Part, Question

 4001   1, 73  |               until now, and I ~work." God, then, did not rest on the
 4002   1, 73  |              movement ~causes. But, as God produced His work without
 4003   1, 73  |                 should it be said that God rested on the seventh day
 4004   1, 73  |               His work; now the words "God created" or "made" ~this
 4005   1, 73  |               Therefore the resting of God cannot be ~explained as
 4006   1, 73  |                 It is said (Gn. 2:2): "God rested on the seventh day ~
 4007   1, 73  |          desire. Now, in ~either sense God is said to have rested on
 4008   1, 73  |           Augustine, is the meaning of God's resting ~from His works
 4009   1, 73  |               1 Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 1: God indeed "worketh until now"
 4010   1, 73  |               1/1~Reply OBJ 3: Even as God rests in Himself alone and
 4011   1, 73  |              lies in the enjoyment of ~God. Thus, also, He makes us
 4012   1, 73  |               unreasonable to say that God rested in ~giving rest to
 4013   1, 73  |              been avoided. But whether God ~works or ceases from work
 4014   1, 73  |             days, ~therefore, in which God produced creatures deserved
 4015   1, 73  |                each work it was said, "God saw that it was good." Therefore
 4016   1, 73  |              It is written (Gn. 2:3), "God blessed the seventh day ~
 4017   1, 73  |            that, As said above (A[2]), God's rest on the seventh day
 4018   1, 73  |       multiplication; for which reason God said to the creatures ~which
 4019   1, 73  |          increase is effected ~through God's Providence over His creatures,
 4020   1, 73  |        creature consists in resting in God. For this reason things ~
 4021   1, 73  |            reason things ~dedicated to God are said to be sanctified.~
 4022   1, 73  |                 anything can accrue to God, or be taken from Him, but
 4023   1, 73  |                and by their resting in God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[73] A[
 4024   1, 73  |            knowledge that in ~it alone God finds His own rest, and
 4025   1, 74  |           seventh - namely, that on it God rested in ~Himself from
 4026   1, 74  |             Therefore the day in which God made "the heaven and the
 4027   1, 74  |            Further, on the seventh day God ceased from all new works.
 4028   1, 74  |               work ascribed to one day God perfected in an ~instant,
 4029   1, 74  |               each work are the words (God) "said . . . . and it was ~. . .
 4030   1, 74  |                these days, inasmuch as God wrought in some ~one of
 4031   1, 74  |                these days, inasmuch as God wrought nothing in the universe ~
 4032   1, 74  |             OBJ 1: On the day on which God created the heaven and the
 4033   1, 74  |               2 Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 2: God created all things together
 4034   1, 74  |              OBJ 3: On the seventh day God ceased from making new things,
 4035   1, 74  |                from a want of power on God's part, as requiring time
 4036   1, 74  |               were made by the Word of God, so were the heaven and
 4037   1, 74  |               been made of the Word of God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[74] A[
 4038   1, 74  |               the water was created by God, yet its creation is not ~
 4039   1, 74  |                it is said (Gn. 1:31): "God saw all the things that
 4040   1, 74  |              been said of ~each work, "God saw that it was good." The
 4041   1, 74  |                 Further, the Spirit of God is God Himself. But it does
 4042   1, 74  |          Further, the Spirit of God is God Himself. But it does not
 4043   1, 74  |                 But it does not befit ~God to move and to occupy place.
 4044   1, 74  |              the words, "The Spirit of God ~moved over the waters,"
 4045   1, 74  |              Therefore ~to the words, "God said: Let the firmament
 4046   1, 74  |                is superfluous to add, "God made the firmament." And
 4047   1, 74  |            creature is by the word of ~God; and for this reason in
 4048   1, 74  |               words, "In the beginning God created," since by creation
 4049   1, 74  |              Hexaem.) that the words, "God said," signify a Divine
 4050   1, 74  |              correspond to the words, "God saw that it was good," used
 4051   1, 74  |             lit. i, 8) which came from God's love of His creatures,
 4052   1, 74  |            permanently, "the Spirit of God," it is said, "moved over
 4053   1, 74  |              his work. And the words, "God saw that it was ~good,"
 4054   1, 74  |          certain satisfaction taken by God in His works, as of an ~
 4055   1, 74  |             the Father is indicated by God the ~Creator, the Person
 4056   1, 74  |             the Father is indicated by God that ~speaks, and the Person
 4057   1, 74  |                satisfaction with which God saw that ~what was made
 4058   1, 74  |               good. And if the words, "God saw that it was good," are ~
 4059   1, 74  |               throughout attributed to God. But according to the holy
 4060   1, 74  |                should be supposed that God loved of necessity the works ~
 4061   1, 74  |             enter into the kingdom ~of God."~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[74] A[
 4062   1, 74  |                      be made," denote ~God's command, and the words, "
 4063   1, 74  |               remove that error, that ~God Himself made them. Hence,
 4064   1, 74  |                was ~done," some act of God is expressed by some such
 4065   1, 75  |                the First Act, which is God; by participation of ~Whom,
 4066   1, 75  |                 since it is created by God. Therefore ~the soul has
