Part, Question

10001   2, 81  |             all things to the glory of God" (1 Cor. ~10:31). From this
10002   2, 81  |              Ep. cxxx, 9), "we pray to God ~with our lips at certain
10003   2, 81  |           offering of prayer itself to God belongs to religion, while
10004   2, 81  |              necessary in reference to God to Whom we pray; that is,
10005   2, 81  |                this from the grace of ~God to Whom we pray, and Who
10006   2, 81  |               of praying is "a gift of God," as Augustine states (De ~
10007   2, 81  |              for instance if we ask of God the ~accomplishment of some
10008   2, 81  |               He who faithfully ~prays God for the necessaries of this
10009   2, 81  |             that man comes to ~know of God's omnipotence and mercy,
10010   2, 81  |                impetrate anything from God by their prayers?~Aquin.:
10011   2, 81  |         sinners impetrate nothing from God by their ~prayers. It is
10012   2, 81  |               Jn. 9:31): "We know that God doth not hear ~sinners";
10013   2, 81  |                impetrates nothing from God. Therefore sinners ~impetrate
10014   2, 81  |                 impetrate nothing from God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[83] A[
10015   2, 81  |                the just impetrate from God what they merit, as stated ~
10016   2, 81  |                xliv, super Joan.): "If God were ~not to hear sinners,
10017   2, 81  |          considered: his ~nature which God loves, and the sin which
10018   2, 81  |      accordance with a sinful ~desire, God hears him not through mercy
10019   2, 81  |              yet deeper into sin. For "God refuses ~in mercy what He
10020   2, 81  |              Joan.). On the other hand God hears the sinner's prayer
10021   2, 81  |              to ask becoming things of God." Therefore it is unfitting
10022   2, 81  |              who prays should approach God Whom he prays: this is signified ~
10023   2, 81  |           raising up of one's mind to ~God." The second is that there
10024   2, 81  |              instance to be ~helped by God, or we may simply indicate
10025   2, 81  |            this ~either on the part of God, or on the part of the person
10026   2, 81  |             impetration on the part of God is His sanctity, on account
10027   2, 81  |              Thy own sake, ~incline, O God, Thy ear"; and to this pertains "
10028   2, 81  |                 should be raised up to God; and that "intercessions
10029   2, 81  |               words, "Almighty eternal God" ~belong to the offering
10030   2, 81  |               offering up of prayer to God; the words, "Who hast given
10031   2, 81  |          prayer is vowing something to God; ~intercession is praying
10032   2, 81  |                offered by the mind ~to God in ineffable ecstasy." The
10033   2, 81  |                 properly the ascent to God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[83] A[
10034   2, 81  |           through the consideration of God's goodness we dare approach
10035   2, 82  |                one's body to reverence God; ~secondly, those acts whereby
10036   2, 82  |           external thing is offered to God; ~thirdly, those acts whereby
10037   2, 82  |         whereby something belonging to God is assumed.~Aquin.: SMT
10038   2, 82  |          worship of religion is due to God alone. But adoration is
10039   2, 82  |               adoration is not due to ~God alone: since we read (Gn.
10040   2, 82  |          worship of religion is due to God as the object of ~beatitude,
10041   2, 82  |                Mt. 4:10: "The Lord thy God shalt ~thou adore and Him
10042   2, 82  |          religion to show reverence to God. Hence the adoration ~whereby
10043   2, 82  |            adoration ~whereby we adore God is an act of religion.~Aquin.:
10044   2, 82  |             OBJ 1: Reverence is due to God on account of His excellence,
10045   2, 82  |              reverence which we pay to God, and ~which belongs to latria,
10046   2, 82  |              thing which is offered to God alone, and that ~is sacrifice.
10047   2, 82  |            deemed or pretended to be a God?" Accordingly it was with ~
10048   2, 82  |               was the reverence due to God with which Mardochai refused
10049   2, 82  |              transfer the honor of his God to a ~man" (Esther 13:14).~
10050   2, 82  |               the adoration of latria, God Who appeared and spoke to ~
10051   2, 82  |              with the reverence due to God that ~John was forbidden
10052   2, 82  |             the text continues: "Adore God."~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[84] A[
10053   2, 82  |        knowledge: whereas ~we approach God not by bodily but by spiritual
10054   2, 82  |    intellectual and sensible, we offer God a ~twofold adoration; namely,
10055   2, 82  |                affections to submit to God, since it is ~connatural
10056   2, 82  |               an interior reverence of God, but secondarily in ~certain
10057   2, 82  |            weakness in comparison with God, and when we prostrate ourselves
10058   2, 82  |                 Though we cannot reach God with the senses, our mind
10059   2, 82  |             sensible signs to approach God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[84] A[
10060   2, 82  |         interior adoration is shown to God as existing everywhere.
