Part, Question

10501   2, 93  |            having previously prayed to God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[95] A[
10502   2, 93  |                the decision is left to God, according to Prov. ~16:
10503   2, 93  |            seem to amount to ~tempting God. Hence Ambrose, commenting
10504   2, 93  |          apostles' example, to consult God by casting lots, let him
10505   2, 93  |                pouring forth prayer to God." ~Thirdly, if the Divine
10506   2, 93  |         persecution, ~the ministers of God do not agree as to which
10507   2, 93  |                result is expected from God, it surpasses the common ~
10508   2, 93  |              due regard to the fear of God; but hidden and unknown ~
10509   2, 94  |          certain fasts and prayers ~to God; moreover, they are directed
10510   2, 94  |             children" who ~abstained, "God gave knowledge, and understanding
10511   2, 94  |          achieves its results ~through God: and consequently it is
10512   2, 94  |              knowledge being proper to God. Yet the demons ~know scientific
10513   2, 94  |         however as signs instituted by God, as are the sacramental ~
10514   2, 94  |                is expected either from God or from the demons. Now ~
10515   2, 94  |          science infused into ~them by God, as related of Solomon (
10516   2, 94  |                to be fitted to see its God, and discern ~what is true,"
10517   2, 94  |                received knowledge from God, according to Ps. 118:100, "
10518   2, 94  |                But their power is from God. ~Therefore it is lawful
10519   2, 94  |             made, not by them, ~but by God. They are enticed by various
10520   2, 94  |               demons are subject, that God should employ them to whatever
10521   2, 94  |                them as signs ~given by God, since these signs are brought
10522   2, 94  |         instruction, as signs given by God. Not all things, however,
10523   2, 94  |              Para. 1/1~OBJ 3: Further, God's word is no less holy than
10524   2, 94  |               Lib. L. Hom. xxvi) that "God's word is ~of no less account
10525   2, 94  |               could not be ascribed to God, Who does not bear ~witness
10526   2, 94  |         connection with reverence ~for God, because this would be pronounced
10527   2, 94  |              to give honor to none but God ~the Creator of all."~Aquin.:
10528   2, 94  |                so with a mind to honor God alone, from Whom ~the result
10529   2, 94  |              worn out of confidence in God, and in the saints whose
10530   2, 94  |                on the reverence due to God and the saints), it ~would
10531   2, 95  |              102)~OF THE TEMPTATION OF GOD (FOUR ARTICLES)~We must
10532   2, 95  |            contempt or irreverence for God and holy things. Accordingly
10533   2, 95  |            directly to irreverence for God; (2) Vices ~pertaining to
10534   2, 95  |        consider the temptation whereby God is tempted, and perjury, ~
10535   2, 95  |         tempted, and perjury, ~whereby God's name is taken with irreverence.
10536   2, 95  |              In what the temptation of God consists;~(2) Whether it
10537   2, 95  |              Whether the temptation of God consists in certain deeds,
10538   2, 95  |               ascribed to the power of God alone?~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[
10539   2, 95  |            seem that the temptation of God does not consist in ~certain
10540   2, 95  |             expected from the power of God alone. ~Just as God is tempted
10541   2, 95  |           power of God alone. ~Just as God is tempted by man so is
10542   2, 95  |               man so is man tempted by God, man, and demons. ~But when
10543   2, 95  |           power. ~Therefore neither is God tempted when the result
10544   2, 95  |              look for an effect due to God's power alone. Therefore,
10545   2, 95  |       Therefore, if the temptation ~of God consisted in such like deeds,
10546   2, 95  |             work miracles would tempt ~God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[97] A[
10547   2, 95  |               aids and put his hope in God alone. Hence Ambrose, ~commenting
10548   2, 95  |              announces the ~kingdom of God, namely, that he should
10549   2, 95  |                  But the temptation of God does not consist in anything ~
10550   2, 95  |            Therefore the temptation of God does not ~consist in such
10551   2, 95  |             deeds, wherein the help of God alone is expected.~Aquin.:
10552   2, 95  |              Christ who ~gave proof of God's power by teaching and
10553   2, 95  |               it should dare to ~tempt God when it has to strive to
10554   2, 95  |            seem that the temptation of God consists in ~omitting to
10555   2, 95  |          relying ~on the assistance of God alone.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[
10556   2, 95  |                Accordingly, man tempts God sometimes by words, sometimes
10557   2, 95  |              deeds. Now ~we speak with God in words when we pray. Hence
10558   2, 95  |               pray. Hence a man tempts God ~explicitly in his prayers
10559   2, 95  |              when he asks something of God with the ~intention of probing
10560   2, 95  |              the ~intention of probing God's knowledge, power or will.
10561   2, 95  |               power or will. He tempts God ~explicitly by deeds when
10562   2, 95  |                does, to experiment ~on God's power, good will or wisdom.
