Part, Question

15501 Suppl, 89|              of light - "which screens God ~is impervious to all illuminations,
15502 Suppl, 89|               and if ~anyone in seeing God understood what he saw,
15503 Suppl, 89|                what he saw, he saw not God Himself, but ~one of those
15504 Suppl, 89|         intellect will be ~able to see God in His essence.~Aquin.:
15505 Suppl, 89|           Dionysius (Ep. ad Hieroth.) "God is ~invisible on account
15506 Suppl, 89|              Para. 1/1~OBJ 7: Further, God is more distant from our
15507 Suppl, 89|             our ~intellect understands God, this must be by means of
15508 Suppl, 89|                be the very essence of ~God, since form and thing informed
15509 Suppl, 89|              informed in understanding God must ~needs be a likeness
15510 Suppl, 89|                a likeness impressed by God on our intellect. But this
15511 Suppl, 89|               lead to the knowledge of God except as an ~effect leads
15512 Suppl, 89|               for our intellect to see God except through His effect.
15513 Suppl, 89|         through His effect. But to see God ~through His effect is not
15514 Suppl, 89|        intellect will be unable to see God in His essence.~Aquin.:
15515 Suppl, 89|       intellect." Therefore neither is God in our ~intellect, to be
15516 Suppl, 89|              intellect be able ~to see God in His essence, since it
15517 Suppl, 89|          essence, since it understands God only by means of this ~impression.~
15518 Suppl, 89|        understood" (De Anima iii). Now God is ~supremely devoid of
15519 Suppl, 89|              for our ~intellect to see God in His essence.~Aquin.:
15520 Suppl, 89|               intellect cannot know of God what He is, but only what
15521 Suppl, 89|        intellect will be unable to see God in His essence.~Aquin.:
15522 Suppl, 89|               as such, is unknown. But God is ~in every way infinite.
15523 Suppl, 89|             Videndo Deo: Ep. cxlvii): "God is by ~nature invisible."
15524 Suppl, 89|       invisible." Now that which is in God by nature cannot be ~otherwise.
15525 Suppl, 89|                 not seen as it is. Now God is in one way and will be
15526 Suppl, 89|              seen in its ~essence. Now God will be seen in heaven through
15527 Suppl, 89|             OBJ 16: Further, in heaven God will be seen face to face,
15528 Suppl, 89|          likeness. Therefore in heaven God will be seen through His
15529 Suppl, 89|              in its essence. Therefore God will be seen in His ~essence
15530 Suppl, 89|           delivered up the ~kingdom to God and the Father," says: "
15531 Suppl, 89|        Therefore the blessed ~will see God in His essence.~Aquin.:
15532 Suppl, 89|              in its essence. Therefore God will be ~seen in His essence
15533 Suppl, 89|                 in this abode of bliss God can be seen in His glory
15534 Suppl, 89|                of the saints is to see God in His essence, according ~
15535 Suppl, 89|          Therefore the saints will see God in His essence.~Aquin.:
15536 Suppl, 89|               of man's life ~is to see God, so the philosophers maintained
15537 Suppl, 89|               attain ~to the vision of God in His essence. on either
15538 Suppl, 89|              as regards the vision of ~God but also as regards the
15539 Suppl, 89|              that something other than God is the object of man's happiness:
15540 Suppl, 89|              that something other than God is the effective ~principle
15541 Suppl, 89|        substance in him. Hence to know God thus, or other ~separate
15542 Suppl, 89|              not to see the essence of God or the quiddity of ~a separate
15543 Suppl, 89|              the created intellect can God be ~understood, so that
15544 Suppl, 89|                to be our way of seeing God in His essence, ~because
15545 Suppl, 89|               union of the spirit with God.~Aquin.: SMT XP Q[92] A[
15546 Suppl, 89|               one ever saw or will see God in His essence; ~secondly,
15547 Suppl, 89|       excluding intellectual vision of God in His essence from ~those
