Part, Question

11001   2, 120 |      preventing man from acknowledging God so as to worship Him: ~and
11002   2, 120 |               time give due worship to God, according to Is. 28:20, "
11003   2, 120 |             out," i.e. either the true God or a ~false god must fall
11004   2, 120 |               the true God or a ~false god must fall out from man's
11005   2, 120 |          preventing ~man from honoring God after he has acknowledged
11006   2, 120 |              first ~of all acknowledge God with a view to worship,
11007   2, 120 |            take the name of . . . thy ~God in vain," namely, "by swearing
11008   2, 120 |              all taking of the name of God, ~but properly the taking
11009   2, 120 |             but properly the taking of God's name in confirmation of
11010   2, 120 |           because men are wont to take God's name more frequently ~
11011   2, 120 |             take the name of . . . thy God in vain": since it matters
11012   2, 120 |               matters not in ~which of God's names perjury is committed.~
11013   2, 120 |           forty days unto the mount of God, Horeb, must ~have traveled
11014   2, 120 |            religion to give worship to God: and ~just as the Divine
11015   2, 120 |              external worship given to God ~under the guise of sensible
11016   2, 120 |                the exterior worship of God as the sign of a ~universal
11017   2, 120 |             the world, from which work God is stated to have rested
11018   2, 120 |                as a day to be given to God. Hence after ~the precept
11019   2, 120 |                s mind is refreshed ~in God. And thus to have a certain
11020   2, 120 |                 and the mind's rest in God, ~in which sense, too, it
11021   2, 120 |        foreshadowing the enjoyment ~of God in heaven. Hence the precept
11022   2, 120 |              third is the servitude of God; and in this way the ~work
11023   2, 120 |             pertains to the service of God, may be called a ~servile
11024   2, 120 |              with works connected with God's service. For this ~reason,
11025   2, 120 |               the spiritual worship of God, ~are said to be servile
11026   2, 120 |               directed to the love of ~God and of our neighbor. Now
11027   2, 120 |              precepts ~directing us to God, a place is given to the
11028   2, 120 |        principle of our being, just as God is ~the universal principle:
11029   2, 120 |             life to our parents ~after God: wherefore he that honors
11030   2, 120 |           whereby man pays what is due God, and after the fourth precept
11031   2, 121 |                sovereign good which is God; ~wherefore their fortitude
11032   2, 121 |           ready to bear all things for God's sake." Now God is not
11033   2, 121 |            things for God's sake." Now God is not the habit ~of fortitude,
11034   2, 121 |             remote end is happiness or God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[123] A[
11035   2, 121 |              the copious assistance of God's grace, which ~has more
11036   2, 122 |               being slain obtained by ~God's grace the glory of martyrdom
11037   2, 122 |                a man give ~his soul to God, which is done by obedience,
11038   2, 122 |           obedience, than that he give God his ~body, which is done
11039   2, 122 |               as faith or ~the love of God, so that this act of virtue
11040   2, 122 |             rightly that the Mother of God was both virgin and martyr, ~
11041   2, 122 |              speaking. In the sight of God, however, Who searcheth ~
11042   2, 122 |           ashamed, but let him glorify God in this name." ~Now a man
11043   2, 122 |                profess that they know ~God but in their works they
11044   2, 122 |                as they are referred to God, are professions of the
11045   2, 122 |          whereby we come ~to know that God requires these works of
11046   2, 122 |        instance when it is referred to God, it follows that any ~human
11047   2, 122 |               far as it is referred to God, may be the cause of ~martyrdom.~
11048   2, 123 |              Yet fear is ~commanded in God's law, for it is written (
11049   2, 123 |            turns the heart wholly from God. But ~fear does not this,
11050   2, 124 |                 Dei xiv), "the love of God to the ~abasement of self
11051   2, 124 |                2) that "he ~feared not God nor regarded man."~Aquin.:
11052   2, 124 |               from ~loving and serving God, and on the same score they
11053   2, 126 |                whereby one confides in God is accounted a theological ~
11054   2, 126 |           hopes in ~himself, yet under God withal.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[
11055   2, 127 |               because it is offered to God and to the best; and ~again
11056   2, 127 |              deserves to be honored by God. Hence he is not uplifted
11057   2, 127 |         possesses through ~the gift of God; and something defective
11058   2, 127 |                the gifts he holds from God: ~thus if his soul is endowed
11059   2, 127 |                as they ~fall away from God's gifts: since he does not
11060   2, 127 |               so far as we see some of God's ~gifts in them. Hence
11061   2, 127 |                through Christ ~towards God, not that we are sufficient
11062   2, 127 |          present thyself approved unto God." Therefore ~security does
11063   2, 128 |              should do what it becomes God to do, but that ~he should
11064   2, 128 |             and do good by the help of God, this is not altogether
11065   2, 128 |          attempt without confidence in God's assistance.~Aquin.: SMT
11066   2, 128 |                fear, whereby we revere God. Nevertheless, in so far
11067   2, 129 |         principally, not to him but to God. The second point that calls
11068   2, 129 |              excels is given to him by God, ~that he may profit others
11069   2, 129 |                without referring it to God. Thirdly, when a man's appetite ~
11070   2, 130 |              sins ~in being likened to God: in fact we are commanded (
11071   2, 130 |              Be ye . . ~. followers of God, as most dear children."