10563   2, 95  |              wisdom. But He will tempt God implicitly, ~if, though
10564   2, 95  |               to make an experiment on God, yet he asks ~for or does
10565   2, 95  |                other use than to prove God's power, ~goodness or knowledge.
10566   2, 95  |          motive, this ~is not to tempt God: for it is written (2 Paralip
10567   2, 95  |               motive, this is to tempt God implicitly. ~Wherefore a
10568   2, 95  |           shalt not tempt the Lord thy God," ~says: "A man tempts God,
10569   2, 95  |             God," ~says: "A man tempts God, if having the means at
10570   2, 95  |         whether he can be delivered by God."~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[97] A[
10571   2, 95  |                OBJ 3: The preachers of God's kingdom dispense with
10572   2, 95  |              their time to the word of God: wherefore if ~they depend
10573   2, 95  |           wherefore if ~they depend on God alone, it does not follow
10574   2, 95  |             not follow that they tempt God. But if ~they were to neglect
10575   2, 95  |                 they would be tempting God. Hence Augustine (Contra
10576   2, 95  |          through ceasing to believe in God, but lest ~he should tempt
10577   2, 95  |              but lest ~he should tempt God, were he not to flee when
10578   2, 95  |               Agatha had experience of God's kindness towards her, ~
10579   2, 95  |              herself suddenly cured by God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[97] A[
10580   2, 95  |           Whether it is a sin to tempt God?~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[97] A[
10581   2, 95  |               it is not a sin to tempt God. For God has not ~commanded
10582   2, 95  |                a sin to tempt God. For God has not ~commanded sin.
10583   2, 95  |               not to be a sin to tempt God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[97] A[
10584   2, 95  |                and the perfect will of God." ~Therefore it is not a
10585   2, 95  |               it is not a sin to tempt God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[97] A[
10586   2, 95  |            thee a sign of the Lord thy God," he replied: "I will not
10587   2, 95  |                you are grievous to my ~God also?" (Is. 7:11-13). And
10588   2, 95  |                namely, the ~land which God had promised him. Again
10589   2, 95  |                him. Again Gedeon asked God for a sign of the ~victory
10590   2, 95  |               it is not a sin to tempt God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[97] A[
10591   2, 95  |           contrary, It is forbidden in God's Law, for it is written (
10592   2, 95  |           shalt not tempt the Lord thy God."~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[97] A[
10593   2, 95  |                and in ~this latter way God is said to tempt us. Now
10594   2, 95  |           doubt that which pertains to God's perfection. Wherefore
10595   2, 95  |              that it is a sin to tempt God in order that the tempter
10596   2, 95  |              tempter himself ~may know God's power.~Aquin.: SMT SS
10597   2, 95  |          others: ~this is not tempting God, provided there be just
10598   2, 95  |              that there may be meat in God's house": ~wherefore they
10599   2, 95  |           wherefore they did not tempt God by paying tithes. The words
10600   2, 95  |             tithes in order to try if "God would open the flood-gates
10601   2, 95  |            experience the favors which God would shower upon them.~
10602   2, 95  |              is a twofold knowledge of God's goodness or will. One ~
10603   2, 95  |             doubt or to prove ~whether God's will be good, or whether
10604   2, 95  |               will be good, or whether God is sweet. The other knowledge ~
10605   2, 95  |                The other knowledge ~of God's will or goodness is effective
10606   2, 95  |                in himself the taste of God's sweetness, and complacency
10607   2, 95  |         sweetness, and complacency in ~God's will, as Dionysius says
10608   2, 95  |             that ~we are told to prove God's will, and to taste His
10609   2, 95  |               3 Para. 1/2~Reply OBJ 3: God wished to give a sign to
10610   2, 95  |             Nor ~would he have tempted God by asking, both because
10611   2, 95  |              would have asked ~through God commanding him to do so,
10612   2, 95  |           there are two ways of asking God for ~a sign: first in order
10613   2, 95  |                 first in order to test God's power or the truth of
10614   2, 95  |          pertains to the temptation of God. Secondly, in ~order to
10615   2, 95  |               instructed as to what is God's pleasure in some particular ~
10616   2, 95  |              the head of temptation of God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[97] A[
10617   2, 95  |                1~Whether temptation of God is opposed to the virtue
10618   2, 95  |            seem that the temptation of God is not opposed to the ~virtue
10619   2, 95  |            religion. The temptation of God is sinful, because a man
10620   2, 95  |          sinful, because a man doubts ~God, as stated above (A[2]).
10621   2, 95  |                 A[2]). Now doubt about God comes under the head of ~
10622   2, 95  |                Therefore temptation of God is ~opposed to faith rather
10623   2, 95  |             not as a man that tempteth God. Such a man," that is, ~
10624   2, 95  |             man," that is, ~who tempts God, says the interlinear gloss, "
10625   2, 95  |     interlinear gloss, "prays for what God taught ~him to pray for,
10626   2, 95  |            pray for, yet does not what God has commanded him to do."
