Part, Question

 3501   1, 49  |              the ship is the same. But God is the ~cause of the safety
 3502   1, 49  |                QQ. 83, qu. 21), that, "God is not the ~author of evil
 3503   1, 49  |           defect of the ~agent. But in God there is no defect, but
 3504   1, 49  |               agent, is not reduced to God ~as to its cause. ~Aquin.:
 3505   1, 49  |             some things is reduced ~to God as the cause. And this appears
 3506   1, 49  |          manifest that ~the form which God chiefly intends in things
 3507   1, 49  |              sometimes, fail. And thus God, by causing in ~things the
 3508   1, 49  |                 But when we read that "God hath not ~made death" (Wis.
 3509   1, 49  |               1:13), the sense is that God does not will death for ~
 3510   1, 49  |                out to ~sinners. And so God is the author of the evil
 3511   1, 49  |              bad action, is reduced to God as the cause; ~whereas whatever
 3512   1, 49  |              is in it is not caused by God, but by the ~deficient secondary
 3513   1, 49  |                the ship ~requires; but God does not fail in doing what
 3514   1, 50  |                 and not in relation to God, is ~not absolutely incorporeal.
 3515   1, 50  |           regards us; but ~compared to God it is corporeal and material.
 3516   1, 50  |              corporeal. Now angels are God's creatures, ~as appears
 3517   1, 50  |                principally intended by God in creatures is good, and
 3518   1, 50  |           consists in ~assimilation to God Himself. And the perfect
 3519   1, 50  |               as heat makes heat. Now, God ~produces the creature by
 3520   1, 50  |                substances rank between God and corporeal ~creatures.
 3521   1, 50  |               that angels, compared to God, are material and corporeal,
 3522   1, 50  |               act, for this belongs to God alone. Therefore an angel ~
 3523   1, 50  |            this way also it apprehends God ~(Q[3]).~Aquin.: SMT FP
 3524   1, 50  |                the runner runs. But in God "existence" and "what is"
 3525   1, 50  |              above (Q[3], A[4]). Hence God alone is pure ~act.~Aquin.:
 3526   1, 50  |           nature approaches nearest to God. Therefore since God ~is
 3527   1, 50  |                to God. Therefore since God ~is supremely one, it seems
 3528   1, 50  |         natural things, which manifest God's almighty ~power. It is,
 3529   1, 50  |        perfection of the universe that God ~chiefly intends in the
 3530   1, 50  |             excess are they created by God. Now, as in ~bodies such
 3531   1, 50  |          nature being the nighest unto God, it must ~needs have least
 3532   1, 50  |               the ~angels were made by God, it would appear that they
 3533   1, 50  |          nothing, unless preserved by ~God, it is not to be gathered
 3534   1, 50  |              angels is dependent ~upon God as its cause. For a thing
 3535   1, 50  |        corruptible not merely ~because God can reduce it to non-existence,
 3536   1, 51  |                 Peri Archon i): "It is God's attribute alone - that
 3537   1, 51  |              us assign incorporeity to God alone even as ~we do immortality,
 3538   1, 51  |               that some even held that God was the soul of the ~world,
 3539   1, 51  |              Faith, which asserts that God is exalted above all things, ~
 3540   1, 51  |        refusing to say such a thing of God, followed the above ~opinion
 3541   1, 51  |         speaking; ~hence it belongs to God, as is said (1 Kgs. 2:6): "
 3542   1, 51  |            indication that the Word of God would take a human body; ~
 3543   1, 51  |                 one whereby the Son of God appeared in the flesh.~Aquin.:
 3544   1, 51  |              previously adored them as God ~(Gn. 18). Therefore the
 3545   1, 51  |           related: "After the sons of ~God went in to the daughters
 3546   1, 51  |               which cannot be ~said of God. Accordingly, although God
 3547   1, 51  |             God. Accordingly, although God is not moved when the things
 3548   1, 51  |            nevertheless, he worshipped God, as God is wont to be in
 3549   1, 51  |    nevertheless, he worshipped God, as God is wont to be in the prophets,
 3550   1, 51  |               is folly to deny it. But God's ~holy angels could not
 3551   1, 51  |          deluge. Hence by ~the sons of God are to be understood the
 3552   1, 52  |                 infinite: consequently God through His power touches
 3553   1, 52  |               compared as one thing to God's universal power, so is
 3554   1, 52  |              body, to an angel, and to God. For a body is in a place ~
 3555   1, 52  |              he is not in another. But God is neither circumscriptively ~
 3556   1, 54  |        substance, ~for this belongs to God only, as is evident from
 3557   1, 54  |           opposed to potentiality. But God alone is ~pure act. Hence
 3558   1, 54  |                pure act. Hence only in God is His substance the same
 3559   1, 54  |         neither be distinguished from ~God's substance, which is His
 3560   1, 54  |              one in genus and species; God's being alone is ~simply
 3561   1, 54  |               Confess. xii) says, that God made the angelic ~nature "
 3562   1, 54  |             matter, as being closer to God. But primary matter is its ~