10061   2, 82  |               OBJ 3: Further, the same God is adored in the New as
10062   2, 82  |            mind internally apprehends ~God as not comprised in a place;
10063   2, 82  |               sacrifice is offered ~to God in every place," as stated
10064   2, 82  |          adoration, not on account of ~God Who is adored, as though
10065   2, 83  |        external things are ~offered to God. These give rise to a twofold
10066   2, 83  |                 1) Of things ~given to God by the faithful; (2) Of
10067   2, 83  |                offering a sacrifice to God is of the law of nature?~(
10068   2, 83  |         sacrifice should be offered to God alone?~(3) Whether the offering
10069   2, 83  |                offering a sacrifice to God is of the law of nature?~
10070   2, 83  |                offering a sacrifice to God is not of the ~natural law.
10071   2, 83  |               to all under the name of God. Now ~just as in natural
10072   2, 83  |         sensibles, by offering them to God in ~sign of the subjection
10073   2, 83  |                 a matter determined by God or by man. In like manner
10074   2, 83  |          sacrifices is ~established by God or by man, and this is the
10075   2, 83  |               men offered sacrifice to God in ~a manner befitting the
10076   2, 83  |         sacrifice should be offered to God alone?~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[
10077   2, 83  |              offered to the most ~high God alone. Since sacrifice ought
10078   2, 83  |       sacrifice ought to be offered to God, it would seem ~that it
10079   2, 83  |                too are called "sons of God," according to Job 1:6. ~
10080   2, 83  |             the soul ~offers itself to God according to Ps. 50:19, "
10081   2, 83  |                 50:19, "A sacrifice to God is an ~afflicted spirit,"
10082   2, 83  |          offers itself in sacrifice to God as its beginning by creation,
10083   2, 83  |            according to the true faith God alone is the ~creator of
10084   2, 83  |                  Wherefore just as ~to God alone ought we to offer
10085   2, 83  |           Divine honor to another than God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[85] A[
10086   2, 83  |                ones, ~not equally with God, but by participation; hence
10087   2, 83  |             because not they but their God is ~our God. Wherefore the
10088   2, 83  |             they but their God is ~our God. Wherefore the priest says
10089   2, 83  |            Paul. But we give thanks to God for their triumphs, and
10090   2, 83  |             done that we may cleave to God in holy fellowship." But
10091   2, 83  |                 for by such sacrifices God's favor is obtained." Now ~
10092   2, 83  |         apparently anything offered to God. Now ~many things are offered
10093   2, 83  |             many things are offered to God, such as devotion, prayer,
10094   2, 83  |              done out of reverence for God; and ~for this reason it
10095   2, 83  |          directed to the reverence ~of God, as when a man gives alms
10096   2, 83  |             alms of his own things for God's sake, or ~when a man subjects
10097   2, 83  |       affliction out of reverence for ~God; and in this way the acts
10098   2, 83  |              done out of reverence for God: such acts are ~properly
10099   2, 83  |               that we wish to cling to God in a spiritual ~fellowship
10100   2, 83  |              pertains to reverence for God: and consequently the act
10101   2, 83  |            order ~that we may cling to God in holy fellowship.~Aquin.:
10102   2, 83  |              good ~which is offered to God in a certain inward sacrifice
10103   2, 83  |                so to speak, offered to God in martyrdom, and abstinence
10104   2, 83  |                we offer a sacrifice to God, ~directly when we offer
10105   2, 83  |                offer our possession to God immediately, and indirectly ~
10106   2, 83  |             them with our neighbor for God's sake.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[
10107   2, 83  |              thing which is offered to God, for instance animals were ~
10108   2, 83  |               offering of something to God even if nothing be done ~
10109   2, 83  |          because they were offered to ~God, according to Dt. 26, but
10110   2, 83  |                offered immediately ~to God, but to the ministers of
10111   2, 83  |              sacrifices are offered to God in order to signify ~something.
10112   2, 83  |               they ~offer sacrifice to God. But all are not priests.
10113   2, 83  |            bound to offer sacrifice to God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[85] A[
10114   2, 83  |                are obliged to offer to God a devout mind. The other
10115   2, 83  |               through being offered to God in ~protestation of our
10116   2, 83  |      protestation of our subjection to God: and the obligation of offering ~
10117   2, 83  |             certain outward actions in God's honor, as became those
10118   2, 83  |         performed out of reverence for God; some of which are a matter
10119   2, 83  |              which anyone can offer to God for ~himself as explained
10120   2, 84  |             that he offer something to God at ~the celebration of Mass."~
10121   2, 84  |                destroyed in worship of God, as though it were ~being
10122   2, 84  |              deputed to the worship of God or to the use of ~His ministers,
10123   2, 84  |          victims [Douay: 'sacrifices'] God's favor is ~obtained. Much
10124   2, 84  |                between" the people and God, as we read of Moses (Dt.