10627   2, 95  |              seems that ~temptation of God is a sin opposed to hope.~
10628   2, 95  |               77:18, "And they tempted God in their ~hearts," says
10629   2, 95  |           hearts," says that "to tempt God is to pray to Him deceitfully,
10630   2, 95  |                Therefore temptation of God is opposed, ~not to religion,
10631   2, 95  |           gloss quoted above "to tempt God is to ~pray to Him inordinately."
10632   2, 95  |          inordinately." Now to pray to God becomingly is an act of ~
10633   2, 95  |               15]). Therefore to tempt God is a sin ~opposed to religion.~
10634   2, 95  |                 is to pay reverence to God. Wherefore whatever pertains
10635   2, 95  |           directly to ~irreverence for God is opposed to religion.
10636   2, 95  |                manifest that to ~tempt God is a sin opposed to religion.~
10637   2, 95  |        indicative of reverence towards God. ~Consequently it belongs
10638   2, 95  |      indicative of irreverence towards God. To tempt God is one of ~
10639   2, 95  |      irreverence towards God. To tempt God is one of ~these; wherefore
10640   2, 95  |             what he can to be heard by God, ~wherefore he tempts God
10641   2, 95  |              God, ~wherefore he tempts God implicitly as it were. And
10642   2, 95  |                in ~matters relating to God implies irreverence towards
10643   2, 95  |               under the mighty hand of God," ~and (2 Tim. 2:15): "Carefully
10644   2, 95  |         present thyself approved unto ~God." Therefore also this kind
10645   2, 95  |        deceitfully, not in relation to God, ~Who knows the secrets
10646   2, 95  |        accidental to the temptation of God, and consequently it does ~
10647   2, 95  |               not follow that to tempt God is directly opposed to the
10648   2, 95  |              Whether the temptation of God is a graver sin than superstition?~
10649   2, 95  |            seem that the temptation of God is a graver sin than ~superstition.
10650   2, 95  |               Now the ~sin of tempting God was more severely punished
10651   2, 95  |             rest." ~Therefore to tempt God is a graver sin than superstition.~
10652   2, 95  |                which the temptation of God is a species, ~is more opposed
10653   2, 95  |           religion. Therefore to tempt God is a graver sin than ~superstition.~
10654   2, 95  |               owe to our parents. ~Now God should be honored by us
10655   2, 95  |               Therefore. temptation of God whereby we behave irreverently
10656   2, 95  |              we behave irreverently to God, seems ~to be a greater
10657   2, 95  |          creature the ~honor we owe to God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[97] A[
10658   2, 95  |                to the reverence due to God. Now it is less ~opposed
10659   2, 95  |          against the reverence due to ~God, if by his deeds he professes
10660   2, 95  |                 whereas he who ~tempts God by words or deeds expresses
10661   2, 95  |              than ~the sin of tempting God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[97] A[
10662   2, 95  |        religion than the temptation of God, since it ~implies greater
10663   2, 95  |                greater irreverence for God, as stated.~Aquin.: SMT
10664   2, 96  |                calling ~on the name of God. Therefore perjury seems
10665   2, 96  |               1]), to swear is to call God as ~witness. Now it is an
10666   2, 96  |                it is an irreverence to God to call Him to witness to
10667   2, 96  |                one implies either that God ignores the ~truth or that
10668   2, 96  |          belongs to ~show reverence to God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[98] A[
10669   2, 96  |             greater ~thing to swear by God than by the Gospels." Now
10670   2, 96  |                mortal ~sin to swear by God to something false; for
10671   2, 96  |                done out of contempt of God. ~Wherefore any action that
10672   2, 96  |            nature, implies contempt of God is a ~mortal sin. Now perjury,
10673   2, 96  |             nature implies contempt of God, ~since, as stated above (
10674   2, 96  |             act of irreverence towards God. Therefore it is manifest
10675   2, 96  |             nonetheless irreverent to ~God, indeed, in a way, he is
10676   2, 96  |              excused ~from contempt of God. If, however, he does not
10677   2, 96  |             Gospels, ~than to swear by God in ordinary conversation,
10678   2, 96  |                 perjury in swearing by God than in swearing by the
10679   2, 96  |              for the sake of good, ~as God does, but it is not lawful
10680   2, 96  |            swears falsely by the true ~God, because an oath of this
10681   2, 96  |            swears falsely by ~the true God his oath seems to lack any
10682   2, 97  |              Para. 1/1~OBJ 3: Further, God's power is greater than
10683   2, 97  |            their sacred character from God. Therefore they cannot be ~
10684   2, 97  |               reverence is referred to God. Therefore whatever pertains
10685   2, 97  |          sacred things is an injury to God, and comes under the head
10686   2, 97  |          desire contrary to the law of God," according to Augustine (
10687   2, 97  |                it belongs to reverence God and divine things. Therefore
10688   2, 97  |                to the reverence due to God ~and consequently he is
10689   2, 97  |             the divine ~law who assail God's law, as heretics and blasphemers
10690   2, 97  |               through not believing in God; and of sacrilege, ~through
10691   2, 97  |          holiness of man, who worships God in a holy place. For it
10692   2, 97  |              written ~(2 Macc. 5:19): "God did not choose the people
10693   2, 97  |               a virgin consecrated ~to God be guilty of fornication:
10694   2, 98  |              creature and the slave of God, whereas the latter ~make
10695   2, 98  |               thought that the gift of God may be ~purchased with money." ~
