able to deliver man from ~
 9611   2, 62  |             the ~innocent. The fear of God is never manifested by sin,
 9612   2, 62  |               to love the nature which God has made, and which is ~
 9613   2, 62  |               1 Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 1: God is Lord of death and life,
 9614   2, 62  |         righteous die. Hence he who at God's command kills an ~innocent
 9615   2, 62  |               not sin, as neither does God Whose behest he executes: ~
 9616   2, 62  |                indeed his obedience to God's commands is a proof that
 9617   2, 62  |         fourthly, because he ~despises God more, according to Lk. 10:
 9618   2, 62  |                is taken be received by God into glory.~Aquin.: SMT
 9619   2, 63  |              nature it is appointed by God that a man's body ~should
 9620   2, 63  |           according to Ecclus. 15:14, "God left man in the hand of
 9621   2, 63  |                the order of His wisdom God sometimes ~restrains a sinner
 9622   2, 64  |               to himself that which is God's. Now the ~dominion over
 9623   2, 64  |             all creatures is proper to God, according to Ps. 23:1, "
 9624   2, 64  |              but ~only to the power of God Whose mere will all things
 9625   2, 64  |          respect of his reason wherein God's image resides, is shown
 9626   2, 64  |               1 Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 1: God has sovereign dominion over
 9627   2, 64  |             from ~another, namely from God. ~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[66] A[
 9628   2, 64  |             Such a dominion belongs to God alone, as stated ~above.~
 9629   2, 64  |                no sin is ~commanded by God, since it is written (Ecclus.
 9630   2, 64  |            wickedly." Yet we find that God commanded theft, for it
 9631   2, 64  |             must make satisfaction to ~God and endeavor to allay whatever
 9632   2, 64  |             principally in the love of God, and secondarily in ~the
 9633   2, 64  |             lawfully may be offered to God in ~sacrifice and oblation.
 9634   2, 65  |           since "it is the judgment of God" (Dt. 1:17). Now "the ~judgment
 9635   2, 65  |                  Now "the ~judgment of God is according to the truth" (
 9636   2, 65  |             OBJ 2: To judge belongs to God in virtue of His own power: ~
 9637   2, 65  |                of Christ, ~Who is true God and true man: whereas other
 9638   2, 65  |               from Divine justice. Now God judges ~the sinner even
 9639   2, 65  |               1 Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 1: God, in judging man, takes the
 9640   2, 65  |               3 Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 3: God, in judging man, proceeds
 9641   2, 65  |             judge at the same time, as God is. Daniel was at ~once
 9642   2, 65  |           executor of the sentence of ~God, by whose instinct he was
 9643   2, 65  |              the Divine judgment. Now ~God remits the punishment to
 9644   2, 65  |              Joan.): ~"The power which God gave Pilate was such that
 9645   2, 65  |               2 Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 2: God has supreme power of judging,
 9646   2, 66  |                  Septuagint version]: "God shall not judge the ~same
 9647   2, 67  |                regards the love we owe God, nor as to the love due
 9648   2, 67  |                opposed to the glory of God is a mortal ~sin, because
 9649   2, 67  |                 do all to the glory of God" (1 ~Cor. 10:31). Now it
 9650   2, 67  |              Now it is to the glory of God that the accused confess
 9651   2, 67  |                 give glory to the Lord God of Israel, and confess and ~
 9652   2, 67  |              both ~against the love of God to whom judgment belongs,
 9653   2, 67  |             resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist, purchase
 9654   2, 67  |               of its being ordained by God "for the punishment ~of
 9655   2, 68  |             things, not as man ~but as God's minister: and the sacrament
 9656   2, 68  |             those sin that are against God, as being ~most grievous
 9657   2, 69  |               how doth the ~charity of God abide in him?" Lastly he
 9658   2, 70  |                 and then so as to urge God's ~service, not our own."~
 9659   2, 71  |                 Backbiters, hateful to God," ~which epithet, according
 9660   2, 71  |                but to the ordinance of God Who produces ~good out of
 9661   2, 72  |                law," and ~consequently God the giver of the law. Wherefore
 9662   2, 72  |              seems to be a sin against God, which is most grievous,
 9663   2, 72  |              is more specially against God, because "God ~is charity" (
 9664   2, 72  |        specially against God, because "God ~is charity" (1 Jn. 4:16),
 9665   2, 73  |               is ~done as an injury to God. But derision is not always
 9666   2, 73  |                 tends to the injury of God: else it would be a mortal
 9667   2, 73  |               man, and his rider, i.e. God." Therefore derision is
 9668   2, 73  |             scorn'] the scorners." But God's derision is eternal punishment
 9669   2, 73  |     exceedingly grievous sin to deride God and the ~things of God,
 9670   2, 73  |          deride God and the ~things of God, according to Is. 37:23, "
 9671   2, 73  |               nor a hypocrite, derides God explicitly, but implicitly,