15548 Suppl, 89|           being to prove the Son to be God from His ~comprehending
15549 Suppl, 89|                from His ~comprehending God.~Aquin.: SMT XP Q[92] A[
15550 Suppl, 89|               1/1~Reply OBJ 2: Just as God, by His infinite essence,
15551 Suppl, 89|            vision whereby we shall see God in His essence is the ~same
15552 Suppl, 89|           essence is the ~same whereby God sees Himself, as regards
15553 Suppl, 89|                see the same thing that God sees, namely His essence,
15554 Suppl, 89|                whereby ~wayfarers know God by a created form, whereby
15555 Suppl, 89|              is informed ~so as to see God. But as Augustine says (
15556 Suppl, 89|            Videndo Deo: Ep. cxlvii), ~"God evades every form of our
15557 Suppl, 89|               4 Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 4: God is light (Jn. 1:9). Now
15558 Suppl, 89|          Therefore if anyone in seeing God conceives ~something in
15559 Suppl, 89|               in his mind, this is not God but one of God's effects.~
15560 Suppl, 89|             this is not God but one of God's effects.~Aquin.: SMT XP
15561 Suppl, 89|               5: Although the glory of God surpasses any form by which
15562 Suppl, 89|                knower, as when we know God, or conversely ~when He
15563 Suppl, 89|          agreement in nature; and thus God is more distant from the
15564 Suppl, 89|               8: In the vision wherein God will be seen in His essence,
15565 Suppl, 89|         knowledge whereby we shall see God in His essence be in the ~
15566 Suppl, 89|                our intellect in seeing God becomes the ~very essence
15567 Suppl, 89|           becomes the ~very essence of God, but that the latter is
15568 Suppl, 89|              knowledge whereby we know God on the way, for the reason
15569 Suppl, 89|                it is in ~this way that God is infinite.~Aquin.: SMT
15570 Suppl, 89|                bodily vision, by which God will ~never be seen. This
15571 Suppl, 89|                  For no man hath seen ~God at any time, nor can any
15572 Suppl, 89|                Reply OBJ 14: In heaven God will be seen by the saints
15573 Suppl, 89|              the saints will see that ~God has the mode which He has.
15574 Suppl, 89|              medium, so ~that, to wit, God be known by the images of
15575 Suppl, 89|          because the essence itself of God will be that ~whereby our
15576 Suppl, 89|         whereby our intellect will see God. But there will only be
15577 Suppl, 89|        conjunction with the sight. But God is able to be united to ~
15578 Suppl, 89|               intellect in this way to God, as shown ~above: and for
15579 Suppl, 89|       resurrection the saints will see God with the eyes of ~the body? [*
15580 Suppl, 89|       resurrection the saints will see God ~with the eyes of the body.
15581 Suppl, 89|                Now the blessed Job saw God with his eyes ~(Job 42:5): "
15582 Suppl, 89|          glorified eye be able to ~see God in His essence.~Aquin.:
15583 Suppl, 89|                In my flesh I shall see God ~my Saviour [Vulg.: 'my
15584 Suppl, 89|                 my Saviour [Vulg.: 'my God']." Therefore in heaven
15585 Suppl, 89|                    Therefore in heaven God will be seen with ~the eyes
15586 Suppl, 89|                can ~be upraised to see God. Therefore the glorified
15587 Suppl, 89|              eyes will be able to see ~God.~Aquin.: SMT XP Q[92] A[
15588 Suppl, 89|                man can be beatified by God alone. Now he will be ~beatified
15589 Suppl, 89|                also in body. Therefore God will be ~visible not only
15590 Suppl, 89|                OBJ 7: Further, even as God is present to the intellect
15591 Suppl, 89|              to him ~an angel," says: "God is not sought with the eyes
15592 Suppl, 89|               by the touch." Therefore God will by ~no means be visible
15593 Suppl, 89|               to a corporeal eye." But God is supremely ~incorporeal.
15594 Suppl, 89|            cxlvii): "No man hath seen ~God as He is at any time, neither