10696   2, 98  |         dispensers of the ministers of God."~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[100]
10697   2, 98  |            from the gratuitous will of God. Wherefore Our Lord said ~(
10698   2, 98  |          spiritual thing, a man treats God and ~divine things with
10699   2, 98  |               world was not created by God, but by some ~heavenly power,
10700   2, 98  |             man gives ~what he has for God's sake. But this is to employ
10701   2, 98  |             given to those ~who praise God by celebrating the divine
10702   2, 98  |              due to Jacob by reason of God's choice, ~according to
10703   2, 98  |        movements of the heart, whereof God alone is the judge. Now ~
10704   2, 98  |              Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 6: In God's sight the mere will makes
10705   2, 99  |               speaking, the worship of God, which the Greeks designate
10706   2, 99  |          eusebeia}. But the worship of God does not denote relation
10707   2, 99  |          relation to man, ~but only to God. Therefore piety does not
10708   2, 99  |              from them. on both counts God holds first place, for He
10709   2, 99  |                and his country, after ~God. Wherefore just as it belongs
10710   2, 99  |            religion to give worship to God, so ~does it belong to piety,
10711   2, 99  |          wherefore the worship due ~to God includes the worship due
10712   2, 99  |           consider to be the fact that God Himself ~has declared that
10713   2, 99  |     application of the word 'pious' to God ~Himself."~Aquin.: SMT SS
10714   2, 99  |            religion to give worship to God. But ~piety also gives worship
10715   2, 99  |            piety also gives worship to God, according to Augustine (
10716   2, 99  |               is primarily directed to God, so again piety is a ~protestation
10717   2, 99  |               2 Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 2: God is the principle of our
10718   2, 99  |                which ~gives worship to God, is a distinct virtue from
10719   2, 99  |          creatures are ~transferred to God as the summit of excellence
10720   2, 99  |              designates the worship of God, even as God, by way of
10721   2, 99  |                worship of God, even as God, by way of excellence, is ~
10722   2, 99  |              and preach the kingdom of God." ~Now the latter pertains
10723   2, 99  |              Para. 1/1~OBJ 3: Further, God is called "Our Father" by
10724   2, 99  |                piety so do we worship ~God by religion. Therefore the
10725   2, 99  |                his ~father rather than God, but, as Ambrose says on
10726   2, 99  |              away from the ~worship of God it would no longer be an
10727   2, 99  |            parents to the prejudice of God. Hence Jerome says (Ep.
10728   2, 99  |              worship religion gives to God. If, ~however, by paying
10729   2, 99  |         withdrawn ~from the service of God, then will it be an act
10730   2, 99  |               hindrance in our ~way to God, we must ignore them by
10731   2, 99  |        withdraw us from the service of God, we ~must, as regards this
10732   2, 99  |            piety is referred by us ~to God; just as other works of
10733   2, 99  |               neighbors are offered to God, according to Mt. 25:40: "
10734   2, 99  |          incite us to nothing against ~God, we must not abandon them
10735   2, 99  |                them, and leave them in God's care. But this, ~considered
10736   2, 99  |              aright, would be to tempt God: since, while having human
10737   2, 99  |              to danger, in the hope of God's ~assistance. on the other
10738   2, 100 |            which character is found in God in a universal way, ~so
10739   2, 100 |              neither can it be done to God, nor to our parents. ~Consequently
10740   2, 100 |              in the first ~place after God. Now honor and reverence
10741   2, 101 |         witness is borne either before God or before man. Before God,
10742   2, 101 |              God or before man. Before God, Who is the ~searcher of
10743   2, 101 |            wherefore ~honor, so far as God is concerned, may consist
10744   2, 101 |                man acknowledges either God's ~excellence or another
10745   2, 101 |                man's excellence before God. But, as regards men, ~one
10746   2, 101 |                latria, which is due to God. Or again, he ~forbade him
10747   2, 101 |               glory of the children of God": wherefore he refused to
10748   2, 101 |               of his dignity, as being God's minister, and because
10749   2, 101 |           gloss on Ps. 7:1, "O Lord my God, in Thee have I put my trust,"
10750   2, 101 |           power, to Whom dulia is due; God by creation, to Whom ~we
10751   2, 101 |             Now the virtue directed to God as Lord is not distinct ~
10752   2, 101 |            which is directed to Him as God. Therefore dulia is not
10753   2, 101 |             charity with which we love God is ~the same as that whereby
10754   2, 101 |            latria with which we ~honor God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[103] A[
10755   2, 101 |            being made to ~the image of God. For it is written of the
10756   2, 101 |               honor of holy souls, for God created man ~incorruptible,
10757   2, 101 |             virtue from latria whereby God is ~honored.~Aquin.: SMT
10758   2, 101 |             consists in the worship of God."~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[103]
10759   2, 101 |                Now servitude is due to God ~and to man under different
10760   2, 101 |               lordship is competent to God ~and to man under different
10761   2, 101 |           under different aspects. For God has absolute and paramount ~
10762   2, 101 |            service to the lordship of ~God. It is, moreover, a species
10763   2, 101 |               excellence, ~inasmuch as God is our Father by way of
10764   2, 101 |                excellence, inasmuch as God is our Lord by way of ~excellence.