 3563   1, 54  |               potentiality is to ~act. God alone is such a form: and
 3564   1, 55  |               says (Div. Nom. iv) that God ~"enfolds the whole in the
 3565   1, 55  |            things in Itself. Therefore God alone knows all things by ~
 3566   1, 55  |              to their own formality in God's essence, as in ~the first
 3567   1, 55  |          common to anything. Therefore God has a proper knowledge of
 3568   1, 55  |             whereby they received from God the species of things known, ~
 3569   1, 55  |               from creatures, but from God, Who is the cause of ~creatures,
 3570   1, 55  |           fashioned, is in the Word of God before the ~creature which
 3571   1, 55  |               unto the first, which is God. ~Now in God the whole plenitude
 3572   1, 55  |           first, which is God. ~Now in God the whole plenitude of intellectual
 3573   1, 55  |               Divine essence, by which God knows all ~things. This
 3574   1, 55  |                know by many forms what God knows by one, and by ~so
 3575   1, 55  |              things are in the Word of God; or at least in the order
 3576   1, 56  |                 3) Does the angel know God by his own natural principles?~
 3577   1, 56  |               it would follow that, if God were now ~to create another
 3578   1, 56  |                eternity in the Word of God, came forth from Him in
 3579   1, 56  |              mind in such a way, ~that God impressed upon the angelic
 3580   1, 56  |              being. Now in the Word of God from ~eternity there existed
 3581   1, 56  |               impressed by the Word of God; yet so that in every angel ~
 3582   1, 56  |               4 Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 4: God made every creature proportionate
 3583   1, 56  |      determined to make. Therefore had God resolved to make more angels
 3584   1, 56  |                foundations. Hence, for God to add a ~new creature to
 3585   1, 56  |               1~Whether an angle knows God by his own natural principles?~
 3586   1, 56  |            that the angels cannot know God by their natural ~principles.
 3587   1, 56  |                says (Div. Nom. i) that God "by His ~incomprehensible
 3588   1, 56  |              Para. 1/1~OBJ 2: Further, God is infinitely above the
 3589   1, 56  |             that an ~angel cannot know God by his natural principles.~
 3590   1, 56  |              is a twofold knowledge of God; the one, whereby He is
 3591   1, 56  |              derive their knowledge of God from sensible things, as ~
 3592   1, 56  |       Therefore the angels cannot know God ~by their natural powers.~
 3593   1, 56  |            than men. Yet men ~can know God through their natural principles;
 3594   1, 56  |               1:19: ~"what is known of God is manifest in them." Therefore
 3595   1, 56  |             can have some knowledge of God by their own ~principles.
 3596   1, 56  |                class that knowledge of God is likened by which He is ~
 3597   1, 56  |              knowledge whereby we know God while we are ~on earth,
 3598   1, 56  |                The invisible things of God are clearly seen, being
 3599   1, 56  |                too, we are said to see God in a mirror. ~But the knowledge,
 3600   1, 56  |            principles the angel ~knows God, stands midway between these
 3601   1, 56  |         abstracted from it. ~For since God's image is impressed on
 3602   1, 56  |               essence, the angel knows God in as much as he is the
 3603   1, 56  |             much as he is the image of God. Yet he ~does not behold
 3604   1, 56  |                Yet he ~does not behold God's essence; because no created
 3605   1, 56  |           expressly state. In this way God is not known by any created ~
 3606   1, 56  |                infinitely ~remote from God, it follows that he cannot
 3607   1, 56  |         comprehend Him; nor can he see God's essence through his own
 3608   1, 56  |                Him at all: because, as God is ~infinitely remote from
 3609   1, 56  |                 so the knowledge which God has of ~Himself is infinitely
 3610   1, 56  |        knowledge which an angel has of God is midway between ~these
 3611   1, 57  |              simplicity. Therefore, in God, as in the highest source
 3612   1, 57  |             the ~angels are nearest to God, and resemble Him most;
 3613   1, 57  |             and less perfectly than in God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[57] A[
 3614   1, 57  |             own ~nature. Therefore, as God knows material things by
 3615   1, 57  |              us, should be unknown ~to God (De Anima i, text. 80; Metaph.
 3616   1, 57  |                 as things proceed from God in order that they may ~
 3617   1, 57  |                there comes forth ~from God not only whatever belongs
 3618   1, 57  |            which He causes all things, God is the ~likeness of all
 3619   1, 57  |                in this way there is in God a ~resemblance of all things,
 3620   1, 57  |                 in this way belongs to God alone; and not merely to
 3621   1, 57  |                 and chance events; for God sees all things in His eternity,
 3622   1, 57  |               all time. And therefore ~God's one glance is cast over
 3623   1, 57  |               before when dealing with God's knowledge (Q[14], A[13]).