10125   2, 84  |               things that appertain to God, that he may offer ~up gifts
10126   2, 84  |             which the people ~offer to God concern the priests, not
10127   2, 84  |               it is given to them ~for God's sake. In like manner,
10128   2, 84  |              not given ~immediately to God. Oblations properly so called
10129   2, 84  |              the house of the Lord thy God." Therefore it is not ~lawful
10130   2, 84  |              of a dog" in the house of God. But it is evident that
10131   2, 84  |             neither does it please thy God." Hence it is written ~(
10132   2, 84  |                 But in the New Law all God's creatures are looked upon
10133   2, 84  |            case of a son who offers to God the means of supporting
10134   2, 84  |                day before the Lord thy God, that I am come into the
10135   2, 84  |           because they are ~offered to God with a certain profession (
10136   2, 84  |             the ~altar of the Lord thy God," and further on (Dt. 26:
10137   2, 84  |               fruits of the earth from God, and that he ought ~to offer
10138   2, 84  |           ought ~to offer something to God in return, according to
10139   2, 84  |                And since what we offer God ~ought to be something special,
10140   2, 84  |                was commanded to ~offer God his first-fruits, as being
10141   2, 84  |              things that ~appertain to God" (Heb. 5:1), the first-fruits
10142   2, 84  |            should make an ~offering in God's honor out of the things
10143   2, 84  |            things he has received from God, but ~that the offering
10144   2, 84  |             the promised land given by God, but also on ~account of
10145   2, 84  |             earth, which were given by God. ~Hence it is written (Dt.
10146   2, 84  |                also reply that just as God granted the land of promise
10147   2, 85  |            unto you all the counsel of God." Now neither in the teaching
10148   2, 85  |                made a vow" saying: "If God shall be with me, and ~shall
10149   2, 85  |                eat before the Lord thy God in the place which He shall
10150   2, 85  |        sustenance of the ~ministers of God. Hence it is written (Malach.
10151   2, 85  |               was to be hoped for from God. Yet this proves it to ~
10152   2, 85  |               priest of ~the Most High God, according to Gn. 14:20,
10153   2, 85  |           oblations, being offered ~to God immediately, seem to be
10154   2, 85  |              nothing to the support of God's ministers if they did
10155   2, 85  |              No man being a soldier to God, entangleth ~himself with
10156   2, 85  |                usuriously but given by God. On the other hand ~certain
10157   2, 85  |           these fruits are the gift of God. Wherefore tithes do not
10158   2, 86  |               something is promised to God. Under ~this head there
10159   2, 86  |              man binds ~himself before God to do or not to do a certain
10160   2, 86  |              is fit for the kingdom of God." Now from ~the very fact
10161   2, 86  |             not fit for the kingdom of God. Therefore by a mere good ~
10162   2, 86  |          purpose a man is bound before God, even without making a promise;
10163   2, 86  |                hast vowed ~anything to God, defer not to pay it, for
10164   2, 86  |               a promise can be made to God by the ~mere inward thought,
10165   2, 86  |              not only through fear of ~God, but also through respect
10166   2, 86  |               and ought ~to be made to God and about things relating
10167   2, 86  |               about things relating to God": although the ~"witnessing"
10168   2, 86  |              and pay ~to the Lord your God"; and Jacob vowed (Gn. 28:
10169   2, 86  |                the Lord should ~be his God. Now this above all is necessary
10170   2, 86  |               vow is a promise made to God. ~Now a promise is about
10171   2, 86  |               as every sin is ~against God, and since no work is acceptable
10172   2, 86  |               no work is acceptable to God unless it be ~virtuous,
10173   2, 86  |            would have the Lord for his God, by giving Him a ~special
10174   2, 86  |          fasting, is not acceptable to God except in so far as it is
10175   2, 86  |          sacrifice, holy, ~pleasing to God," adds, "your reasonable
10176   2, 86  |             done by another, more than God does, since He has no need
10177   2, 86  |                simple promise made ~to God, which we call a vow.~Aquin.:
10178   2, 86  |                ought to be faithful to God above all, both on account
10179   2, 86  |               all, both on account of ~God's sovereignty, and on account
10180   2, 86  |            favors he has received from God. ~Hence man is obliged before
10181   2, 86  |                the vows he has made to God, ~since this is part of
10182   2, 86  |                the fidelity he owes to God. On the other hand, the ~
10183   2, 86  |             why vows should be paid to God, because "an unfaithful . . . ~
10184   2, 86  |                requisite. And although God needs not our goods, we
10185   2, 86  |              promised ~to the Lord thy God, and hast spoken with thy
10186   2, 86  |             made a vow to the Lord thy God thou shalt ~not delay to
10187   2, 86  |               it: because the Lord thy God will require it; and if ~
10188   2, 86  |               himself of the good that God has given ~him. Now one
10189   2, 86  |                the greatest goods that God has given man is liberty ~
10190   2, 86  |               thou breakest faith with God (which God forbid) thou
10191   2, 86  |         breakest faith with God (which God forbid) thou art the more ~
10192   2, 86  |              and pay to the Lord ~your God."~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[88] A[
10193   2, 86  |              vow is a promise made to ~God. Now one makes a promise
10194   2, 86  |               under one aspect, and to God under ~another. Because
10195   2, 86  |           whereas we ~make promises to God not for His but for our
10196   2, 86  |               And just as what we give God is useful not to ~Him but
10197   2, 86  |            whereby we vow something to God, does not conduce to His
10198   2, 86  |               liberty, as instanced in God and the blessed. Such is ~
10199   2, 86  |               vow, both because He was God, and because, as man, His
10200   2, 86  |          belongs to ~religion to offer God worship and ceremonial rites.