10765   2, 101 |              of which latria is due to God: and so this gloss drew
10766   2, 101 |                 by ascribing latria to God in respect of creation,
10767   2, 101 |                we love our neighbor is God, since that ~which we love
10768   2, 101 |            neighbor through charity is God alone. Wherefore the ~charity
10769   2, 101 |             charity with which we love God is the same as that with
10770   2, 101 |              is one reason for serving God and another for serving
10771   2, 101 |               the image or likeness of God, yet in showing ~reverence
10772   2, 101 |               not always refer this to God actually.~Aquin.: SMT SS
10773   2, 101 |               a person as the image of God ~redounds somewhat to God:
10774   2, 101 |              God ~redounds somewhat to God: and yet this differs from
10775   2, 101 |             reverence that is ~paid to God Himself, for this in no
10776   2, 101 |          having a special ~affinity to God, for instance to the Blessed
10777   2, 101 |                as being the mother ~of God. Therefore it seems that
10778   2, 101 |         creature we find the image of ~God, for which reason it is
10779   2, 101 |         creature we ~find the trace of God. Now the aspect of likeness
10780   2, 101 |              his having an affinity to God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[103] A[
10781   2, 102 |             other virtues;~(4) Whether God must be obeyed in all things?~(
10782   2, 102 |              the divine ordinance. Now God has so ordered ~that man
10783   2, 102 |           according to Ecclus. 15:14, "God ~made man from the beginning,
10784   2, 102 |              his rule of ~conduct. Now God's will alone, which is always
10785   2, 102 |              is bound to obey none but God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[104] A[
10786   2, 102 |              power bestowed on them by God: and so in ~human affairs
10787   2, 102 |               1 Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 1: God left man in the hand of
10788   2, 102 |               Reply OBJ 2: The will of God is the first rule whereby
10789   2, 102 |          diminished, especially before God, Who sees not only the ~
10790   2, 102 |              its direct ~object is not God, but the precept of any
10791   2, 102 |          according to the judgment of ~God, Who searches the heart,
10792   2, 102 |             consists in man contemning God and adhering ~to mutable
10793   2, 102 |          created goods and adhering to God as his end. Now the end
10794   2, 102 |            order that he may adhere to God, his virtue ~derives greater
10795   2, 102 |            praise from his adhering to God than from his contemning ~
10796   2, 102 |         virtues whereby he ~adheres to God in Himself, are greater
10797   2, 102 |            thing in order to adhere to God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[104] A[
10798   2, 102 |        contemns that ~he may adhere to God, the greater the virtue.