 4067   1, 75  |          infinite. But this belongs to God alone. Therefore the soul
 4068   1, 75  |             the ~participator; so that God alone, Who is His own existence,
 4069   1, 75  |             human ~soul is produced by God. To signify this it is written
 4070   1, 75  |              and the ~spirit return to God Who gave it." Again the
 4071   1, 76  |               however, it be said that God ~could avoid this, we answer
 4072   1, 76  |               we do ~not consider what God might do; but what is suitable
 4073   1, 76  |             says (Gen. ad lit. ii, 1). God, however, provided in ~this
 4074   1, 77  |         substance; for this belongs to God alone, whose operation is
 4075   1, 77  |        statement quoted is verified in God, Who is the Pure Act; in
 4076   1, 77  |             nearest to the likeness of God. But in ~God there is one
 4077   1, 77  |               likeness of God. But in ~God there is one simple power:
 4078   1, 77  |               powers is sufficient. In God there is no power or action
 4079   1, 37  |          answer that, The name Love in God can be taken essentially
 4080   1, 37  |           there are two processions in God, one by way of the intellect,
 4081   1, 37  |           speak," and "word." Hence in God, "to understand" is applied
 4082   1, 37  |              by word, or loved. But in God, in whom ~there is nothing
 4083   1, 37  |                 must say that since in God "to love" is taken in two
 4084   1, 37  |              taken only essentially in God; ~therefore we cannot say
 4085   1, 38  |               imports a distinction in God. But the name of "Gift"
 4086   1, 38  |                import a distinction in God; for Augustine says (De
 4087   1, 38  |              Holy Ghost is so given as God's Gift, that He also gives ~
 4088   1, 38  |              He also gives ~Himself as God." Therefore "Gift" is not
 4089   1, 38  |              thus ~seems to be said of God in time. But personal names
 4090   1, 38  |             personal names are said of God from ~eternity; as "Father,"
 4091   1, 38  |            rational creature united to God. Other ~creatures can be
 4092   1, 38  |      proceeding, so as freely to ~know God truly and to love God rightly.
 4093   1, 38  |             know God truly and to love God rightly. Hence the rational
 4094   1, 38  |             the giver; and the gift of God so taken is a ~created thing.
 4095   1, 38  |             Gift as a personal name in God does not imply subjection, ~
 4096   1, 38  |              the gift of any man, but "God's Gift" only. ~Therefore
 4097   1, 38  |             Ghost, 'to be the ~Gift of God' is to proceed from Father
 4098   1, 38  |              Gift, taken personally in God, is the proper name of the ~
 4099   1, 38  |               according to the words, "God so loved the ~world, as
 4100   1, 38  |               of ~man, but the Gift of God giving. When, however, it
 4101   1, 39  |                 Whether the essence in God is the same as the person?~(
 4102   1, 39  |             Thes. Para. 1/1~Whether in God the essence is the same
 4103   1, 39  |               1: It would seem that in God the essence is not the same
 4104   1, 39  |           apart from the other. But in God there is ~one essence and
 4105   1, 39  |            simplicity requires that in God essence is the same as ~"
 4106   1, 39  |              some have thought that in God essence and person ~differ,
 4107   1, 39  |             are accidental, whereas in God they are the divine ~essence
 4108   1, 39  |              Thence it follows that in God essence is not really ~distinct
 4109   1, 39  |             are not subsistent. But in God relations are ~subsistent,
 4110   1, 39  |               As essence and person in God differ in our way of thinking, ~
 4111   1, 39  |                  But the substance of ~God is His essence. Therefore
 4112   1, 39  |           nothing is to be affirmed of God except what can be ~confirmed
 4113   1, 39  |            essence and the persons ~in God. But prepositions which
 4114   1, 39  |              nothing should be said of God which can be occasion of ~
 4115   1, 39  |                of the form; so also in God the essence is taken as
 4116   1, 39  |                 In like manner, as ~in God the persons are multiplied,
 4117   1, 39  |          essential names, as the name "God," should not ~be predicated
 4118   1, 39  |             one that has humanity," so God signifies "one ~that has
 4119   1, 39  |                said, "In the beginning God created ~heaven and earth,"
 4120   1, 39  |          several Gods," and ~not "one" God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[39] A[
 4121   1, 39  |                 Further, as this word "God" signifies "a being who
 4122   1, 39  |                 O Israel, the Lord thy God ~is one God."~Aquin.: SMT
 4123   1, 39  |               the Lord thy God ~is one God."~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[39] A[
 4124   1, 39  |                 are collegians. Now in God the divine essence is signified
 4125   1, 39  |             are "three Gods," but "one God"; ~forasmuch as in the three "
 4126   1, 39  |                OBJ 1: Though the name "God" signifies a being having
 4127   1, 39  |               different. For the name "God" ~is used substantively;
 4128   1, 39  |            apply the plural either to "God" or to "substance," lest
 4129   1, 39  |          relation, it is predicated of God in the plural; ~whereas,
 4130   1, 39  |              so that we can truly say "God begot God." For, as the ~
 4131   1, 39  |               can truly say "God begot God." For, as the ~logicians
 4132   1, 39  |           stands for." But this ~name "God" seems to be a singular
 4133   1, 39  |            predicate. But when I say, "God creates," this name "God"
 4134   1, 39  |               God creates," this name "God" stands for ~the essence.