15595 Suppl, 89|             man is said to be made ~to God's image inasmuch as he is
15596 Suppl, 89|          inasmuch as he is able to see God." But man is in God's ~image
15597 Suppl, 89|                see God." But man is in God's ~image as regards his
15598 Suppl, 89|                 Therefore he ~will see God with his mind and not with
15599 Suppl, 89|              Para. 3/3~I say then that God can nowise be seen with
15600 Suppl, 89|                see so great a glory of God in bodies, ~especially in
15601 Suppl, 89|                 the intellect will see God so clearly, that God ~will
15602 Suppl, 89|               see God so clearly, that God ~will be perceived in things
15603 Suppl, 89|            intellect will not then see God ~from seeing His creatures,
15604 Suppl, 89|             creatures, yet it will see God in His creatures seen ~corporeally.
15605 Suppl, 89|     corporeally. This manner of seeing God corporeally is indicated
15606 Suppl, 89|                 as to see most clearly God ~everywhere present, governing
15607 Suppl, 89|               the ~invisible things of God as understood by those that
15608 Suppl, 89|                mean that we are to see God ~with the eyes of the flesh,
15609 Suppl, 89|                the flesh, we shall see God.~Aquin.: SMT XP Q[92] A[
15610 Suppl, 89|         certain beatitude ~from seeing God in sensible creatures: and
15611 Suppl, 89|             Whether the saints, seeing God, see all that God sees? [*
15612 Suppl, 89|               seeing God, see all that God sees? [*Cf. FP, Q[12], ~
15613 Suppl, 89|                that the saints, seeing God in His essence, see all ~
15614 Suppl, 89|             His essence, see all ~that God sees in Himself. For as
15615 Suppl, 89|             all things in the World of God, before they happen." Now
15616 Suppl, 89|              be equal to the angels of God (Mt. 22:30). Therefore the ~
15617 Suppl, 89|             the ~saints also in seeing God see all things.~Aquin.:
15618 Suppl, 89|             Dial. iv.): "Since all see God there with ~equal clearness,
15619 Suppl, 89|          refers to the blessed who see God in His essence. ~Therefore
15620 Suppl, 89|                Therefore those who see God in His essence know all
15621 Suppl, 89|      understand the least things." Now God is the greatest of intelligible ~
15622 Suppl, 89|            intellect ~that understands God, since, as Gregory says (
15623 Suppl, 89|               Therefore those who see ~God in His essence know all
15624 Suppl, 89|               reflected in the Word of God as in a mirror, ~because
15625 Suppl, 89|              away by glory. ~Therefore God will grant them to know
15626 Suppl, 89|            seem that the saints seeing God see all.~Aquin.: SMT XP
15627 Suppl, 89|                the intellect that sees God ~in His essence knows all
15628 Suppl, 89|              other saints who will see God in His essence.~Aquin.:
15629 Suppl, 89|              But the soul will not see God more perfectly ~than an
15630 Suppl, 89|             Therefore the souls seeing God will not necessarily see ~
15631 Suppl, 89|              Now some of those who see God in His essence ~will know
15632 Suppl, 89|              in His essence ~will know God more perfectly than others.
15633 Suppl, 89|              Para. 1/1 ~I answer that, God by seeing his essence knows
15634 Suppl, 89|              essence, to know all that God can do, ~because the more
15635 Suppl, 89|                Divine essence all that God ~can do, its perfection
15636 Suppl, 89|             knows in the Word all that God knows by the knowledge of
15637 Suppl, 89|              some say that all who see God in His essence see all that
15638 Suppl, 89|               His essence see all that God sees by ~His knowledge of
15639 Suppl, 89|               faith all the angels see God in His essence. ~Wherefore
15640 Suppl, 89|              Christ, although they see God in ~His essence, do not
15641 Suppl, 89|           essence, do not see all that God sees because they do not