 3624   1, 57  |          intellect, fall far short of ~God's eternity; hence the future
 3625   1, 57  |                in their causes, or by ~God's revelation. The angels
 3626   1, 57  |               Gen. ad lit. viii) that "God moves the spiritual creature ~
 3627   1, 57  |            contrary, What is proper to God does not belong to the angels. ~
 3628   1, 57  |           angels. ~But it is proper to God to read the secrets of hearts,
 3629   1, 57  |              are in the will: and thus God alone can know the ~thoughts
 3630   1, 57  |        rational creature is subject to God only, and He alone can ~
 3631   1, 57  |              on the will, are known to God ~alone. Now it is evident
 3632   1, 57  |             This mystery was hidden in God through the ages, yet so ~
 3633   1, 57  |          wisdom. But the angels behold God's wisdom, which is His ~
 3634   1, 57  |               Amos 3:7): "For the Lord God doth nothing without ~revealing
 3635   1, 57  |           depend upon the pure will of God: ~and if an angel cannot
 3636   1, 57  |            what depends ~entirely upon God's will. The Apostle reasons
 3637   1, 57  |                things also that are of God no man knoweth but the Spirit
 3638   1, 57  |             knoweth but the Spirit of ~God."~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[57] A[
 3639   1, 57  |              them equally; but just as God wills them to learn by ~
 3640   1, 57  |               1 Cor. 2:10): "But to us God hath ~revealed them through
 3641   1, 57  |            mysteries ~in the vision of God, which mysteries they communicate
 3642   1, 57  |              the angels. And ~although God revealed in general to the
 3643   1, 58  |               to desire the ~vision of God with regard to fresh revelations,
 3644   1, 58  |               which they receive from ~God to fit them for the tasks
 3645   1, 58  |               what may be dependent on God's supernatural ~ordinance.
 3646   1, 58  |                may judge Him not to be God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[58] A[
 3647   1, 58  |        interprets the six days wherein God made all ~things, not as
 3648   1, 58  |             this back to the praise of God, in Whom, as in ~their principle,
 3649   1, 58  |                as the angels refer to ~God's praise their knowledge
 3650   1, 58  |         referred to their knowledge of God Himself, Who has ~neither
 3651   1, 58  |              they are always beholding God and things in God, ~according
 3652   1, 58  |            beholding God and things in God, ~according to Mt. 18:10.
 3653   1, 58  |                as it is in the Word of God, and as it is in its own
 3654   1, 58  |              the things themselves; as God by contemplating ~Himself
 3655   1, 59  |          understanding, and ~will. But God's image is found not only
 3656   1, 59  |             also is capable of knowing God. Therefore ~there is will
 3657   1, 59  |              wills; that is to say, in God, Who wills nothing ~beyond
 3658   1, 59  |            creature. It is not so with God, ~for He has within Himself
 3659   1, 59  |                sometimes attributed to God; - on account of the ~resemblance
 3660   1, 60  |                Whether the angel loves God more than self with natural
 3661   1, 60  |            angel by natural love loves God more than he loves himself?~
 3662   1, 60  |                the angel does not love God by natural love ~more than
 3663   1, 60  |          natural love, the angel loves God less ~than self, or even
 3664   1, 60  |               the angel ~does not love God more than self with natural
 3665   1, 60  |                the angel does not love God ~more than himself from
 3666   1, 60  |              proper to charity to love God more than self. But ~to
 3667   1, 60  |       Therefore the angels do not love God more than ~themselves by
 3668   1, 60  |              endures. But the love of ~God more than self does not
 3669   1, 60  |              self unto the contempt of God has made the earthly city; ~
 3670   1, 60  |           earthly city; ~while love of God unto the contempt of self
 3671   1, 60  |              it is not natural to love God more than self.~Aquin.:
 3672   1, 60  |              But the precept of loving God more than self is a moral
 3673   1, 60  |           natural love the angel loves God more than himself.~Aquin.:
 3674   1, 60  |        maintained that an angel loves ~God more than himself with natural
 3675   1, 60  |              desires a greater good to God than to himself; ~because
 3676   1, 60  |            because he naturally wishes God to be God, while as for
 3677   1, 60  |             naturally wishes God to be God, while as for himself, he
 3678   1, 60  |              himself more than he does God, because he naturally loves ~
 3679   1, 60  |        naturally loves ~himself before God, and with greater intensity.~
 3680   1, 60  |                3/3~Consequently, since God is the universal good, and
 3681   1, 60  |             being naturally belongs to God, it follows that from ~natural
 3682   1, 60  |               angel and man alike love God before themselves and with
 3683   1, 60  |              them loved self more than God, it ~would follow that natural