11072   2, 130 |            glory man ~seems to imitate God, Who seeks glory from men:
11073   2, 130 |               not only in the sight of God, but also in the ~sight
11074   2, 130 |              but the Spirit that is of God that we may know the things
11075   2, 130 |                that are ~given us from God." Likewise it is not a sin
11076   2, 130 |            glory to a due end, such as God's honor, or the spiritual
11077   2, 130 |             Himself. ~For knowledge of God is our need, not His: nor
11078   2, 130 |              is therefore evident that God ~seeks glory, not for His
11079   2, 130 |             That which we receive from God is not vain but true glory: ~
11080   2, 130 |               is approved, but he whom God ~commendeth." It is true
11081   2, 130 |        something, either in order that God may be glorified by men,
11082   2, 130 |                things in the sight of ~God and men": but not that he
11083   2, 130 |               that which is proper to ~God, sins mortally. Now by desiring
11084   2, 130 |                that which is proper to God. For it is written (Is.
11085   2, 130 |               17): "To . . . the only ~God be honor and glory." Therefore
11086   2, 130 |            Augustine on 1 Thess. 2:4, "God, Who proveth our hearts,"
11087   2, 130 |             yet as regards the love of God it ~may be contrary to charity
11088   2, 130 |                to the reverence we owe God, according to ~Ezech. 28:
11089   2, 130 |               and Thou hast said: I am God," and ~1 Cor. 4:7, "What
11090   2, 130 |            again when a man prefers to God the temporal good in which
11091   2, 130 |               the ~testimony of man to God's; thus it is written in
11092   2, 130 |                more than the glory ~of God."~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[132]
11093   2, 130 |             even that which is against God. In ~this way it is a mortal
11094   2, 130 |            more than it fears or loves God, ~that our Lord said (Jn.
11095   2, 130 |                the glory which is from God alone, you do not seek?"~
11096   2, 130 |            excellence which belongs to God alone. For the glory due
11097   2, 130 |            alone. For the glory due to God alone ~differs from the
11098   2, 130 |              by the glory ~which is in God's sight man acquires honor
11099   2, 131 |              were worthy of the office God chose ~them for, which they
11100   2, 131 |                they ~were appointed by God, but their worthiness was
11101   2, 132 |               so great as the honor of God: wherefore magnificence
11102   2, 134 |        patience, is so great a gift of God, that we even ~preach the
11103   2, 134 |             point of being ~subject to God. In like manner the act
11104   2, 134 |                   From Him," i.e. from God, ~"is my patience."~Aquin.:
11105   2, 134 |                to charity, which loves God above all things. Hence
11106   2, 134 |               Rm. 5:5, "The charity of God is poured forth in our ~
11107   2, 134 |               not without the help ~of God's grace [*Cf. FS, Q[109],
11108   2, 134 |             own ~wrongs, but to endure God's wrongs patiently is most
11109   2, 134 |                we speak of patience in God, not as though ~any evil
11110   2, 135 |              perseverance is a gift of God, whereby we persevere unto
11111   2, 135 |            also the gratuitous help of God sustaining ~man in good
11112   2, 135 |        rebelling against a threatening God, forfeited so great ~a happiness
11113   2, 135 |              unless he be delivered by God's grace. On the other hand,
11114   2, 138 |                 that man may adhere to God: wherefore the Divine Law
11115   2, 138 |              to directing the ~mind to God. For this reason it is written (
11116   2, 138 |             not: because the Lord your God is in the midst of you,
11117   2, 139 |              for ~its principal object God, Whom it avoids offending,
11118   2, 139 |               order to avoid offending God. Now man stands in the greatest
11119   2, 139 |          greatest need of the ~fear of God in order to shun those things
11120   2, 139 |            freedom from corruption for God's sake." But ~this is common
11121   2, 139 |           withdraw us from the laws of God and from the fruit ~of His
11122   2, 139 |             Now we ~are withdrawn from God's laws not only by the desire
11123   2, 139 |              Now sometimes men forsake God's laws and the state of
11124   2, 140 |              their food ~(Dan. 1:12), "God gave knowledge, and understanding
11125   2, 143 |           poverty and riches] are from God" [*The words in brackets
11126   2, 143 |          excellent than virtue, namely God and happiness, and such
