Part, Question

 2001   1, 21  |              justice must exist in all God's works. Now the work of ~
 2002   1, 21  |          goodness. So in every work of God, ~viewed at its primary
 2003   1, 21  |           causes. For this reason does God out of abundance of His
 2004   1, 21  |         because between creatures ~and God's goodness there can be
 2005   1, 21  |         ungodly, justice is seen, when God remits ~sins on account
 2006   1, 21  |               2 Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 2: God's justice and mercy appear
 2007   1, 21  |             from earthly affections to God. As to this ~Gregory says (
 2008   1, 21  |               world ~force us to go to God."~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[21] A[
 2009   1, 21  |          something in the knowledge of God. In this way too the ~idea
 2010   1, 22  |                1/1 - THE PROVIDENCE OF GOD (FOUR ARTICLES)~Having considered
 2011   1, 22  |             seem to belong. Concerning God's ~providence there are
 2012   1, 22  |                is suitably assigned to God?~(2) Whether everything
 2013   1, 22  |              suitably be attributed to God?~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[22] A[
 2014   1, 22  |          providence is not becoming to God. For providence, ~according
 2015   1, 22  |              counsel, cannot belong to God, Who never has any doubt
 2016   1, 22  |            providence cannot belong to God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[22] A[
 2017   1, 22  |                Further, whatever is in God, is eternal. But providence
 2018   1, 22  |             there ~is no providence in God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[22] A[
 2019   1, 22  |                is nothing composite in God. But providence seems ~to
 2020   1, 22  |         Therefore providence is not in God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[22] A[
 2021   1, 22  |                attribute providence to God. For all ~the good that
 2022   1, 22  |             things has been created by God, as was shown above (Q[6],
 2023   1, 22  |         created, is ~itself created by God. Since, however, God is
 2024   1, 22  |                by God. Since, however, God is the cause of things by
 2025   1, 22  |              suitably be attributed to God. For in God ~Himself there
 2026   1, 22  |              attributed to God. For in God ~Himself there can be nothing
 2027   1, 22  |         towards an end is therefore in God ~called providence. Whence
 2028   1, 22  |          counsel may not be fitting to God, from the fact that ~counsel
 2029   1, 22  |              possesses, does belong to God, according to Ps. 148:6: ~"
 2030   1, 22  |               and providence belong to God. Although at the same time
 2031   1, 22  |             done is called counsel in ~God; not because of any inquiry
 2032   1, 22  |           divine ~simplicity, since in God both the will and intellect
 2033   1, 22  |           subject to the providence of God?~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[22] A[
 2034   1, 22  |            everything was foreseen by ~God, nothing would happen by
 2035   1, 22  |                existing. Either, then, God cannot hinder these, and
 2036   1, 22  |              are left to themselves by God in ~accordance with the
 2037   1, 22  |            accordance with the words: "God made man from the beginning,
 2038   1, 22  |            Apostle says (1 Cor. 9:9): "God doth not care for ~oxen [*
 2039   1, 22  |                for ~oxen [*Vulg. 'Doth God take care for oxen?']":
 2040   1, 22  |            agent. But the causality of God, Who is the first agent,
 2041   1, 22  |                necessarily directed by God towards some end; as the
 2042   1, 22  |               Those things that are of God are well ordered [*Vulg.'
 2043   1, 22  |              that are, are ordained of God': 'Quae autem sunt, a Deo
 2044   1, 22  |       therefore, as the providence ~of God is nothing less than the
 2045   1, 22  |           shown (Q[14], AA[6],11) that God knows all ~things, both
 2046   1, 22  |              kept in ~existence. Since God, then, provides universally
 2047   1, 22  |              Enchiridion 2): "Almighty God would in ~no wise permit
 2048   1, 22  |                extends thus far, since God is the author of nature. ~
 2049   1, 22  |                4: When it is said that God left man to himself, this
 2050   1, 22  |              of free will is traced to God as to a ~cause, it necessarily
 2051   1, 22  |                under the providence of God, as a particular under a ~
 2052   1, 22  |              under a ~universal cause. God, however, extends His providence
 2053   1, 22  |                For "to them ~that love God, all things work together
 2054   1, 22  |        withdraws oxen from the care of God: not, however, that individual ~
 2055   1, 22  |                Thes. Para. 1/1~Whether God has immediate providence
 2056   1, 22  |               1/1~OBJ 1: It seems that God has not immediate providence
 2057   1, 22  |                 must be attributed to ~God. But it belongs to the dignity