 3684   1, 60  |              own ~individual good. Now God is not only the good of
 3685   1, 60  |               own way naturally ~loves God more than itself.~Aquin.:
 3686   1, 60  |                2: When it is said that God is loved by an angel "in
 3687   1, 60  |                does not naturally love God for his own good, ~but for
 3688   1, 60  |             for his own good, ~but for God's sake. If it denotes the
 3689   1, 60  |               nature of anyone to love God, ~except from this - that
 3690   1, 60  |        dependent on that good which is God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[60] A[
 3691   1, 60  |               4 Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 4: God, in so far as He is the
 3692   1, 60  |                 1/1~Reply OBJ 5: Since God's substance and universal
 3693   1, 60  |               the same, all who behold God's essence are by the same
 3694   1, 60  |              way they are said to hate God; yet ~nevertheless, so far
 3695   1, 60  |           every thing ~naturally loves God more than itself.~
 3696   1, 61  |            treats of things created by God. But ~there is no mention
 3697   1, 61  |            angels were not created by ~God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[61] A[
 3698   1, 61  |           everything existing, ~except God, were made by God. God alone
 3699   1, 61  |               except God, were made by God. God alone is His own existence;
 3700   1, 61  |          except God, were made by God. God alone is His own existence;
 3701   1, 61  |             From this it is clear that God alone exists of His ~own
 3702   1, 61  |                necessity, were made by God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[61] A[
 3703   1, 61  |              the angel was produced by God from eternity?~Aquin.: SMT
 3704   1, 61  |              the angel was produced by God from eternity. ~For God
 3705   1, 61  |                God from eternity. ~For God is the cause of the angel
 3706   1, 61  |               the ~angels were made by God. Therefore at one time the
 3707   1, 61  |               Para. 1/1~I answer that, God alone, Father, Son and Holy
 3708   1, 61  |             rejected as heretical. For God so produced creatures that
 3709   1, 61  |               1 Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 1: God's being is His will. So
 3710   1, 61  |             His will. So the fact that God produced the ~angels and
 3711   1, 61  |              19], A[3]; Q[46], A[1]~), God's will does not act by necessity
 3712   1, 61  |                lit. viii, 20,21) that "God moves the spiritual ~creature
 3713   1, 61  |               bestowed upon them when ~God Himself willed it. Consequently
 3714   1, 61  |               the ~other orders served God?" Damascene also says (De
 3715   1, 61  |                1:1): "In the beginning God created ~heaven and earth."
 3716   1, 61  |    Consequently ~it is improbable that God, Whose "works are perfect,"
 3717   1, 61  |               2 Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 2: God is not a part of, but far
 3718   1, 61  |              Gn. 1, "In the ~beginning God created heaven and earth,"
 3719   1, 61  |             the text "In the beginning God ~created heaven and earth,"
 3720   1, 61  |              heaven is the ~Lord's thy God, and the heaven of heaven."~
 3721   1, 61  |             their being ~made; because God could have created them
 3722   1, 61  |                equal in some manner to God, as will ~appear later on (
 3723   1, 62  |              grace in order to turn to God?~(3) Were they created in
 3724   1, 62  |                  Therefore neither did God create the angelic nature
 3725   1, 62  |           beatitude, whereby it enjoys God. Therefore it was created
 3726   1, 62  |       intelligible object; and that is God. Above this happiness there
 3727   1, 62  |                 whereby "we shall ~see God as He is." This is beyond
 3728   1, 62  |              grace in order to turn to God?~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[62] A[
 3729   1, 62  |              grace in order to turn to God. For, we have no need of
 3730   1, 62  |               angel naturally turns to God: because he loves God ~naturally,
 3731   1, 62  |               to God: because he loves God ~naturally, as is clear
 3732   1, 62  |              grace in order to turn to God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[62] A[
 3733   1, 62  |               for the angel to turn to God; because there was ~no obstacle
 3734   1, 62  |              grace in order to turn to God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[62] A[
 3735   1, 62  |            Further, to turn oneself to God is to dispose oneself for
 3736   1, 62  |             not ~need grace to turn to God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[62] A[
 3737   1, 62  |         contrary, It was by turning to God that the angel reached to ~
 3738   1, 62  |              grace in order to turn to God, it ~would follow that he
 3739   1, 62  |              Rm. ~6:23): "The grace of God is life everlasting."~Aquin.:
 3740   1, 62  |             grace in order to turn to ~God, as the object of beatitude.
