Part, Question

11501   2, 171 |                see the very essence of God?~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[173] A[
11502   2, 171 |                see the very essence of God, for ~a gloss on Is. 38:
11503   2, 171 |                can read in the book of God's foreknowledge in ~which
11504   2, 171 |               things are written." Now God's foreknowledge is His very ~
11505   2, 171 |                 Therefore prophets see God's very essence.~Aquin.:
11506   2, 171 |            contingencies exist thus in God alone. ~Therefore the prophets
11507   2, 171 |             Therefore the prophets see God Himself.~Aquin.: SMT SS
11508   2, 171 |               see the ~very essence of God (which they call the "mirror
11509   2, 171 |            altogether ~impossible. For God is the object of bliss in
11510   2, 171 |       creatures in the very essence of God without seeing It, both ~
11511   2, 171 |               such is the knowledge of God as the object of heavenly ~
11512   2, 171 |               such is the knowledge of God as containing the types
11513   2, 171 |         impossible for prophets to see God as ~containing the types
11514   2, 171 |                of ~the very essence of God, and that the prophets do
11515   2, 171 |             and this cannot be said of God. Yet ~the prophet's mind
11516   2, 171 |            eternity," as representing ~God's foreknowledge, for God
11517   2, 171 |               God's foreknowledge, for God in His eternity sees all
11518   2, 171 |               said to read the book of God's ~foreknowledge, inasmuch
11519   2, 171 |                truth is reflected from God's ~foreknowledge on the
11520   2, 171 |            future contingencies are in God ~according to unalterable
11521   2, 171 |     unalterable truth, it follows that God can impress a like ~knowledge
11522   2, 171 |             without the prophet seeing God in His ~essence.~Aquin.:
11523   2, 171 |              enlighten him inwardly as God does.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[173]
11524   2, 171 |               imprinted immediately by God, sometimes it results from ~
11525   2, 172 |         Another prophecy proceeds from God's foreknowledge: and into
11526   2, 172 |             which is ~significative of God's disapproval." For that
11527   2, 172 |                midst of a ~cloud: thus God spake to Moses. The fifth
11528   2, 172 |        prophecy is something known ~by God and surpassing the faculty
11529   2, 172 |      occurrence supervening. Secondly, God ~foreknows certain things
11530   2, 172 |                De Fide Orth. ii, 30), "God predestines things ~which
11531   2, 172 |             from denunciation, because God is more inclined ~to remit
11532   2, 172 |           whereby the truth is seen in God's essence. Hence it follows
11533   2, 172 |       officially. Hence they spoke as ~God's representatives, saying
11534   2, 172 |                by human reason, not in God's ~name, but in their own,
11535   2, 172 |             previously (3 Kgs. 4:29): "God gave to Solomon wisdom and ~
11536   2, 172 |                under the appearance of God, according to Is. ~6:1, "
11537   2, 172 |     intellectual ~vision, since he saw God's very essence, even as
11538   2, 172 |                Num. ~12:8) that he saw God "plainly and not by riddles."
11539   2, 172 |              to him under the form of ~God, and this not only while
11540   2, 172 |               already wholly united to God; wherefore their ~revelation
11541   2, 172 |                  Wherefore although by God's will the soul itself of
11542   2, 172 |              war as revealed to him by God, this pertains to the ~nature
11543   2, 172 |                be done by the power of God, so that when the demon
11544   2, 172 |               the demon is ~consulted, God Himself declares the truth
11545   2, 172 |              were sent to ~consult the god of Accaron (4 Kgs. 1).~Aquin.:
11546   2, 172 |                Ezech.), "knowledge of ~God went on increasing as time
11547   2, 172 |              revelation is conveyed by God speaking to man; ~while
11548   2, 172 |              in the true knowledge of ~God, according to Heb. 11:6, "
11549   2, 172 |               11:6, "He that cometh to God must believe that He ~is";
11550   2, 172 |                  14:1, "You believe in God, believe also in Me." Accordingly,
11551   2, 172 |               to Jacob, by the name of God almighty, and My name Adonai
11552   2, 172 |            believe in a general way in God, one and Almighty, while
11553   2, 172 |             was revealed by the Son of God Himself, according to Mt.