 9672   2, 74  |                 all are bound to bless God, according to Dan. 3:82, "
 9673   2, 74  |                mouth cannot both bless God ~and curse man, as proved
 9674   2, 74  |                 How shall I curse whom God hath ~not cursed?" says: "
 9675   2, 74  |                whether he is cursed by God. Therefore no man may ~lawfully
 9676   2, 74  |            cause, and this ~belongs to God first and foremost, since
 9677   2, 74  |             indeed is good and is from God nor is it lawful to curse
 9678   2, 74  |              not possible to know whom God curses ~in respect of final
 9679   2, 74  |               know who is accursed ~of God in respect of being guilty
 9680   2, 74  |          nothing but the ~nature which God made. But it is unlawful
 9681   2, 74  |             considered as creatures of God, is a sin ~of blasphemy;
 9682   2, 74  |               one from the kingdom ~of God. But cursing excludes from
 9683   2, 74  |           excludes from the kingdom of God, according to 1 Cor. ~6:
 9684   2, 74  |                possess the ~kingdom of God." Therefore cursing is a
 9685   2, 74  |         creature, as such, reflects on God, and thus ~accidentally
 9686   2, 75  |              trader who is cast out of God's temple." ~Cassiodorus
 9687   2, 75  |              No man being a soldier to God entangleth himself with ~
 9688   2, 76  |               of spiritual goods which God exacts from us, for He wishes
 9689   2, 76  |               who ~were worshippers of God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[78] A[
 9690   2, 76  |               but only through hope in God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[78] A[
 9691   2, 76  |             for a good end, since even God ~uses all sin for some good,
 9692   2, 77  |           community or in relation ~to God, and to avoid the opposite
 9693   2, 77  |              desire against the law of God," according to Augustine (
 9694   2, 77  |              Ep. xxxvi), ~"a custom of God's people should be looked
 9695   2, 77  |              being deprived of ~seeing God and is inflicted for the
 9696   2, 77  |               of ~something concerning God, or for a man's intentional
 9697   2, 77  |           account of the aversion from God, and the pain of sense,
 9698   2, 78  |               whatever man ~renders to God is due, yet it cannot be
 9699   2, 78  |                though man rendered to ~God as much as he owes Him,
 9700   2, 78  |             parents, and "religion" to God; ~while two regard our relations
 9701   2, 78  |             science of "the service of God" (he speaks after the ~manner
 9702   2, 79  |           regards only our relation to God?~(2) Whether religion is
 9703   2, 79  |                religion directs man to God alone?~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[
 9704   2, 79  |        religion does not direct man to God alone. It ~is written (James
 9705   2, 79  |             clean and undefiled before God and the ~Father is this,
 9706   2, 79  |               does not imply order to ~God alone.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[
 9707   2, 79  |                else but the worship of God." Therefore religion signifies
 9708   2, 79  |                a ~relation not only to God but also to our kindred.~
 9709   2, 79  |                bound to serve not only God, but also our neighbor,
 9710   2, 79  |              said to worship ~not only God, but also his neighbor,
 9711   2, 79  |              neighbor, and not only to God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[81] A[
 9712   2, 79  |               of grace are subject to ~God. Yet not all who are in
 9713   2, 79  |                of subjection of man to God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[81] A[
 9714   2, 79  |             pertain to the ~worship of God," so that religion would
 9715   2, 79  |            fact that "we ought to seek God ~again, whom we had lost
 9716   2, 79  |            bind us to the one Almighty God." However, whether religion
 9717   2, 79  |                properly a relation ~to God. For it is He to Whom we
 9718   2, 79  |               which man is directed to God ~alone, for instance, sacrifice,
 9719   2, 79  |         directing them to the honor of God, because the virtue which
 9720   2, 79  |            worship, but the worship of God."~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[81] A[
 9721   2, 79  |               that lordship belongs to God in a special and singular ~
 9722   2, 79  |                special honor is due to God as the ~first principle
 9723   2, 79  |                in ~general who worship God, yet in a special way religious
 9724   2, 79  |                for man's sake but ~for God's sake, according to the
 9725   2, 79  |             received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus."~
 9726   2, 79  |           religion to pay reverence to God. But reverence is an act
 9727   2, 79  |           honor to someone, namely, to God, it is evident that ~religion
 9728   2, 79  |             OBJ 1: To pay reverence to God is an act of the gift of
 9729   2, 79  |           things through reverence for God. ~Hence it follows, not
 9730   2, 79  |               to render due service to God ~may be an act of virtue,
 9731   2, 79  |        something through reverence for God. But that he should do this
 9732   2, 79  |                Religion directs ~us to God, as stated above (A[1]).