 4135   1, 39  |               essence. So when we say "God begot," this term "God"
 4136   1, 39  |                 God begot," this term "God" cannot by reason ~of the
 4137   1, 39  |             Further, if this be true, "God begot," because the Father ~
 4138   1, 39  |             same reason this is true, "God does not beget," ~because
 4139   1, 39  |              beget. Therefore there is God who begets, and ~there is
 4140   1, 39  |              who begets, and ~there is God who does not beget; and
 4141   1, 39  |                1/1~OBJ 4: Further, if "God begot God," He begot either
 4142   1, 39  |                 Further, if "God begot God," He begot either God, that
 4143   1, 39  |            begot God," He begot either God, that is ~Himself, or another
 4144   1, 39  |                is ~Himself, or another God. But He did not beget God,
 4145   1, 39  |              God. But He did not beget God, that is Himself; for, ~
 4146   1, 39  |          Neither did ~He beget another God; as there is only one God.
 4147   1, 39  |              God; as there is only one God. Therefore it is false to ~
 4148   1, 39  |        Therefore it is false to ~say, "God begot God."~Aquin.: SMT
 4149   1, 39  |              false to ~say, "God begot God."~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[39] A[
 4150   1, 39  |                1/1~OBJ 5: Further, if "God begot God," He begot either
 4151   1, 39  |                 Further, if "God begot God," He begot either God who
 4152   1, 39  |            begot God," He begot either God who is the ~Father, or God
 4153   1, 39  |             God who is the ~Father, or God who is not the Father. If
 4154   1, 39  |              who is not the Father. If God who is the Father, then
 4155   1, 39  |                who is the Father, then God ~the Father was begotten.
 4156   1, 39  |                Father was begotten. If God who is not the Father, then
 4157   1, 39  |               Father, then there is a ~God who is not God the Father:
 4158   1, 39  |             there is a ~God who is not God the Father: which is false.
 4159   1, 39  |               it cannot be ~said that "God begot God."~Aquin.: SMT
 4160   1, 39  |               be ~said that "God begot God."~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[39] A[
 4161   1, 39  |              In the Creed it is said, "God of God."~Aquin.: SMT FP
 4162   1, 39  |              Creed it is said, "God of God."~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[39] A[
 4163   1, 39  |              have said that this name "God" and the like, ~properly
 4164   1, 39  |                which requires ~that in God, He "who possesses" and "
 4165   1, 39  |               is signified by the name God, is the same ~as Godhead.
 4166   1, 39  |         signified. Hence as this word "God" signifies the divine essence
 4167   1, 39  |              have said that this word "God," from its mode ~of signification,
 4168   1, 39  |              word "man." So this word "God" sometimes stands for the
 4169   1, 39  |              essence, as when ~we say "God creates"; because this predicate
 4170   1, 39  |             only one, as when we say, "God begets," ~or for two, as
 4171   1, 39  |              for two, as when we say, "God spirates"; or for three,
 4172   1, 39  |          immortal, invisible, the only God," etc. (1 ~Tim. 1:17).~Aquin.:
 4173   1, 39  |             OBJ 1: Although this name "God" agrees with singular terms
 4174   1, 39  |           those who say that the word "God" ~does not naturally stand
 4175   1, 39  |               1~Reply OBJ 3: The word "God" stands for the person in
 4176   1, 39  |                signified by the ~name "God" - that is, the divine essence -
 4177   1, 39  |              person. So, when we say, "God ~generates," by reason of
 4178   1, 39  |                notional act this name "God" stands for the ~person
 4179   1, 39  |              Father. But when we say, "God does not generate," there
 4180   1, 39  |            proposition, for instance, "God begotten does not beget,"
 4181   1, 39  |            follow that there exists a "God generator," and ~a "God
 4182   1, 39  |                God generator," and ~a "God not generator"; unless there
 4183   1, 39  |            were to say, "the Father is God the ~generator" and the "
 4184   1, 39  |             generator" and the "Son is God the non-generator" and so
 4185   1, 39  |             Father and the Son are one God, ~as was said above (A[3]).~
 4186   1, 39  |               false, "the Father begot God, that is Himself," ~because
 4187   1, 39  |                 lxvi ad ~Maxim.) that "God the Father begot another
 4188   1, 39  |                say, "He begot ~another God," because although the Son
 4189   1, 39  |              said that He is ~"another God"; forasmuch as this adjective "
 4190   1, 39  |               apply to the substantive God; and thus the meaning would
 4191   1, 39  |          proposition "He begot another God" ~is tolerated by some,
 4192   1, 39  |            substantive, ~and the word "God" be construed in apposition
 4193   1, 39  |                1~Reply OBJ 5: To say, "God begot God Who is God the
 4194   1, 39  |              OBJ 5: To say, "God begot God Who is God the Father,"
 4195   1, 39  |             say, "God begot God Who is God the Father," is wrong, ~
 4196   1, 39  |            construed in apposition to "God," the ~word "God" is restricted
 4197   1, 39  |        apposition to "God," the ~word "God" is restricted to the person
 4198   1, 39  |              it would ~mean, "He begot God, Who is Himself the Father";
 4199   1, 39  |         proposition is true, "He begot God Who is not God the Father."