11554   2, 172 |               stray from faith in ~one God by turning aside to idolatry,
11555   2, 172 |       persevered in the worship of one God. A less ~excellent revelation
11556   2, 172 |             him (Gn. 26:24): "I am the God ~of Abraham thy father,"
11557   2, 172 |                 Gn. 28:13): "I am ~the God of Abraham thy father, and
11558   2, 172 |            Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac." Again in the
11559   2, 172 |            concerning the faith in one God and three Persons, according
11560   2, 173 |             rapture saw the essence of God?~(4) Whether he was withdrawn
11561   2, 173 |            says (Div. Nom. viii) that "God's justice is ~seen in this
11562   2, 173 |             violence of some kind. But God rules us ~not by violence
11563   2, 173 |               thirdly, by the power of God. ~In this last sense we
11564   2, 173 |              uplifted by the spirit of God to things supernatural,
11565   2, 173 |            brought me in the vision of God into Jerusalem."~Aquin.:
11566   2, 173 |               The invisible ~things of God . . . are clearly seen,
11567   2, 173 |                fact that he is made to God's image. And ~since a divine
11568   2, 173 |            thus uplifted in rapture by God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[175] A[
11569   2, 173 |            says afterwards that "even ~God Himself, the cause of all
11570   2, 173 |            rapture, saw the essence of God?~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[175] A[
11571   2, 173 |                not see the essence ~of God. For just as we read of
11572   2, 173 |                in his ecstasy, saw not God's essence but an imaginary ~
11573   2, 173 |               Paul see the essence of ~God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[175] A[
11574   2, 173 |                 Further, the vision of God is beatific. But Paul, in
11575   2, 173 |                saw not the ~essence of God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[175] A[
11576   2, 173 |              he saw not the essence of God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[175] A[
11577   2, 173 |               concludes that "possibly God's very substance was seen
11578   2, 173 |               not the ~very essence of God, but a certain reflection
11579   2, 173 |               4, "Eye hath not seen, O God, besides Thee, what things
11580   2, 173 |           becoming to hold that he saw God in His essence.~Aquin.:
11581   2, 173 |               1: Man's mind is rapt by God to the contemplation of
11582   2, 173 |             enjoy the contemplation of God: and when Paul says that
11583   2, 173 |              this heaven he means that God showed him the life wherein
11584   2, 173 |             the third the knowledge of God ~Himself." Thirdly, the
11585   2, 173 |            denote the contemplation of God ~according to the degrees
11586   2, 173 |           degrees of knowledge whereby God is seen. The first of ~these
11587   2, 173 |                And since the vision of God cannot be without delight,
11588   2, 173 |              this most sublime vision, God was willing to vouchsafe
11589   2, 173 |              him to see the essence of God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[175] A[
11590   2, 173 |               3: Further, after seeing God in His essence, Paul remembered
11591   2, 173 |            while seeing the essence of God, was ~not withdrawn from
11592   2, 173 |             man's intellect, if it see God's essence, to be withdrawn
11593   2, 173 |          withdrawn from phantasms. For God's essence cannot be seen
11594   2, 173 |               FP, ~Q[12], A[2]], since God's essence infinitely transcends
11595   2, 173 |              to the sublime vision of ~God's essence, it is necessary
11596   2, 173 |                be absorbed entirely in God. Therefore it is impossible ~
11597   2, 173 |                while a wayfarer to see God in His essence without being ~
11598   2, 173 |                in ~the blessed who see God in His essence, there will
11599   2, 173 |              OBJ 3: Paul, after seeing God in His essence, remembered
11600   2, 173 |              be rapt to the ~vision of God, it was necessary for him
11601   2, 173 |          namely, that ~they should see God in His essence) "was vouchsafed
11602   2, 173 |                now, man is uplifted by God's power, "from that which
11603   2, 173 |                 what has to be done by God in man above his nature.
11604   2, 173 |                the act by which he saw God by a species, as stated
11605   2, 173 |               when in ~rapture, he saw God with the same vision as
11606   2, 173 |               fact that the saints see God, they know ~whether their
11607   2, 173 |               of the body, I know not, God knoweth."~Aquin.: SMT SS
11608   2, 173 |              brought in the vision ~of God into Jerusalem." This was
11609   2, 173 |              he was wholly intent upon God, ~but that afterwards he
11610   2, 173 |                death ~brought about by God being called rapture; and
11611   2, 174 |         sufficient; and much less does God Whose work is more orderly
11612   2, 174 |            orderly than ~nature's. Now God could make His disciples
11613   2, 174 |       necessary, in this respect, that God ~should provide them with
11614   2, 174 |        recalled to ~the worship of one God a remedy to this diversity
11615   2, 174 |               Cor. 14:18): "I thank my God I speak with all your tongues."~
11616   2, 174 |               according to Heb. 1:1, ~"God Who at sundry times and
11617   2, 174 |             whereby we are directed to God is seemingly more ~excellent
11618   2, 174 |            tongues, man is directed to God, whereas by prophecy he
11619   2, 174 |        speaketh not unto men, but unto God . . . but he that prophesieth, ~
11620   2, 174 |               Cor. 14:18): "I thank my God I speak with all your tongues."
11621   2, 174 |            prophecy man is directed to God in his mind, ~which is more
11622   2, 174 |      understanding or profit, but unto God's understanding and praise.
