Part, Question

 3001   1, 39  |          essential names, as the name "God," should not ~be predicated
 3002   1, 39  |             one that has humanity," so God signifies "one ~that has
 3003   1, 39  |                said, "In the beginning God created ~heaven and earth,"
 3004   1, 39  |          several Gods," and ~not "one" God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[39] A[
 3005   1, 39  |                 Further, as this word "God" signifies "a being who
 3006   1, 39  |                 O Israel, the Lord thy God ~is one God."~Aquin.: SMT
 3007   1, 39  |               the Lord thy God ~is one God."~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[39] A[
 3008   1, 39  |                 are collegians. Now in God the divine essence is signified
 3009   1, 39  |             are "three Gods," but "one God"; ~forasmuch as in the three "
 3010   1, 39  |                OBJ 1: Though the name "God" signifies a being having
 3011   1, 39  |               different. For the name "God" ~is used substantively;
 3012   1, 39  |            apply the plural either to "God" or to "substance," lest
 3013   1, 39  |          relation, it is predicated of God in the plural; ~whereas,
 3014   1, 39  |              so that we can truly say "God begot God." For, as the ~
 3015   1, 39  |               can truly say "God begot God." For, as the ~logicians
 3016   1, 39  |           stands for." But this ~name "God" seems to be a singular
 3017   1, 39  |            predicate. But when I say, "God creates," this name "God"
 3018   1, 39  |               God creates," this name "God" stands for ~the essence.
 3019   1, 39  |               essence. So when we say "God begot," this term "God"
 3020   1, 39  |                 God begot," this term "God" cannot by reason ~of the
 3021   1, 39  |             Further, if this be true, "God begot," because the Father ~
 3022   1, 39  |             same reason this is true, "God does not beget," ~because
 3023   1, 39  |              beget. Therefore there is God who begets, and ~there is
 3024   1, 39  |              who begets, and ~there is God who does not beget; and
 3025   1, 39  |                1/1~OBJ 4: Further, if "God begot God," He begot either
 3026   1, 39  |                 Further, if "God begot God," He begot either God, that
 3027   1, 39  |            begot God," He begot either God, that is ~Himself, or another
 3028   1, 39  |                is ~Himself, or another God. But He did not beget God,
 3029   1, 39  |              God. But He did not beget God, that is Himself; for, ~
 3030   1, 39  |          Neither did ~He beget another God; as there is only one God.
 3031   1, 39  |              God; as there is only one God. Therefore it is false to ~
 3032   1, 39  |        Therefore it is false to ~say, "God begot God."~Aquin.: SMT
 3033   1, 39  |              false to ~say, "God begot God."~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[39] A[
 3034   1, 39  |                1/1~OBJ 5: Further, if "God begot God," He begot either
 3035   1, 39  |                 Further, if "God begot God," He begot either God who
 3036   1, 39  |            begot God," He begot either God who is the ~Father, or God
 3037   1, 39  |             God who is the ~Father, or God who is not the Father. If
 3038   1, 39  |              who is not the Father. If God who is the Father, then
 3039   1, 39  |                who is the Father, then God ~the Father was begotten.
 3040   1, 39  |                Father was begotten. If God who is not the Father, then
 3041   1, 39  |               Father, then there is a ~God who is not God the Father:
 3042   1, 39  |             there is a ~God who is not God the Father: which is false.
 3043   1, 39  |               it cannot be ~said that "God begot God."~Aquin.: SMT
 3044   1, 39  |               be ~said that "God begot God."~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[39] A[
 3045   1, 39  |              In the Creed it is said, "God of God."~Aquin.: SMT FP
 3046   1, 39  |              Creed it is said, "God of God."~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[39] A[
 3047   1, 39  |              have said that this name "God" and the like, ~properly
 3048   1, 39  |                which requires ~that in God, He "who possesses" and "
 3049   1, 39  |               is signified by the name God, is the same ~as Godhead.