15642 Suppl, 89|         Consequently of those who ~see God in His essence, each one
15643 Suppl, 89|              will know everything that God knows by the knowledge of
15644 Suppl, 89|            refer to those things which God ~knows only by the knowledge
15645 Suppl, 89|            refer to those things which God knows only ~by the knowledge
15646 Suppl, 89|            which one sees, and whereby God sees all ~things. That all
15647 Suppl, 89|             intellect of one who ~sees God, it is united thereto not
15648 Suppl, 89|          directed ~to the knowledge of God as its end. Wherefore he
15649 Suppl, 89|             end. Wherefore he who sees God in His ~essence, even though
15650 Suppl, 89|              mere fact of their seeing God: just as their desire to ~
15651 Suppl, 89|          fulfilled by their possessing God. For as ~God suffices the
15652 Suppl, 89|                possessing God. For as ~God suffices the affections
15653 Suppl, 89|             blessed will know all that God knows by the knowledge of
15654 Suppl, 89|               wherewith they will know God: and ~thus Christ's soul
15655 Suppl, 89|                  21:23): "The glory of God shall enlighten the city
15656 Suppl, 90|              Now the soul is more like God when separated from the
15657 Suppl, 90|             the infinite ~good, namely God; and after the resurrection
15658 Suppl, 90|           whereby it is ~borne towards God is less intense. This agrees
15659 Suppl, 90|         glorified body is more like to God ~than when separated therefrom,
15660 Suppl, 90|                the more it is like to ~God: even so the heart, the
15661 Suppl, 90|              movement, is more like to God while in movement than while
15662 Suppl, 90|               while at rest, ~although God is never moved.~Aquin.:
15663 Suppl, 90|           extent, through referring to God and to the body's glory,
15664 Suppl, 90|              the joy which referred to God. Moreover, the body's glory ~
15665 Suppl, 90|              of the joy that refers to God, in so far as ~it will conduce
15666 Suppl, 90|             whereby the soul tends to ~God: since the more perfect
15667 Suppl, 90|        corporeal but spiritual, namely God ~Who is one. Therefore there
15668 Suppl, 90|             more one will be united to God the happier will one ~be.
15669 Suppl, 90|            measure of one's union with God. ~Therefore the diversity
15670 Suppl, 90|       essential reward which is joy in God, but ~in relation to some
15671 Suppl, 91|               urged the more to praise God."~Aquin.: SMT XP Q[94] A[
15672 Suppl, 91|          render more copious thanks to God for it, they are allowed
15673 Suppl, 91|             they possess the glory of ~God within them, we cannot believe
15674 Suppl, 91|               contrary. Wherefore also God Who has ~most perfect knowledge
15675 Suppl, 91|                far from taking pity as God ~is. Yet in a sense God
15676 Suppl, 91|                God ~is. Yet in a sense God compassionates our afflictions,
15677 Suppl, 91|              the will - in which sense God, the angels and the blessed ~
15678 Suppl, 91|               2 Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 2: God is said to be merciful,
15679 Suppl, 91|           highest degree ~conformed to God. Now God does not rejoice
15680 Suppl, 91|          degree ~conformed to God. Now God does not rejoice in our
15681 Suppl, 91|                1~Reply OBJ 2: Although God rejoices not in punishments
15682 Suppl, 92|             into ~glory are dowered by God with certain gifts for their
15683 Suppl, 92|            which the soul is united to God, while ~the dowries are
15684 Suppl, 92|          enlightened from above to see God: and thus it is a dowry
15685 Suppl, 92|              Behold ~the tabernacle of God with men." Therefore it
15686 Suppl, 92|               distinct from the Son of God Who is the Bridegroom, as
15687 Suppl, 92|                whereby He is united to God in the bond of love; another
15688 Suppl, 92|            even if we ~consider Him as God, there is not said to be