11623   2, 174 |                man is directed both to God and to man; ~wherefore it
11624   2, 175 |             pertains to the kingdom of God. But the ~Apostle says (
11625   2, 175 |                 4:20): "The kingdom of God is not in speech, but in ~
11626   2, 175 |           truth is that which Almighty God gives to them that do it, ~
11627   2, 175 |         knowledge a man receives ~from God cannot be turned to another'
11628   2, 175 |               hearkens to the ~word of God. This is the case when a
11629   2, 175 |                draw ~them to listen to God's word. Thirdly, in order
11630   2, 175 |                1: Even as by a miracle God sometimes works in a more ~
11631   2, 175 |                of prophecy consists in God enlightening the ~mind,
11632   2, 176 |               is done by the power ~of God. Therefore the grace of
11633   2, 176 |              which a man receives from God needs to be brought to the ~
11634   2, 176 |            arrive at some knowledge of God through His ~natural effects,
11635   2, 176 |                miraculous effect which God causes by His power. Sometimes
11636   2, 176 |              In either case, ~however, God is the principal worker,
11637   2, 176 |          gratuitous grace, ~is done by God's power for man's profit.~
11638   2, 176 |                men to the knowledge of God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[178] A[
11639   2, 176 |               because it proceeds from God's omnipotence on which faith ~
11640   2, 176 |                Jn. 9:31, "We know that God doth ~not hear sinners,"
11641   2, 176 |               according to Heb. 2:4, ~"God also bearing them witness
11642   2, 176 |           attestation of miracles. Now God cannot bear witness to a
11643   2, 176 |             are more closely united to God than the wicked. ~But the
11644   2, 176 |           wrought save by the power of God, because God ~works them
11645   2, 176 |              the power of God, because God ~works them for man's benefit,
11646   2, 176 |              person's ~holiness, which God desires to propose as an
11647   2, 176 |               name, that men may honor God, by invoking Whom such great ~
11648   2, 176 |            read ~(Acts 19:11,12) that "God wrought by the hand of Paul . . .
11649   2, 176 |             relies not on merit but on God's mercy, ~which extends
11650   2, 176 |               are sometimes granted by God. Hence Augustine says (Tract.
11651   2, 176 |          perfectly enlightened; "since God does hear sinners." When ~
11652   2, 176 |                 good of others and for God's glory.~Aquin.: SMT SS
11653   2, 176 |               a stick. It is thus that God works while employing instrumentally ~
11654   2, 177 |          twofold life wherein Almighty God instructs us by His holy
11655   2, 178 |                arise to the ~vision of God?~(6) Of the movements of
11656   2, 178 |              whole mind to the love of God and ~our neighbor, and to
11657   2, 178 |                consist in the "love of God," inasmuch as through loving
11658   2, 178 |             inasmuch as through loving God we are ~aflame to gaze on
11659   2, 178 |               first principle, namely ~God, by the love thereof; wherefore
11660   2, 178 |                to cling to the love of God and our neighbor with the
11661   2, 178 |               reducible to the love of God and of our neighbor, for "
11662   2, 178 |               to the ~contemplation of God; for Gregory says (Hom.
11663   2, 178 |              heart, for they shall see God": and (Heb. ~12:14): "Follow
11664   2, 178 |                which no man ~shall see God." Therefore it would seem
11665   2, 178 |              this respect the love ~of God and our neighbor is requisite
11666   2, 178 |               things ~he receives from God, he needs "prayer," according
11667   2, 178 |             Wis. 7:7, "I called ~upon" God, "and the spirit of wisdom
11668   2, 178 |              the mere contemplation of God, ~or also in the consideration
11669   2, 178 |               in ~the contemplation of God, but also in the consideration
11670   2, 178 |            well." Now the knowledge of God's works is effected by any ~
11671   2, 178 |        consists in admiration first of God's majesty, secondly of His
11672   2, 178 |            seek the principle which is God."~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[180]
11673   2, 178 |             that "the contemplation of God is promised us as being
11674   2, 178 |                come, when we shall see God ~face to face, wherefore
11675   2, 178 |              Para. 2/3~Since, however, God's effects show us the way
11676   2, 178 |               to the contemplation of ~God Himself, according to Rm.