 2058   1, 22  |                Therefore much less has God Himself immediate providence
 2059   1, 22  |               providence. If therefore God ~were to have immediate
 2060   1, 22  |             better must be assigned to God. Therefore He has not immediate
 2061   1, 22  |            regards the first of these, God has ~immediate providence
 2062   1, 22  |              certain intermediaries of God's ~providence; for He governs
 2063   1, 22  |               2 Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 2: God's immediate provision over
 2064   1, 22  |               This does not ~hold with God, Who sees everything simultaneously
 2065   1, 22  |                  But the providence of God, since it ~is eternal, pre-exists;
 2066   1, 22  |              lest ~it should fail. But God is most powerful. Therefore
 2067   1, 22  |                under the foresight ~of God, who provides universally
 2068   1, 23  |              is suitably attributed to God?~(2) What is predestination,
 2069   1, 23  |            predestined?~(3) Whether to God belongs the reprobation
 2070   1, 23  |         Whether men are predestined by God?~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[23] A[
 2071   1, 23  |             men are not predestined by God, for Damascene says ~(De
 2072   1, 23  |             must be borne in mind that God foreknows but ~does not
 2073   1, 23  |          demerit is not predestined by God; and ~thus man's predestination
 2074   1, 23  |              said to be predestined by God. Therefore neither are men.~
 2075   1, 23  |               4: Further, the benefits God confers upon men are revealed
 2076   1, 23  |             but the Spirit ~that is of God: that we may know the things
 2077   1, 23  |          things that are given us from God." ~Therefore if man were
 2078   1, 23  |                man were predestined by God, since predestination is
 2079   1, 23  |      predestination is a ~benefit from God, his predestination would
 2080   1, 23  |               that, It is fitting that God should predestine men. For
 2081   1, 23  |                things are ~directed by God is twofold; one which exceeds
 2082   1, 23  |               that consists in seeing ~God which is above the nature
 2083   1, 23  |               directed, as it were, by God. ~The reason of that direction
 2084   1, 23  |                direction pre-exists in God; as in Him is the type of ~
 2085   1, 23  |            predestination is action in God, predestination must be
 2086   1, 23  |   predestination is the preparation of God's benefits, as Augustine
 2087   1, 23  |               predestined, and ~not in God; for whatever is in Him
 2088   1, 23  |                is the foreknowledge of God's benefits." But ~foreknowledge
 2089   1, 23  |           predestined, but actively in God. The execution of ~predestination
 2090   1, 23  |              what is to be done. Thus, God from all eternity ~prepared
 2091   1, 23  |                Thes. Para. 1/1~Whether God reprobates any man?~Aquin.:
 2092   1, 23  |               1/1~OBJ 1: It seems that God reprobates no man. For nobody
 2093   1, 23  |         reprobates what ~he loves. But God loves every man, according
 2094   1, 23  |            Thou hast ~made." Therefore God reprobates no man.~Aquin.:
 2095   1, 23  |                 1/1~OBJ 2: Further, if God reprobates any man, it would
 2096   1, 23  |               Thy help is only in Me." God does not, ~then, reprobate
 2097   1, 23  |               he cannot ~avoid. But if God reprobates anyone, that
 2098   1, 23  |                  Consider the works of God, that no man can correct
 2099   1, 23  |               this is false. Therefore God does not reprobate anyone.~
 2100   1, 23  |              Para. 1/1 ~I answer that, God does reprobate some. For
 2101   1, 23  |              through the providence of God, it likewise is part of
 2102   1, 23  |               1 Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 1: God loves all men and all creatures,
 2103   1, 23  |                cause of abandonment by God. ~It is the cause, however,
 2104   1, 23  |            Reply OBJ 3: Reprobation by God does not take anything away
 2105   1, 23  |          although anyone reprobated by God cannot acquire grace, ~nevertheless
 2106   1, 23  |              predestined are chosen by God? [*"Eligantur."]~Aquin.:
 2107   1, 23  |          predestined are not chosen by God. For ~Dionysius says (Div.
 2108   1, 23  |             without selection, so does God His goodness. But the goodness
 2109   1, 23  |         goodness. But the goodness of ~God is communicated to some
 2110   1, 23  |             grace and glory. Therefore God without any selection communicates
 2111   1, 23  |               some discrimination. Now God "wills all ~men to be saved" (
 2112   1, 23  |              the order of reason, that God wills their ~salvation;
 2113   1, 23  |                 differently ordered in God, and in ourselves: because
 2114   1, 23  |                in us precedes love. In God, however, it is the reverse.