 3050   1, 39  |         signified. Hence as this word "God" signifies the divine essence
 3051   1, 39  |              have said that this word "God," from its mode ~of signification,
 3052   1, 39  |              word "man." So this word "God" sometimes stands for the
 3053   1, 39  |              essence, as when ~we say "God creates"; because this predicate
 3054   1, 39  |             only one, as when we say, "God begets," ~or for two, as
 3055   1, 39  |              for two, as when we say, "God spirates"; or for three,
 3056   1, 39  |          immortal, invisible, the only God," etc. (1 ~Tim. 1:17).~Aquin.:
 3057   1, 39  |             OBJ 1: Although this name "God" agrees with singular terms
 3058   1, 39  |           those who say that the word "God" ~does not naturally stand
 3059   1, 39  |               1~Reply OBJ 3: The word "God" stands for the person in
 3060   1, 39  |                signified by the ~name "God" - that is, the divine essence -
 3061   1, 39  |              person. So, when we say, "God ~generates," by reason of
 3062   1, 39  |                notional act this name "God" stands for the ~person
 3063   1, 39  |              Father. But when we say, "God does not generate," there
 3064   1, 39  |            proposition, for instance, "God begotten does not beget,"
 3065   1, 39  |            follow that there exists a "God generator," and ~a "God
 3066   1, 39  |                God generator," and ~a "God not generator"; unless there
 3067   1, 39  |            were to say, "the Father is God the ~generator" and the "
 3068   1, 39  |             generator" and the "Son is God the non-generator" and so
 3069   1, 39  |             Father and the Son are one God, ~as was said above (A[3]).~
 3070   1, 39  |               false, "the Father begot God, that is Himself," ~because
 3071   1, 39  |                 lxvi ad ~Maxim.) that "God the Father begot another
 3072   1, 39  |                say, "He begot ~another God," because although the Son
 3073   1, 39  |              said that He is ~"another God"; forasmuch as this adjective "
 3074   1, 39  |               apply to the substantive God; and thus the meaning would
 3075   1, 39  |          proposition "He begot another God" ~is tolerated by some,
 3076   1, 39  |            substantive, ~and the word "God" be construed in apposition
 3077   1, 39  |                1~Reply OBJ 5: To say, "God begot God Who is God the
 3078   1, 39  |              OBJ 5: To say, "God begot God Who is God the Father,"
 3079   1, 39  |             say, "God begot God Who is God the Father," is wrong, ~
 3080   1, 39  |            construed in apposition to "God," the ~word "God" is restricted
 3081   1, 39  |        apposition to "God," the ~word "God" is restricted to the person
 3082   1, 39  |              it would ~mean, "He begot God, Who is Himself the Father";
 3083   1, 39  |         proposition is true, "He begot God Who is not God the Father."
 3084   1, 39  |                He begot God Who is not God the Father." If ~however,
 3085   1, 39  |           meaning would be, "He ~begot God Who is God Who is the Father."
 3086   1, 39  |              be, "He ~begot God Who is God Who is the Father." Such
 3087   1, 39  |               the sense is that "to be God the ~Father" is befitting
 3088   1, 39  |         negative sense ~is that "to be God the Father," is to be removed
 3089   1, 39  |              Para. 1/1~OBJ 3: Further, God and the divine essence are
 3090   1, 39  |               it is true ~to say that "God begets God." Therefore this
 3091   1, 39  |                to say that "God begets God." Therefore this is also
 3092   1, 39  |                since nothing exists in God as distinguished from the
 3093   1, 39  |         asserting ~that as we can say "God begot God," so we can say "
 3094   1, 39  |               as we can say "God begot God," so we can say "Essence
 3095   1, 39  |               of the divine simplicity God is ~nothing else but the
 3096   1, 39  |           stated (A[4]). Now although "God" is really the same as "
 3097   1, 39  |            same. For ~since this word "God" signifies the divine essence
 3098   1, 39  |              predicated of this word, "God," as, for instance, we can
 3099   1, 39  |              for instance, we can say "God is ~begotten" or is "Begetter,"
 3100   1, 39  |       corrupted accidentally; whereas ~God begotten has the same nature
 3101   1, 39  |                1~Reply OBJ 3: Although God and the divine essence are
 3102   1, 39  |             begetting," or that it is "God ~begetting," if "thing"
 3103   1, 39  |             begetting," if "thing" and God stand for person, but not
 3104   1, 39  |              we can say for instance, "God is three ~persons"; or "
 3105   1, 39  |                is three ~persons"; or "God is the Trinity." For it
 3106   1, 39  |            same way this proposition, "God is the Trinity," cannot
 3107   1, 39  |                Holy Ghost. So to say, "God is ~the Trinity," is false.~
 3108   1, 39  |              to be man. But this name "God" as regards the three ~persons
 3109   1, 39  |               predicated of this name "God," except in an accidental
 3110   1, 39  |          Domini], "We believe that one God is one divinely named Trinity."~
 3111   1, 39  |                 And because this word "God" can of itself stand for
 3112   1, 39  |           likewise it is true to say, "God ~is the three persons."~
 3113   1, 39  |              the contrary, this ~word "God" can of itself be taken
 3114   1, 39  |                 of the divine nature, "God is the Trinity," ~is untrue,
 3115   1, 39  |             Reply OBJ 2: When we say, "God," or "the divine essence
 3116   1, 39  |             higher species: because in God there is no universal and
 3117   1, 39  |            proposition, "The Father is God" is of itself true, so this ~
 3118   1, 39  |            true, so this ~proposition "God is the Father" is true of
 3119   1, 39  |             says: "Christ the power of God and the ~wisdom of God" (
 3120   1, 39  |              of God and the ~wisdom of God" (1 Cor. 1:24).~Aquin.:
 3121   1, 39  |                essential attributes of God ~are more clear to us from
 3122   1, 39  |               the kind be imagined of ~God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[39] A[
 3123   1, 39  |            strength [*Douay: power] of God" (1 Cor. 1:24). So it is
 3124   1, 39  |                led to the knowledge of God from ~creatures, must consider
 3125   1, 39  |               creatures, must consider God according to the mode derived
 3126   1, 39  |               our mind in reference to God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[39] A[
 3127   1, 39  |     consideration, whereby we consider God ~absolutely in His being,
 3128   1, 39  |             the art ~of the omnipotent God," etc.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[
 3129   1, 39  |                use" by which we ~enjoy God, is likened to the property
 3130   1, 39  |                second consideration of God regards Him as "one." In
 3131   1, 39  |              us the ~adequate power of God in the sphere of causality,
 3132   1, 39  |             fourth consideration, i.e. God's relation to His ~effects,
 3133   1, 39  |           cause; which has no place in God; and ~sometimes it expresses
 3134   1, 39  |               which can be ~applied to God by reason of His active
 3135   1, 39  |                of one containing. Now, God contains things ~in two
 3136   1, 39  |              things are said to be ~in God, as existing in His knowledge.