11677   2, 178 |                The invisible things of God . . . ~are clearly seen,
11678   2, 178 |           thereby to the knowledge of ~God. Hence Augustine says (De
11679   2, 178 |                sought the knowledge of God's works, so that he might ~
11680   2, 178 |               might ~be led by them to God; wherefore he says elsewhere (
11681   2, 178 |                led to the knowledge of God's mercy or ~goodness, as
11682   2, 178 |                to the contemplation of God. For the first step consists
11683   2, 178 |               Jacob said: "I have seen God face to face, and my soul
11684   2, 178 |              saved." Now the vision of God's face is the vision of
11685   2, 178 |               of contemplation, to see God in His essence.~Aquin.:
11686   2, 178 |              wherefore when the man of God," the ~blessed Benedict,
11687   2, 178 |                things by the ~light of God." Now the blessed Benedict
11688   2, 178 |              vision of the ~essence of God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[180] A[
11689   2, 178 |              xii, 27), "no one seeing ~God lives this mortal life wherein
11690   2, 178 |               treated of the vision of God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[180] A[
11691   2, 178 |                attain to the vision of God's essence. Secondly, one
11692   2, 178 |           Monach.), "if anyone ~seeing God, understood what he saw,
11693   2, 178 |                what he saw, he saw not God Himself, but something ~
11694   2, 178 |                something ~belonging to God." And Gregory says (Hom.
11695   2, 178 |              Ezech.): "By no means is ~God seen now in His glory; but
11696   2, 178 |             the words of Jacob, "I saw God face to face" do not ~imply
11697   2, 178 |              do not ~imply that he saw God's essence, but that he saw
11698   2, 178 |           imaginary of course, wherein God spoke to him. Or, ~"since
11699   2, 178 |               his face, by the face of God he signified his ~knowledge
11700   2, 178 |          Benedict, in that vision, saw God in His essence, but he wishes
11701   2, 178 |             are small to him that sees God," it follows ~that all things
11702   2, 178 |               unchanged in relation to God": whereas he assigns the
11703   2, 178 |                that their intuition of God is uniform and unceasing,
11704   2, 178 |                in the contemplation of God alone. ~This he expresses
11705   2, 178 |            with their contemplation of God: while the "oblique" movement
11706   2, 178 |                the light received from God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[180] A[
11707   2, 178 |            soul strives to contemplate God, it is in a ~state of struggle;
11708   2, 178 |              Gn. 32:30), "'I have seen God face to ~face' . . . he
11709   2, 178 |                in the contemplation of God, of which charity is the
11710   2, 178 |               because the love whereby God is loved out of charity
11711   2, 178 |                to the contemplation of God. And since ~the end corresponds
11712   2, 178 |             Hom. xiv in Ezech.): "When God is once known by ~desire
11713   2, 178 |                3: The contemplation of God in this life is imperfect
11714   2, 178 |             wax strong in the love ~of God," as Gregory says (Hom.
11715   2, 178 |                known ~the sweetness of God, we have one foot sound
11716   2, 179 |                prays, but only towards God Who is the intelligible
11717   2, 179 |              Dei xxii, 30) that "there God will be seen without end,
11718   2, 179 |                in the contemplation of God, and as to this, one angel ~
11719   2, 179 |              man will teach another of God, ~but "we shall" all "see
11720   2, 179 |      dispensation of the mysteries ~of God," one angel teaches another
11721   2, 179 |               by reason of our ~seeing God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[181] A[
11722   2, 180 |                still and see that I am God." Seventhly, because the
11723   2, 180 |              Whosoever is converted to God must first of all sweat
11724   2, 180 |       sacrifice is ~more acceptable to God than zeal for souls." Now
11725   2, 180 |               consists in ~the love of God and our neighbor, the love
11726   2, 180 |              our neighbor, the love of God is by itself more ~meritorious
11727   2, 180 |                directly to the love of God is ~generically more meritorious
11728   2, 180 |               love of our neighbor for God's sake. Now the contemplative
11729   2, 180 |             immediately to the love of God; for Augustine says (De
11730   2, 180 |              i.e. the contemplation of God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[182] A[
11731   2, 180 |              for the time being, ~that God's will may be done and for
11732   2, 180 |               sacrifice is rendered to God spiritually when something ~
11733   2, 180 |                and of all man's goods, God specially accepts that of ~
11734   2, 180 |               a man ought to ~offer to God, in the first place, his
11735   2, 180 |              on thy own soul, pleasing God"; in the second place, the
11736   2, 180 |              own or another's soul to ~God, the more acceptable is
11737   2, 180 |         acceptable is his sacrifice to God; wherefore it is more ~acceptable
11738   2, 180 |              it is more ~acceptable to God that one apply one's own
11739   2, 180 |        sacrifice is more acceptable to God than zeal for souls," does
11740   2, 180 |                meritorious to offer to God one's ~own soul and the
11741   2, 180 |               still, and see that I am God"; whereas ~the active life
11742   2, 180 |               directly to the love ~of God; while the active life pertains
11743   2, 180 |             neighbor. Now ~the love of God precedes the love of our
11744   2, 180 |              we love our ~neighbor for God's sake. Seemingly therefore
11745   2, 180 |              were able to contemplate ~God so long as they were undisturbed
11746   2, 180 |                directed to the love of God, not ~of any degree, but
11747   2, 181 |              by submitting his will to God; wherefore a ~gloss on Ps.