 4200   1, 39  |                He begot God Who is not God the Father." If ~however,
 4201   1, 39  |           meaning would be, "He ~begot God Who is God Who is the Father."
 4202   1, 39  |              be, "He ~begot God Who is God Who is the Father." Such
 4203   1, 39  |               the sense is that "to be God the ~Father" is befitting
 4204   1, 39  |         negative sense ~is that "to be God the Father," is to be removed
 4205   1, 39  |              Para. 1/1~OBJ 3: Further, God and the divine essence are
 4206   1, 39  |               it is true ~to say that "God begets God." Therefore this
 4207   1, 39  |                to say that "God begets God." Therefore this is also
 4208   1, 39  |                since nothing exists in God as distinguished from the
 4209   1, 39  |          asserting that as we can say "God begot God," so we can say "
 4210   1, 39  |               as we can say "God begot God," so we can say "Essence
 4211   1, 39  |               of the divine simplicity God is ~nothing else but the
 4212   1, 39  |           stated (A[4]). Now although "God" is really the same as "
 4213   1, 39  |             same. For since this word "God" signifies the divine essence
 4214   1, 39  |              predicated of this word, "God," as, for instance, we can
 4215   1, 39  |              for instance, we can say "God is ~begotten" or is "Begetter,"
 4216   1, 39  |       corrupted accidentally; whereas ~God begotten has the same nature
 4217   1, 39  |                1~Reply OBJ 3: Although God and the divine essence are
 4218   1, 39  |             begetting," or that it is "God ~begetting," if "thing"
 4219   1, 39  |             begetting," if "thing" and God stand for person, but not
 4220   1, 39  |              we can say for instance, "God is three ~persons"; or "
 4221   1, 39  |                is three ~persons"; or "God is the Trinity." For it
 4222   1, 39  |            same way this proposition, "God is the Trinity," cannot
 4223   1, 39  |                Holy Ghost. So to say, "God is ~the Trinity," is false.~
 4224   1, 39  |              to be man. But this name "God" as regards the three ~persons
 4225   1, 39  |               predicated of this name "God," except in an accidental
 4226   1, 39  |          Domini], "We believe that one God is one divinely named Trinity."~
 4227   1, 39  |                 And because this word "God" can of itself stand for
 4228   1, 39  |           likewise it is true to say, "God ~is the three persons."~
 4229   1, 39  |              the contrary, this ~word "God" can of itself be taken
 4230   1, 39  |                 of the divine nature, "God is the Trinity," ~is untrue,
 4231   1, 39  |             Reply OBJ 2: When we say, "God," or "the divine essence
 4232   1, 39  |             higher species: because in God there is no universal and
 4233   1, 39  |            proposition, "The Father is God" is of itself true, so this ~
 4234   1, 39  |            true, so this ~proposition "God is the Father" is true of
 4235   1, 39  |             says: "Christ the power of God and the ~wisdom of God" (
 4236   1, 39  |              of God and the ~wisdom of God" (1 Cor. 1:24).~Aquin.:
 4237   1, 39  |                essential attributes of God ~are more clear to us from
 4238   1, 39  |               the kind be imagined of ~God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[39] A[
 4239   1, 39  |            strength [*Douay: power] of God" (1 Cor. 1:24). So it is
 4240   1, 39  |                led to the knowledge of God from ~creatures, must consider
 4241   1, 39  |               creatures, must consider God according to the mode derived
 4242   1, 39  |               our mind in reference to God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[39] A[
 4243   1, 39  |     consideration, whereby we consider God ~absolutely in His being,
 4244   1, 39  |             the art ~of the omnipotent God," etc.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[
 4245   1, 39  |                use" by which we ~enjoy God, is likened to the property
 4246   1, 39  |                second consideration of God regards Him as "one." In
 4247   1, 39  |              us the ~adequate power of God in the sphere of causality,
 4248   1, 39  |             fourth consideration, i.e. God's relation to His ~effects,
 4249   1, 39  |           cause; which has no place in God; and ~sometimes it expresses
 4250   1, 39  |               which can be ~applied to God by reason of His active
 4251   1, 39  |                of one containing. Now, God contains things ~in two
 4252   1, 39  |              things are said to be ~in God, as existing in His knowledge.