10201   2, 86  |             not yet offer something to God, but only promises it. Therefore, ~
10202   2, 86  |          should be offered to none but God. But ~a vow is made not
10203   2, 86  |                vow is made not only to God, but also to the saints
10204   2, 86  |             them." Now, the worship of God is properly the act of ~
10205   2, 86  |           directed to the reverence of God which is the proper end
10206   2, 86  |               virtue to the service of God is the proper act of latria.~
10207   2, 86  |              vow is ~a promise made to God, and that a promise is nothing
10208   2, 86  |             the worship or ~service of God. And thus it is clear that
10209   2, 86  |            promising either of them to God belongs to religion, for
10210   2, 86  |            only of the promise made to God, which is the essence of
10211   2, 86  |                OBJ 3: A vow is made to God alone, whereas a promise
10212   2, 86  |               in so far as one vows to God ~to fulfil what one has
10213   2, 86  |          sadness, or of necessity: for God ~loveth a cheerful giver."
10214   2, 86  |               being like sacrifices to God. ~Wherefore Augustine says (
10215   2, 86  |              when it is consecrated to God, and cherished ~by godly
10216   2, 86  |               it, subjects himself ~to God more than he that only does
10217   2, 86  |             for he subjects himself to God not ~only as to the act,
10218   2, 86  |               vow is a promise made to God. Now external actions pertaining ~
10219   2, 86  |            seem to be directed, not to God, but to men. Therefore they ~
10220   2, 86  |               vow is a promise made to God: wherefore, the solemnization ~
10221   2, 86  |                spiritual pertaining to God; i.e. in some ~spiritual
10222   2, 86  |         regards not only men but also ~God in so far as it is accompanied
10223   2, 86  |    consecration or ~blessing, of which God is the author, though man
10224   2, 86  |              vow is more binding with ~God than a simple vow, and he
10225   2, 86  |              is under an obligation to God. Therefore ~those who are
10226   2, 86  |            they promise such things to God by means of vows.~Aquin.:
10227   2, 86  |               vow is a promise made to God. ~Now no man can firmly
10228   2, 86  |          subject of a ~promise made to God, as stated above (A[2]).
10229   2, 86  |          virtue ~for a man to offer to God that which belongs to another,
10230   2, 86  |                directly at the love of God, which is the last end ~
10231   2, 86  |          fidelity which a ~man owes to God, as stated above (A[3]).
10232   2, 86  |            dedicated to the worship of God: and for this reason it
10233   2, 86  |                 The fidelity we owe to God does not require that we
10234   2, 86  |                to the ~fidelity due to God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[88] A[
10235   2, 86  |             e.g. to offer sacrifice to God he can ~be dispensed from
10236   2, 86  |               still more conform us to God, and yet ~one may be dispensed
10237   2, 86  |              thinketh on the things of God [Vulg.: 'the Lord']," and
10238   2, 86  |             man that is consecrated to God ~cease to be consecrated,
10239   2, 86  |                binds himself wholly to God's service, for this is incompatible
10240   2, 86  |              to the world and lives to God, and so he must not be ~
10241   2, 86  |               vow is a promise made to God ~about something acceptable
10242   2, 86  |             Church a prelate stands in God's place. Therefore a commutation
10243   2, 86  |          authority of a prelate who in God's ~stead declares what is
10244   2, 86  |         declares what is acceptable to God, according to 2 Cor. 2:10: "
10245   2, 86  |          consecrates his whole life to God's service. Now ~the particular
10246   2, 86  |               in itself displeasing to God, namely, ~sin, so neither
10247   2, 86  |               is in itself pleasing to God, namely, ~works of virtue.