 9733   2, 79  |            stated above (A[1]). Now in God there are three Persons; ~
 9734   2, 79  |                under another aspect to God Himself. Since, ~then, a
 9735   2, 79  |               written (Eph. 4:5): "One God [Vulg.: 'Lord'], one ~faith."
 9736   2, 79  |        religion professes faith in one God. Therefore religion ~is
 9737   2, 79  |               to show reverence to one God under one aspect, ~namely,
 9738   2, 79  |               first principle, because God produces all things, and
 9739   2, 79  |               both serves and worships God, for ~worship regards the
 9740   2, 79  |              regards the excellence of God, to Whom reverence is due:
 9741   2, 79  |                of showing reverence to God. To these two belong all
 9742   2, 79  |               to his own subjection to God, either by offering ~something
 9743   2, 79  |              by offering ~something to God, or by assuming something
 9744   2, 79  |                as images leading us to God ~incarnate. Now movement
 9745   2, 79  |              whereby we ~are united to God in holy fellowship, is a
 9746   2, 79  |                Do all to the glory of ~God." Now it belongs to religion
 9747   2, 79  |               anything in reverence of God, as ~stated above (A[1],
 9748   2, 79  |                charity whereby we love God is not distinct from the ~
 9749   2, 79  |             religion whereby we ~honor God is not a special virtue
 9750   2, 79  |                is to give due honor to God. Again, honor is ~due to
 9751   2, 79  |           aspect of excellence: and to God a singular ~excellence is
 9752   2, 79  |               done out of reverence of God. Hence this does not prove
 9753   2, 79  |                so far as it is done in God's honor, belongs ~to religion,
 9754   2, 79  |            pertain to the reverence of God by reason of their ~specific
 9755   2, 79  |               something excellent. Now God's goodness is communicated
 9756   2, 79  |             Hence the ~charity whereby God is loved is not distinct
 9757   2, 79  |           whereas the religion whereby God is honored, is ~distinct
 9758   2, 79  |                 Enchiridion iii) that "God is worshiped by faith, hope
 9759   2, 79  |            religion to ~pay worship to God. Therefore religion is a
 9760   2, 79  |     theological virtue is one that has God for its object. ~Now religion
 9761   2, 79  |              object. ~Now religion has God for its object, since it
 9762   2, 79  |                 since it directs us to God alone, as ~stated above (
 9763   2, 79  |                 for one cannot worship God too much, according to ~
 9764   2, 79  |           religion pays due worship to God. ~Hence two things are to
 9765   2, 79  |               that which it ~offers to God, viz. worship, and this
 9766   2, 79  |             something is offered, viz. God, to Whom ~worship is paid.