11127   2, 143 |         proportion. For he states that God is said to be beautiful,
11128   2, 143 |             riches [honestas] are from God," and (Ecclus. 13:2): "He ~
11129   2, 144 |                 4:20): "The kingdom of God is not in speech but in
11130   2, 144 |         virtute]." ~Now the kingdom of God does not consist in abstinence,
11131   2, 144 |                14:17): "The kingdom of God is not meat and drink,"
11132   2, 144 |                 addressing himself to ~God: "This hast Thou taught
11133   2, 144 |              pertain to the kingdom of God, since the Apostle says ~(
11134   2, 144 |            Meat doth not commend us to God. For neither, if we eat ~
11135   2, 144 |               belong to the kingdom of God, in so far as they ~are
11136   2, 144 |              through faith and love of God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[146] A[
11137   2, 144 |              for the due end, i.e. for God's ~glory and not one's own.~
11138   2, 144 |               not that any creature of God is ~evil, but merely in
11139   2, 145 |                virtue is acceptable to God. But fasting is not always
11140   2, 145 |              not always acceptable to ~God, according to Is. 58:3, "
11141   2, 145 |             received a revelation from God after fasting for three
11142   2, 145 |               17) that "the Wisdom of ~God having taken human nature,
11143   2, 145 |          together in subjection to one God." Now the liberty of the
11144   2, 145 |                  Ep. lv) that "whereas God in His mercy wished our
11145   2, 145 |                as the commandments ~of God, according to Lk. 10:16, "
11146   2, 145 |               keep the commandments of God. Therefore in like manner
11147   2, 145 |             OBJ 1: The commandments of God are precepts of the natural
11148   2, 145 |               faithful to be raised to God by devotion: and these things
11149   2, 145 |            things, so we strive to pay God a tithe of days, for ~since
11150   2, 145 |             six weeks of Lent) "we pay God a tithe of our year." According
11151   2, 145 |              we are commanded ~to love God, with our whole heart, with
11152   2, 146 |                as ~regards the love of God, nor as regards the love
11153   2, 146 |              sake of which he contemns God, being ready to disobey ~
11154   2, 146 |                being ready to disobey ~God's commandments, in order
11155   2, 146 |                do anything contrary to God's law, it is a venial sin.~
11156   2, 146 |              is opposed to the love of God, who is to be loved, as
11157   2, 146 |               in the first place after God, as ~stated above (Q[25],
11158   2, 146 |       excepting those that are against God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[148] A[
11159   2, 147 |               concerning the wisdom of God, it is written (Wis. 8:7) ~
11160   2, 147 |              is ~written (Wis. 7:28): "God loveth none but him that
11161   2, 148 |              that are directly against God are graver than the sin ~
11162   2, 149 |               it to be united, namely ~God, and refrains from delighting
11163   2, 149 |               the order established by God, this may be called a ~spiritual
11164   2, 149 |                human mind is united to God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[151] A[
11165   2, 150 |              Eustoch.]: ~"Other things God can do, but He cannot restore
11166   2, 150 |        safeguarding this integrity for God's sake, which purpose ~gives
11167   2, 150 |            virginity is consecrated to God by holy continency."~Aquin.:
11168   2, 150 |               miraculously restored by God, namely the integrity of
11169   2, 150 |               had that experience. For God cannot ~make that which
11170   2, 150 |             thinking "on the things of God" [Vulg.: 'the Lord'], whereas
11171   2, 150 |       virginity that is consecrated to God is ~preferable to carnal
11172   2, 150 |               Lord, consecrated to her God?" ~Secondly, a thing may
11173   2, 150 |         mightily in order to cleave to God - since for this end they
11174   2, 150 |              virtues make us cleave to God more closely by imitation
11175   2, 151 |             did in hearing the word of God: so, too, we praise the
11176   2, 151 |          reason, for rebelling against God, deserved that its body
11177   2, 151 |                price: glorify and bear God in your body." ~Wherefore
11178   2, 151 |              through lust a man wrongs God ~Who is the Supreme Lord
11179   2, 151 |                 ix (xcvi de Temp.)]): "God Who thus governs His ~servants
11180   2, 151 |        rashness, ~self-love, hatred of God, love of this world and
11181   2, 151 |           extending to the contempt of God" is the ~origin of every