10248   2, 86  |                the more ~acceptable to God. Consequently in matters
10249   2, 86  |              not stand in the place of God; except perhaps in the case
10250   2, 87  |                  BY TAKING THE NAME OF GOD (QQ[89]-91)~OF OATHS (TEN
10251   2, 87  |              sacrament or the Name of ~God. The place for treating
10252   2, 87  |            this work: of the taking of God's Name we shall treat now. ~
10253   2, 87  |                treat now. ~The Name of God is taken by man in three
10254   2, 87  |            Whether to swear is to call God to witness?~Aquin.: SMT
10255   2, 87  |                to swear is not to call God to witness. ~Whoever invokes
10256   2, 87  |           authority of Holy Writ calls God to witness, since it ~is
10257   2, 87  |                if to swear is to call ~God to witness, whoever invoked
10258   2, 87  |          witness. But he who swears by God pays something to Him for
10259   2, 87  |               jus reddere] of truth to God." Therefore to swear is
10260   2, 87  |               to swear is not to call ~God to witness.~Aquin.: SMT
10261   2, 87  |                to swear is not to call God to witness.~Aquin.: SMT
10262   2, 87  |                   When a man says: 'By God,' what else does he mean
10263   2, 87  |             else does he mean but that God is his ~witness?"~Aquin.:
10264   2, 87  |              witness, for neither ~can God lie, nor is anything hidden
10265   2, 87  |           hidden from Him. Now to call God to witness ~is named "jurare" [
10266   2, 87  |               under the invocation of ~God as His witness should be
10267   2, 87  |        accepted as true. Now sometimes God is ~called to witness when
10268   2, 87  |     declaratory oath"; while sometimes God is called to witness in ~
10269   2, 87  |                and another to ~implore God to bear witness, as in an
10270   2, 87  |               said to pay his oaths to God because he performs ~what
10271   2, 87  |               fact that he calls upon ~God to witness, he recognizes
10272   2, 87  |           there are two ways in ~which God makes known whether the
10273   2, 87  |               a simple contestation of God, as ~when a man says "God
10274   2, 87  |              God, as ~when a man says "God is my witness," or, "I speak
10275   2, 87  |          witness," or, "I speak before God," or, "By ~God," which has
10276   2, 87  |            speak before God," or, "By ~God," which has the same meaning,
10277   2, 87  |          Divine Providence is to tempt God, and ~this is altogether
10278   2, 87  |                not tempt ~the Lord thy God." Now he that swears seems
10279   2, 87  |              Providence, since he asks God to bear witness, and this
10280   2, 87  |               shalt fear the Lord thy ~God . . . and shalt swear by
10281   2, 87  |              whereby man believes that God possesses unerring truth
10282   2, 87  |           caution. For if a man ~calls God as witness, for some trifling
10283   2, 87  |               but little reverence for God, since he would not treat
10284   2, 87  |            forbade us to swear, not by God, but by heaven and earth.
10285   2, 87  |               He who swears tempts not God, because it is not without ~
10286   2, 87  |           expose himself to danger, if God be unwilling to ~bear witness
10287   2, 87  |                whereby we believe that God knows all things and ~cannot
10288   2, 87  |           account of the ~greatness of God Who is called upon to bear
10289   2, 87  |            religion to give worship to God, as Tully ~says (De Invent.
10290   2, 87  |               swears offers nothing to God, ~but calls God to be his
10291   2, 87  |             nothing to God, ~but calls God to be his witness. Therefore
10292   2, 87  |               is to show reverence to ~God. But the end of an oath
10293   2, 87  |               shalt fear the Lord thy ~God, and shalt serve Him only,
10294   2, 87  |                  he that ~swears calls God to witness in confirmation
10295   2, 87  |              fact that a man swears by God, he acknowledges God to
10296   2, 87  |                by God, he acknowledges God to be more ~powerful, by
10297   2, 87  |              way he shows reverence to God. For this reason the Apostle ~
10298   2, 87  |              Now to show ~reverence to God belongs to religion or latria.
10299   2, 87  |             very fact that a man takes God as witness by way of ~an
10300   2, 87  |                 reverence and honor of God, so that he offers something
10301   2, 87  |            that he offers something to God, namely, ~reverence and
10302   2, 87  |               should do it in honor of God: ~wherefore there is no
10303   2, 87  |             man, we show ~reverence to God. For we ought so to perform
10304   2, 87  |              to perform our actions in God's honor ~that they may conduce
10305   2, 87  |             our neighbor's good, since God also works for ~His own
10306   2, 87  |             Now reverence and ~love of God are desirable as something
10307   2, 87  |              something to the honor of God, so that for this very reason ~
10308   2, 87  |             reverence for ~the name of God is taken in confirmation
10309   2, 87  |            does not forbid swearing by God, but by heaven and earth,"
10310   2, 87  |                contestation or calling God as witness: and ~this kind
10311   2, 87  |                like faith, is based on God's truth. Now faith is ~essentially
10312   2, 87  |          essentially and chiefly about God Who is the very truth, and
10313   2, 87  |               about creatures in which God's truth is reflected, as
10314   2, 87  |            oath is chiefly referred to God Whose testimony ~is invoked;
10315   2, 87  |           swear by the Gospel, i.e. by God Whose truth is made known ~
10316   2, 87  |           adduced that the judgment of God may be wrought therein.