 9767   2, 79  |               And yet the acts whereby God is worshiped do not reach ~
 9768   2, 79  |         worshiped do not reach ~out to God himself, as when we believe
 9769   2, 79  |            himself, as when we believe God we reach out to Him by ~
 9770   2, 79  |          stated (Q[1], AA[1],2,4) that God is ~the object of faith,
 9771   2, 79  |                because we believe in a God, but because we ~believe
 9772   2, 79  |                but because we ~believe God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[81] A[
 9773   2, 79  |             Now due worship is paid to God, in so far as certain acts
 9774   2, 79  |                as certain acts whereby God is ~worshiped, such as the
 9775   2, 79  |             done out ~of reverence for God. Hence it is evident that
 9776   2, 79  |               Hence it is evident that God is related to religion ~
 9777   2, 79  |            have an act in reference to God as their proper object: ~
 9778   2, 79  |              certain deeds directed to God: and so Augustine says that
 9779   2, 79  |             and so Augustine says that God is ~worshiped by faith,
 9780   2, 79  |                Religion directs man to God not as its object but as
 9781   2, 79  |             but in actions directed to God, by establishing a kind ~
 9782   2, 79  |              it is not possible to pay God as much as we owe Him, but
 9783   2, 79  |     consideration of man's ability and God's acceptance.~Aquin.: SMT
 9784   2, 79  |            render an absolute equal to God. ~Therefore religion is
 9785   2, 79  |             bread to the hungry." ~But God needs nothing that we can
 9786   2, 79  |                 have said: Thou art my God, for Thou hast no need of
 9787   2, 79  |                 then, what ~is paid to God by man is in the highest
 9788   2, 79  |            matters that are ordered to God as their end. And religion
 9789   2, 79  |         religion approaches ~nearer to God than the other moral virtues,
 9790   2, 79  |                ordered to the honor of God. Hence religion ~excels
 9791   2, 79  |            whereas we offer a thing to God not on account ~of its usefulness
 9792   2, 79  |               is ~written (Jn. 4:24): "God is a spirit, and they that
 9793   2, 79  |              end of religion is to pay God reverence and honor. ~Now
 9794   2, 79  |                in showing reverence to God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[81] A[
 9795   2, 79  |             less becoming to the ~true God, Who is "exalted above all
 9796   2, 79  |           would ~seem wrong to worship God with bodily actions. Therefore
 9797   2, 79  |                 rejoiced in the living God." Now just as internal actions
 9798   2, 79  |                Therefore it seems that God ought to be worshiped not
 9799   2, 79  |                1~I answer that, We pay God honor and reverence, not
 9800   2, 79  |              that we revere and honor ~God, our mind is subjected to
 9801   2, 79  |               in order to be united to God, ~needs to be guided by
 9802   2, 79  |               of which he is united to God. ~Therefore the internal
 9803   2, 79  |             intended in the worship of God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[81] A[
 9804   2, 79  |         external things are offered to God, not as though He ~stood
 9805   2, 79  |               themselves acceptable to God. ~Hence Augustine says (
 9806   2, 79  |               our just ~obligations to God, according to Andronicus [*
 9807   2, 79  |               justice." Now, "to serve God" belongs to ~religion, as
 9808   2, 79  |              applied to the worship of God. For purity is ~necessary
 9809   2, 79  |            that the mind be applied to God, since the human mind ~is
 9810   2, 79  |              mind cannot be applied to God. Wherefore it is written (
 9811   2, 79  |                which no man shall see ~God." Again, firmness is required
 9812   2, 79  |              the mind to be applied to God, for ~it is applied to Him
 9813   2, 79  |         separate us'] from the love of God."~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[81] A[
 9814   2, 79  |                itself and ~its acts to God: so that it differs from
 9815   2, 79  |        religion according as it gives ~God due service in matters pertaining
 9816   2, 79  |             according as man refers to God not only these but also
 9817   2, 79  |              himself to the worship of God~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[81] A[8]
 9818   2, 79  |               unless it be referred to God. Hence of virginity ~itself
 9819   2, 79  |               for being consecrated to God."~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[81] A[
 9820   2, 80  |              way, devote themselves to God, so as to subject themselves
 9821   2, 80  |             concerning ~the service of God. Wherefore it is written (
 9822   2, 80  |                concerns the service of God is a special kind of act. ~
 9823   2, 80  |            himself for the ~service of God Who is the last end, it
 9824   2, 80  |                in giving oneself up to God. But this is ~done chiefly
 9825   2, 80  |            religion man is directed to God alone, as stated ~above (
 9826   2, 80  |              the worship or service of God, belongs ~properly to religion,
 9827   2, 80  |                should give ~himself to God, adhering to Him by a union
 9828   2, 80  |             man should give himself to God ~for certain works of Divine
 9829   2, 80  |               Reply OBJ 3: Devotion to God's holy ones, dead or living,
 9830   2, 80  |              in them, but passes on to God, in so far as we honor God
 9831   2, 80  |             God, in so far as we honor God in His ~servants. But the
 9832   2, 80  |           differs from the ~service of God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[82] A[
 9833   2, 80  |             chief cause of devotion is God, of Whom ~Ambrose, commenting
 9834   2, 80  |                on Lk. 9:55, says that "God calls whom He deigns to ~
 9835   2, 80  |              readily to the service of God. Now every act of the ~will
 9836   2, 80  |                surrendering himself to God's service. Indeed a ~twofold
 9837   2, 80  |               is the consideration of ~God's goodness and loving kindness,
 9838   2, 80  |                 for me to adhere to my God, to put my hope in the Lord
 9839   2, 80  |                put my hope in the Lord God": and this ~consideration
 9840   2, 80  |             which he needs to lean ~on God, according to Ps. 120:1,
 9841   2, 80  |            hindered from submitting to God, because he leans on His ~
 9842   2, 80  |                charity; cf. Q[27]] of ~God, causes devotion; whereas
 9843   2, 80  |      consequently to devotion, because God is supremely lovable. ~Yet
 9844   2, 80  |                   that through knowing God visibly, we may be caught
 9845   2, 80  |           wholly surrender ~himself to God. The result is that such
 9846   2, 80  |               man perfectly submits to God his ~science or any other
 9847   2, 80  |                50:19): "A sacrifice to God is an ~afflicted spirit."