11182   2, 151 |              hand there ~is "hatred of God," by reason of His forbidding
11183   2, 152 |                a woman who is bound to God by vow. Therefore ~sacrilege
11184   2, 152 |              Lest again, when I ~come, God humble me among you, and
11185   2, 152 |               spiritual ~marriage with God, the sacrilege that is committed
11186   2, 152 |                as regards the love of ~God, since it is not a sin directly
11187   2, 152 |                a sin directly against. God, nor as regards the love ~
11188   2, 152 |           mortal sin debars a man from God's kingdom. But ~fornication
11189   2, 152 |              not obtain the kingdom of God." Therefore simple ~fornication
11190   2, 152 |              that which a man does ~by God's will and in obedience
11191   2, 152 |                son, ~because he obeyed God, although considered in
11192   2, 152 |             committing ~fornication by God's command. Nor should such
11193   2, 152 |                Confess. iii, 8): "When God ~commands a thing to be
11194   2, 152 |      preference to the lesser, so must God in ~preference to all."~
11195   2, 152 |             which are directly against God, and sins ~that are injurious
11196   2, 152 |            sins also that are ~against God are more grievous. Moreover,
11197   2, 152 |          fornication is a sin against ~God, not directly as though
11198   2, 152 |          fornicator intended to offend God, but ~consequently, in the
11199   2, 152 |               kingdom of Christ and of God," thus ~making no further
11200   2, 152 |            instructed and ~reproved by God, according to Job 33:15,
11201   2, 152 |           merit to receive wisdom from God while he ~was asleep. He
11202   2, 152 |               to have been pleasing to God (3 ~Kgs. 3:10), as Augustine
11203   2, 152 |            directed to ~the worship of God, becomes an act of religion,
11204   2, 152 |           pertaining to the worship of God, belongs to the ~species
11205   2, 152 |                a virgin consecrated to God, ~inasmuch as she is the
11206   2, 152 |                 sins committed against God would seem to be the most ~
11207   2, 152 |             committed directly against God, since it is ~injurious
11208   2, 152 |                order of nature is from God Himself: wherefore in sins
11209   2, 152 |        violated, an injury is done ~to God, the Author of nature. Hence
11210   2, 152 |              same crime, by the law of God which hath not so made men
11211   2, 152 |               which should ~be between God and us is violated, when
11212   2, 152 |                nature are also against God, as stated above ~(ad 1),
11213   2, 154 |                   be continent, except God gave it." ~Therefore incontinence
11214   2, 154 |         Further, no one sins in loving God vehemently. Now a man becomes ~
11215   2, 154 |               do good, yet not without God's help, ~according to Jn.
11216   2, 154 |               the ~fact that man needs God's help in order to be continent,
11217   2, 155 |           consists in the knowledge of God. Now meekness above ~all
11218   2, 155 |                man to the knowledge of God: for it is written (James
11219   2, 155 |             meek ~to hear the word" of God. Again, Dionysius says (
11220   2, 155 |              it is ~more acceptable to God and men. Now meekness would
11221   2, 155 |              to be most ~acceptable to God. For it is written (Ecclus.
11222   2, 155 |                which is ~agreeable" to God is "faith and meekness";
11223   2, 155 |                man to the knowledge of God, by removing ~an obstacle;
11224   2, 155 |         clemency make us acceptable to God and men, in ~so far as they
11225   2, 155 |                superior, for instance ~God or one's parents: mercy
11226   2, 156 |                this ~should be left to God, according to Dt. 32:35, "
11227   2, 156 |                depart from likeness to God is evil. ~Now anger always
11228   2, 156 |                depart from likeness to God, since God judges ~with
11229   2, 156 |            from likeness to God, since God judges ~with tranquillity
11230   2, 156 |              order of ~judgment, it is God's work, since he who has
11231   2, 156 |                has power to punish "is God's ~minister," as stated
11232   2, 156 |                and ought to be like to God in the desire for good; ~
11233   2, 156 |               of our desire, ~since in God there is no sensitive appetite,
11234   2, 156 |             fall away from the love of God ~and his neighbor. ~Aquin.:
11235   2, 156 |                instance by blaspheming God or by doing injury ~to their
11236   2, 156 |                and if these be against God, it is "blasphemy," ~if
11237   2, 156 |               lifts himself up against God: since, ~according to Ecclus.