 3137   1, 39  |               things are ~contained in God forasmuch as He in His goodness
 3138   1, 39  |        explained (Q[24], A[1]), it is ~God's knowledge regarding those
 3139   1, 39  |               adjunct, inasmuch as, in God's word ~to Moses, was prefigured
 3140   1, 39  |                 Who is,'" inasmuch as "God begotten is personal." But
 3141   1, 39  |            sense, so far as ~the word "God" signifies and stands for
 3142   1, 39  |              to Ex. 15:2: "This is ~my God, and I will glorify Him."~
 3143   1, 40  |               1: It would seem that in God relation is not the same
 3144   1, 40  |              not the same as person in God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[40] A[
 3145   1, 40  |             not the ~same as person in God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[40] A[
 3146   1, 40  |                1/1~On the contrary, in God "what is" and "whereby it
 3147   1, 40  |       considered as really existing in God, is the divine essence Itself,
 3148   1, 40  |            there ~are no properties in God except in our way of speaking,
 3149   1, 40  |                there are properties in God; as ~we have shown (Q[32],
 3150   1, 40  |             say that the essence is in God, and yet is God.~Aquin.:
 3151   1, 40  |          essence is in God, and yet is God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[40] A[
 3152   1, 40  |              however, consider that in God, by ~reason of the divine
 3153   1, 40  |               form, it follows that in God the ~abstract is the same
 3154   1, 40  |            concrete, as "Godhead" and "God." And as the ~divine simplicity
 3155   1, 40  |              whatever is attributed to God, is His essence Itself;
 3156   1, 40  |              and power are the same in God, because they are both in
 3157   1, 40  |          twofold identity, property in God is ~the same person. For
 3158   1, 40  |               concrete are the same in God; since they are ~the subsisting
 3159   1, 40  |              whatever is attributed to God is His ~own essence. Thus,
 3160   1, 40  |               distinctive principle in God cannot be ~relation.~Aquin.:
 3161   1, 40  |       filiation is the Son, because in God the ~abstract and the concrete
 3162   1, 40  |            universal nor particular in God, ~nor form and matter, in
 3163   1, 40  |            likeness of these things in God; and thus Damascene says (
 3164   1, 40  |        signifies something distinct in God, since ~hypostasis means
 3165   1, 40  |           substances. Consequently, in God the distinguishing relation ~
 3166   1, 40  |             Father does not remain in ~God, as distinguished from the
 3167   1, 40  |           constitute the hypostases in God, but only manifest them ~
 3168   1, 40  |         hypostases. For ~origin has in God an active and passive signification -
 3169   1, 41  |              something?~(4) Whether in God there exists a power as
 3170   1, 41  |             Whatever is predicated of ~God, of whatever genus it be,
 3171   1, 41  |               any action attributed to God belongs to His essence,
 3172   1, 41  |           everything which ~is said of God, is said of Him as regards
 3173   1, 41  |               do not place passions in God. Therefore neither are notional
 3174   1, 41  |         notional acts to ~be placed in God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[41] A[
 3175   1, 41  |              acts ~are to be placed in God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[41] A[
 3176   1, 41  |               designated by an act. In God there is a ~twofold order
 3177   1, 41  |               which are ~attributed to God to designate the proceeding
 3178   1, 41  |             Another order of origin in God regards the ~procession
 3179   1, 41  |                 Consequently, since in God ~no movement exists, the
 3180   1, 41  |             sense is not attributed to God. ~Whence, passions are attributed
 3181   1, 41  |             Son by will; as also He is God by will, because He ~wills
 3182   1, 41  |                because He ~wills to be God, and wills to beget the
 3183   1, 41  |              sense it must be said the God the Father begot the Son,
 3184   1, 41  |               was made by the ~Will of God, as a creature is said to
 3185   1, 41  |               a created being; because God ~is of Himself necessary
 3186   1, 41  |              De Synod.): "The will of ~God gave to all creatures their
 3187   1, 41  |            things ~created are such as God willed them to be; but the
 3188   1, 41  |               be; but the Son, born of God, ~subsists in the perfect
 3189   1, 41  |                the perfect likeness of God."~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[41] A[