 9848   2, 80  |                by the consideration of God's goodness, ~because this
 9849   2, 80  |              in surrendering itself to God, and the direct result ~
 9850   2, 80  |                Ps. 76:4, "I remembered God, and was delighted"; but
 9851   2, 80  |             those who do not yet enjoy God fully, according to Ps.
 9852   2, 80  |                after the strong living God," and afterwards it is ~
 9853   2, 80  |               but ~subjects himself to God. This consideration has
 9854   2, 80  |           sorrow which is according to God" [*2 Cor. 7:10].~Aquin.:
 9855   2, 80  |               that causes joy, namely, God's loving-kindness to us
 9856   2, 80  |               by the ~consideration of God's goodness, and by the hope
 9857   2, 81  |               it is fitting to pray to God?~(3) Whether prayer is an
 9858   2, 81  |            Whether we ought to pray to God alone?~(5) Whether we ought
 9859   2, 81  |                impetrate anything from God by praying? [*Art. 15]~(
 9860   2, 81  |                desire that is heard by God, ~according to Ps. 9:38, "
 9861   2, 81  |              we surrender ourselves to God and ~unite ourselves to
 9862   2, 81  |                to Him." Now union with God is effected by love which ~
 9863   2, 81  |              to ask becoming things of God." Accordingly it is evident
 9864   2, 81  |             poor desire something than God hears them ~before they
 9865   2, 81  |            charity which is union with God. Now prayer tends to God
 9866   2, 81  |               God. Now prayer tends to God through being ~moved by
 9867   2, 81  |     principally to ask to be united to God, according to Ps. 26:4, "
 9868   2, 81  |        mentally, as when he petitions ~God. Hence Dionysius says (Div.
 9869   2, 81  |                that "when we call upon God in ~our prayers, we unveil
 9870   2, 81  |              raising up of the mind to God."~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[83] A[
 9871   2, 81  |                not becoming to pray to God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[83] A[
 9872   2, 81  |              what is asked of him. But God's mind is ~unchangeable
 9873   2, 81  |         fitting that we should pray to God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[83] A[
 9874   2, 81  |              bought with prayers." But God is ~supremely liberal. Therefore
 9875   2, 81  |             seem unbecoming to pray to God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[83] A[
 9876   2, 81  |         useless to pray and to worship God at ~all: of these it is
 9877   2, 81  |         laboreth ~in vain that serveth God." Another opinion held that
 9878   2, 81  |           pertaining to the worship of God. All these ~opinions were
 9879   2, 81  |              may ~impetrate that which God has disposed to be fulfilled
 9880   2, 81  |               to receive what Almighty God ~from eternity has disposed
 9881   2, 81  |              OBJ 1: We need to pray to God, not in order to make known
 9882   2, 81  |        necessity of having recourse to God's help in these matters.~
 9883   2, 81  |            prayers, we may obtain what God has appointed.~Aquin.: SMT
 9884   2, 81  |               3 Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 3: God bestows many things on us
 9885   2, 81  |       confidence in having recourse to God, and that we may recognize ~
 9886   2, 81  |             when thou ~conversest with God in prayer, when thou talkest
 9887   2, 81  |            whereby the mind ascends to God. ~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[83] A[
 9888   2, 81  |               not to offer anything to God, but to. ask to obtain something
 9889   2, 81  |              religion to show honor to God, wherefore all those things
 9890   2, 81  |           which ~reverence is shown to God, belong to religion. Now
 9891   2, 81  |                man shows reverence to ~God by means of prayer, in so
 9892   2, 81  |             powers to the reverence of God. Now ~among the other powers
 9893   2, 81  |             directs man's intellect to God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[83] A[
 9894   2, 81  |             man surrenders his mind to God, since he ~subjects it to
 9895   2, 81  |           things that are employed for God's service, so ~too, prayer
 9896   2, 81  |            Whether we ought to pray to God alone?~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[
 9897   2, 81  |               that we ought to pray to God alone. Prayer is an ~act