11238   2, 156 |               man is to fall ~off from God," i.e. to fall away from
11239   2, 156 |               no vice makes us like to God. Now by ~being entirely
11240   2, 156 |           anger, a man becomes like to God, Who judges "with ~tranquillity" (
11241   2, 156 |           ought to be ~angry, imitates God as to lack of passion, but
11242   2, 156 |              of passion, but not as to God's punishing ~by judgment.~
11243   2, 159 |               wherefore it becomes not God to be humble, since He can
11244   2, 159 |                anything else, and thus God alone is perfect. To Him
11245   2, 159 |            although in comparison with God his ~perfection is found
11246   2, 159 |               the subjection of man to God, for Whose sake he humbles
11247   2, 159 |          things through ~confidence in God's help, is not contrary
11248   2, 159 |                one subjects oneself to God, the more is one exalted
11249   2, 159 |             the more is one exalted in God's ~sight. Hence Augustine
11250   2, 159 |             thing to ~raise oneself to God, and another to raise oneself
11251   2, 159 |               raise oneself up against God. He ~that abases himself
11252   2, 159 |               to the position in which God has placed him. Wherefore
11253   2, 159 |              place man's subjection to God; and for ~this reason Augustine (
11254   2, 159 |              fear whereby ~man reveres God. Hence it follows that the
11255   2, 159 |         chiefly in man's subjection to God. Now one ought not to offer
11256   2, 159 |              man ~that which is due to God, as is the case with all
11257   2, 159 |             man, namely that which is ~God's, and that which is man'
11258   2, 159 |              welfare and perfection is God's, according to ~the saying
11259   2, 159 |              whereby man is subject to God. Wherefore ~every man, in
11260   2, 159 |                which the latter has of God's: but ~humility does not
11261   2, 159 |              to subject what he has of God's to that ~which may seem
11262   2, 159 |             that ~which may seem to be God's in another. For those
11263   2, 159 |             those who have a share of ~God's gifts know that they have
11264   2, 159 |          things that are given us from God." Wherefore without ~prejudice
11265   2, 159 |                they have received from God ~above those that others
11266   2, 159 |                We must not only revere God in Himself, but also that
11267   2, 159 |                reverence as we ~revere God. Wherefore we should subject
11268   2, 159 |              to all ~our neighbors for God's sake, according to 1 Pt.
11269   2, 159 |               every human creature for God's sake"; but to God alone
11270   2, 159 |                for God's sake"; but to God alone do we owe ~the worship
11271   2, 159 |               what our neighbor has of God's above that which ~we have
11272   2, 159 |             your feet in ~the sight of God." On the other hand, due
11273   2, 159 |             whereby one is ~subject to God, as stated above (A[3]).
11274   2, 159 |            theological ~virtue to have God for its object. Therefore
11275   2, 159 |              know ~that humility which God regards is the same as what
11276   2, 159 |               caused by ~reverence for God does not prevent it from
11277   2, 159 |               by the judgment seat of ~God." Hence it is clear that
11278   2, 159 |          redemption is the humility of God." ~Therefore humility would
11279   2, 159 |               are ~in truth infused by God. Wherefore the first step
11280   2, 159 |               it expels ~pride, which "God resisteth," and makes man
11281   2, 159 |               is written (James 4:6): "God ~resisteth the proud, and
11282   2, 159 |                the first step ~towards God. Now the first step towards
11283   2, 159 |             Now the first step towards God is by faith, according to ~
11284   2, 159 |               11:6, "He that cometh to God must believe." In this sense
11285   2, 159 |         virtues whereby man approaches God ~directly, are greater than
11286   2, 159 |                the twelfth is "to fear God and to be ~always mindful
11287   2, 159 |             mindful of everything that God has commanded." For among
11288   2, 159 |              the ~reverence we bear to God. Now the inward disposition
11289   2, 159 |               degree, "that a man fear God and bear all His commandments
11290   2, 159 |                and the hidden gifts of God which others have. ~Hence
11291   2, 159 |               all one's sufficiency to God, according to 2 Cor. 3:5, "
11292   2, 159 |                our sufficiency is from God." And there is nothing unbecoming
11293   2, 160 |               no sin is the object ~of God's promise. For God's promises
11294   2, 160 |          object ~of God's promise. For God's promises refer to what
11295   2, 160 |                to wish to be like unto God: for every ~creature has
11296   2, 160 |              creature which is made to God's image and likeness. Now
11297   2, 160 |              whereby one is likened to God who is supremely excellent." ~
11298   2, 160 |                 whereas Thou alone art God exalted over all." Therefore
11299   2, 160 |            pride: and it is ~thus that God promises pride as significant
11300   2, 160 |               or "a sinful pride which God resists, and a ~pride that
11301   2, 160 |              xix, 12), "pride imitates God inordinately: for it hath
11302   2, 160 |                find that, according to God's law, ~pride is a very
11303   2, 160 |             Accordingly ~he who breaks God's commandment is said to
11304   2, 160 |               to pride himself against God, ~effectively always, but
11305   2, 160 |         essentially in the contempt of God, according to Ecclus. 10:
11306   2, 160 |                man is to fall off from God." Now the ~irascible, since
11307   2, 160 |            appetite, cannot extend to ~God and things intelligible.