 2115   1, 23  |                general be ~considered, God communicates His goodness
 2116   1, 23  |             happens in our ~choice. In God it is otherwise; as was
 2117   1, 23  |              11): "Those are chosen by God, who do ~not exist; yet
 2118   1, 23  |               3 Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 3: God wills all men to be saved
 2119   1, 23  |               There is no injustice in God" (Rm. 9:14). Now it would ~
 2120   1, 23  |               their actions. Therefore God does not ~prepare unequal
 2121   1, 23  |              the reason of the will of God. Now it was shown above (
 2122   1, 23  |            things ~willed; inasmuch as God wills one thing on account
 2123   1, 23  |                the same thing, whether God pre-ordained that He ~would
 2124   1, 23  |              and the consummation from God: so ~that it came about
 2125   1, 23  |           giving us to understand that God gives ~grace to a person,
 2126   1, 23  |           cause. For the providence of God produces effects through ~
 2127   1, 23  |                 Thus we might say that God pre-ordained to give glory
 2128   1, 23  |                effect, the goodness of God for its reason; towards
 2129   1, 23  |              use of grace foreknown by God is not the cause of ~conferring
 2130   1, 23  |          foundation in the goodness of God as ~regards its effects
 2131   1, 23  |          sought for in the goodness of God. Thus He is said to ~have
 2132   1, 23  |               Now it is necessary that God's goodness, ~which in itself
 2133   1, 23  |           attain to the ~simplicity of God. Thus it is that for the
 2134   1, 23  |                be preserved in things, God allows some evils, lest
 2135   1, 23  |          consider the whole universe. ~God wills to manifest His goodness
 2136   1, 23  |                 This is the reason why God elects some and rejects
 2137   1, 23  |                 Rm. 9:22,23): "What if God, willing to show His ~wrath [
 2138   1, 23  |            part of it was fashioned by God from the beginning under
 2139   1, 23  |               upon the ~simple will of God; as from the simple will
 2140   1, 23  |                said to be injustice in God, ~if He prepares unequal
 2141   1, 23  |               OBJ 3: Further, whatever God could do in the past, He
 2142   1, 23  |         preparation of the benefits of God, by which whosoever are
 2143   1, 23  |                in two ways; ~first, by God's predestination, and thus
 2144   1, 23  |               the former's place. ~For God does not permit some to
 2145   1, 23  |               A[4]): and the fact that God wills any created thing
 2146   1, 23  |              one ought not to say that God is able ~not to predestinate
 2147   1, 23  |          thought, absolutely speaking, God can predestinate or ~not.
 2148   1, 23  |          written (Dt. 1:11): "The Lord God adds to this number many
 2149   1, 23  |                a gloss adds, "fixed by God, who knows those who belong
 2150   1, 23  |             reason can be assigned why God pre-ordains to ~salvation
 2151   1, 23  |                nothing is arranged by ~God without a reason. Therefore
 2152   1, 23  |              be saved pre-ordained by ~God cannot be certain.~Aquin.:
 2153   1, 23  |             Further, the operations of God are more perfect than those
 2154   1, 23  |               the ~saved were fixed by God at a certain figure, there
 2155   1, 23  |              of ~those pre-ordained by God to be saved is not certain.~
 2156   1, 23  |         Therefore we must say ~that to God the number of the predestined
 2157   1, 23  |               is said to be certain to God, not by reason of His knowledge, ~
 2158   1, 23  |              of the sea are certain to God); ~but by reason of His
 2159   1, 23  |                we ~consider concerning God in regard to the whole universe,
 2160   1, 23  |                 them. Whence, although God knows the total number of
 2161   1, 23  |                 is not pre-ordained by God "per se"; ~but divine providence
 2162   1, 23  |              predestined is certain to God; not only by way of knowledge,
 2163   1, 23  |             seem to be pre-ordained by God for the good of the ~elect,
 2164   1, 23  |            number of angels created by God. It is, however, ~better
 2165   1, 23  |                better to say that, "to God alone is known the number
 2166   1, 23  |            those who are marked out by God beforehand in respect to
 2167   1, 23  |             part of the whole. Thus in God the reason why ~He has made
 2168   1, 23  |            consisting in the vision of God, exceeds the common state
 2169   1, 23  |          however, appears the mercy of God, that He has chosen ~some
 2170   1, 23  |            these things can be said of God when He ~predestines. Whence
 2171   1, 23  |              gifts ~and the calling of God are without repentance" (
 2172   1, 23  |              anyone is ~predestined by God. As regards the latter,
 2173   1, 23  |               effects are provided ~by God in such a way that natural
 2174   1, 23  |               person is predestined by God in such a way, that ~whatever
 2175   1, 23  |             but this cannot be said of God, and thus we are to ~understand, "
 2176   1, 23  |         through a servant. In this way God is helped by us; inasmuch
 2177   1, 23  |       according to 1 Cor. 3:9: "We are God's ~co-adjutors." Nor is
 2178   1, 23  |             any defect in the power of God, ~but because He employs
 2179   1, 24  |               book is the knowledge of God, ~by which He hath predestined
 2180   1, 24  |                 The book of life is in God taken in a metaphorical
 2181   1, 24  |              predestined are chosen by God to possess eternal life.