 3190   1, 41  |          Christ the Son of the love of God, ~inasmuch as He is superabundantly
 3191   1, 41  |               superabundantly loved by God; not, however, as if love ~
 3192   1, 41  |                happiness; and likewise God naturally ~wills and loves
 3193   1, 41  |             than Himself, ~the will of God is in a way, undetermined
 3194   1, 41  |          proceeds as Love, inasmuch as God ~loves Himself, and hence
 3195   1, 41  |             naturally ~understood. But God naturally understands Himself,
 3196   1, 41  |          generation necessary; because God is not the ~means to an
 3197   1, 41  |             sense it is ~necessary for God to be; and in the same sense
 3198   1, 41  |        material principle, ~because in God nothing material exists;
 3199   1, 41  |                ad Petrum i, 1) says: ~"God the Father, of His nature,
 3200   1, 41  |              really and truly exist in God. ~Now, this is the difference
 3201   1, 41  |                thing out of matter, so God makes things out of nothing,
 3202   1, 41  |        similitude. Thus, if the Son of God proceeds from the Father
 3203   1, 41  |              Therefore the true Son of God is not from nothing; nor
 3204   1, 41  |              certain creatures made by God out of nothing are called
 3205   1, 41  |             nothing are called sons of God ~is to be taken in a metaphorical
 3206   1, 41  |                true and natural Son of God, He is called the "only
 3207   1, 41  |        brethren." Therefore the Son of God is begotten of the substance
 3208   1, 41  |              that the creature is from God Who is essence; but not
 3209   1, 41  |              it is from the essence of God. So we may explain them
 3210   1, 41  |             Wisdom which is the Son of God, but of created wisdom given
 3211   1, 41  |                created wisdom given by God ~to creatures: for it is
 3212   1, 41  |             Thes. Para. 1/1~Whether in God there is a power in respect
 3213   1, 41  |               1: It would seem that in God there is no power in respect
 3214   1, 41  |                applied, there being in God nothing which we ~call passive
 3215   1, 41  |             above (A[3]). Therefore in God there is no power ~in respect
 3216   1, 41  |              there ~cannot be power in God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[41] A[
 3217   1, 41  |           belongs to the ~will. But in God power exists as regards
 3218   1, 41  |              25], A[1]). Therefore, in God ~power does not exist in
 3219   1, 41  |             Contra Maxim. iii, 1): "If God the ~Father could not beget
 3220   1, 41  |            where is the omnipotence of God ~the Father?" Power therefore
 3221   1, 41  |              Power therefore exists in God regarding the notional acts.~
 3222   1, 41  |             the notional acts exist in God, so must there be also ~
 3223   1, 41  |              there be also ~a power in God regarding these acts; since
 3224   1, 41  |               if made; so the power in God as regards the notional
 3225   1, 41  |                which does not exist in God. Hence, in God there is ~
 3226   1, 41  |                exist in God. Hence, in God there is ~no such thing
 3227   1, 41  |             that as it is possible for God to be, so also is it possible ~
 3228   1, 41  |          distinction in things said of God: one is a real distinction,
 3229   1, 41  |                 By a real distinction, God by His ~essence is distinct
 3230   1, 41  |              by a notional act. But in God the distinction of action
 3231   1, 41  |               would be an accident in ~God. And therefore with regard
 3232   1, 41  |                which are distinct from God, either personally or ~essentially,
 3233   1, 41  |                we may ascribe power to God in its proper sense of ~
 3234   1, 41  |        principle. And as we ascribe to God the power of creating, so
 3235   1, 41  |                something distinct from God, either essentially or personally.
 3236   1, 41  |                cannot ascribe power to God in its proper ~sense, but
 3237   1, 41  |               act of ~understanding in God, whereas in God the act
 3238   1, 41  |       understanding in God, whereas in God the act of understanding
 3239   1, 41  |             Metaph. v, text 17. But in God ~principle in regard to
 3240   1, 41  |              notionally. Therefore, in God, ~power does not signify
 3241   1, 41  |                 1/1~OBJ 2: Further, in God, the power to act [posse]
 3242   1, 41  |              are not ~distinct. But in God, begetting signifies relation.
 3243   1, 41  |              signifying the essence in God, are common to the ~three
 3244   1, 41  |                1/1~On the contrary, As God has the power to beget the
 3245   1, 41  |           beget signifies relation ~in God. But this is not possible.