11308   2, 160 |             that we attribute anger to God ~and the angels, not as
11309   2, 160 |          subjects not his intellect to God, that he may receive the
11310   2, 160 |                received his ~good from God, or that he has the good
11311   2, 160 |                that ~which he has from God," or "when he believes that
11312   2, 160 |               a good which is not from God, or that ~grace is given
11313   2, 160 |                of humility is "fear of God": to ~this is opposed "the
11314   2, 160 |              which implies contempt of God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[162] A[
11315   2, 160 |                on Ps. ~7:4, "O Lord my God, if I have done this thing,"
11316   2, 160 |              neither as to the love of God, nor as ~to the love of
11317   2, 160 |               is not always opposed to God's honor, or our ~neighbor'
11318   2, 160 |               the subjection of man to God, as stated above (Q[161],
11319   2, 160 |             measure ~of the rule which God hath measured to us." Wherefore
11320   2, 160 |               man is to fall off from ~God" because, to wit, the root
11321   2, 160 |                in some way, subject to God and His rule. Now it is
11322   2, 160 |             that ~not to be subject to God is of its very nature a
11323   2, 160 |          consists in turning away from God: and consequently pride
11324   2, 160 |                contrary to the love of God, inasmuch as ~the proud
11325   2, 160 |           unbelief, despair, hatred of God, murder, and so forth, are
11326   2, 160 |              sins ~man turns away from God, either through ignorance
11327   2, 160 |           pride denotes ~aversion from God simply through being unwilling
11328   2, 160 |             unwilling to be subject to God and ~His rule. Hence Boethius [*
11329   2, 160 |              while all vices flee from God, pride alone withstands
11330   2, 160 |                 pride alone withstands God"; for ~which reason it is
11331   2, 160 |               stated (James 4:6) that "God resisteth the ~proud." Wherefore
11332   2, 160 |                Wherefore aversion from God and His commandments, which
11333   2, 160 |             its act is the contempt of God. And since that which belongs ~
11334   2, 160 |             proud?" and by considering God's greatness, according ~
11335   2, 160 |               thy spirit swell against God?" as well as by ~considering
11336   2, 160 |               to overcome their pride, God punishes certain men by ~
11337   2, 160 |        shameful nature: and yet, under God's ~dispensation, it is less
11338   2, 160 |                fact that, as a remedy, God allows men to fall ~into
11339   2, 160 |              pride is to fall off from God." Therefore falling away
11340   2, 160 |            Therefore falling away from God ~precedes pride.~Aquin.:
11341   2, 160 |               A[6]) that aversion from God, ~which is the formal complement
11342   2, 160 |                OBJ 2: To fall off from God is said to be the beginning
11343   2, 160 |         regards ~chiefly subjection to God which it scorns, and in
11344   2, 160 |              subject to a creature for God's sake.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[
11345   2, 160 |            last in those who return to God, and ~the first in those
11346   2, 160 |                those who withdraw from God."~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[162]
11347   2, 161 |                 If thou be the Son of ~God, command that these stones
11348   2, 161 |                being true; namely that God had forbidden them to touch
11349   2, 161 |               s prompting, and scorned God's commands."~Aquin.: SMT
11350   2, 161 |             that they were debarred by God ~from a good and useful
11351   2, 161 |              consisted in his coveting God's likeness?~Aquin.: SMT
11352   2, 161 |           according to his nature. Now God's likeness is competent ~
11353   2, 161 |               did not sin by coveting ~God's likeness.~Aquin.: SMT
11354   2, 161 |            would seem that man coveted God's likeness in order ~that
11355   2, 161 |                did not sin by coveting God's likeness.~Aquin.: SMT
11356   2, 161 |          impossible for man to be like God, according to the saying
11357   2, 161 |                did not sin by coveting God's likeness.~Aquin.: SMT
11358   2, 161 |                 and such a likeness to God our first ~parents did not
11359   2, 161 |               since such a likeness to God is not conceivable to ~the
11360   2, 161 |              creature ~in reference to God, in so far as the creature
11361   2, 161 |              participates somewhat of ~God's likeness according to
11362   2, 161 |          things are like and unlike to God; like, according as they ~
11363   2, 161 |               follows that he coveted ~God's likeness inordinately.~
11364   2, 161 |                written (Gn. 1:26) that God made man "to His image and ~
11365   2, 161 |                the first man) coveted ~God's likeness inordinately,
11366   2, 161 |             sinned chiefly by coveting God's ~likeness as regards "
11367   2, 161 |      Secondarily he sinned by coveting God's likeness as regards his
11368   2, 161 |               devil sinned by coveting God's likeness, as regards power.