 2182   1, 24  |               Whence, the knowledge of God, by which He ~firmly remembers
 2183   1, 24  |              done, so the knowledge of God is a sign in Him of those
 2184   1, 24  |                The sure foundation ~of God standeth firm, having this
 2185   1, 24  |                knowledge of life. ~But God, through His own life, knows
 2186   1, 24  |               life of glory comes from God, so also does the ~life
 2187   1, 24  |               of glory, is ~natural to God; whence in His regard there
 2188   1, 24  |            ordination and knowledge of God that they are to ~have some
 2189   1, 24  |            says (De Civ. Dei xx, 15): "God's foreknowledge, which cannot ~
 2190   1, 24  |             from the ~foreknowledge of God, nor from predestination.
 2191   1, 24  |               must not be referred ~to God, as if God foreknew a thing,
 2192   1, 24  |                referred ~to God, as if God foreknew a thing, and afterwards
 2193   1, 24  |           thing known, namely, because God knows one is first ordained
 2194   1, 24  |               book of life ~as regards God's foreknowledge, as if in
 2195   1, 24  |                foreknowledge, as if in God there were any change; but ~
 2196   1, 24  |                things are immutably in God, yet in themselves ~they
 2197   1, 24  |          included in the ~knowledge of God, although not anew.~
 2198   1, 25  |               Para. 1/1 - THE POWER OF GOD (SIX ARTICLES)~After considering
 2199   1, 25  |               to consider the power of God. About ~this are six points
 2200   1, 25  |              Whether there is power in God?~(2) Whether His power is
 2201   1, 25  |              Whether there is power in God?~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[25] A[
 2202   1, 25  |             seems that power is not in God. For as primary matter is
 2203   1, 25  |                matter is to ~power, so God, who is the first agent,
 2204   1, 25  |             the first ~agent - namely, God - is devoid of power.~Aquin.:
 2205   1, 25  |                better than what ~is in God; because whatsoever is in
 2206   1, 25  |               because whatsoever is in God, is God, as was shown above (
 2207   1, 25  |               whatsoever is in God, is God, as was shown above (Q[3]~,
 2208   1, 25  |        Therefore, there is no power in God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[25] A[
 2209   1, 25  |               But the divine ~power is God's essence, since there is
 2210   1, 25  |               is nothing accidental in God: and of ~the essence of
 2211   1, 25  |                 and of ~the essence of God there is no principle. Therefore
 2212   1, 25  |        Therefore there is no power in ~God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[25] A[
 2213   1, 25  |                A[8]; Q[19], A[4]) that God's ~knowledge and will are
 2214   1, 25  |         therefore, to assign power to ~God; but only knowledge and
 2215   1, 25  |            which exists not at ~all in God; and active, which we must
 2216   1, 25  |                  Q[4], AA[1], 2), that God is pure act, simply and
 2217   1, 25  |            remains, therefore, that in God there is active power ~in
 2218   1, 25  |            this potentiality is not in God, but only active power.~
 2219   1, 25  |                nobler ~than power. But God's action is not distinct
 2220   1, 25  |            there should be anything in God nobler than ~His power.~
 2221   1, 25  |            likewise of effect. Thus in God the idea of power is retained, ~
 2222   1, 25  |                of power is retained in God in so far as it is the principle
 2223   1, 25  |                 Power is predicated of God not as something really
 2224   1, 25  |                 which three things in ~God are identified. Or we may
 2225   1, 25  |               the knowledge or will of God, ~according as it is the
 2226   1, 25  |              the knowledge and will of God ~precedes the consideration
 2227   1, 25  |               1/1~Whether the power of God is infinite?~Aquin.: SMT
 2228   1, 25  |                seems that the power of God is not infinite. For everything ~
 2229   1, 25  |             iii, ~6). But the power of God is far from imperfect. Therefore
 2230   1, 25  |                 If, then, the power of God were infinite, it could ~
 2231   1, 25  |               instantaneous ~movement. God, however, does not cause
 2232   1, 25  |            says (De Trin. viii), that "God's power is ~immeasurable.
 2233   1, 25  |                 Therefore the power of God is infinite.~Aquin.: SMT
 2234   1, 25  |                 active power exists in God ~according to the measure
 2235   1, 25  |              that the active ~power in God should be infinite. For
 2236   1, 25  |                essence, through which ~God acts, is infinite, as was
 2237   1, 25  |     putrefaction. Now it is clear that God is not a ~univocal agent.