 3246   1, 41  |               Para. 2/3~Now the Son of God is like the Father, who
 3247   1, 41  |                Trin. v): "The birth of God cannot but ~contain that
 3248   1, 41  |             cannot subsist other ~than God, Who subsists from no other
 3249   1, 41  |              from no other source than God."~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[41] A[
 3250   1, 41  |                1/1 ~Reply OBJ 2: As in God, the power of begetting
 3251   1, 41  |               begotten or spirated in ~God. For whoever has the power
 3252   1, 41  |                can be ~several Sons in God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[41] A[
 3253   1, 41  |              Para. 1/1~OBJ 3: Further, God the Father has greater power
 3254   1, 41  |                several sons. Therefore God can also: ~the more so that
 3255   1, 41  |                1/1~On the contrary, In God "that which is possible,"
 3256   1, 41  |              differ. If, therefore, in God it were possible for there
 3257   1, 41  |            more ~than three Persons in God; which is heretical.~Aquin.:
 3258   1, 41  |                 As Athanasius says, in God there is only "one Father,
 3259   1, 41  |           Fathers, or several ~Sons in God, unless there were more
 3260   1, 41  |                matter, which is not in God. Wherefore there can be ~
 3261   1, 41  |                subsistent filiation in God: just as there could be
 3262   1, 41  |                of the processions. For God ~understands and wills all
 3263   1, 41  |             total absence of matter in God ~require that there cannot
 3264   1, 41  |              cannot be several Sons in God, as we have explained. ~
 3265   1, 42  |           Whether there is equality in God?~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[42] A[
 3266   1, 42  |            quantity. ~But quantity, in God, is nothing else than His
 3267   1, 42  |              persons would not be ~one God; which is impossible. We
 3268   1, 42  |                 therefore, no place in God. There is also quantity
 3269   1, 42  |               Equality and likeness in God may be designated in two ~
 3270   1, 42  |           although movement is not ~in God, there is something that
 3271   1, 42  |          infusion of a ~good will from God; wherein also consubstantiality
 3272   1, 42  |             this mode ~has no place in God, for the Father is not predicated
 3273   1, 42  |             and this cannot be said of God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[42] A[
 3274   1, 42  |                 For whatever exists in God is the essence, or a ~person,
 3275   1, 42  |              is no order ~of nature in God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[42] A[
 3276   1, 42  |                no ~order of essence in God. Therefore neither is there
 3277   1, 42  |         Athanasius says. ~Therefore in God order exists.~Aquin.: SMT
 3278   1, 42  |            without priority, exists in God as we ~have stated (Q[33],
 3279   1, 42  |        definition of the other. But in God the ~relations themselves
 3280   1, 42  |              two, ~or than one. But in God a universal whole exists,
 3281   1, 42  |              robbery to ~be equal with God."~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[42] A[
 3282   1, 42  |       greatness. ~For the greatness of God is nothing but the perfection
 3283   1, 42  |                  it is evident that in God there exist real true paternity
 3284   1, 42  |         defective, nor that the Son of God arrived at perfection in
 3285   1, 42  |              measured by greatness. In God greatness ~signifies the
 3286   1, 42  |               equality and likeness in God have reference ~to the essence;
 3287   1, 42  |              Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 3: In God relation is not a universal
 3288   1, 42  |               not a ~universal term in God as we have seen above (Q[
 3289   1, 42  |            Trin. v), "The unchangeable God, so to speak, ~follows His
 3290   1, 42  |                unchangeable subsisting God. So we ~understand the nature
 3291   1, 42  |               understand the nature of God to subsist in Him, for He
 3292   1, 42  |              subsist in Him, for He is God in God." It ~is also manifest
 3293   1, 42  |               in Him, for He is God in God." It ~is also manifest that
 3294   1, 42  |               represent what exists in God; so according to none of
 3295   1, 42  |              Hence this going forth in God is only by the distinction
 3296   1, 42  |           would be the ~omnipotence of God the Father?" But the Son
 3297   1, 43  |           counsellor is the wiser. In ~God, however, it means only
 3298   1, 43  |                motion, which is not in God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[43] A[
 3299   1, 43  |        fullness of the time ~was come, God sent His Son."~Aquin.: SMT
 3300   1, 43  |               temporal significance in God; ~but "generation" and "
 3301   1, 43  |           procession" and "giving," in God, have both an eternal and
 3302   1, 43  |               may proceed eternally as God; but temporally, ~by becoming
 3303   1, 43  |             change in the creature; as God Himself is called Lord ~
 3304   1, 43  |              Rm. 5:5, ~"the charity of God is poured forth in our hearts
 3305   1, 43  |                A[3] Body Para. 2/3~For God is in all things by His
 3306   1, 43  |                rational nature wherein God is ~said to be present as
 3307   1, 43  |          knowledge and love attains to God Himself, according to this
 3308   1, 43  |        according to this special mode ~God is said not only to exist
 3309   1, 43  |                words, "the charity ~of God is poured forth in our hearts
 3310   1, 43  |       procession from another, ~and in God it means procession according
 3311   1, 43  |              be given" only applies in God to the Person Who is from ~
 3312   1, 43  |               The soul is made like to God by grace. Hence for a divine ~
 3313   1, 43  |                are perfectly united to God. Therefore the ~invisible
 3314   1, 43  |             whether journeying towards God, or united perfectly to
 3315   1, 43  |            whatever is done visibly by God is dispensed by the ~ministry
 3316   1, 43  |               Para. 1/2~I answer that, God provides for all things
 3317   1, 43  |                the invisible things of God must be made manifest to
 3318   1, 43  |           things ~that are visible. As God, therefore, in a certain
 3319   1, 43  |              can be said of the Son of God; and so, by reason of the
 3320   1, 43  |              Is. ~48:16, "Now the Lord God hath sent Me and His Spirit."