 3741   1, 62  |               when we were treating of God's ~knowledge, that to see
 3742   1, 62  |                 knowledge, that to see God in His essence, wherein
 3743   1, 62  |           Reply OBJ 1: The angel loves God naturally, so far as God
 3744   1, 62  |               God naturally, so far as God is the author ~of his natural
 3745   1, 62  |             are speaking of turning to God, so far ~as God bestows
 3746   1, 62  |             turning to God, so far ~as God bestows beatitude by the
 3747   1, 62  |           movement of the will towards God can be termed a ~conversion
 3748   1, 62  |                termed a ~conversion to God. And so there is a threefold
 3749   1, 62  |              is a threefold turning to God. The first is by the perfect
 3750   1, 62  |              is by the perfect love of God; this belongs to the creature
 3751   1, 62  |            enjoying the ~possession of God; and for such conversion,
 3752   1, 62  |         required. ~The next turning to God is that which merits beatitude;
 3753   1, 62  |        required; but the operation of ~God, Who draws the soul towards
 3754   1, 62  |              rational creature towards God. If, ~therefore, the angel
 3755   1, 62  |            ever have ~turned away from God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[62] A[
 3756   1, 62  |           produced by the operation of God, were created in the first
 3757   1, 62  |               is ~called the "seed" of God. As, then, in Augustine'
 3758   1, 62  |               for the angel to turn to God. Therefore he did not thereby ~
 3759   1, 62  |           beatitude is natural only to God, because ~existence and
 3760   1, 62  |             the same act of turning to God, so ~far as it comes of
 3761   1, 62  |              natural movement ~towards God; but by the movement of
 3762   1, 62  |              For grace is bestowed of ~God's absolute will. Therefore
 3763   1, 62  |             degree of grace depends on God's will, ~and not on the
 3764   1, 62  |           First of all, on the part of God, Who, in the order of His ~
 3765   1, 62  |             angelic nature was made by God for attaining grace and
 3766   1, 62  |                house. So it seems that God destined those angels for
 3767   1, 62  |                nature, were ~turned to God more mightily and efficaciously.
 3768   1, 62  |        earnestness of their turning to God. Hence it appears that the
 3769   1, 62  |               OBJ 1: As grace comes of God's will alone, so likewise
 3770   1, 62  |            nature of the angel: and as God's will ordained nature for
 3771   1, 62  |             nature is immediately from God. Accordingly it seems ~rather
 3772   1, 62  |              manner, an angel can know God by His essence, and this
 3773   1, 62  |              the same time he can know God by his own ~essence, which
 3774   1, 62  |           beatitude consists in seeing God through His essence. Now, ~
 3775   1, 62  |             through His essence. Now, ~God's essence is the very essence
 3776   1, 62  |      Consequently the angel ~beholding God is disposed towards God
 3777   1, 62  |                God is disposed towards God in the same way as anyone
 3778   1, 62  |                anyone else not ~seeing God is to the common form of
 3779   1, 62  |              except as aiming towards ~God. Now whoever wills or acts
 3780   1, 62  |              opposites ~with regard to God Himself, Whom they see to
 3781   1, 62  |            things their aim is towards God, which ever ~alternative
 3782   1, 62  |                Doctr. Christ. i) that "God makes use ~of us for our
 3783   1, 62  |              consists in the vision of God, ~as is clear from what
 3784   1, 62  |               it needs to be ~moved by God towards its beatitude. Therefore
 3785   1, 62  |               cannot, in the vision of God, consist ~precisely in that
 3786   1, 62  |    comprehension, ~for this belongs to God only; as is evident from
 3787   1, 62  |            required for ~comprehending God, while the creature's efficacy
 3788   1, 62  |          rational creature understands God ~more or less clearly according
 3789   1, 62  |         rational creature is so led by God to the end of its ~beatitude,
 3790   1, 62  |              its ~beatitude, that from God's predestination it is brought
 3791   1, 62  |               joy before the angels of God upon one sinner doing penance."
 3792   1, 63  |               movement of love towards God. ~Therefore such love cannot
 3793   1, 63  |               from them. But in loving God ~they do not sin. Consequently
 3794   1, 63  |               will is the sole rule of God's act, because it is not
 3795   1, 63  |               for the angel to turn to God by the movement ~of love,
 3796   1, 63  |        movement ~of love, according as God is the principle of his
 3797   1, 63  |                But for ~him to turn to God as the object of supernatural
 3798   1, 63  |              against the ~devil's will God makes use of man for the
 3799   1, 63  |             the devil desired to be as God?~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[63] A[
 3800   1, 63  |                did not desire to be as God. For ~what does not fall
 3801   1, 63  |             But for any creature to be God's equal does not fall under ~
 3802   1, 63  |              could not desire to be as God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[63] A[
 3803   1, 63  |                But ~to be likened unto God is the end to which every
 3804   1, 63  |             the angel desired to be as God, not by equality, ~but by
 3805   1, 63  |                an angel, still less of God; because choice regards
 3806   1, 63  |               sin by desiring to be as God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[63] A[
 3807   1, 63  |                 he wished to be called God."~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[63] A[
 3808   1, 63  |             sinned by seeking to be as God. ~But this can be understood