 4253   1, 39  |               things are ~contained in God forasmuch as He in His goodness
 4254   1, 39  |        explained (Q[24], A[1]), it is ~God's knowledge regarding those
 4255   1, 39  |               adjunct, inasmuch as, in God's word ~to Moses, was prefigured
 4256   1, 39  |                 Who is,'" inasmuch as "God begotten is personal." But
 4257   1, 39  |            sense, so far as ~the word "God" signifies and stands for
 4258   1, 39  |              to Ex. 15:2: "This is ~my God, and I will glorify Him."~
 4259   1, 40  |               1: It would seem that in God relation is not the same
 4260   1, 40  |              not the same as person in God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[40] A[
 4261   1, 40  |             not the ~same as person in God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[40] A[
 4262   1, 40  |                1/1~On the contrary, in God "what is" and "whereby it
 4263   1, 40  |       considered as really existing in God, is the divine essence Itself,
 4264   1, 40  |            there ~are no properties in God except in our way of speaking,
 4265   1, 40  |                there are properties in God; as ~we have shown (Q[32],
 4266   1, 40  |             say that the essence is in God, and yet is God.~Aquin.:
 4267   1, 40  |          essence is in God, and yet is God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[40] A[
 4268   1, 40  |              however, consider that in God, by ~reason of the divine
 4269   1, 40  |               form, it follows that in God the ~abstract is the same
 4270   1, 40  |            concrete, as "Godhead" and "God." And as the ~divine simplicity
 4271   1, 40  |              whatever is attributed to God, is His essence Itself;
 4272   1, 40  |              and power are the same in God, because they are both in
 4273   1, 40  |          twofold identity, property in God is ~the same person. For
 4274   1, 40  |               concrete are the same in God; since they are ~the subsisting
 4275   1, 40  |              whatever is attributed to God is His ~own essence. Thus,
 4276   1, 40  |               distinctive principle in God cannot be ~relation.~Aquin.:
 4277   1, 40  |       filiation is the Son, because in God the ~abstract and the concrete
 4278   1, 40  |            universal nor particular in God, ~nor form and matter, in
 4279   1, 40  |            likeness of these things in God; and ~thus Damascene says (
 4280   1, 40  |        signifies something distinct in God, since ~hypostasis means
 4281   1, 40  |           substances. Consequently, in God the distinguishing relation ~
 4282   1, 40  |             Father does not remain in ~God, as distinguished from the
 4283   1, 40  |           constitute the hypostases in God, but only manifest them ~
 4284   1, 40  |         hypostases. For ~origin has in God an active and passive signification -
 4285   1, 41  |              something?~(4) Whether in God there exists a power as
 4286   1, 41  |             Whatever is predicated of ~God, of whatever genus it be,
 4287   1, 41  |               any action attributed to God belongs to His essence,
 4288   1, 41  |           everything which ~is said of God, is said of Him as regards
 4289   1, 41  |               do not place passions in God. Therefore neither are notional
 4290   1, 41  |         notional acts to ~be placed in God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[41] A[
 4291   1, 41  |              acts ~are to be placed in God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[41] A[
 4292   1, 41  |               designated by an act. In God there is a ~twofold order
 4293   1, 41  |                which are attributed to God to designate the proceeding
 4294   1, 41  |             Another order of origin in God regards the ~procession
 4295   1, 41  |                 Consequently, since in God ~no movement exists, the
 4296   1, 41  |             sense is not attributed to God. ~Whence, passions are attributed
 4297   1, 41  |             Son by will; as also He is God by will, because He ~wills
 4298   1, 41  |                because He ~wills to be God, and wills to beget the
 4299   1, 41  |              sense it must be said the God the Father begot the Son,
 4300   1, 41  |               was made by the ~Will of God, as a creature is said to
 4301   1, 41  |               a created being; because God ~is of Himself necessary
 4302   1, 41  |              De Synod.): "The will of ~God gave to all creatures their
 4303   1, 41  |            things ~created are such as God willed them to be; but the
 4304   1, 41  |               be; but the Son, born of God, ~subsists in the perfect
 4305   1, 41  |                the perfect likeness of God."~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[41] A[