 3321   1, 43  |                is said that the Son of God is sent by the Holy Ghost, ~
 3322   1, 43  |                 so that to be sent in ~God does not apply to each person,
 3323   1, 44  |           PROCESSION OF CREATURES FROM GOD, AND OF THE FIRST CAUSE
 3324   1, 44  |           procession of creatures from God. This consideration will
 3325   1, 44  |                of inquiry:~(1) Whether God is the efficient cause of
 3326   1, 44  |           primary matter is created by God, or is an independent ~coordinate
 3327   1, 44  |        principle with Him?~(3) Whether God is the exemplar cause of
 3328   1, 44  |              every being be created by God?~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[44] A[
 3329   1, 44  |             every being be ~created by God. For there is nothing to
 3330   1, 44  |               should not be created by God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[44] A[
 3331   1, 44  |                not all beings are from God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[44] A[
 3332   1, 44  |                not all beings are from God as from their efficient
 3333   1, 44  |              any way existing is ~from God. For whatever is found in
 3334   1, 44  |             the divine simplicity that God is the essentially self-subsisting ~
 3335   1, 44  |       Therefore all beings apart ~from God are not their own being,
 3336   1, 44  |           primary matter is created by God?~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[44] A[
 3337   1, 44  |               matter is not created by God. For ~whatever is made is
 3338   1, 44  |               cannot have been made by God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[44] A[
 3339   1, 44  |              first active principle is God, so the first passive principle ~
 3340   1, 44  |        principle ~is matter. Therefore God and primary matter are two
 3341   1, 44  |              cause is anything besides God?~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[44] A[
 3342   1, 44  |             cause is something besides God. ~For the effect is like
 3343   1, 44  |               are far from ~being like God. Therefore God is not their
 3344   1, 44  |              being like God. Therefore God is not their exemplar cause.~
 3345   1, 44  |          exemplar causes exist besides God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[44] A[
 3346   1, 44  |                things ~are not outside God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[44] A[
 3347   1, 44  |               Para. 1/1~I answer that, God is the first exemplar cause
 3348   1, 44  |              In ~this manner therefore God Himself is the first exemplar
 3349   1, 44  |              to a natural likeness to ~God according to similitude
 3350   1, 44  |           wisdom" he sometimes denotes God Himself, sometimes the ~
 3351   1, 44  |                Thes. Para. 1/1~Whether God is the final cause of all
 3352   1, 44  |              OBJ 1: It would seem that God is not the final cause of
 3353   1, 44  |             imply need of the end. But God needs nothing. ~Therefore
 3354   1, 44  |               the thing generated. But God is the ~first agent producing
 3355   1, 44  |              all things do not ~desire God, for all do not even know
 3356   1, 44  |               even know Him. Therefore God is not the end of ~all things.~
 3357   1, 44  |                causes. If, therefore, ~God is the efficient cause and
 3358   1, 44  |                this does not belong to God, ~and therefore He alone
 3359   1, 44  |               OBJ 3: All things desire God as their end, when they
 3360   1, 44  |        participates in the likeness to God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[44] A[
 3361   1, 44  |                 1/1~Reply OBJ 4: Since God is the efficient, the exemplar
 3362   1, 45  |               is creation?~(2) Whether God can create anything?~(3)
 3363   1, 45  |               5) Whether it belongs to God alone to create?~(6) Whether
 3364   1, 45  |               Gn. 1, "In the beginning God created," ~etc., the gloss
 3365   1, 45  |              universal cause, which is God; and this ~emanation we
 3366   1, 45  |                Thes. Para. 1/1~Whether God can create anything?~Aquin.:
 3367   1, 45  |              OBJ 1: It would seem that God cannot create anything,
 3368   1, 45  |             nothing." But the power of God does not extend to the contraries
 3369   1, 45  |                 as, for instance, that God could make the whole to
 3370   1, 45  |              the same ~time. Therefore God cannot make anything from
 3371   1, 45  |                made out of ~nothing by God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[45] A[
 3372   1, 45  |                1:1): "In the beginning God created ~heaven and earth."~
 3373   1, 45  |         anything should be created ~by God, but it is necessary to
 3374   1, 45  |             all things were created by God, ~as appears from what has
 3375   1, 45  |      presupposes ~matter. If therefore God did only act from something
 3376   1, 45  |             can be, unless it ~is from God, Who is the universal cause
 3377   1, 45  |              is ~necessary to say that God brings things into being
 3378   1, 45  |                it would follow that in God there would be something
 3379   1, 45  |                of all beings, which is God. Hence God by creation ~
 3380   1, 45  |            beings, which is God. Hence God by creation ~produces things
 3381   1, 45  |               divine action, which ~is God's essence, with a relation
 3382   1, 45  |                to the creature. But in God relation to ~the creature
 3383   1, 45  |            relation of the creature to God is a real relation, as was ~
 3384   1, 45  |                1:1): "In the beginning God created ~heaven and earth."