10317   2, 87  |                1:23), saying: "I call ~God to witness upon my soul."~
10318   2, 87  |            pledged Pharao's health ~to God; or by way of contestation,
10319   2, 87  |              appealed to the truth of ~God's justice which the princes
10320   2, 87  |              them the reverence due to God. Hence Jerome adds that "
10321   2, 87  |                  If any ~one swears by God's hair or head, or otherwise
10322   2, 87  |               utter blasphemy against ~God, and he be in ecclesiastical
10323   2, 87  |              and with an ~oath wherein God is called to witness: because
10324   2, 87  |           whereby a man is beholden to God, ~in virtue of which he
10325   2, 87  |               be in wording his oath, ~God Who witnesses his conscience
10326   2, 87  |           doubly guilty who both takes God's name ~in vain, and tricks
10327   2, 87  |               a promise, an appeal to ~God as witness. Therefore an
10328   2, 87  |              results from the truth of God Whose testimony is invoked.
10329   2, 87  |              invoked. Since therefore ~God's truth is something greater
10330   2, 87  |           contrary, A vow binds one to God while an oath sometimes
10331   2, 87  |               Now one is more bound to God than to man. Therefore a
10332   2, 87  |               from the fidelity we owe God, which binds us to fulfil
10333   2, 87  |                 but a promise made to ~God; and to be unfaithful to
10334   2, 87  |                and to be unfaithful to God is most grievous.~Aquin.:
10335   2, 87  |               stability on the part of God, to Whom the vow is offered.~
10336   2, 87  |           contrary to the reverence of God. Much ~less therefore can
10337   2, 87  |               something pertaining to ~God's honor or to the benefit
10338   2, 87  |         principally not to ~him but to God: unless perchance it included
10339   2, 87  |                2: Further, to swear by God is more than to swear by
10340   2, 87  |                small thing to swear by God, but a great thing to swear
10341   2, 87  |               Scriptures were made for God's sake, not God for the
10342   2, 87  |               made for God's sake, not God for the sake of the ~Scriptures."
10343   2, 87  |            times are wont to swear ~by God. Much more, therefore, is
10344   2, 87  |                 One is on the ~part of God, whose testimony is invoked,
10345   2, 87  |              all propriety and fear of God."~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[89] A[
10346   2, 87  |              graver matter to swear by God ~than the Gospels. Yet the
10347   2, 87  |              solemnity, and an oath by God frivolously and ~without
10348   2, 87  |             statement made issues from God's infallible disposition. ~
10349   2, 87  |      infallible disposition. ~Thus too God is sometimes spoken of by
10350   2, 88  |                 1/1 - OF THE TAKING OF GOD'S NAME BY WAY OF ADJURATION (
10351   2, 88  |             now consider the taking of God's name by way of adjuration: ~
10352   2, 88  |            adjured Jesus by the living God."~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[90] A[
10353   2, 88  |            contrary, Even when we pray God we implore Him by certain
10354   2, 88  |              faithful "by the mercy of God" ~(Rm. 12:1): and this seems
10355   2, 88  |                by invoking the name of God, or any holy thing, ~intends
10356   2, 88  |                2/2~Moreover, we adjure God in one way and man in another;
10357   2, 88  |                intention in respect of God ~Whose will is immutable.
