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Summa Theologica by Thomas Aquinas, Saint (1225?-1274)
... makes known something to another. But an angel cannot make known anything to God, Who ... knows all things. Therefore an angel does not speak to God. Objection 2: ... thus Gregory says (Moral. ii) that "the angels speak to God, when by contemplating what is ...
Summa Theologica by Thomas Aquinas, Saint (1225?-1274)
... Now to have a position cannot benefit an angel, since his substance is devoid of quantity ... . iv, text 14,119). But an angel can neither be measured nor contained by a ... at Compline,…
Summa Theologica by Thomas Aquinas, Saint (1225?-1274)
... Christ as man is not head of the angels. Objection 3: Further, Augustine says (Tract. ... "Word made flesh" quickens bodies, which angels lack.…
Summa Theologica by Thomas Aquinas, Saint (1225?-1274)
... in the empyrean heaven. For the angels are incorporeal substances. Now a substance ... is it for its creation.…
Summa Theologica by Thomas Aquinas, Saint (1225?-1274)
... . Therefore not all that the superior angels know, is known by the inferior,…
Summa Theologica by Thomas Aquinas, Saint (1225?-1274)
... that the good angels have no precedence over the bad angels. For the angels' precedence is ... connected with enlightenment. But the bad angels, being darkness,…
Summa Theologica by Thomas Aquinas, Saint (1225?-1274)
... of the meritorious act. But the angel experienced no difficulty in acting rightly. ... Objection 3: Further, if a beatified angel merited his beatitude,…
Summa Theologica by Thomas Aquinas, Saint (1225?-1274)
... forsaken me?" Much rather therefore does an angel guardian forsake man.…
Summa Theologica by Thomas Aquinas, Saint (1225?-1274)
... explained (A[4]). Therefore all the angels know what one speaks to another. Objection ... 2: Further, all the angels have the intellectual power in common.…
Summa Theologica by Thomas Aquinas, Saint (1225?-1274)
... merit comes midway between. Therefore the angel would have to pass through many stages ... some obstacle. Therefore so does an angel. Now an angel instantly,…