 3385   1, 45  |                1~Whether it belongs to God alone to create?~Aquin.:
 3386   1, 45  |             that it does not belong to God alone to create, ~because,
 3387   1, 45  |            treating of the infinity of God (Q[7], AA[2],3,4). Therefore
 3388   1, 45  |            create can be the action of God alone. For ~the more universal
 3389   1, 45  |          universal ~cause, and that is God. Hence also it is said (
 3390   1, 45  |         creation is ~the proper act of God alone.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[
 3391   1, 45  |          separate substance created by God created another after itself,
 3392   1, 45  |             says (Sent. iv, D, 5) that God can communicate to a creature
 3393   1, 45  |              Now ~the proper effect of God creating is what is presupposed
 3394   1, 45  |               the nature of being; for God alone is His own ~being,
 3395   1, 45  |         therefore to create belongs to God ~according to His being,
 3396   1, 45  |             the knowledge ~and will of God, God is the cause of things
 3397   1, 45  |            knowledge ~and will of God, God is the cause of things by
 3398   1, 45  |                some object. Hence also God the Father made ~the creature
 3399   1, 45  |               Although every effect of God proceeds from each attribute, ~
 3400   1, 46  |              article of Faith?~(3) How God is said to have created
 3401   1, 46  |              Para. 1/1~OBJ 8: Further, God is before the world either
 3402   1, 46  |                only, therefore, ~since God is eternal, the world also
 3403   1, 46  |                also is eternal. But if God is prior by ~duration; since
 3404   1, 46  |            make the effect follow. But God is the sufficient cause ~
 3405   1, 46  |                 3,4). Since ~therefore God is eternal, the world is
 3406   1, 46  |             effect. But the ~action of God is His substance, which
 3407   1, 46  |            answer that, Nothing except God can be eternal. And this
 3408   1, 46  |                A[4]) ~that the will of God is the cause of things.
 3409   1, 46  |       according as it is necessary for God to will them, since the ~
 3410   1, 46  |               it is not necessary that God should will anything except
 3411   1, 46  |                therefore necessary for God to will that the world should
 3412   1, 46  |              world exists forasmuch as God wills it to exist, since
 3413   1, 46  |           world depends on the will of God, as on its cause. It is
 3414   1, 46  |       according to the active power of God; and also, according as
 3415   1, 46  |              not correct to say so ~of God Who produces form and matter
 3416   1, 46  |               8 Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 8: God is prior to the world by
 3417   1, 46  |                    Therefore, although God was from eternity the sufficient
 3418   1, 46  |            from the eternal action ~of God an eternal effect did not
 3419   1, 46  |          follow; but such an effect as God ~willed, an effect, to wit,
 3420   1, 46  |           proved demonstratively ~that God is the effective cause of
 3421   1, 46  |            that the world was made by ~God, it must therefore have
 3422   1, 46  |                kinds of craftsmen. But God acts by ~intellect: therefore
 3423   1, 46  |                nothing can be equal to God. But if ~the world had always
 3424   1, 46  |             been, it would be equal to God in duration. ~Therefore
 3425   1, 46  |             not" (Heb. 11:1). But that God is ~the Creator of the world:
 3426   1, 46  |              we say, "I believe in one God," etc. And again, Gregory
 3427   1, 46  |             saying, "In the ~beginning God created heaven and earth":
 3428   1, 46  |               by will. For the will of God cannot be investigated by ~
 3429   1, 46  |             regards those things which God must will of necessity; ~
 3430   1, 46  |              of the world was not from God, which is an ~intolerable
 3431   1, 46  |              eternal, although made by God. For ~they hold that the
 3432   1, 46  |             not follow necessarily ~if God is the active cause of the
 3433   1, 46  |             that the world was made by God from nothing, not that it
 3434   1, 46  |              it would not be ~equal to God in eternity, as Boethius
 3435   1, 46  |                1:1): "In the beginning God created ~heaven and earth."~
 3436   1, 46  |             Genesis, "In the beginning God created ~heaven and earth,"
 3437   1, 46  |              it may be understood that God made all things in the ~
 3438   1, 46  |       corporeal things were created by God through the medium ~of spiritual
 3439   1, 46  |              i.e. before all things - "God created heaven and earth." ~
 3440   1, 47  |        distinction of things come from God?~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[47] A[
 3441   1, 47  |             things does ~not come from God. For one naturally always
 3442   1, 47  |        naturally always makes one. But God is ~supremely one, as appears
 3443   1, 47  |       assimilated to its exemplar. But God is the exemplar cause of
 3444   1, 47  |                  A[3]). ~Therefore, as God is one, His effect is one
 3445   1, 47  |                Therefore the effect of God is but one.~Aquin.: SMT
 3446   1, 47  |               is said (Gn. 1:4,7) that God "divided the light from
 3447   1, 47  |            multitude of things is from God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[47] A[
 3448   1, 47  |           matter itself was created by God. Hence we must ~reduce whatever
 3449   1, 47  |                Avicenna, who said that God by understanding Himself,
 3450   1, 47  |              that to create belongs to God alone, and hence ~what can
 3451   1, 47  |                creation is produced by God alone - viz. all ~those
 3452   1, 47  |                the first agent, who is God. For He brought things into ~
 3453   1, 47  |                 For goodness, which in God ~is simple and uniform,
 3454   1, 47  |                distinct by the word of God, ~which is the concept of
 3455   1, 47  |                we read in Gn. ~1:3,4: "God said: Be light made . . .