11369   2, 161 |              his own power rather than God's." Nevertheless both coveted
11370   2, 161 |               somewhat to be equal to ~God, in so far as each wished
11371   2, 161 |               It is not a sin to covet God's likeness as to knowledge, ~
11372   2, 161 |            commenting on Ps. 70:18, "O God, ~who is like Thee?" says: "
11373   2, 161 |              to be of himself, even as God is ~of no one, wishes wickedly
11374   2, 161 |             wishes wickedly to be like God. Thus did the devil, who
11375   2, 161 |              one ~denies or blasphemes God is greater than the pride
11376   2, 161 |              pride whereby one covets ~God's likeness inordinately,
11377   2, 161 |             while sinning he relied on God's mercy [*Cf. Q[21], A[2],
11378   2, 161 |          persuasive words, namely that God ~had forbidden them to eat
11379   2, 161 |                in wishing to attain to God's likeness by eating of
11380   2, 161 |              obtain ~something against God's will. On the other hand,
11381   2, 161 |              did not wish to attain to God's likeness ~against God'
11382   2, 161 |                God's likeness ~against God's will: but his pride consisted
11383   2, 161 |                she sinned against both God and her ~neighbor. Thirdly,
11384   2, 161 |             man sometimes will ~offend God rather than make an enemy
11385   2, 161 |               3: The man's reliance on God's mercy did not reach to
11386   2, 161 |              not reach to contempt ~of God's justice, wherein consists
11387   2, 161 |            having had no experience of God's severity, he thought ~
11388   2, 162 |             evil of punishment is from God, as stated above (FP, ~Q[
11389   2, 162 |                apparently, is not from God: ~for it is written (Wis.
11390   2, 162 |               is written (Wis. 1:13): "God made not death." Therefore
11391   2, 162 |                 A[1]; FP, Q[97], A[1], God ~bestowed this favor on
11392   2, 162 |               his ~mind was subject to God, the lower powers of his
11393   2, 162 |            withdrew from subjection to God, the result was that neither ~
11394   2, 162 |              that would ~not rust. Now God Who is the author of man
11395   2, 162 |             first parents were made by God not only as particular ~
11396   2, 162 |       appertains. Nevertheless, ~since God foreknows all future events,
11397   2, 162 |          nature, and thus it is not of God, but is a defect befalling
11398   2, 162 |        punishment, and thus it is from God. Wherefore Augustine says ~(
11399   2, 162 |            says ~(Retract. i, 21) that God is not the author of death,
11400   2, 162 |                most of all ascribed to God in Scripture, according ~
11401   2, 162 |              all His works." Therefore God ~is unbecomingly described
11402   2, 162 |             was unsuitable to say that God made for them ~garments
11403   2, 162 |          punishments were appointed by God, Who does all ~things, "
11404   2, 162 |               where it is stated that "God ~sent him out of the paradise
11405   2, 162 |               of life) and place; for "God placed before . . . paradise . . . ~
11406   2, 162 |                this also pertains that God ~made them garments of skin,
11407   2, 162 |              xi, 39), "these words ~of God are not so much a mockery
11408   2, 163 |              Para. 1/1~OBJ 2: Further, God, Who foreknows the future,
11409   2, 163 |              would seem ~unfitting for God to allow him to be tempted.~
11410   2, 163 |               Para. 1/1~I answer that, God's wisdom "orders all things
11411   2, 163 |          Wherefore it was fitting that God should both allow ~man in
11412   2, 163 |         something above him, namely by God, but he could not ~thus
11413   2, 163 |              according to James 1:13, "God is not a ~tempter of evils."~
11414   2, 163 |               1/1~Reply OBJ 2: Just as God knew that man, through being
11415   2, 163 |           according to Ecclus. 15:14, "God ~left" man "in the hand
11416   2, 163 |              to have been punished ~by God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[165] A[
11417   2, 165 |                which makes man like to God, and which he receives ~
11418   2, 165 |                which he receives ~from God, cannot be an evil. Now
11419   2, 165 |         abundance of knowledge is from God, ~according to Ecclus. 1:
11420   2, 165 |                wisdom is from the Lord God," and Wis. ~7:17, "He hath
11421   2, 165 |                truth man is likened to God, since "all things ~are
11422   2, 165 |                13), and "the Lord is a God of ~all knowledge" (1 Kgs.