10358   2, 88  |               we obtain something from God through His ~eternal will,
10359   2, 88  |         certain thing for the sake of ~God's name is to adjure. Therefore
10360   2, 88  |                disposal but to that of God and the holy angels, ~because,
10361   2, 88  |              them through the power of God's name, lest they do ~us
10362   2, 88  |                but also and chiefly to God, Who ~disposes the movements
10363   2, 88  |        ascribed to the devil, ~who, by God's permission, makes use
10364   2, 88  |               by way of appeal made to God, and ~this relates to those
10365   2, 88  |            work miracles by calling on God: secondly, by ~way of compulsion,
10366   2, 89  |                of inquiry:~(1) Whether God should be praised with the
10367   2, 89  |             with the lips?~(2) Whether God should be praised with song?~
10368   2, 89  |               Thes. Para. 1/1 ~Whether God should be praised with the
10369   2, 89  |              OBJ 1: It would seem that God should not be praised with
10370   2, 89  |                something greater." But God transcends the very best
10371   2, 89  |              of all things. ~Therefore God ought to be given, not praise,
10372   2, 89  |               an ~act of religion. Now God is worshiped with the mind
10373   2, 89  |                Therefore the praise of God lies in the ~heart rather
10374   2, 89  |                him that praiseth." But God is not incited ~to better
10375   2, 89  |                grow ~better. Therefore God should not be praised with
10376   2, 89  |              use words, in speaking to God, for one reason, and in ~
10377   2, 89  |           employ words, in speaking to God, not indeed to make ~known
10378   2, 89  |         Consequently we need to praise God with our lips, not indeed
10379   2, 89  |             show him the salvation ~of God." And forasmuch as man,
10380   2, 89  |          forasmuch as man, by praising God, ascends in his affections ~
10381   2, 89  |          ascends in his affections ~to God, by so much is he withdrawn
10382   2, 89  |       withdrawn from things opposed to God, according ~to Is. 48:9, "
10383   2, 89  |               their affections towards God, wherefore it is written (
10384   2, 89  |           Reply OBJ 1: We may speak of God in two ways. First, with
10385   2, 89  |               to Thee is speechless, O God," as ~regards the first,
10386   2, 89  |              Secondly, we may speak of God as to His effects which
10387   2, 89  |              and praising the names of God."~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[91] A[
10388   2, 89  |            heart. For the heart speaks God's praises when it ~fervently
10389   2, 89  |                incite others to praise God, as stated ~above.~Aquin.:
10390   2, 89  |               1~Reply OBJ 3: We praise God, not for His benefit, but
10391   2, 89  |                Thes. Para. 1/1~Whether God should be praised with song?~
10392   2, 89  |              OBJ 1: It would seem that God should not be praised with
10393   2, 89  |           would seem that, in praising God, we should ~employ, not
10394   2, 89  |           recite the office in church: God is to be sung not with the ~
10395   2, 89  |          measures and airs." Therefore God should not be praised with ~
10396   2, 89  |                 Further, the praise of God is competent to little and
10397   2, 89  |                14, "Give praise to our God, all ye His servants; and ~
10398   2, 89  |                Further, in the Old Law God was praised with musical
10399   2, 89  |          arouse man's devotion towards God. Wherefore ~whatever is
10400   2, 89  |             incite men's minds towards God by means of preaching and ~
10401   2, 89  |                it is sung, namely, for God's glory: and this is ~enough
10402   2, 90  |         religion in giving worship ~to God; secondly, we shall treat
10403   2, 90  |              pertain to the worship of God. The former come under the
10404   2, 90  |            possibility of rendering to God, by religion, the equal
10405   2, 90  |            chord in the worship of one God, and the beast of ~superstition
10406   2, 90  |                 Now the worship of one God belongs to ~religion. Therefore
10407   2, 90  |            whereby we are ~directed to God, as stated above (Q[81],
10408   2, 90  |            given, namely, to the ~true God, but "in an undue mode,"
10409   2, 90  |            place to give reverence to ~God, and in this respect the
10410   2, 90  |              that man may be taught by God Whom he worships; and to
10411   2, 90  |          according to the ~precepts of God the object of that worship:
10412   2, 90  |             else than worship given to God in ~an undue mode: as, for
10413   2, 90  |             grace, to ~wish to worship God according to the rite of
10414   2, 91  |              UNDUE WORSHIP OF THE TRUE GOD (TWO ARTICLES)~We must now
10415   2, 91  |              undue worship to the true God; ~(2) Of the superstition
10416   2, 91  |               the worship of the true ~God?~(2) Whether there can be
10417   2, 91  |                the worship of the true God? ~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[93] A[
10418   2, 91  |               the ~worship of the true God. It is written (Joel 2:32): "
10419   2, 91  |           saved." Now whoever worships God ~calls upon His name. Therefore
10420   2, 91  |               Therefore all worship of God is conducive to ~salvation,
10421   2, 91  |                Further, it is the same God that is worshiped by the
10422   2, 91  |             the Law the just worshiped God ~in whatever manner they
10423   2, 91  |       Therefore now also no worship of God is pernicious.~Aquin.: SMT
10424   2, 91  |          likely to be most pleasing to God, whether in the Roman territory, ~
10425   2, 91  |        Therefore no ~way of worshiping God is pernicious.~Aquin.: SMT
10426   2, 91  |            belonged to the ~worship of God. Therefore there can be
10427   2, 91  |               Church, gives worship to God contrary to the manner established
10428   2, 91  |                 1/1~Reply OBJ 1: Since God is truth, to invoke God
10429   2, 91  |                God is truth, to invoke God is to worship Him in ~spirit
10430   2, 91  |                a salutary calling upon God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[93] A[
10431   2, 91  |               to the way of worshiping God, and others followed ~them.
10432   2, 91  |               excess in the worship of God?~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[93] A[
10433   2, 91  |               excess in the worship of God. ~It is written (Ecclus.