 2238   1, 25  |             that the infinite power of God should be manifested so
 2239   1, 25  |               no effect, ~the power of God would not be ineffectual;
 2240   1, 25  |              attain. But the ~power of God is not ordered toward its
 2241   1, 25  |                Thes. Para. 1/1~Whether God is omnipotent?~Aquin.: SMT
 2242   1, 25  |               1/1~OBJ 1: It seems that God is not omnipotent. For movement
 2243   1, 25  |                this is impossible with God, for He is ~immovable, as
 2244   1, 25  |               an act of some kind. But God cannot sin, nor ~"deny Himself"
 2245   1, 25  |                 Further, it is said of God that He manifests His omnipotence ~"
 2246   1, 25  |               and the ~like. Therefore God is not omnipotent.~Aquin.:
 2247   1, 25  |               Further, upon the text, "God hath made foolish the wisdom
 2248   1, 25  |             Cor. 1:20), a gloss says: "God hath made the wisdom of
 2249   1, 25  |             foolish [*Vulg.: 'Hath not God', etc.] by showing those
 2250   1, 25  |               to the ~divine power. If God, then, were omnipotent,
 2251   1, 25  |              is necessary in things if God were omnipotent. But this
 2252   1, 25  |               impossibility. Therefore God is not omnipotent.~Aquin.:
 2253   1, 25  |               shall be impossible with God" (Lk. ~1:37).~Aquin.: SMT
 2254   1, 25  |          answer that, All confess that God is omnipotent; but it seems ~
 2255   1, 25  |                 all' when we ~say that God can do all things. If, however,
 2256   1, 25  |        possible things, this phrase, ~"God can do all things," is rightly
 2257   1, 25  |                understood to mean that God can do ~all things that
 2258   1, 25  |               stand to each other. Now God cannot be said to be omnipotent
 2259   1, 25  |          however, we were to say that ~God is omnipotent because He
 2260   1, 25  |           saying nothing else but that God is omnipotent, ~because
 2261   1, 25  |                remains therefore, that God is called omnipotent because
 2262   1, 25  |                the nature of power in ~God is founded, is infinite,
 2263   1, 25  |            things, in respect of which God is called omnipotent. ~Now
 2264   1, 25  |             any defect in the power of God, but because it has not
 2265   1, 25  |            things, in respect of which God is called omnipotent: whereas
 2266   1, 25  |              cannot be done, than that God cannot do ~them. Nor is
 2267   1, 25  |               shall be impossible with God." For whatever implies a
 2268   1, 25  |               1 Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 1: God is said to be omnipotent
 2269   1, 25  |      omnipotence. Therefore it is that God cannot sin, because of His ~
 2270   1, 25  |               says (Topic. iv, 3) that God ~can deliberately do what
 2271   1, 25  |                if ~we were to say that God can do evil things if He
 2272   1, 25  |                understood to mean that God ~can do some things which
 2273   1, 25  |               3 Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 3: God's omnipotence is particularly
 2274   1, 25  |               is it made manifest that God has supreme ~power, that
 2275   1, 25  |             given him ~gratuitously by God. In this way the divine
 2276   1, 25  |             things which it belongs to God alone to ~do immediately -
 2277   1, 25  |             judges to be impossible to God. So it is clear ~that the
 2278   1, 25  |                that the omnipotence of God does not take away from
 2279   1, 25  |                Thes. Para. 1/1~Whether God can make the past not to
 2280   1, 25  |               1/1~OBJ 1: It seems that God can make the past not to
 2281   1, 25  |           impossible accidentally. But God can do what is impossible
 2282   1, 25  |           thing of the past. Therefore God can make the past not to
 2283   1, 25  |               1/1~OBJ 2: Further, what God could do, He can do now,
 2284   1, 25  |            power is not ~lessened. But God could have effected, before
 2285   1, 25  |            Therefore, when he has run, God could effect that he did ~
 2286   1, 25  |            virtue than virginity. But ~God can supply charity that
 2287   1, 25  |                ad Eustoch.): "Although God can do ~all things, He cannot
 2288   1, 25  |               fall under ~the scope of God's omnipotence anything that
 2289   1, 25  |               5): "Whosoever says, If ~God is almighty, let Him make
 2290   1, 25  |                that this is to say: If God is almighty let Him effect
 2291   1, 25  |                this one thing alone is God deprived - namely, ~to make
 2292   1, 25  |              Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 2: As God, in accordance with the
 2293   1, 25  |             the divine power, whatever God could do, He can do ~now.
 2294   1, 25  |             they have been done. So is God said not to be able to ~
 2295   1, 25  |               3 Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 3: God can remove all corruption
 2296   1, 25  |                Thes. Para. 1/1~Whether God can do what He does not? ~
 2297   1, 25  |               1/1~OBJ 1: It seems that God cannot do other than what
 2298   1, 25  |           other than what He does. For God ~cannot do what He has not
 2299   1, 25  |              Para. 1/1~OBJ 2: Further, God can only do what ought to
 2300   1, 25  |              is right ~to be done. But God is not bound to do what
 2301   1, 25  |              Para. 1/1~OBJ 3: Further, God cannot do anything that
 2302   1, 25  |            than as they are. Therefore God cannot do except what He
 2303   1, 25  |             refute the Jews. Therefore God can do what He does not.~
 2304   1, 25  |                Some ~laid it down that God acts from natural necessity
 2305   1, 25  |               above (Q[19], A[3]) that God does not act ~from natural
 2306   1, 25  |           course of events produced by God ~from any necessity, so
 2307   1, 25  |             and justice without ~which God does nothing. But since
 2308   1, 25  |                 But since the power of God, which is His essence, ~
 2309   1, 25  |                we must simply say that God can do other things than
 2310   1, 25  |             the wise intellect. But in God, power and essence, will
 2311   1, 25  |             the wisdom and justice of ~God restricted to this present
 2312   1, 25  |            power considered in itself, God is said to be able to do
 2313   1, 25  |                command of a just will, God is said to be able to do
 2314   1, 25  |               manner, we must say that God can do other things by His ~
 2315   1, 25  |             His nature, is not so. For God does things because He ~
 2316   1, 25  |               2 Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 2: God is bound to nobody but Himself.