 3456   1, 47  |               voluntary agent, such as God is, as was shown above (
 3457   1, 47  |          therefore, it is not against ~God's unity and simplicity to
 3458   1, 47  |             means to its end, which is God; and hence the ~multiplication
 3459   1, 47  |           inequality of things is from God?~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[47] A[
 3460   1, 47  |       inequality of things is not from God. For ~it belongs to the
 3461   1, 47  |               Therefore, it belongs to God, Who ~is the Best, to make
 3462   1, 47  |              Metaph. v, text 20). ~But God is one. Therefore, He has
 3463   1, 47  |                to unequal ~things. But God is just in all His works.
 3464   1, 47  |           things were created equal by God. ~For he asserted that God
 3465   1, 47  |             God. ~For he asserted that God first created only the rational
 3466   1, 47  |       free-will, some being ~turned to God more and some less, and
 3467   1, 47  |             and others less ~away from God. And so those rational creatures
 3468   1, 47  |         creatures which were turned to God ~by free-will, were promoted
 3469   1, 47  |              who were turned away from God were bound ~down to bodies
 3470   1, 47  |              effect of the goodness of God as communicated to ~creatures,
 3471   1, 47  |             contrary to what is said: "God saw all the things that
 3472   1, 47  |             said that as the wisdom of God is the cause of the ~distinction
 3473   1, 47  |               an eye. Thus, therefore, God also ~made the universe
 3474   1, 47  |                said of each creature, "God ~saw the light that it was
 3475   1, 47  |              all together it is said, "God saw all the things that ~
 3476   1, 47  |              is unfitting to say that ~God has created things without
 3477   1, 47  |                Q[25], A[2]). Therefore God has produced many worlds.~
 3478   1, 47  |                best and much more does God. But it ~is better for there
 3479   1, 47  |               worlds have been made by God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[47] A[
 3480   1, 47  |             order of things created by God shows the unity ~of the
 3481   1, 47  |              whatever things come from God, ~have relation of order
 3482   1, 47  |            order to each other, and to God Himself, as shown above ~(
 3483   1, 47  |             xii, text 52) the unity of God governing all; and Plato (
 3484   1, 48  |               is the greater good. But God makes always what is best,
 3485   1, 48  |            Therefore in things made by God there is no evil.~Aquin.:
 3486   1, 48  |               3 Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 3: God and nature and any other
 3487   1, 48  |                 and do sometimes fail, God not ~preventing this. This
 3488   1, 48  |          Augustine says (Enchir. 11), "God is so powerful ~that He
 3489   1, 48  |                would be ~taken away if God permitted no evil to exist;
 3490   1, 48  |             interposed between ~us and God, according to Is. 59:2: "
 3491   1, 48  |                divided between us and ~God." Yet the aforesaid aptitude
 3492   1, 48  |               forfeiting the vision of God; whereas the evil of fault
 3493   1, 48  |               taken from the fact that God is the author of ~the evil
 3494   1, 48  |              deprived of the vision of God, the creature ~forfeits
 3495   1, 49  |              Whether the supreme good, God, is the cause of evil?~(
 3496   1, 49  |              Whether the supreme good, God, is the cause of evil?~Aquin.:
 3497   1, 49  |            seem that the supreme good, God, is the cause of evil. ~
 3498   1, 49  |            Lord, and there is no other God, ~forming the light, and
 3499   1, 49  |               A[1]). ~Therefore, since God is the cause of every good,
 3500   1, 49  |                also every evil is from God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[49] A[