 9898   2, 81  |               stated above (A[3]). But God alone is to be worshiped ~
 9899   2, 81  |            Therefore we should pray to God alone.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[
 9900   2, 81  |              prayer. But it belongs to God alone to know one's prayer,
 9901   2, 81  |               by an interior act which God alone knows, ~rather than
 9902   2, 81  |          Therefore we ought to pray to God alone.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[
 9903   2, 81  |            because ~they are united to God. Now some yet living in
 9904   2, 81  |       Purgatory, are closely united to God by grace, and yet we do ~
 9905   2, 81  |           first way we offer prayer to God alone, since all our prayers
 9906   2, 81  |              of grace and glory, which God alone gives, ~according
 9907   2, 81  |                angels or men, not that God may ~through them know our
 9908   2, 81  |             saints ascended up ~before God." This is also clear from
 9909   2, 81  |               upon as our advocates in God's presence.~Aquin.: SMT
 9910   2, 81  |              definite when ~we pray to God. According to Damascene (
 9911   2, 81  |              to ask becoming things of God"; wherefore it is useless
 9912   2, 81  |                not to endeavor to make God will what we will; on the
 9913   2, 81  |          Therefore we ought not to ask God for ~anything definite when
 9914   2, 81  |              are not to be sought from God; and as to ~good things,
 9915   2, 81  |                and as to ~good things, God Himself invites us to take
 9916   2, 81  |         Therefore we ought ~not to ask God for anything definite in
 9917   2, 81  |                 we conform our will to God's, of Whom it is written (
 9918   2, 81  |               3 Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 3: God so invites us to take good
 9919   2, 81  |               Whether man ought to ask God for temporal things when
 9920   2, 81  |              that man ought not to ask God for temporal things ~when
 9921   2, 81  |                  first ~the kingdom of God, and His justice: and all
 9922   2, 81  |                 are not to be asked of God in prayer.~Aquin.: SMT SS
 9923   2, 81  |            mind should be raised up to God. But by ~asking for temporal
 9924   2, 81  |         Therefore man ought not to ask God for temporal things when
 9925   2, 81  |                man ought not to ask of God other than good and useful ~
 9926   2, 81  |           Therefore we ~should not ask God for them in our prayers.~
 9927   2, 81  |             this" (i.e. the kingdom of God) "is to be sought first,
 9928   2, 81  |                something ~else, we ask God for them in the sense that
 9929   2, 81  |         charity proffers is sweeter to God than that which is the ~
 9930   2, 81  |                No man can correct whom God hath despised." ~Hence it
 9931   2, 81  |          Secondly, that many may thank God for the graces conferred
 9932   2, 81  |             are sometimes inflicted by God on the wicked for their
 9933   2, 81  |           always holy. But the name of God is always holy, according
 9934   2, 81  |          kingdom of all ages." Again, ~God's will is always fulfilled,
 9935   2, 81  |                to ask for "the name of God to be ~hallowed," for "His
 9936   2, 81  |                 Now ~the chief gift of God is the Holy Ghost, and those
 9937   2, 81  |                by his benevolence. Now God forestalls us by His ~benevolence,
 9938   2, 81  |               indicate a desire to win God's benevolence.~Aquin.: SMT
 9939   2, 81  |            desires, as it were, before God, then alone ~is it right
 9940   2, 81  |                the end. Now our end is God towards Whom our affections
 9941   2, 81  |               our willing the glory of God, secondly, by willing to ~
 9942   2, 81  |               the love whereby we love God in ~Himself, while the second
 9943   2, 81  |          whereby we love ourselves ~in God. Wherefore the first petition
 9944   2, 81  |            merit beatitude by obeying ~God, and in this respect we
 9945   2, 81  |                 possess the kingdom of God"; and to this refer the
 9946   2, 81  |               hinders us from keeping ~God's will, and to this we refer
 9947   2, 81  |              name, we do not mean that God's name is not holy, ~but
 9948   2, 81  |          pertains to ~the diffusion of God's glory among men. When
 9949   2, 81  |            come, ~we do not imply that God is not reigning now," but "