 2317   1, 25  |            Hence, when it is said that God can only do what He ought,
 2318   1, 25  |               meant by this than ~that God can do nothing but what
 2319   1, 25  |           false; for the sense is that God can do nothing ~except what
 2320   1, 25  |                be true in this sense: "God ~cannot do anything except
 2321   1, 25  |              things which now are, yet God can do other things and
 2322   1, 25  |                Thes. Para. 1/1~Whether God can do better than what
 2323   1, 25  |               1/1~OBJ 1: It seems that God cannot do better than He
 2324   1, 25  |             than He does. For whatever God ~does, He does in a most
 2325   1, 25  |             and wisely done. Therefore God ~cannot do anything better
 2326   1, 25  |           Contra Maximin. iii, 8): "If God ~could, but would not, beget
 2327   1, 25  |                For the same reason, if God could have made better things
 2328   1, 25  |              envy ~is far removed from God. Therefore God makes everything
 2329   1, 25  |            removed from God. Therefore God makes everything of the
 2330   1, 25  |      Enchiridion 10), "each thing that God has made is good, and, taken
 2331   1, 25  |           could not be ~made better by God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[25] A[
 2332   1, 25  |          cannot be better than she is. God cannot therefore make all
 2333   1, 25  |               It is said (Eph. 3:20): "God is able to do all things ~
 2334   1, 25  |             man. As regards this good, God cannot make a thing better
 2335   1, 25  |         regards this kind of goodness, God can make ~better the things
 2336   1, 25  |          Absolutely speaking, however, God can make ~something else
 2337   1, 25  |                1: When it is said that God can make a thing better
 2338   1, 25  |             manner of the making; thus God cannot make ~anything better
 2339   1, 25  |             better than it was made by God. Hence ~the comparison fails.~
 2340   1, 25  |               order given to things by God; ~in which the good of the
 2341   1, 25  |               would be ~destroyed. Yet God could make other things,
 2342   1, 25  |            that it is the fruition ~of God; and the Blessed Virgin
 2343   1, 25  |             that she is the mother of ~God; have all a certain infinite
 2344   1, 25  |               infinite good, which is ~God. And on this account there
 2345   1, 25  |                be anything better than God.~
 2346   1, 26  |           Whether beatitude belongs to God?~(2) In regard to what is
 2347   1, 26  |                2) In regard to what is God called blessed; does this
 2348   1, 26  |           Whether beatitude belongs to God?~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[26] A[
 2349   1, 26  |           beatitude does not belong to God. For beatitude ~according
 2350   1, 26  |              of goods has no ~place in God; nor has composition. Therefore
 2351   1, 26  |          beatitude does not belong to ~God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[26] A[
 2352   1, 26  |              reward does not apply to ~God; as neither does merit.
 2353   1, 26  |             that, Beatitude belongs to God in a very special manner.
 2354   1, 26  |               most excellent manner to God, ~namely, to be perfect,
 2355   1, 26  |           Whence beatitude ~belongs to God in the highest degree.~Aquin.:
 2356   1, 26  |              Aggregation of good is in God, after the manner not of ~
 2357   1, 26  |                 manifold, pre-exist in God, as was said above (Q[4],
 2358   1, 26  |         potentiality to act. As, then, God has being, though not ~begotten;
 2359   1, 26  |                Thes. Para. 1/1~Whether God is called blessed in respect
 2360   1, 26  |                1 ~OBJ 1: It seems that God is not called blessed in
 2361   1, 26  |             But good is said to be in ~God in regard to His essence,
 2362   1, 26  |        beatitude also is said to be in God in regard to His essence,
 2363   1, 26  |            beatitude is said to ~be in God with reference to His will,
 2364   1, 26  |              Therefore, since we enjoy God in ~respect to our intellect,
 2365   1, 26  |            beatitude is said ~to be in God in respect of His intellect.~
 2366   1, 26  |              in ~understanding. Now in God, to be and to understand
 2367   1, 26  |               therefore be assigned to God in respect of His intellect;
 2368   1, 26  |              that beatitude belongs to God; not ~that beatitude pertains
 2369   1, 26  |                Thes. Para. 1/1~Whether God is the beatitude of each
 2370   1, 26  |               1/1~OBJ 1: It seems that God is the beatitude of each
 2371   1, 26  |              each of the blessed. For ~God is the supreme good, as
 2372   1, 26  |          beatitude is nothing else but God Himself.~Aquin.: SMT FP
 2373   1, 26  |        rational nature belongs only to God. Therefore the ~beatitude
 2374   1, 26  |          beatitude of every blessed is God alone.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[
 2375   1, 26  |                nothing is greater than God. Therefore beatitude is
 2376   1, 26  |              something different ~from God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[26] A[
 2377   1, 26  |               the side of ~the object, God is the only beatitude; for
 2378   1, 26  |              fact, that he understands God, in accordance with the
 2379   1, 26  |            beatified creatures; but in God, even in this way, it ~is
 2380   1, 26  |              acquisition. ~Accordingly God is indeed the last end of
 2381   1, 26  |           included in the beatitude of God?~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[26] A[
 2382   1, 26  |               nothing false can be ~in God. Therefore the divine beatitude
 2383   1, 26  |              of ~these have to do with God, since He is incorporeal.