15689 Suppl, 92|           union between the angels and God is no less than ~between
15690 Suppl, 92|              between beatified men and God. Since, then, the dowries
15691 Suppl, 92|               the angels and Christ as God is not ~such as suffices
15692 Suppl, 92|    Consequently the conformity between God and the angels suffices
15693 Suppl, 92|              For the soul is united to God ~according to the mind wherein
15694 Suppl, 92|                way, which united us to God: and these are faith, hope, ~
15695 Suppl, 92|            hope, ~and charity, whereby God Himself is the object. Now
15696 Suppl, 92|               OBJ 3: Further, we enjoy God by love and vision only,
15697 Suppl, 92|               that "in that ~beatitude God will be seen unendingly,
15698 Suppl, 92|              nothing else than to have God present and to hold Him
15699 Suppl, 92|              the mind to be ~united to God by actual vision. This is
15700 Suppl, 92|              of the soul's ~union with God, wherein beatitude consists,
15701 Suppl, 93|         perfect union of the soul with God, inasmuch as it enjoys God ~
15702 Suppl, 93|             God, inasmuch as it enjoys God ~perfectly as seen and loved
15703 Suppl, 93|               Thou hast made us to our God a kingdom," etc. (Apoc.
15704 Suppl, 93|             the joy in being united to God, which is called the "aurea."
15705 Suppl, 93|               act namely by turning to God: and consequently no particular
15706 Suppl, 93|               are said to enjoy [frui] God perfectly in heaven, and
15707 Suppl, 93|              sown in us is the Word of God: ~wherefore the more a person
15708 Suppl, 93|               the fruit of the Word of God differs from the aurea and ~
15709 Suppl, 93|         consists in the joy one has in God, and ~the "aureole" in the
15710 Suppl, 93|          attained ~through the seed of God's Word.~Aquin.: SMT XP Q[
15711 Suppl, 93|                 regards conversion ~to God, while the "aureole" and
15712 Suppl, 93|              as virginity is ~kept for God's sake at the command of
15713 Suppl, 93|              for their ~object, namely God Himself, it would seem that
15714 Suppl, 93|               law, when the worship of God was to be ~continued by
15715 Suppl, 93|               keep the commandments of God, that they have a mind to ~
15716 Suppl, 93|             rightly that the Mother of God ~was both virgin and martyr,
15717 Suppl, 93|             the truth of faith is from God, so is all other ~truth,
15718 Suppl, 93|               wit, an act ~is done for God's sake. Hence when a person
15719 Suppl, 93|                with charity infused by God: and thus its act can be
15720 Suppl, 93|                  Vulg.: 'but mighty to God'].~Aquin.: SMT XP Q[96]
15721 Suppl, 93|         virginity bears a ~likeness to God." Therefore the exemplar
15722 Suppl, 93|            exemplar of virginity is in God. ~Therefore it would seem
15723 Suppl, 93|               is due to Christ even as God.~Aquin.: SMT XP Q[96] A[
15724 Suppl, 93|          virginity has its exemplar in God, ~that exemplar is not homogeneous.
15725 Suppl, 93|                For the incorruption of God, which ~virginity imitates
15726 Suppl, 93|           virginity imitates is not in God in the same way as in a
15727 Suppl, 93|             subjects himself wholly to God by the vow of ~obedience:
15728 Suppl, 94|               will ~and intellect; (3) God's justice and mercy in regard
15729 Suppl, 94|               flame of fire") that "by God's might the brightness of
15730 Suppl, 94|            which we have, but such ~as God knoweth." Now everything
15731 Suppl, 94|            fire, unless the ~Spirit of God has revealed it to anyone."
15732 Suppl, 94|             kindled not by man ~but by God, Who fashioned its nature.
15733 Suppl, 94|               damned (Job 18:18), "And God shall remove him out of
15734 Suppl, 94|        situated, unless the ~Spirit of God has revealed this to some
15735 Suppl, 94|              OBJ 1: The words of Job, "God shall remove him out of