10799   2, 102 |               that man may contemn for God's sake. The lowest of these ~
10800   2, 102 |              contemn ~our own will for God's sake, is more praiseworthy
10801   2, 102 |            other goods for the sake of God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[104] A[
10802   2, 102 |                 are meritorious before God through being performed
10803   2, 102 |         performed out of obedience to ~God's will. For were one to
10804   2, 102 |              who saith that he knoweth God, and keepeth not His commandments,
10805   2, 102 |              very deed the charity ~of God is perfected": and this
10806   2, 102 |           proceeds from ~reverence for God, it comes under religion,
10807   2, 102 |              more praiseworthy to obey God than to offer sacrifice,
10808   2, 102 |                better for Saul to obey God ~than to offer in sacrifice
10809   2, 102 |            against the ~commandment of God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[104] A[
10810   2, 102 |               command is ~competent to God. Secondly, because infusion
10811   2, 102 |        necessity, for instance to love God, and so forth: and by no ~
10812   2, 102 |                Thes. Para. 1/1~Whether God ought to be obeyed in all
10813   2, 102 |               1/1~OBJ 1: It seems that God need not be obeyed in all
10814   2, 102 |               we are not bound to obey God in all ~things.~Aquin.:
10815   2, 102 |              virtue. Now ~we find that God commanded certain things
10816   2, 102 |        contrary to chastity. Therefore God is not to be ~obeyed in
10817   2, 102 |                 Further, whoever obeys God conforms his will to the
10818   2, 102 |               man is not bound to obey God in all ~things.~Aquin.:
10819   2, 102 |              motive causes. Now just a God is the first mover of all
10820   2, 102 |               1/1~Reply OBJ 2: Even as God does nothing contrary to
10821   2, 102 |              nature of a thing is what God does therein," according
10822   2, 102 |               course of nature; ~so to God can command nothing contrary
10823   2, 102 |             chiefly in conformity with God's will and ~obedience to
10824   2, 102 |             contrary to justice, since God is the author of life ~an
10825   2, 102 |            take an adulteress, because God Himself is the ~ordainer
10826   2, 102 |             not sin, either by obeying God or by willing to obey Him.~
10827   2, 102 |              always bound to will what God wills, yet ~he is always
10828   2, 102 |              always bound to will what God wills him to will. This
10829   2, 102 |              knowledge chiefly through God's command, wherefore man
10830   2, 102 |        wherefore man is bound to ~obey God's commands in all things.~
10831   2, 102 |                superiors stand between God and their subjects, ~according
10832   2, 102 |               esteemed the commands of God, ~wherefore the Apostle
10833   2, 102 |            received me as an ~angel of God, even as Christ Jesus" and (
10834   2, 102 |             the word of the hearing of God, you received it, not as ~
10835   2, 102 |              it is indeed, the word of God." Therefore as man ~is bound
10836   2, 102 |               as man ~is bound to obey God in all things, so is he
10837   2, 102 |               5:29): "We ought to obey God rather ~than men." Now sometimes
10838   2, 102 |                a superior are against ~God. Therefore superiors are
10839   2, 102 |                resist the ordinance of God" (cf. St. ~Augustine, De
10840   2, 102 |         emperor commands one thing and God another, you must disregard
10841   2, 102 |         disregard the former ~and obey God." Secondly, a subject is
10842   2, 102 |               obey his fellow-man, but God alone.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[
10843   2, 102 |               OBJ 2: Man is subject to God simply as regards all things,
10844   2, 102 |                superior stands between God and his subjects, whereas
10845   2, 102 |           subject is immediately under God, by Whom he ~is taught either
10846   2, 102 |             things be not ~contrary to God or to the rule they profess,
10847   2, 102 |           Christ, are made children of God, according to Jn. 1:12: "
10848   2, 102 |           power to be made the sons of God, to them that believe in
10849   2, 102 |               every human creature for God's sake: whether it be to
10850   2, 102 |              Rm. 3:22, "The justice of God by faith of Jesus Christ:" ~
10851   2, 102 |             mind he served the ~law of God, but in his flesh the law
10852   2, 102 |             that are ~made children of God by grace are free from the
10853   2, 103 |                 Now by charity we love God and our neighbor. ~The charity
10854   2, 103 |              neighbor. ~The charity of God requires that we obey His
10855   2, 103 |                to the commandments of ~God is a mortal sin, because
10856   2, 103 |                contrary to the love of God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[105] A[
10857   2, 103 |             Again, the commandments of God contain the precept of obedience
10858   2, 103 |                contrary to the love of God, according to Rm. 13:2, ~"
10859   2, 103 |             resisteth the ordinance of God." It is also ~contrary to
10860   2, 103 |               more grievous to disobey God than man. ~Secondly, on
10861   2, 103 |              As to the commandments of God, it is evident that the
10862   2, 103 |             commandment, because since God's will is essentially directed
10863   2, 103 |         greater the good the more does God wish it to be fulfilled. ~
10864   2, 103 |             commandment of the love of God sins ~more grievously than
10865   2, 103 |            which there is ~contempt of God's precept, from the very
10866   2, 103 |               being ~a disobedience to God. And I say this because
10867   2, 103 |             neighbor acts also against God's commandment. And if the
10868   2, 103 |          directly involves contempt of God, ~such as blasphemy, or
10869   2, 103 |             sin involving ~contempt of God's commandment alone.~Aquin.:
10870   2, 103 |            redounds to the contempt of God just as ~idolatry does,
10871   2, 104 |                Who owes more thanks to God, the innocent or the penitent?~(
10872   2, 104 |             the greatest benefits from God, and ~from our parents.