 2384   1, 26  |               contemplative happiness, God possesses a ~continual and
 2385   1, 26  |       beatitude; and thus it is not in God. But ~whatever semblance
 2386   1, 26  |          corporeal ~manner, is also in God, but in a spiritual manner.~
 2387   1, 27  |              Trinity of the persons in God. ~And because the divine
 2388   1, 27  |         Whether there is procession in God?~(2) Whether any procession
 2389   1, 27  |              Whether any procession in God can be called generation?~(
 2390   1, 27  |                any other procession in God besides generation.~(4)
 2391   1, 27  |                than two processions in God?~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[27] A[
 2392   1, 27  |         Whether there is procession in God?~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[27] A[
 2393   1, 27  |            cannot be any procession in God. For ~procession signifies
 2394   1, 27  |               outward movement. But in God there is nothing ~mobile,
 2395   1, 27  |                is there procession in ~God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[27] A[
 2396   1, 27  |            whence it ~proceeds. But in God there is no diversity; but
 2397   1, 27  |              simplicity. ~Therefore in God there is no procession.~
 2398   1, 27  |               the first principle. But God is the first principle,
 2399   1, 27  |                2], A[3]). Therefore in God there is no procession.~
 2400   1, 27  |         contrary, Our Lord says, "From God I proceeded" (Jn. 8:42).~
 2401   1, 27  |         Scripture uses, in relation to God, names which ~signify procession.
 2402   1, 27  |               Holy Ghost would be true God: and this is contrary to
 2403   1, 27  |             His true Son. This is true God" (1 Jn. ~5:20). Of the Holy
 2404   1, 27  |              Now, to have a temple ~is God's prerogative. Others take
 2405   1, 27  |               Sabellius, who said that God the ~Father is called Son
 2406   1, 27  |              procession as existing in God Himself; whereas, since
 2407   1, 27  |                 A[1] Body Para. 2/2~As God is above all things, we
 2408   1, 27  |             understand what is said of God, ~not according to the mode
 2409   1, 27  |              procession as existing in God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[27] A[
 2410   1, 27  |           procession does not exist in God, as we ~have explained.~
 2411   1, 27  |             very supreme perfection of God (Q[14], ~A[2]), the divine
 2412   1, 27  |               principle of the ~house. God, Who is the first principle
 2413   1, 27  |              Whether any procession in God can be called generation?~
 2414   1, 27  |             seem that no procession in God can be called generation. ~
 2415   1, 27  |                of all this ~belongs to God. Therefore generation cannot
 2416   1, 27  |             generation cannot exist in God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[27] A[
 2417   1, 27  |          Further, procession exists in God, according to an intelligible ~
 2418   1, 27  |               is it to be so called in God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[27] A[
 2419   1, 27  |             there is no generation ~in God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[27] A[
 2420   1, 27  |              procession of the Word in God is called generation. ~In
 2421   1, 27  |              procession of the Word in God is ~generation; for He proceeds
 2422   1, 27  |                same nature, because in God ~the act of understanding
 2423   1, 27  |              procession of the Word in God is called ~generation; and
 2424   1, 27  |               sense it is not found in God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[27] A[
 2425   1, 27  |               created being comes from God, since there is no subject
 2426   1, 27  |             then, what is generated in God receives ~its existence
 2427   1, 27  |             other procession exists in God besides that of the Word?~
 2428   1, 27  |             other procession exists in God besides the ~generation
 2429   1, 27  |          exists only one procession in God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[27] A[
 2430   1, 27  |               terms. But procession in God is only by way of communication
 2431   1, 27  |               one procession exists in God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[27] A[
 2432   1, 27  |                 of the Word existed in God, it could only be the procession
 2433   1, 27  |               inasmuch as ~the will in God is the same as His intellect (
 2434   1, 27  |              19], A[1]). Therefore in ~God there is no other procession
 2435   1, 27  |              Jn. 14:16). Therefore in ~God another procession exists
 2436   1, 27  |           There are two processions in God; the procession of the ~
 2437   1, 27  |              that procession exists in God, only ~according to an action
 2438   1, 27  |              procession of the Word in God, there exists in Him another ~
 2439   1, 27  |              OBJ 2: All that exists in God, is God (Q[3], AA[3],4);
 2440   1, 27  |             All that exists in God, is God (Q[3], AA[3],4); whereas
 2441   1, 27  |           intellect are not diverse in God, ~nevertheless the nature
 2442   1, 27  |              He ~proceeds, although in God the substance of the intellect
 2443   1, 27  |              the same; so, although in God the will and the intellect
 2444   1, 27  |              procession of the Word in God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[27] A[
 2445   1, 27  |              the procession of love in God is generation?~Aquin.: SMT
 2446   1, 27  |              the procession of love in God is generation. ~For what
 2447   1, 27  |             born. But what proceeds in God by way of love ~proceeds
 2448   1, 27  |            Therefore what ~proceeds in God by way of love, proceeds
 2449   1, 27  |                a procession of love in God, there ought to be some
 2450   1, 27  |              the procession of love in God is generation.~Aquin.: SMT
 2451   1, 27  |              The procession of love in God ought not to be called ~
 2452   1, 27  |                2/2~So what proceeds in God by way of love, does not
 2453   1, 27  |              OBJ 1: All that exists in God is one with the divine nature.
