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Summa Theologica by Thomas Aquinas, Saint (1225?-1274)
... his brother." Therefore neither does an angel enlighten another now. Objection 2: Further ... (Coel. Hier. viii) that "the angels of the second hierarchy are cleansed, enlightened ... in corporeal things. Secondly, one angel manifests the truth to another as ...
Summa Theologica by Thomas Aquinas, Saint (1225?-1274)
... (Ecclus. 38:25). So if some angels are sent on external ministrations, they would ... creature is governed by the angels. Hence,…
Summa Theologica by Thomas Aquinas, Saint (1225?-1274)
... since there is no imperfection in the angels, especially in the blessed ones, ... the appetible object understood. Now the angels are immovable,…
Summa Theologica by Thomas Aquinas, Saint (1225?-1274)
... man is not guarded by an angel. For an angel is stronger than a man. But ... men. Objection 3: Further, the greater angels are deputed to the greater offices.…
Summa Theologica by Thomas Aquinas, Saint (1225?-1274)
... by more universal species than the lower angels. For the universal, seemingly, is ... what is abstracted from particulars.…
Summa Theologica by Thomas Aquinas, Saint (1225?-1274)
... daily through falling into sin; whom the angels could help by visible appearance, or ... But that is clearly false. Therefore the angels are not the guardians of men.…
Summa Theologica by Thomas Aquinas, Saint (1225?-1274)
... being is eternal. Therefore He produced the angels from eternity. Objection 2: Further, everything ... nature of the soul and of the angel is not only incorruptible,…
Summa Theologica by Thomas Aquinas, Saint (1225?-1274)
... Therefore much more so is the angel. Now the angel's form is either the nature ... species within his intellect.…
Summa Theologica by Thomas Aquinas, Saint (1225?-1274)
... sensitive operation cannot be caused by an angel. Objection 2: Further, the sensitive ... nobler than the nutritive. But the angel cannot change the nutritive power,…
Summa Theologica by Thomas Aquinas, Saint (1225?-1274)
... (Phys. iv, text 52,58). Therefore several angels can be in the one place. Objection 2 ... Further,…