15736 Suppl, 94|                is it unreasonable that God's power ~should maintain
15737 Suppl, 95|                Whether the wicked hate God?~(6) Whether they can demerit?~(
15738 Suppl, 95|             Whether they ever think of God?~(9) Whether they see the
15739 Suppl, 95|                Whether the damned hate God?~Aquin.: SMT XP Q[98] A[
15740 Suppl, 95|            that the damned do not hate God. For, according to ~Dionysius (
15741 Suppl, 95|           beloved of all." But this is God. Therefore ~God cannot be
15742 Suppl, 95|                this is God. Therefore ~God cannot be the object of
15743 Suppl, 95|            asserts (Div. Nom. iv). Now God is goodness itself. Therefore
15744 Suppl, 95|              or evil apprehended. Now ~God is apprehended in two ways,
15745 Suppl, 95|         accordingly a person ~may hate God not in Himself, but by reason
15746 Suppl, 95|                the ~damned, perceiving God in His punishment, which
15747 Suppl, 95|                prove if the damned saw God in Himself, ~as being in
15748 Suppl, 95|            after their fall, wherefore God inflicted a punishment ~
15749 Suppl, 95|              damned will ever think of God?~Aquin.: SMT XP Q[98] A[
15750 Suppl, 95|                will sometimes think of God. For ~one cannot hate a
15751 Suppl, 95|              Now the ~damned will hate God, as stated in the text of
15752 Suppl, 95|           Therefore they will think of God sometimes.~Aquin.: SMT XP
15753 Suppl, 95|         remorse for deeds done against God. Therefore they ~will sometimes
15754 Suppl, 95|                will sometimes think of God.~Aquin.: SMT XP Q[98] A[
15755 Suppl, 95|             are those which are about ~God: whereas the damned will
15756 Suppl, 95|       Therefore they will not think of God.~Aquin.: SMT XP Q[98] A[
15757 Suppl, 95|          answer that, one may think of God in two ways. First, in Himself
15758 Suppl, 95|                respect the ~thought of God can bring sorrow, so that
15759 Suppl, 95|              the damned will ~think of God.~Aquin.: SMT XP Q[98] A[
15760 Suppl, 95|                 The damned do not hate God except because He punishes
15761 Suppl, 95|              saints live for ever with God ~(2 Cor. 12). Therefore
15762 Suppl, 95|           wherein the saints live with God ~[*Cf. SS, Q[185], A[3],
15763 Suppl, 96|                99] Out. Para. 1/1 - OF GOD'S MERCY AND JUSTICE TOWARDS
15764 Suppl, 96|        ARTICLES)~We must next consider God's justice and mercy towards
15765 Suppl, 96|                sinners?~(2) Whether by God's mercy all punishment both
15766 Suppl, 96|         account of some advantage. Now God does not wish ~punishment
15767 Suppl, 96|                Further, the justice of God would seem to require that
15768 Suppl, 96|                among other benefits of God there is ~"being" itself.
15769 Suppl, 96|                has been ~ungrateful to God should lose his being. But
15770 Suppl, 96|             sins mortally sins against God, Whose ~commandments he
15771 Suppl, 96|             end in some one other than God. But God's majesty is infinite.
15772 Suppl, 96|                one other than God. But God's majesty is infinite. Therefore ~
15773 Suppl, 96|             off from the fellowship of God's city, and this is the
15774 Suppl, 96|              cannot be rescued, except God help him: ~wherefore from
15775 Suppl, 96|            because thereby one offends God Who is infinite. Wherefore ~
15776 Suppl, 96|     safeguarded which is acceptable to God for ~its own sake. Hence
15777 Suppl, 96|             says (Dial. iv): "Almighty God on account of ~His loving
15778 Suppl, 96|                 therein, when they see God's justice in them, and realize
15779 Suppl, 96|               just may all both see in God ~the joys they receive,
15780 Suppl, 96|            that he has sinned against ~God the author of his being,
15781 Suppl, 96|             Thes. Para. 1/1~Whether by God's mercy all punishment of
15782 Suppl, 96|               1: It would seem that by God's mercy all punishment of