 4306   1, 41  |          Christ the Son of the love of God, ~inasmuch as He is superabundantly
 4307   1, 41  |               superabundantly loved by God; not, however, as if love ~
 4308   1, 41  |                happiness; and likewise God naturally ~wills and loves
 4309   1, 41  |             than Himself, ~the will of God is in a way, undetermined
 4310   1, 41  |          proceeds as Love, inasmuch as God ~loves Himself, and hence
 4311   1, 41  |             naturally ~understood. But God naturally understands Himself,
 4312   1, 41  |          generation necessary; because God is not the ~means to an
 4313   1, 41  |             sense it is ~necessary for God to be; and in the same sense
 4314   1, 41  |        material principle, ~because in God nothing material exists;
 4315   1, 41  |                ad Petrum i, 1) says: ~"God the Father, of His nature,
 4316   1, 41  |              really and truly exist in God. ~Now, this is the difference
 4317   1, 41  |                thing out of matter, so God makes things out of nothing,
 4318   1, 41  |        similitude. Thus, if the Son of God proceeds from the Father
 4319   1, 41  |              Therefore the true Son of God is not from nothing; nor
 4320   1, 41  |              certain creatures made by God out of nothing are called
 4321   1, 41  |             nothing are called sons of God ~is to be taken in a metaphorical
 4322   1, 41  |                true and natural Son of God, He is called the "only
 4323   1, 41  |        brethren." Therefore the Son of God is begotten of the substance
 4324   1, 41  |              that the creature is from God Who is essence; but not
 4325   1, 41  |              it is from the essence of God. So we may explain them
 4326   1, 41  |             Wisdom which is the Son of God, but of created wisdom given
 4327   1, 41  |                created wisdom given by God ~to creatures: for it is
 4328   1, 41  |             Thes. Para. 1/1~Whether in God there is a power in respect
 4329   1, 41  |               1: It would seem that in God there is no power in respect
 4330   1, 41  |                applied, there being in God nothing which we ~call passive
 4331   1, 41  |             above (A[3]). Therefore in God there is no power ~in respect
 4332   1, 41  |              there ~cannot be power in God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[41] A[
 4333   1, 41  |           belongs to the ~will. But in God power exists as regards
 4334   1, 41  |              25], A[1]). Therefore, in God ~power does not exist in
 4335   1, 41  |             Contra Maxim. iii, 1): "If God the ~Father could not beget
 4336   1, 41  |            where is the omnipotence of God ~the Father?" Power therefore
 4337   1, 41  |              Power therefore exists in God regarding the notional acts.~
 4338   1, 41  |             the notional acts exist in God, so must there be also ~
 4339   1, 41  |              there be also ~a power in God regarding these acts; since
 4340   1, 41  |               if made; so the power in God as regards the notional
 4341   1, 41  |                which does not exist in God. Hence, in God there is ~
 4342   1, 41  |                exist in God. Hence, in God there is ~no such thing
 4343   1, 41  |             that as it is possible for God to be, so also is it possible ~
 4344   1, 41  |          distinction in things said of God: one is a real distinction,
 4345   1, 41  |                 By a real distinction, God by His ~essence is distinct
 4346   1, 41  |              by a notional act. But in God the distinction of action
 4347   1, 41  |               would be an accident in ~God. And therefore with regard
 4348   1, 41  |                which are distinct from God, either personally or ~essentially,
 4349   1, 41  |                we may ascribe power to God in its proper sense of ~
 4350   1, 41  |        principle. And as we ascribe to God the power of creating, so
 4351   1, 41  |                something distinct from God, either essentially or personally.
 4352   1, 41  |                cannot ascribe power to God in its proper ~sense, but
 4353   1, 41  |               act of ~understanding in God, whereas in God the act
 4354   1, 41  |       understanding in God, whereas in God the act of understanding
 4355   1, 41  |             Metaph. v, text 17. But in God ~principle in regard to
 4356   1, 41  |              notionally. Therefore, in God, ~power does not signify
 4357   1, 41  |                 1/1~OBJ 2: Further, in God, the power to act [posse]
 4358   1, 41  |              are not ~distinct. But in God, begetting signifies relation.
 4359   1, 41  |              signifying the essence in God, are common to the ~three
 4360   1, 41  |                1/1~On the contrary, As God has the power to beget the
 4361   1, 41  |           beget signifies relation ~in God. But this is not possible.