 3809   1, 63  |                could not seek to be as God in the first way; because
 3810   1, 63  |              it is quite ~evident that God surpasses the angels, not
 3811   1, 63  |            more to covet equality with God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[63] A[
 3812   1, 63  |                 2/4~To desire to be as God according to likeness can
 3813   1, 63  |               made to be likened ~unto God. And so, if anyone desire
 3814   1, 63  |               that he may obtain it of God. But he would sin were he
 3815   1, 63  |                desire ~to be like unto God even in the right way, as
 3816   1, 63  |                of his own, and not of ~God's power. In another way
 3817   1, 63  |             may desire to be like unto God in some ~respect which is
 3818   1, 63  |              earth, which is proper to God; in which desire there would
 3819   1, 63  |             the devil desired to be as God. Not that he ~desired to
 3820   1, 63  |                he ~desired to resemble God by being subject to no one
 3821   1, 63  |            holding its existence under God. But he desired resemblance ~
 3822   1, 63  |              desired resemblance ~with God in this respect - by desiring,
 3823   1, 63  |        beatitude, which is attained by God's ~grace. Or, if he desired
 3824   1, 63  |              last end that likeness of God which is ~bestowed by grace,
 3825   1, 63  |                assistance according to God's ordering. This ~harmonizes
 3826   1, 63  |              whereas this is proper to God alone.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[
 3827   1, 63  |      perversely wished to be like unto God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[63] A[
 3828   1, 63  |              the angels are created by God, so are men. But some ~men
 3829   1, 63  |               rapacious; ~yet they are God's creatures. Therefore,
 3830   1, 63  |                although the demons are God's creatures, they may be
 3831   1, 63  |              and when it is said ~that God said: "Be light made: and
 3832   1, 63  |                is written (Gn. 1:31): "God saw all the things that ~
 3833   1, 63  |           pleasures of the paradise of God," ~- consequently, this
 3834   1, 63  |                into existence, namely, God, ~cannot be the cause of
 3835   1, 63  |              be taken as ~according to God's foreknowledge. Hence Augustine
 3836   1, 63  |               that is in merit is from God; and consequently an angel ~
 3837   1, 63  |               4 Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 4: God did not distinguish between
 3838   1, 63  |               in the holy mountain ~of God." Now the order of the Cherubim
 3839   1, 63  |              Para. 1/1~OBJ 2: Further, God made intellectual nature
 3840   1, 63  |            more is he inclined towards God. Therefore so much the less
 3841   1, 63  |            less can he ~turn away from God by sinning. And so it seems
 3842   1, 63  |                creation is governed by God through the ~angels, as
 3843   1, 63  |                highest to stand before God. And in this sense Damascene ~
 3844   1, 63  |               those who are saved; for God knows beforehand the end
 3845   1, 63  |                creature was so made by God, that it ~lies within its
 3846   1, 63  |            higher angel rather than to God. Yet the sin of one angel ~
 3847   1, 63  |            subject to another ~against God, than to wish to be over
 3848   1, 63  |                be over another against God; because there ~is less
 3849   1, 63  |             the ardor of love and from God's ~indwelling, which are
 3850   1, 64  |                 the demons cannot know God, Who is most manifest of
 3851   1, 64  |              heart, ~whereby alone can God be seen. Therefore neither
 3852   1, 64  |             mystery of the ~kingdom of God, as Augustine says (Gen.
 3853   1, 64  |                 and ~produces love for God; which knowledge properly
 3854   1, 64  |              first substance, ~namely, God. But it is quite natural
 3855   1, 64  |             can of his own nature know God's ~substance. Yet on account
 3856   1, 64  |             have a higher knowledge of God than man can have. Such ~
 3857   1, 64  |               have. Such ~knowledge of God remains also in the demons.
 3858   1, 64  |          suffices for the knowledge of God which belongs to them ~from
 3859   1, 64  |               if it be not referred to God, as is the case with the
 3860   1, 64  |               that the darkness, which God separated from the light, "
 3861   1, 64  |              respecting the mystery of God's kingdom, which found its
 3862   1, 64  |                that He ~was the Son of God and the effect of His passion,
 3863   1, 64  |                1~OBJ 2: Further, since God's mercy is infinite, it
 3864   1, 64  |                of justice save through God's mercy. Therefore the ~
 3865   1, 64  |              Thou art, the holy one of God" (Mk. 1:24). ~"The demons"
 3866   1, 64  |               2 Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 2: God's mercy delivers from sin
 3867   1, 64  |           power ~over them who despise God's commandments, and he rejoices
 3868   1, 64  |              understood of the fear of God which restrains from ~sin.
 3869   1, 64  |            nature stand midway between God ~and men. Now the order
 3870   1, 65  |               words, "In the beginning God created heaven and earth";
 3871   1, 65  |           corporeal creatures are from God?~(2) Whether they were created
 3872   1, 65  |             were created on account of God's goodness?~(3) Whether
 3873   1, 65  |           Whether they were created by God through the medium of the
 3874   1, 65  |            angels or immediately from ~God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[65] A[
 3875   1, 65  |           corporeal creatures are from God?~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[65] A[
 3876   1, 65  |       corporeal creatures are not from God. For it ~is said (Eccles.