15783 Suppl, 96|               included, since they are God's ~creatures. Therefore
15784 Suppl, 96|             Para. 1/1~OBJ 2: Further, "God hath concluded all in sin [
15785 Suppl, 96|               on all" (Rm. 11:32). Now God has concluded the demons ~
15786 Suppl, 96|                   it is not just that ~God should permit the utter
15787 Suppl, 96|               happy through turning to God, ~so the bad angels were
15788 Suppl, 96|              through turning away from God. ~Therefore if the unhappiness
15789 Suppl, 96|               will at length, ~through God's mercy, be delivered from
15790 Suppl, 96|               this opinion exaggerated God's mercy in one direction
15791 Suppl, 96|               1 Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 1: God, for His own part, has mercy
15792 Suppl, 96|              in the sense of becoming ~God's goodness, and is speaking
15793 Suppl, 96|                Thes. Para. 1/1~Whether God's mercy suffers at least
15794 Suppl, 96|              OBJ 1: It would seem that God's mercy does not suffer
15795 Suppl, 96|             observes. Therefore, since God's indignation is ~not distinct
15796 Suppl, 96|                are most acceptable ~to God. Therefore at the saints'
15797 Suppl, 96|              Para. 1/1~OBJ 3: Further, God's foretelling of the punishment
15798 Suppl, 96|              punishment be commuted by God's mercy for a more lenient
15799 Suppl, 96|               where it is ~said: "Will God then be angry for ever? [*
15800 Suppl, 96|               for ever? [*Vulg.: 'Will God then cast off ~for ever?']"
15801 Suppl, 96|             cast off ~for ever?']" But God's anger is His punishment.
15802 Suppl, 96|               man generically, because God's ~indignation was at length
15803 Suppl, 96|              they may ~be converted to God, while it is yet possible
15804 Suppl, 96|                 2 Tim. 2:25,26), that "God may give them repentance
15805 Suppl, 96|             life ~(which may be called God's anger on account of its
15806 Suppl, 96|                an end by the mercy of ~God?~Aquin.: SMT XP Q[99] A[
15807 Suppl, 96|              to an end by the mercy of God. "For he that believeth
15808 Suppl, 96|                 possess the kingdom of God." Now some Christians are
15809 Suppl, 96|             all come to the kingdom of God, and consequently they ~
15810 Suppl, 96|                is impossible to please God" (Heb. 11:6). ~Wherefore
15811 Suppl, 96|               be punished for them by ~God; yet "he himself shall be
15812 Suppl, 96|           shall possess the kingdom of God." Yet many are ~such who
15813 Suppl, 96|          nothing can be acceptable to ~God, nor does anything profit
15814 Appen1, 1|             Matth.), the punishment of God in that ~they will be deprived
15815 Appen1, 1|             will be deprived of seeing God will be more painful than
15816 Appen1, 1|             will be deprived of seeing God. ~Therefore they will suffer
15817 Appen1, 1|              have natural knowledge of God, and for that very ~reason
15818 Appen1, 1|      punishment is justly inflicted by God, that their will opposes
15819 Appen1, 1|               natural reason, and know God, and that they are ~deprived
15820 Appen1, 1|            will have a large ~share of God's goodness and their own
15821 Appen1, 1|            children are separated from God as ~regards the union of
15822 Appen1, 2|              to ~conform one's will to God's, as Augustine says (Serm.
15823 Appen1, 2|                 Therefore, since it is God's will that they be punished,
15824 Appen1, 2|              which delight together in God's law. But this cannot happen
15825 Appen2, 1|              Para. 1/1~OBJ 3: Further, God Who is supremely merciful
15826 Appen2, 1|           speak against the justice of God: for ~which reason such
15827 Appen2, 1|              dead: since by ~offending God he deserves to lose all
15828 Appen2, 1|               all the good he has from God. Wherefore ~no reward after
15829 Appen2, 1|                they are between us and God, as regards their state.