11748   2, 181 |               their heart according to God's will." Therefore it would ~
11749   2, 181 |               11, "Have peace, and the God of peace . . . shall be
11750   2, 181 |           things, perfection, which in God is ~simple and uniform,
11751   2, 181 |                1 Cor. 12:24,25) ~that "God hath tempered [the body]
11752   2, 181 |                    In her grades shall God be known."~Aquin.: SMT SS
11753   2, 181 |                     become servants to God." ~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[183]
11754   2, 182 |            Take unto you the armor of ~God, that you may be able to
11755   2, 182 |              speaking of the ~armor of God: "Stand therefore having
11756   2, 182 |             charity ~that unites us to God, Who is the last end of
11757   2, 182 |          abideth in charity abideth in God, and God in him" (1 Jn.
11758   2, 182 |            charity abideth in God, and God in him" (1 Jn. 4:16). ~Therefore
11759   2, 182 |         whereby the soul is united to ~God; wherefore it is written (
11760   2, 182 |            which comprises the love of God and of our neighbor. ~Now,
11761   2, 182 |              neither as to the love of God can one have perfect charity
11762   2, 182 |              the object loved, so that God be loved as much as He is ~
11763   2, 182 |         creature, but is ~competent to God alone, in Whom good is wholly
11764   2, 182 |               always actually tends to God as much ~as it possibly
11765   2, 182 |            always ~actually tending to God, but on the part of the
11766   2, 182 |               movement of love towards God, in which sense ~Augustine
11767   2, 182 |                from tending ~wholly to God. Charity is possible apart
11768   2, 182 |             always tending actually to God, so neither does it allow
11769   2, 182 |            neighbor, as in the love of God we may observe a twofold
11770   2, 182 |                the perfect children of God. Secondly, as to ~the intensity
11771   2, 182 |               shalt love the Lord thy ~God with thy whole heart," and (
11772   2, 182 |                consists in our loving ~God with our whole heart, and
11773   2, 182 |          principally as to the love of God, secondarily ~as to the
11774   2, 182 |          stated above. Now the love of God and ~of our neighbor is
11775   2, 182 |                shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole ~heart":
11776   2, 182 |                cxxi): "Whatever things God commands, for instance, '
11777   2, 182 |                referred to the love of God, ~and of our neighbor for
11778   2, 182 |                and of our neighbor for God's sake, both in this world
11779   2, 182 |              to love nothing more than God, ~or contrary to God, or
11780   2, 182 |              than God, ~or contrary to God, or equally with God, and
11781   2, 182 |                to God, or equally with God, and whoever fails from
11782   2, 182 |          charity, namely that man love God above all things, and love ~
11783   2, 182 |              love ~nothing contrary to God, while there is another
11784   2, 182 |              himself to the service of God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[184] A[
11785   2, 182 |         therapeutai}, i.e. servants of God) as being perfected.~Aquin.:
11786   2, 182 |           freely to give themselves to God, wherein consists the perfection
11787   2, 182 |             pure service and homage to God; others call them ~{monachoi}" [*
11788   2, 182 |                a perfection beloved of God" [*Cf. Q[180], A[6]]. ~Moreover,
11789   2, 182 |               6: "Stir up the grace of God which is in thee by ~the
11790   2, 182 |              is fit for the kingdom of God" (Lk. 9:62). On the other
11791   2, 182 |         bishops, to rule the church of God."~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[184]
11792   2, 182 |                  governments [*Vulg.: 'God hath set some in the church . . .
11793   2, 182 |              especially in the love of God ~than in the love of our
11794   2, 182 |                 ordered to the love of God, wherefore it takes its
11795   2, 182 |                 service and ~homage to God," as Dionysius says (Eccl.
11796   2, 182 |                things for the honor of God ~and the spiritual welfare
11797   2, 182 |             abundance of their love of God. ~Hence our Lord asked Peter
11798   2, 182 |                he who refuses ~to feed God's flock, though having the
11799   2, 182 |            priest, or deacon; while in God's sight there is no ~greater
11800   2, 182 |              before this he says that "God's ~servants," i.e. monks, "
11801   2, 183 |              but he that is ~called by God": and Chrysostom says: "
11802   2, 183 |            None save him who fears not God's judgment, and makes a ~
11803   2, 183 |        appointment and ~disposition of God, and in the second place
11804   2, 183 |        dispensers of ~the mysteries of God." Wherefore a man is not
11805   2, 183 |                Since then the ~love of God surpasses the love of our
11806   2, 183 |               says (Pastor. i, 6): "In God's sight humility is genuine
11807   2, 183 |                active, and the love of God better than ~the love of
11808   2, 183 |              it belongs to the love of God that ~a man undertake the
11809   2, 183 |              the better through loving God the more. Therefore it would
11810   2, 183 |           pre-eminence in ~the love of God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[185] A[
11811   2, 183 |              is fit for the kingdom of God." Now the ~episcopal state
11812   2, 183 |              in this ~that for love of God a man binds himself to work
11813   2, 183 |              can have nothing ~besides God; and if he have gold and
11814   2, 183 |           other portions together with God, if he becomes less intent
11815   2, 183 |               on things ~pertaining to God by occupying himself with
11816   2, 183 |                concern the ~worship of God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[185] A[
11817   2, 183 |                which shows contempt of God's judgment, "and shall begin ~
11818   2, 184 |         religamur] to the one almighty God," as Augustine ~says (De
11819   2, 184 |               returning [religimus] to God Whom we had lost by neglecting
11820   2, 184 |                worship and ceremony to God would seem to pertain to
11821   2, 184 |                are called ~servants of God, by reason of their rendering
11822   2, 184 |             service and subjection ~to God, are united to the perfection
11823   2, 184 |                 service and worship of God. Wherefore those are called
11824   2, 184 |                offering a holocaust to God. Hence Gregory says (Hom.