 3877   1, 65  |               that all the works which God hath ~made, continue for
 3878   1, 65  |                are eternal." Therefore God did not ~make visible bodies.~
 3879   1, 65  |                it is said (Gn. 1:31): "God saw all things that He had ~
 3880   1, 65  |                therefore, are not from God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[65] A[
 3881   1, 65  |               3: Further, what is from God does not withdraw us from
 3882   1, 65  |              does not withdraw us from God, but ~leads us to Him. But
 3883   1, 65  |             creatures withdraw us from God. Hence the ~Apostle (2 Cor.
 3884   1, 65  |                therefore, are not from God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[65] A[
 3885   1, 65  |               not ~created by the good God, but by an evil principle,
 3886   1, 65  |             Apostle (2 Cor. 4:4), "The god of this world ~hath blinded
 3887   1, 65  |                the devil is called the god of this world, not as having ~
 3888   1, 65  |              in the same sense, "Whose god is their belly" (Phil. 3:
 3889   1, 65  |                1: All the creatures of God in some respects continue
 3890   1, 65  |          nearer a creature ~approaches God, Who is immovable, the more
 3891   1, 65  |                do not withdraw us from God, but ~lead us to Him; for "
 3892   1, 65  |                the invisible things of God are clearly seen, being ~
 3893   1, 65  |                they ~withdraw men from God, it is the fault of those
 3894   1, 65  |             can thus withdraw us ~from God proves that they came from
 3895   1, 65  |            lead the foolish ~away from God except by the allurements
 3896   1, 65  |                were made on account of God's goodness?~Aquin.: SMT
 3897   1, 65  |                not made on account ~of God's goodness. For it is said (
 3898   1, 65  |               is said (Wis. 1:14) that God "created all ~things that
 3899   1, 65  |            sake, and not on account of God's goodness.~Aquin.: SMT
 3900   1, 65  |       creatures, and not on account of God's goodness. ~Aquin.: SMT
 3901   1, 65  |            except to the ~unequal. Now God is just: therefore inequality
 3902   1, 65  |              inequality not created by God must ~precede all inequality
 3903   1, 65  |             inequality not created by ~God can only arise from free-will,
 3904   1, 65  |       free-will, and not on account of God's ~goodness.~Aquin.: SMT
 3905   1, 65  |             were not made according to God's original purpose, but
 3906   1, 65  |                 For he maintained that God ~in the beginning made spiritual
 3907   1, 65  |               free-will some turned to God, and, ~according to the
 3908   1, 65  |               while others turned from God, and ~became bound to different
 3909   1, 65  |        corporeal creatures, subjoins, "God saw that ~it was good" (
 3910   1, 65  |              end being the fruition of God. So, ~therefore, in the
 3911   1, 65  |            parts, is ~ordained towards God as its end, inasmuch as
 3912   1, 65  |              goodness, to the glory of God. Reasonable ~creatures,
 3913   1, 65  |              special and higher manner God as their ~end, since they
 3914   1, 65  |         goodness. And, therefore, that God ~created all things, that
 3915   1, 65  |               being made on account of God's ~goodness.~Aquin.: SMT
 3916   1, 65  |                of the stones; even so, God from the beginning, to secure
 3917   1, 65  |             creatures were produced by God through the medium of ~the
 3918   1, 65  |             creatures were produced by God ~through the medium of the
 3919   1, 65  |                produced immediately by God, there would be no diversity ~
 3920   1, 65  |                be further removed from God than another. ~But this
 3921   1, 65  |              they are far removed from God (De Gen. et Corrup. ii, ~
 3922   1, 65  |                1:1): "In the beginning God created ~heaven and earth";
 3923   1, 65  |                produced immediately by God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[65] A[
 3924   1, 65  |               creatures proceeded from God by ~degrees, in such a way
 3925   1, 65  |             should be created, save by God alone.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[
 3926   1, 65  |             nothing can create ~except God alone, Who is the first
 3927   1, 65  |            were created immediately by God, Moses said: "In the ~beginning
 3928   1, 65  |               said: "In the ~beginning God created heaven and earth."~
 3929   1, 65  |               2 Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 2: God Himself, though one, has
 3930   1, 65  |              but rather ~that it obeys God thus." But corporeal matter
 3931   1, 65  |             from ~the angels, but from God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[65] A[
 3932   1, 65  |            modern times, ~who say that God indeed created all things,
 3933   1, 65  |             forms, must be referred to God as ~the first cause. But
 3934   1, 65  |        produced came ~immediately form God, whose bidding alone matter
 3935   1, 65  |             each work with the words, "God ~said, Let this thing be,"
 3936   1, 65  |             all ~things by the Word of God, from Whom, according to
 3937   1, 65  |              of ~things in the mind of God. Thus the Apostle says (
 3938   1, 65  |              was framed by the Word of God; that from ~invisible things
 3939   1, 66  |                imitates the working of God, as a ~secondary cause imitates
 3940   1, 66  |                part of ~substance. But God can effect that accident
 3941   1, 66  |        imperfection in the agent. ~But God is an agent absolutely perfect;
 3942   1, 66  |              Dt. ~32:4): "The works of God are perfect." Therefore
 3943   1, 66  |         formlessness precede form. But God produces being in act ~out
 3944   1, 66  |              not from want of power on God's part, ~but from His wisdom,
 3945   1, 66  |               words, "In the beginning God created heaven and earth."