 4362   1, 41  |               Para. 2/3~Now the Son of God is like the Father, who
 4363   1, 41  |                Trin. v): "The birth of God cannot but ~contain that
 4364   1, 41  |             cannot subsist other ~than God, Who subsists from no other
 4365   1, 41  |              from no other source than God."~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[41] A[
 4366   1, 41  |                1/1 ~Reply OBJ 2: As in God, the power of begetting
 4367   1, 41  |               begotten or spirated in ~God. For whoever has the power
 4368   1, 41  |                can be ~several Sons in God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[41] A[
 4369   1, 41  |              Para. 1/1~OBJ 3: Further, God the Father has greater power
 4370   1, 41  |                several sons. Therefore God can also: ~the more so that
 4371   1, 41  |                1/1~On the contrary, In God "that which is possible,"
 4372   1, 41  |              differ. If, therefore, in God it were possible for there
 4373   1, 41  |            more ~than three Persons in God; which is heretical.~Aquin.:
 4374   1, 41  |                 As Athanasius says, in God there is only "one Father,
 4375   1, 41  |           Fathers, or several ~Sons in God, unless there were more
 4376   1, 41  |                matter, which is not in God. Wherefore there can be ~
 4377   1, 41  |                subsistent filiation in God: just as there could be
 4378   1, 41  |                of the processions. For God ~understands and wills all
 4379   1, 41  |             total absence of matter in God ~require that there cannot
 4380   1, 41  |              cannot be several Sons in God, as we have explained. ~
 4381   1, 42  |           Whether there is equality in God?~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[42] A[
 4382   1, 42  |            quantity. ~But quantity, in God, is nothing else than His
 4383   1, 42  |              persons would not be ~one God; which is impossible. We
 4384   1, 42  |                 therefore, no place in God. There is also quantity
 4385   1, 42  |               Equality and likeness in God may be designated in two ~
 4386   1, 42  |           although movement is not ~in God, there is something that
 4387   1, 42  |          infusion of a ~good will from God; wherein also consubstantiality
 4388   1, 42  |             this mode ~has no place in God, for the Father is not predicated
 4389   1, 42  |             and this cannot be said of God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[42] A[
 4390   1, 42  |                 For whatever exists in God is the essence, or a ~person,
 4391   1, 42  |              is no order ~of nature in God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[42] A[
 4392   1, 42  |                no ~order of essence in God. Therefore neither is there
 4393   1, 42  |         Athanasius says. ~Therefore in God order exists.~Aquin.: SMT
 4394   1, 42  |            without priority, exists in God as we ~have stated (Q[33],
 4395   1, 42  |        definition of the other. But in God the ~relations themselves
 4396   1, 42  |              two, ~or than one. But in God a universal whole exists,
 4397   1, 42  |              robbery to ~be equal with God."~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[42] A[
 4398   1, 42  |       greatness. ~For the greatness of God is nothing but the perfection
 4399   1, 42  |                  it is evident that in God there exist real true paternity
 4400   1, 42  |         defective, nor that the Son of God arrived at perfection in
 4401   1, 42  |              measured by greatness. In God greatness ~signifies the
 4402   1, 42  |               equality and likeness in God have reference ~to the essence;
 4403   1, 42  |              Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 3: In God relation is not a universal
 4404   1, 42  |               not a ~universal term in God as we have seen above (Q[
 4405   1, 42  |            Trin. v), "The unchangeable God, so to speak, ~follows His
 4406   1, 42  |                unchangeable subsisting God. So we ~understand the nature
 4407   1, 42  |               understand the nature of God to subsist in Him, for He
 4408   1, 42  |              subsist in Him, for He is God in God." It ~is also manifest
 4409   1, 42  |               in Him, for He is God in God." It ~is also manifest that
 4410   1, 42  |               represent what exists in God; so according to none of
 4411   1, 42  |              Hence this going forth in God is only by the distinction
 4412   1, 42  |           would be the ~omnipotence of God the Father?" But the Son
 4413   1, 43  |           counsellor is the wiser. In ~God, however, it means only
 4414   1, 43  |                motion, which is not in God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[43] A[
 4415   1, 43  |        fullness of the time ~was come, God sent His Son."~Aquin.: SMT
 4416   1, 43  |               temporal significance in God; ~but "generation" and "
 4417   1, 43  |           procession" and "giving," in God, have both an eternal and
 4418   1, 43  |               may proceed eternally as God; but temporally, ~by becoming
 4419   1, 43  |             change in the creature; as God Himself is called Lord ~
 4420   1, 43  |              Rm. 5:5, ~"the charity of God is poured forth in our hearts
 4421   1, 43  |                A[3] Body Para. 2/3~For God is in all things by His
 4422   1, 43  |                rational nature wherein God is ~said to be present as
 4423   1, 43  |          knowledge and love attains to God Himself, according to this
 4424   1, 43  |        according to this special mode ~God is said not only to exist
 4425   1, 43  |                words, "the charity ~of God is poured forth in our hearts
 4426   1, 43  |       procession from another, ~and in God it means procession according
 4427   1, 43  |              be given" only applies in God to the Person Who is from ~
 4428   1, 43  |               The soul is made like to God by grace. Hence for a divine ~
 4429   1, 43  |                are perfectly united to God. Therefore the ~invisible
 4430   1, 43  |             whether journeying towards God, or united perfectly to
 4431   1, 43  |            whatever is done visibly by God is dispensed by the ~ministry
 4432   1, 43  |               Para. 1/2~I answer that, God provides for all things
 4433   1, 43  |                the invisible things of God must be made manifest to
 4434   1, 43  |           things ~that are visible. As God, therefore, in a certain
 4435   1, 43  |              can be said of the Son of God; and so, by reason of the
 4436   1, 43  |              Is. ~48:16, "Now the Lord God hath sent Me and His Spirit."