11825   2, 184 |             but sacrifice to ~almighty God their tongue, their senses,
11826   2, 184 |        consists in adhering wholly to ~God, as stated above (Q[184],
11827   2, 184 |            something to the worship of God is necessary for ~salvation,
11828   2, 184 |         possessions to the ~worship of God belongs to perfection.~Aquin.:
11829   2, 184 |               as these are referred to God's service and honor become ~
11830   2, 184 |               day the contemplation of God will begin to lead him to
11831   2, 184 |           though all are bound to love God with their whole ~heart,
11832   2, 184 |               forswear the name of my ~God," and Ecclus. 27:1, "Through
11833   2, 184 |                work most acceptable to God, and as ~Chrysostom says (
11834   2, 184 |           Confess. x, 29), speaking to God: ~"Too little doth he love
11835   2, 184 |              seek first the kingdom of God and His justice are not
11836   2, 184 |                choketh up the word" of God, for as Gregory ~says (Hom.
11837   2, 184 |             they offer up something to God and keep back something ~
11838   2, 184 |          sanctification in the fear of God." Now cleanness of flesh
11839   2, 184 |           devoting himself entirely to God's service. Now the use ~
11840   2, 184 |              wholly to the service ~of God, and this for two reasons.
11841   2, 184 |              intentness on tending ~to God. Augustine expresses this
11842   2, 184 |               Lord, how he may ~please God: but he that is with a wife
11843   2, 184 |        services are most acceptable to God which are done ~freely and
11844   2, 184 |                 and offer something to God; and in the latter ~respect
11845   2, 184 |               and their possessions to God, as ~stated above (AA[1],
11846   2, 184 |               that concern the love of God and of our neighbor, such
11847   2, 184 |             the necessity of doing for God's sake certain things that ~
11848   2, 184 |              is the more acceptable to God, though it be of less account,
11849   2, 184 |                give nothing greater to God, than by subjecting his
11850   2, 184 |             will to another ~man's for God's sake. Hence in the Conferences
11851   2, 184 |               vow is a promise made to God, wherefore (Eccles. 5:3) ~
11852   2, 184 |            thou hast vowed anything to God, defer not ~to pay it,"
11853   2, 184 |       seemingly it is more pleasing to God to keep ~poverty, continence,
11854   2, 184 |         consists in binding oneself to God by means of a vow. But it
11855   2, 184 |           Ezech.): "When a man vows to God all his ~possessions, all
11856   2, 184 |              is fit for the kingdom of God." And though some ~of His
11857   2, 184 |               give "his whole life" to God. But a man cannot actually
11858   2, 184 |              man cannot actually give ~God his whole life, because
11859   2, 184 |                give his whole life to ~God otherwise than by the obligation
11860   2, 184 |              from things pertaining to God's service, this is most
11861   2, 184 |             this is most acceptable to God. ~Hence Augustine says (
11862   2, 184 |                14:17, ~"The Kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but
11863   2, 184 |                contemplation, ~love of God and our neighbor, and so
11864   2, 184 |             his possessions wholly to ~God; and in corresponding manner
11865   2, 184 |                from tending wholly to ~God, for it is in this that
11866   2, 184 |           holocaust is the offering to God of all that one has," ~according
11867   2, 184 |              which he wholly offers to God by the vow of voluntary
11868   2, 184 |             and this good he offers to God ~especially by the vow of
11869   2, 184 |            which man wholly ~offers to God by the vow of obedience,
11870   2, 184 |           obedience, whereby he offers God his own will ~by which he
11871   2, 184 |           religion, namely the love of God and his neighbor (such as
11872   2, 184 |              obedience a man offers to God his will, to which though ~
11873   2, 184 |               renounce the honor which God and all holy men accord
11874   2, 184 |               But to me Thy friends, O God, are made exceedingly ~honorable."