 9950   2, 81  |                He says: "If it is fear God ~whereby blessed are the
 9951   2, 81  |                spirit, let us ask that God's name be ~hallowed among
 9952   2, 81  |                called the children ~of God, let us pray to be delivered
 9953   2, 81  |            become the free children of God."~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[83] A[
 9954   2, 81  |          because, to wit, the will ~of God tends chiefly to this -
 9955   2, 81  |                Prayer is offered up to God, not that we may bend Him,
 9956   2, 81  |                is fitted to call ~upon God, since this consists chiefly
 9957   2, 81  |               are ~fitted to call upon God, according to Ps. 146:9, "
 9958   2, 81  |           ravens are said to call upon God, on account of ~the natural
 9959   2, 81  |               animals are said to obey God, ~on account of the natural
 9960   2, 81  |              whereby they are moved by God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[83] A[
 9961   2, 81  |           saints conform their will to God perfectly, so that ~they
 9962   2, 81  |              that ~they will only what God wills. Now what God wills
 9963   2, 81  |               what God wills. Now what God wills is always fulfilled. ~
 9964   2, 81  |               Jeremias the ~prophet of God."~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[83] A[
 9965   2, 81  |             closely they are united to God, the more are their prayers ~
 9966   2, 81  |                 Heb. 7:25): "Going ~to God by His own power . . . to
 9967   2, 81  |             for ever them that come to God by Him, always living to ~
 9968   2, 81  |           previous merits and through ~God's acceptance.~Aquin.: SMT
 9969   2, 81  |             saints impetrate what ever God wishes to take place ~through
 9970   2, 81  |             their prayers according to God's will.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[
 9971   2, 81  |                 1/1~Reply OBJ 4: It is God's will that inferior beings
 9972   2, 81  |               to implore the ~mercy of God alone. Nevertheless it happens
 9973   2, 81  |           greater devotion, or because God wishes to make known ~his
 9974   2, 81  |          saying of Ex. ~3:6, "I am the God of Abraham," etc.~Aquin.:
 9975   2, 81  |                is addressed chiefly to God. Now God knows the language
 9976   2, 81  |          addressed chiefly to God. Now God knows the language of ~the
 9977   2, 81  |              should lift man's mind to God, as stated above ~(A[1],
 9978   2, 81  |         prevent man from ~ascending to God by contemplation. Therefore
 9979   2, 81  |            prayer should be offered to God in secret, according to ~
 9980   2, 81  |               that which is offered to God by the ministers of the
 9981   2, 81  |           person praying is ~raised to God, because by means of external
 9982   2, 81  |            debt, so that man may serve God with all that he has from ~
 9983   2, 81  |             with all that he has from ~God, that is to say, not only
 9984   2, 81  |         employed, not in order to tell God ~something He does not know,
 9985   2, 81  |         praying or of other persons to God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[83] A[
 9986   2, 81  |                is written (Jn. 4:24): "God is a spirit, and they that
 9987   2, 81  |              the ascent of the mind to God" [*Damascene, ~De Fide Orth.
 9988   2, 81  |                mind does not ascend to God if the prayer ~is inattentive.
 9989   2, 81  |              he seems to make light of God; even as if he ~were to
 9990   2, 81  |             nay rather will he provoke God to anger." Therefore it
 9991   2, 81  |          original intention, ~to which God looks chiefly, suffices
 9992   2, 81  |              Reg. S. Aug. iii] says, ~"God hears not the prayer of
 9993   2, 81  |             the end of prayer, namely, God, and to the thing ~we are
 9994   2, 81  |          whereby the mind ~is fixed on God, is sometimes so strong
 9995   2, 81  |           praying, the mind ascends to God by contemplation, of a sudden
 9996   2, 81  |              Ep. ccxi): "When you pray God with psalms and ~hymns,
 9997   2, 81  |             can ~to curb yourself, and God will pardon you, seeing
 9998   2, 81  |               more is it acceptable to God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[83] A[
 9999   2, 81  |        transgress the limits fixed by ~God, especially in matters concerning
10000   2, 81  |              them should ~perish." But God has fixed for us the limits