 3946   1, 66  |               by the words, "Spirit of God," since spirit is another
 3947   1, 66  |                by the words "Spirit of God" ~Scripture usually means
 3948   1, 66  |             the will of the artificer, God, Whom he ~represents as
 3949   1, 66  |             passage, "In the beginning God ~created heaven and earth,"
 3950   1, 66  |               Basil ~is that otherwise God would seem to have made
 3951   1, 66  |             assert, when they call the God of the Old ~Testament the
 3952   1, 66  |              of the Old ~Testament the God of darkness. These reasons,
 3953   1, 66  |           night, for these began when "God divided the ~light from
 3954   1, 67  |             the ~intellectual names of God. But such names are used
 3955   1, 67  |               things which are said of God metaphorically.~Aquin.:
 3956   1, 67  |             heart, for they ~shall see God" (Mt. 5:8). And thus it
 3957   1, 67  |                read, "In the beginning God created heaven and earth," ~
 3958   1, 67  |               to adhere to the Word of God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[67] A[
 3959   1, 67  |          superfluous, whereas none of ~God's works have been made in
 3960   1, 67  |             the beginning ~but such as God foresaw would exist.~
 3961   1, 68  |             For it is said (Gn. 1:8): "God called the firmament heaven."
 3962   1, 68  |              words, "In the beginning ~God created heaven and earth."
 3963   1, 68  |              It is written (Gn. 1:6): "God said: let there be a ~firmament,"
 3964   1, 68  |               speaking of the works of God collectively, in the ~words, "
 3965   1, 68  |               words, "In the beginning God created heaven and earth,"
 3966   1, 68  |               words: "In the beginning God ~created heaven and earth,"
 3967   1, 68  |               is expressly said that ~"God called the firmament heaven";
 3968   1, 68  |         preceding verse it said ~that "God called the light day" (since
 3969   1, 68  |             useless there. But none of God's works are useless. Therefore
 3970   1, 68  |                is written (Gn. 1:7): "(God) divided the waters that ~
 3971   1, 68  |          business here ~to inquire how God has constituted the natures
 3972   1, 68  |               words, "In the beginning God created ~heaven and earth."
 3973   1, 68  |                make himself equal with God. Sometimes also spiritual ~
 3974   1, 69  |            been "made" in the ~words, "God said: Be light made," and "
 3975   1, 69  |               words, "In the beginning God created heaven and earth."
 3976   1, 69  |                  in the day that . . . God made the heaven and the
 3977   1, 69  |          follows. In these ~first days God created all things in their
 3978   1, 70  |          universe, or for the glory of God. Of ~these reasons only
 3979   1, 70  |              them, which the ~Lord thy God created for the service
 3980   1, 70  |               it is not unfitting that God made things imperfect, ~
 3981   1, 70  |               of ~stone, and neither a god nor even a living being."
 3982   1, 70  |          corporeal things are ruled by God ~through the spirit of life (
 3983   1, 71  |              principle was the Word of God, which produced animals ~
 3984   1, 71  |                are followed by these: "God created great whales," etc.~
 3985   1, 72  |                are more like man, whom God is recorded to ~have blessed,
 3986   1, 72  |               not to have been made by God at all, since ~He is the
 3987   1, 72  |              water, but immediately by God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[72] A[
 3988   1, 72  |              the image and likeness of God."~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[72] A[
 3989   1, 72  |           Reply OBJ 4: The blessing of God gives power to multiply
 3990   1, 73  |                2) About the resting of God;~(3) About the blessing
 3991   1, 73  |               But we do ~not read that God acted at all on the seventh
 3992   1, 73  |               from putrefaction. Also, God ~creates daily new souls.
 3993   1, 73  |                2): "On the seventh day God ended His ~work which He
 3994   1, 73  |               2 Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 2: God did act on the seventh day,
 3995   1, 73  |          consummation of movement. Now God might ~have made many other
 3996   1, 73  |             new was afterwards made by God, but all ~things subsequently
 3997   1, 73  |              side of Adam out of which God formed Eve; whilst ~others
 3998   1, 73  |                 Phil. 2:7), The Son of God "was made in the likeness
 3999   1, 73  |                Thes. Para. 1/1~Whether God rested on the seventh day
 4000   1, 73  |              OBJ 1: It would seem that God did not rest on the seventh