11875   2, 184 |                of obedience man offers God something greater, ~namely
11876   2, 184 |             own body, which ~he offers God by continence, and than
11877   2, 184 |               things, which he offers ~God by the vow of poverty. Wherefore
11878   2, 184 |       obedience ~is more acceptable to God than that which is done
11879   2, 184 |          fasting is not acceptable to ~God if it is done of one's own
11880   2, 184 |                heart seek the Lord the God of their fathers, and will
11881   2, 184 |        apparently ~follow the Lord the God of their fathers with their
11882   2, 184 |               and their possessions to God ~and reserve part for themselves,
11883   2, 184 |              Para. 1/1~OBJ 2: Further, God is less angered at a man'
11884   2, 184 |              if they ~commit any sins, God is less angry with them.~
11885   2, 184 |        tramples ~under foot the Son of God. Hence the Lord complains (
11886   2, 184 |                right intention towards God, and though it be intercepted
11887   2, 184 |              the time I began to serve God, even as I scarcely ~found
11888   2, 185 |            reason and an obligation to God's law, to which ~things
11889   2, 185 |              49:16, "But to the sinner God hath said: Why dost thou
11890   2, 185 |               to the world and live to God, are unworthy of the power
11891   2, 185 |              No man being a soldier to God, entangleth himself with
11892   2, 185 |            religious to be soldiers of God. ~Therefore it is unlawful
11893   2, 185 |             principally in the love of God and secondarily in the love
11894   2, 185 |               is to give themselves to God. Yet if their neighbor be
11895   2, 185 |             serving their neighbor for God's sake, they are ~obedient
11896   2, 185 |             clean and undefiled before God and the Father, is this:
11897   2, 185 |                  and again: "He wishes God's ~servants to make a living
11898   2, 185 |      especially are called servants of God, because they give themselves ~
11899   2, 185 |             entirely to the service of God, as Dionysius asserts (Eccl.
11900   2, 185 |              reading, ~and the word of God." Yet these things are no
11901   2, 185 |              can ~easily sing hymns to God." Thirdly, with regard to
11902   2, 185 |             idle who meditates only on God's word; nor is he who works
11903   2, 185 |           unlawful for the servants of God to work with their hands,
11904   2, 185 |              He wishes the servants of God ~to make a living by working
11905   2, 185 |                 They can sing hymns to God even while working with
11906   2, 185 |              Those who despise all for God's sake are bound to work
11907   2, 185 |           idleness, but the kingdom of God by the ~narrow and strait
11908   2, 185 |              faithful should not leave God's servants who ~work with
11909   2, 185 |            when they were converted to God, we ~must credit their weakness
11910   2, 185 |               other share on earth but God alone, to be supported by
11911   2, 185 |                enter the profession of God's ~service come from a servile
11912   2, 185 |            with the purpose of serving God, or of evading a ~life of
11913   2, 185 |             hearers with the plough of God's word." Those also who
11914   2, 185 |              He wishes the servants of God to ~work with the body,
11915   2, 185 |               decoy under the guise of God's ~service." Therefore seemingly
11916   2, 185 |               who were ~consecrated to God went about in common and
11917   2, 186 |                a man vows to ~Almighty God all that he has, all his
11918   2, 186 |               devote oneself wholly to God's service is ~common to
11919   2, 186 |          things wherein one may serve ~God, and whereby a man may dispose
11920   2, 186 |              himself to the service of God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[188] A[
11921   2, 186 |               are "called ~servants of God by reason of their rendering
11922   2, 186 |             service and subjection ~to God, and on account of the indivisible
11923   2, 186 |              the perfection beloved of God." Therefore seemingly ~no
11924   2, 186 |            clean and ~undefiled before God and the Father, is this:
11925   2, 186 |           which extends to the love of God and of our ~neighbor. Now
11926   2, 186 |              seeks to devote itself to God ~alone belongs directly
11927   2, 186 |                directly to the love of God, while the active life,
11928   2, 186 |               we love our neighbor for God's sake, ~so the services
11929   2, 186 |                our neighbor redound to God, according to Mt. ~25:40, "
11930   2, 186 |                far as we refer them to God, are ~described as sacrifices,
11931   2, 186 |                 for by such sacrifices God's favor is obtained." And ~
11932   2, 186 |         religion to offer sacrifice to God, as ~stated above (Q[81],
11933   2, 186 |             and subjection rendered to God are not precluded by ~the
11934   2, 186 |                serves his neighbor for God's ~sake, as stated in the
11935   2, 186 |           pertaining to the service of God; and since religious occupy
11936   2, 186 |           works of the active life for God's sake, it follows that
11937   2, 186 |                for the sake of serving God: for "they ~. . . use this
11938   2, 186 |               none of those can please God who handle war-like weapons. ~
11939   2, 186 |              order that men may please God. ~Therefore nothing hinders
11940   2, 186 |         neighbor and in the service of God, but not in so far as they ~
11941   2, 186 |             less should the things of ~God be neglected, for as Chrysostom [*
11942   2, 186 |            overlook the wrongs done to God."~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[188]
11943   2, 186 |               soldiers for the sake of God's service.~Aquin.: SMT SS
11944   2, 186 |             directed to the service of God is imposed as a ~penance
11945   2, 186 |               neighbor, the service of God, and ~the upkeep of divine
11946   2, 186 |            pertinent to the service of God, to Whom no ~sacrifice is
11947   2, 186 |    Anthropomorphites, who thought that God had a human shape. Hence
11948   2, 186 |               and daily meditation in ~God's law, was taught them by
11949   2, 186 |              devoted to the service of God, to seek for other ~learning,
11950   2, 186 |               giving himself wholly to God's service. ~The other two,
11951   2, 186 |              perfected in "the love of God ~extending to contempt of
11952   2, 186 |             oneself to the service ~of God. But if we consider poverty
11953   2, 186 |          uncertain, let us leave it to God": ~according to Chrysostom [*
11954   2, 186 |         humility is most acceptable to God. Now obedience and ~humility
11955   2, 186 |          superior of the ~monastery as God, love him as a father."