11423   2, 165 |           virtue, and ignorant of what God is, and of the majesty ~
11424   2, 165 |               namely, the knowledge of God. ~Hence Augustine says (
11425   2, 165 |         philosophers acquired ~through God revealing it to them, as
11426   2, 165 |                destroy the worship of ~God."~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[167]
11427   2, 165 |            according to Ecclus. 17:12, God "gave to every one of them
11428   2, 166 |         Further, "Virtue is that which God forms in us, without us,"
11429   2, 166 |                in Matth.]: ~"It is not God, but the devil, that is
11430   2, 166 |              therefrom to the love of ~God, so as to be willing to
11431   2, 166 |               disobey a commandment of God or of the Church ~rather
11432   2, 166 |            anything in disobedience to God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[168] A[
11433   2, 166 |        reference to themselves, and to God, they ~perform other actions
11434   2, 167 |              therewith, since that has God for ~its object; nor are
11435   2, 167 |             were no fault, the word of God ~would not say so expressly
11436   2, 167 |              decoy ~under the guise of God's service"; and the Philosopher
11437   2, 167 |              nowise should they deface God's work and ~fabric, the
11438   2, 167 |               adds: "They lay hands on God, when they ~strive to reform
11439   2, 167 |               shalt not be able to see God, ~having no longer the eyes
11440   2, 167 |                no longer the eyes that God made, but those the devil
11441   2, 167 |              think how they may please God: whereas the others think
11442   2, 167 |            pleasure or in contempt ~of God, and it is to like cases
11443   2, 168 |                 concerning the love of God and of our neighbor. Wherefore
11444   2, 168 |                directly to the love of God and ~of our neighbor. Now
11445   2, 168 |               humility subjects man to God, it would seem most of all
11446   2, 168 |            connection with the love of God or of our ~neighbor; rather
11447   2, 168 |                may regard the love ~of God or of our neighbor: and
11448   2, 169 |            also to things ~relating to God, both as to those which
11449   2, 169 |              perceives by the gift ~of God, from that which he perceives
11450   2, 169 |               through ~being taught of God, according to the saying
11451   2, 169 |              of the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, I have declared
11452   2, 169 |              ken which are revealed by God cannot be ~confirmed by
11453   2, 169 |               perceives the things of ~God; hence the text continues: "
11454   2, 169 |             manifested by prophecy, is God Himself, Whom the prophets
11455   2, 169 |               of his being ~deputed by God, according to Jer. 1:5, "
11456   2, 169 |                  for instance to ~love God and to know Him in the mirror
11457   2, 169 |               1:1), 'In ~the beginning God created heaven and earth'";
11458   2, 169 |         concerning the perfections ~of God and the angels was made
11459   2, 169 |         written (Amos 3:7): "The Lord ~God doth nothing without revealing
11460   2, 169 |    prophetically is something done by ~God. Therefore there is not
11461   2, 169 |             Para. 1/1~OBJ 2: Further, "God's works are perfect" (Dt.
11462   2, 169 |        pertinent to ~that science. But God Who is the principle of
11463   2, 169 |              Para. 1/1~OBJ 2: Further, God commands nothing impossible,
11464   2, 169 |                s mind is instructed by God in two ways: in ~one way
11465   2, 169 |                are revealed to him by ~God; wherefore it is written (
11466   2, 169 |                10: "The Lord [Vulg.: ~'God'] had mercy with regard
11467   2, 169 |               it should be destroyed." God is said "to repent," metaphorically, ~
11468   2, 170 |                  2) Whether it is from God by means of the angels?~(
11469   2, 170 |              time, but the holy men of God spoke, inspired by ~the
11470   2, 170 |             and "maketh the friends of God, and the ~prophets." Now
11471   2, 170 |            wisdom makes the friends of God immediately. Therefore it ~
11472   2, 170 |                1), "Things that are of God ~are well ordered [*Vulg.: '
11473   2, 170 |              that are, are ordained of God.']." Now ~the Divine ordering,
11474   2, 170 |                middle position between God and men, in that they have
11475   2, 170 |          revelations are conveyed from God ~to men by the angels. Now
11476   2, 170 |            which makes man a friend of God, is a perfection of ~the
11477   2, 170 |      perfection of ~the will, in which God alone can form an impression;
11478   2, 170 |           shepherd, likens the fear of God to that which is inspired
11479   2, 170 |               we ~must observe that as God Who is the universal efficient
11480   2, 170 |                This ~cannot be said of God Who is the cause of prophecy.~
11481   2, 170 |               7:27) that the wisdom of God "through nations conveyeth ~
11482   2, 170 |             and "maketh the friends of God, and prophets." ~Now there
11483   2, 170 |                made known to you." Now God reveals His ~secrets to
11484   2, 170 |            prophets are the friends of God; which is impossible without
11485   2, 170 |       interpretation of dreams is from God, it is unfitting for it
11486   2, 170 |              gift of ~prophecy is from God. Therefore the gift of prophecy
11487   2, 170 |               be in ~those who are not God's by grace.~Aquin.: SMT
11488   2, 170 |               s soul ~may be united to God by charity. Wherefore Augustine
11489   2, 170 |             Whom he is made a lover of God and of his ~neighbor." Hence
11490   2, 170 |             unite ~man's affections to God, which is the purpose of
11491   2, 170 |                  maketh the friends of God, and prophets." Others,
11492   2, 170 |               sent for this purpose by God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[172] A[
11493   2, 170 |               4 Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 4: God's gifts are not always bestowed
11494   2, 170 |              or that gift. Accordingly God grants the gift of ~prophecy
11495   2, 170 |           although those things ~which God alone knows are remote simply
11496   2, 170 |                for he is not appointed God's minister to declare ~the
11497   2, 170 |         prophet of the demons, because God ~makes use even of the wicked
11498   2, 170 |              not of themselves but ~of God, those things which belong
11499   2, 170 |                 above (ad 1). Moreover God makes use of them to make
11500   2, 171 |               Whether the prophets see God's very essence?~(2) Whether