10434   2, 91  |               to the ~glorification of God. Therefore there can be
10435   2, 91  |              inward worship, ~"whereby God is worshiped with faith,
10436   2, 91  |             there be in the worship of God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[93] A[
10437   2, 91  |             OBJ 3: Further, to worship God consists in offering to
10438   2, 91  |            received all our goods from God. Therefore ~if we do all
10439   2, 91  |               that we possibly can for God's honor, there will be no ~
10440   2, 91  |             Writ teaches us to worship God. Therefore there can be ~
10441   2, 91  |          excess even in the worship of God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[93] A[
10442   2, 91  |              excess in ~the worship of God, because whatever man does
10443   2, 91  |              does is less than he owes God. ~Secondly, a thing is in
10444   2, 91  |             that man may give glory to God, and submit to Him in mind
10445   2, 91  |                man may do conducing to God's glory, and ~subjecting
10446   2, 91  |                 subjecting his mind to God, and his body, too, by a
10447   2, 91  |               with the commandments of God and of the Church, and in ~
10448   2, 91  |              itself, not conducive to ~God's glory, nor raise man's
10449   2, 91  |                nor raise man's mind to God, nor curb inordinate ~concupiscence,
10450   2, 91  |              with the commandments ~of God and of the Church, or if
10451   2, 91  |                the internal worship of God. Hence Augustine (De Vera
10452   2, 91  |                 17:21, "The kingdom of God is within you," ~against
10453   2, 91  |                1: The glorification of God implies that what is done
10454   2, 91  |              what is done is done ~for God's glory: and this excludes
10455   2, 91  |            charity subject the mind to God, so that ~there can be nothing
10456   2, 92  |                the worship of the true God, ~which is the latria of
10457   2, 92  |                the most high uncreated God alone, as stated above (
10458   2, 92  |             glory of the incorruptible God into the likeness of the
10459   2, 92  |             the whole ~world to be one god, not by reason of its material
10460   2, 92  |              which they believed to be God, for they held God to ~be
10461   2, 92  |               to be God, for they held God to ~be nothing else than
10462   2, 92  |              that there is one supreme god, the cause of ~all things.
10463   2, 92  |                created by ~the supreme god. These they called "gods,"
10464   2, 92  |           pertaining to the worship of God: and then its ~signification
10465   2, 92  |           faith employs in worshipping God. Now the true faith employs ~
10466   2, 92  |                 Further, the most high God should be honored with an
10467   2, 92  |                according to Jn. 4:24, "God . . . they must adore . . .
10468   2, 92  |                Enchiridion iii), that "God is ~worshipped by faith,
10469   2, 92  |      pertaining to latria, not only to God but also to the others ~
10470   2, 92  |             nature, as being nearer to God. But this ~is unreasonable.
10471   2, 92  |               is due to ~the most high God Who excels all in a singular
10472   2, 92  |             and that to the most ~high God, as being better than those
10473   2, 92  |        unbelief, despair and hatred of God, which are opposed to ~internal
10474   2, 92  |              the more a sin is against God the more grievous it is. ~
10475   2, 92  |             acts more directly against God by blaspheming, or ~denying
10476   2, 92  |              the faith, than by giving God's worship to another, which ~
10477   2, 92  |            that are committed against ~God, which indeed are the greater
10478   2, 92  |               to be ~for a man to give God's honor to a creature, since,
10479   2, 92  |          concerned, he sets up another God in the world, and lessens
10480   2, 92  |               inasmuch as it ~deprives God of the singleness of His
10481   2, 92  |             and fabulous fancies about God. It is ~different with other
10482   2, 92  |            confess their belief in one God and ~worship Him alone.~
10483   2, 92  |              dictate that there is one God, and that divine ~worship
10484   2, 92  |               he began to worship as a god." The same passage ~goes
10485   2, 92  |           their ignorance of the ~true God, inasmuch as through failing
10486   2, 92  |              mind the knowledge of one God. In the sixth age idolatry
10487   2, 93  |                they occur is proper to God, Who alone in His ~eternity
10488   2, 93  |      manifestly usurps what belongs to God. It is for this ~reason
10489   2, 93  |               though they were full of God. For ~they pretend to be
10490   2, 93  |             pertains to the worship of God in two ~ways: in one way,
10491   2, 93  |                is something offered to God; as a sacrifice, an ~oblation,
10492   2, 93  |               the people seek of their God, a ~vision for the living
10493   2, 93  |                  Vulg.: 'seek of their God, for the ~living of the
10494   2, 93  |             compelled, by the power of God, to tell ~the truth) and
10495   2, 93  |               merely an observation of God's ~creatures. Therefore
10496   2, 93  |             Now men are instructed by ~God in dreams, for it is written (
10497   2, 93  |              in ~their beds, then He," God to wit, "openeth the ears
10498   2, 93  |                 sometimes referable to God, Who reveals certain things
10499   2, 93  |             infallible and comes ~from God. Therefore it seems not
10500   2, 93  |              cause, ~namely, either by God, as may be seen in the dove