 4437   1, 43  |                is said that the Son of God is sent by the Holy Ghost, ~
 4438   1, 43  |                 so that to be sent in ~God does not apply to each person,
 4439   1, 45  |           PROCESSION OF CREATURES FROM GOD, AND OF THE FIRST CAUSE
 4440   1, 45  |           procession of creatures from God. This consideration will
 4441   1, 45  |                of inquiry:~(1) Whether God is the efficient cause of
 4442   1, 45  |           primary matter is created by God, or is an independent ~coordinate
 4443   1, 45  |        principle with Him?~(3) Whether God is the exemplar cause of
 4444   1, 45  |              every being be created by God?~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[44] A[
 4445   1, 45  |             every being be ~created by God. For there is nothing to
 4446   1, 45  |               should not be created by God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[44] A[
 4447   1, 45  |                not all beings are from God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[44] A[
 4448   1, 45  |                not all beings are from God as from their efficient
 4449   1, 45  |              any way existing is ~from God. For whatever is found in
 4450   1, 45  |             the divine simplicity that God is the essentially self-subsisting ~
 4451   1, 45  |       Therefore all beings apart ~from God are not their own being,
 4452   1, 45  |           primary matter is created by God?~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[44] A[
 4453   1, 45  |               matter is not created by God. For ~whatever is made is
 4454   1, 45  |               cannot have been made by God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[44] A[
 4455   1, 45  |              first active principle is God, so the first passive principle ~
 4456   1, 45  |        principle ~is matter. Therefore God and primary matter are two
 4457   1, 45  |              cause is anything besides God?~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[44] A[
 4458   1, 45  |             cause is something besides God. ~For the effect is like
 4459   1, 45  |               are far from ~being like God. Therefore God is not their
 4460   1, 45  |              being like God. Therefore God is not their exemplar cause.~
 4461   1, 45  |          exemplar causes exist besides God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[44] A[
 4462   1, 45  |                things ~are not outside God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[44] A[
 4463   1, 45  |               Para. 1/1~I answer that, God is the first exemplar cause
 4464   1, 45  |              In ~this manner therefore God Himself is the first exemplar
 4465   1, 45  |              to a natural likeness to ~God according to similitude
 4466   1, 45  |           wisdom" he sometimes denotes God Himself, sometimes the ~
 4467   1, 45  |                Thes. Para. 1/1~Whether God is the final cause of all
 4468   1, 45  |              OBJ 1: It would seem that God is not the final cause of
 4469   1, 45  |             imply need of the end. But God needs nothing. ~Therefore
 4470   1, 45  |               the thing generated. But God is the ~first agent producing
 4471   1, 45  |              all things do not ~desire God, for all do not even know
 4472   1, 45  |               even know Him. Therefore God is not the end of ~all things.~
 4473   1, 45  |                causes. If, therefore, ~God is the efficient cause and
 4474   1, 45  |                this does not belong to God, ~and therefore He alone
 4475   1, 45  |               OBJ 3: All things desire God as their end, when they
 4476   1, 45  |        participates in the likeness to God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[44] A[
 4477   1, 45  |                 1/1~Reply OBJ 4: Since God is the efficient, the exemplar
 4478   1, 46  |               is creation?~(2) Whether God can create anything?~(3)
 4479   1, 46  |               5) Whether it belongs to God alone to create?~(6) Whether
 4480   1, 46  |               Gn. 1, "In the beginning God created," ~etc., the gloss
 4481   1, 46  |              universal cause, which is God; and this ~emanation we
 4482   1, 46  |                Thes. Para. 1/1~Whether God can create anything?~Aquin.:
 4483   1, 46  |              OBJ 1: It would seem that God cannot create anything,
 4484   1, 46  |             nothing." But the power of God does not extend to the contraries
 4485   1, 46  |                 as, for instance, that God could make the whole to
 4486   1, 46  |              the same ~time. Therefore God cannot make anything from
 4487   1, 46  |                made out of ~nothing by God.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[45] A[
 4488   1, 46  |                1:1): "In the beginning God created ~heaven and earth."~
 4489   1, 46  |         anything should be created ~by God, but it is necessary to
 4490   1, 46  |             all things were created by God, ~as appears from what has
 4491   1, 46  |      presupposes ~matter. If therefore God did only act from something
 4492   1, 46  |             can be, unless it ~is from God, Who is the universal cause
 4493   1, 46  |              is ~necessary to say that God brings things into being
 4494   1, 46  |                it would follow that in God there would be something
 4495   1, 46  |                of all beings, which is God. Hence God by creation ~
 4496   1, 46  |            beings, which is God. Hence God by creation ~produces things
 4497   1, 46  |               divine action, which ~is God's essence, with a relation
 4498   1, 46  |                to the creature. But in God relation to ~the creature
 4499   1, 46  |            relation of the creature to God is a real relation, as was ~
 4500   1, 46  |                1:1): "In the beginning God created ~heaven and earth."