10873   2, 104 |              the honor which we pay to God in return belongs to ~the
10874   2, 104 |               primarily and chiefly in God, in that He is the first ~
10875   2, 104 |         Accordingly, since what we owe God, or our father, or a person
10876   2, 104 |              religion, whereby ~we pay God due worship, and piety,
10877   2, 104 |             wherefore giving thanks to God was ~reckoned above (Q[83],
10878   2, 104 |                bound to give thanks to God than the ~penitent?~Aquin.:
10879   2, 104 |                bound to give thanks to God ~than the penitent. For
10880   2, 104 |             gift one has received from God, ~the more one is bound
10881   2, 104 |                bound to give thanks to God than the penitent.~Aquin.:
10882   2, 104 |          receives a greater ~gift from God, also, absolutely speaking,
10883   2, 104 |          because what he receives from God ~is more gratuitously given:
10884   2, 104 |               says (Div. Nom. i) that "God turns all things to Himself ~
10885   2, 104 |             what he does not know. Now God alone ~knows the interior
10886   2, 104 |               3 Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 3: God alone sees man's disposition
10887   2, 105 |             whoever sins ~acts against God his sovereign benefactor.
10888   2, 105 |                material ingratitude to God, inasmuch ~as a man does
10889   2, 105 |               ought ~to be grateful to God above all. But one is not
10890   2, 105 |               one is not ungrateful to God by ~committing a venial
10891   2, 105 |               one is not ungrateful to God to ~the extent of incurring
10892   2, 105 |           virtuous act of obedience to God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[107] A[
10893   2, 106 |                whoever usurps what is ~God's sins. But vengeance belongs
10894   2, 106 |               But vengeance belongs to God, for it is written (Dt.
10895   2, 106 |         magnanimity, yet not to suffer God's wrongs, not even by listening
10896   2, 106 |            contrary, We should look to God for nothing save what is
10897   2, 106 |          lawful. But we are to look to God for vengeance on His enemies:
10898   2, 106 |          written (Lk. 18:7): "Will not God revenge His elect who cry
10899   2, 106 |            justice may be upheld, and ~God honored), then vengeance
10900   2, 106 |              not usurp what belongs to God but makes use of the ~power
10901   2, 106 |              the ~power granted him by God. For it is written (Rm.
10902   2, 106 |            earthly ~prince that "he is God's minister, an avenger to
10903   2, 106 |         appointment, he usurps what is God's and therefore sins.~Aquin.:
10904   2, 106 |             the wrongs they inflict on God and their ~neighbor. For
10905   2, 106 |                wrongs, but to overlook God's wrongs is most ~wicked."~
10906   2, 106 |                to a person reflects on God and the ~Church: and then
10907   2, 106 |              avenges the wrong done to God and his neighbor, because
10908   2, 106 |              to Ex. 20:5, "I ~am . . . God . . . jealous, visiting
10909   2, 106 |              punishments ~inflicted by God in this present life for
10910   2, 106 |             when this is manifest, and God ~condemns men spiritually
10911   2, 106 |                cannot be ~conformed to God's hidden judgments, whereby
10912   2, 106 |              OBJ 3: By the judgment of God children are punished in
10913   2, 107 |             because its object is not ~God but temporal things. For
10914   2, 108 |               which are either against God, and then we have the ~lie "
10915   2, 108 |         grievous, because sins against God are always more ~grievous,
10916   2, 108 |         Further, no one is rewarded by God for sin. But the midwives
10917   2, 108 |                 Egypt were rewarded by God for a lie, for it is stated
10918   2, 108 |                 for it is stated that "God built ~them houses" (Ex.
10919   2, 108 |                 but for ~their fear of God, and for their good-will,
10920   2, 108 |           because the midwives ~feared God, He built them houses."
10921   2, 108 |               soul lives in union with God, as stated above ~(Q[24],
10922   2, 108 |            contrary to the ~charity of God, whose truth one hides or
10923   2, 108 |                the purpose of injuring God, and this is always a mortal ~
10924   2, 108 |               directed to the ~love of God and our neighbor, as stated
10925   2, 108 |                contrary to the love of God and our neighbor. Hence
10926   2, 108 |           their ~reverence and fear of God, for which their virtuous
10927   2, 108 |           build houses') explains that God ~"built them spiritual houses."