 2454   1, 27  |              Hence, each procession in God takes its name from the ~
 2455   1, 27  |               Reply OBJ 3: We can name God only from creatures (Q[13],
 2456   1, 27  |              of nature, ~procession in God has no proper or special
 2457   1, 27  |                than two processions in God? ~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[27] A[
 2458   1, 27  |                than two processions in God. As ~knowledge and will
 2459   1, 27  |             and will are attributed to God, so is power. Therefore,
 2460   1, 27  |              two ~processions exist in God, of intellect and will,
 2461   1, 27  |              procession of goodness in God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[27] A[
 2462   1, 27  |                 1/1~OBJ 3: Further, in God there is greater power of
 2463   1, 27  |         proceeds another. Therefore in God there are more than two
 2464   1, 27  |                1/1~On the contrary, In God there are not more than
 2465   1, 27  |              procession is possible in God but ~the procession of the
 2466   1, 27  |       processions can be understood in God according to ~goodness and
 2467   1, 27  |             and of love, ~according as God understands and loves His
 2468   1, 27  |               14], A[5]; Q[19], A[5]), God ~understands all things
 2469   1, 28  |            there are real relations in God?~(2) Whether those relations
 2470   1, 28  |        extrinsic to it?~(3) Whether in God there can be several relations
 2471   1, 28  |            there are real relations in God?~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[28] A[
 2472   1, 28  |               are no real relations in God. For ~Boethius says (De
 2473   1, 28  |              whatever really exists in God can be predicated of Him. ~
 2474   1, 28  |                real relation exists in God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[28] A[
 2475   1, 28  |             principle. But to say that God is the principle of creatures
 2476   1, 28  |                Therefore paternity in ~God is not a real relation;
 2477   1, 28  |                 the other relations in God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[28] A[
 2478   1, 28  |             paternity and filiation in God, consequent ~upon generation,
 2479   1, 28  |               or filiation ~existed in God, it would follow that God
 2480   1, 28  |              God, it would follow that God is not really Father or
 2481   1, 28  |               that, relations exist in God really; in proof whereof
 2482   1, 28  |      Relationship is not predicated of God according to its ~proper
 2483   1, 28  |                to ~exclude relation in God; but he wished to show that
 2484   1, 28  |             the creature proceeds from God in diversity of nature, ~
 2485   1, 28  |               in diversity of nature, ~God is outside the order of
 2486   1, 28  |                is no real ~relation in God to the creature; whereas
 2487   1, 28  |           there is a real ~relation to God; because creatures are contained
 2488   1, 28  |           nature entails dependence on God. On the other hand, the ~
 2489   1, 28  |        filiation are real relations in God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[28] A[
 2490   1, 28  |                1/1~Whether relation in God is the same as His essence?~
 2491   1, 28  |               not all that is ~said of God is said of His substance,
 2492   1, 28  |       Therefore, if relations exist in God, there ~must be something
 2493   1, 28  |               else besides relation in God. This can only be His ~essence.
 2494   1, 28  |             relation really belongs to God; and if it is not the divine ~
 2495   1, 28  |          considered ~as transferred to God, has a substantial existence;
 2496   1, 28  |               there is no ~accident in God; since all in Him is His
 2497   1, 28  |           relation really ~existing in God has the existence of the
 2498   1, 28  |            relation really existing in God is really the ~same as His
 2499   1, 28  |               Thus it is clear that in God relation and essence ~do
 2500   1, 28  |             other relation which is in God is not in its very being