11956   2, 186 |           whole night in the prayer of God." ~On the other hand, it
11957   2, 186 |               way by the gift only of ~God, as in the case of John
11958   2, 186 |           danger, unless the ~grace of God supply that which others
11959   2, 186 |         abideth in charity ~abideth in God and God in him." Wherefore
11960   2, 186 |            charity ~abideth in God and God in him." Wherefore just
11961   2, 186 |          contemplation through love of God. ~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[188]
11962   2, 186 |    sufficiently "led by ~the spirit of God" so that they need not to
11963   2, 186 |                enjoying ~colloquy with God to whom they have adhered
11964   2, 186 |          others is either a beast or a god," i.e. a godly man.~
11965   2, 187 |              was in the beginning with God." Afterwards it ~goes on
11966   2, 187 |           shall go into the kingdom of God before you."~Aquin.: SMT
11967   2, 187 |              is in the beginning with ~God." The example which is given
11968   2, 187 |              and pay to the ~Lord your God"; and a gloss of Augustine
11969   2, 187 |                hast vowed ~anything to God, defer not to pay it, for
11970   2, 187 |              and pay to ~the Lord your God," says: "To vow depends
11971   2, 187 |               vow is a promise made to God in matters concerning God.
11972   2, 187 |              God in matters concerning God. Now, as ~Gregory says in
11973   2, 187 |               of this promise given to God be deserving of ~punishment!"
11974   2, 187 |                something pertaining to God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[189] A[
11975   2, 187 |         religion pertains very much to God, ~since thereby man devotes
11976   2, 187 |              is fit for the kingdom of God." But he ~who bound himself
11977   2, 187 |               unfit for the kingdom of God, unless he did it ~always,
11978   2, 187 |              in a mere promise made to God, ~and proceeding from the
11979   2, 187 |              person who makes a vow to God is not ~his own master;
11980   2, 187 |               be bound in the sight of God.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[189] A[
11981   2, 187 |              be nurtured ~for Almighty God"; and this is most fitting,
11982   2, 187 |           something, they are bound in God's sight, ~if they have the
11983   2, 187 |               belong to the service of God, and "we should more obey
11984   2, 187 |             himself to the service of ~God; which is most conducive
11985   2, 187 |           become a monk, unless (which God forbid) he ~have fallen
11986   2, 187 |              tested whether they be of God"; and Cassian has the same ~
11987   2, 187 |             man should draw another to God's service.~Aquin.: SMT SS
11988   2, 187 |               others to the service of God ~or to the religious life,
11989   2, 187 |             the spirits if ~they be of God." Now sometimes a man's
11990   2, 187 |           entering religion is ~not of God, since it often comes to
11991   2, 187 |            counsel or ~this work be of God, you cannot overthrow it."
11992   2, 187 |             the spirits, if they be of God," applies ~to matters admitting
11993   2, 187 |              whether the spirits be of God; thus those ~who are already
11994   2, 187 |                be led by the spirit of God, or be moved by hypocrisy.
11995   2, 187 |           birth is from ~the spirit of God, for it is His spirit "that
11996   2, 187 |                prove that it is not of God that some turn back; since
11997   2, 187 |              since not ~all that is of God is incorruptible: else corruptible
11998   2, 187 |             creatures would not ~be of God, as the Manicheans hold,
11999   2, 187 |               some who have grace from God ~lose it, which is also
12000   2, 187 |           which is also heretical. But God's "counsel" whereby He makes ~