10928   2, 109 |        received an earthly reward from God, not for his ~dissimulation,
10929   2, 109 |                 men prove the wrath of God," says that "the dissembler
10930   2, 109 |               genus to the ~service of God, and seeks by their means
10931   2, 109 |             their means to please, not God but man, he ~simulates a
10932   2, 109 |                  that "hypocrites make God's interests subservient
10933   2, 109 |              seek, not to ~turn men to God, but to draw to themselves
10934   2, 109 |              one deserves the anger of God and exclusion from ~seeing
10935   2, 109 |             and exclusion from ~seeing God, save on account of mortal
10936   2, 109 |           mortal sin. Now the anger of God is ~deserved through hypocrisy
10937   2, 109 |          crafty men prove the wrath of God": and the hypocrite is excluded
10938   2, 109 |               is excluded from ~seeing God, according to Job 13:16, "
10939   2, 109 |                contrary to the love of God or of his ~neighbor, it
10940   2, 110 |                stir up quarrels, since God hates those that ~sow discord,
10941   2, 110 |               whatever is forbidden in God's law is a mortal sin. Now ~
10942   2, 110 |             that ~which is contrary to God's glory - thus it is said
10943   2, 110 |              and thou hast said: ~I am God" - or contrary to the love
10944   2, 110 |              that are against ~neither God nor his neighbor. Secondly,
10945   2, 110 |                contrary to the love of God or our neighbor, either
10946   2, 110 |             prefer this to the love of God, so as to contemn God's
10947   2, 110 |               of God, so as to contemn God's commandments for ~the
10948   2, 110 |              be against the charity of God, ~in Whom alone ought our
10949   2, 111 |                s being strengthened by God: and yet ~this leads one
10950   2, 111 |                man spoke, with whom is God, and who being strengthened ~
10951   2, 111 |             who being strengthened ~by God, abiding with him, said,
10952   2, 111 |              is ~a wisdom according to God, which has human or worldly
10953   2, 111 |             say, ~"is foolishness with God." Accordingly, he that is
10954   2, 111 |                that is strengthened by God ~acknowledges himself to
10955   2, 113 |               according to Ps. ~52:6, "God hath scattered the bones
10956   2, 113 |                contrary to the love of God, against Whose justice he
10957   2, 115 |                of riches is granted by God to some, in order ~that
10958   2, 115 |               chiefly by liberality to God, "Who giveth to all men
10959   2, 115 |             the good of others, or for God's glory. Thus ~it derives
10960   2, 115 |               1 Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 1: God's giving proceeds from His
10961   2, 116 |            every sin is against either God, or one's neighbor, or ~
10962   2, 116 |                speaking, a sin against God: since it is opposed neither
10963   2, 116 |               which man is directed to God. ~Nor again is it a sin
10964   2, 116 |           however, it is a sin against God, just as all mortal ~sins,
10965   2, 116 |                counter to the love ~of God and his neighbor, covetousness
10966   2, 116 |                of ~them to the love of God, and is unwilling for the
10967   2, 116 |              anything in opposition to God or his neighbor, then covetousness
10968   2, 116 |              of ~riches to the love of God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[118] A[
10969   2, 116 |             view a sin that is against God is ~most grievous; after
10970   2, 116 |                 because a man contemns God's mercy, ~or His justice,
10971   2, 117 |          Eccles. 6:2): "A ~man to whom God hath given riches . . .
10972   2, 119 |              filial affection ~towards God, according to Rm. 8:15, "
10973   2, 119 |               pay worship and ~duty to God as our Father, is a gift
10974   2, 119 |            that is a gift pays this to God as ~Father.~Aquin.: SMT
10975   2, 119 |               OBJ 2: To pay worship to God as Creator, as religion
10976   2, 119 |            does. But to pay worship to God as Father is yet more ~excellent
10977   2, 119 |       excellent than to pay worship to God as Creator and Lord. Wherefore ~
10978   2, 119 |           worship and duty not only to God, but also to all men on
10979   2, 119 |              of their ~relationship to God. Hence it belongs to piety
10980   2, 119 |                act, which is to revere God with filial affection: for
10981   2, 119 |         numbered among the children of God." The saints will ~also
10982   2, 120 |           corresponding to the love of God and the love of our neighbor, ~
10983   2, 120 |              as ~these are directed to God. Hence neither precepts
10984   2, 120 |               For man is more bound to God than to his father in the
10985   2, 120 |            religion, whereby all honor God, be expressed ~affirmatively,
10986   2, 120 |               man is duly ~directed to God, Who is the last end of
10987   2, 120 |               man to adhere to a false god, according to Mt. 6:24, "
10988   2, 120 |               6:24, "You ~cannot serve God and mammon." Therefore in
10989   2, 120 |             true in matters concerning God, where negation is preferable
10990   2, 120 |               not take the name of thy God in ~vain" is thus explained
10991   2, 120 |             shalt not deem the ~Son of God to be a creature," so that
10992   2, 120 |            take the name of ~. . . thy God in vain, " adds, i.e. "by
10993   2, 120 |            i.e. "by giving the name of God to wood or ~stone," as though
10994   2, 120 |                2: Further, the name of God is taken for many purposes -
10995   2, 120 |               forbidding the taking of God's name in vain ~seems to
10996   2, 120 |             take the name of . . . thy God in vain," namely, by swearing
10997   2, 120 |              deed that is an insult to God ~is much more grievous than
10998   2, 120 |              Para. 1/1~OBJ 5: Further, God's names are many. Therefore
10999   2, 120 |             take the name of . . . thy God in ~vain."~Aquin.: SMT SS
11000   2, 120 |               reverence, when, to wit, God is contemned, and this ~