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[ { "from": "human", "value": "shall be" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Depart, ye cursed into eternal [Douay: 'everlasting'] fire" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "God is the only one who has no beginning." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "(Eccl. 1:4). Again, some things are called eternal in Scripture because of the length of their duration, although they are in nature corruptible; thus (Ps. 75:5) the hills are called" }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "of time remains the same in the whole of time. But the nature of eternity seems to be that it is the same indivisible thing in the whole space of time. Therefore eternity is the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "of time. But the" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and an" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "of time is the same as regards its subject in the whole course of time, but it differs in aspect; for inasmuch as time corresponds to movement, its" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "corresponds to what is movable; and the thing movable has the same one subject in all ti...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "God moves the spiritual through time." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and" }, { "from": "human", "value": "; but it is essential to eternity to be simultaneously whole, as was shown above in the first article. Now aeviternity is not eternity; for it is wri...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who commandest time to be separate from aeviternity." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "; but that time has both, together with innovation and veteration; and that aeviternity has" }, { "from": "human", "value": "and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "without innovation and veteration. This theory, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Majesty and power of ages are with Thee, O Lord." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "adds anything to" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and" }, { "from": "human", "value": "One Adds Anything to" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Being" }, { "from": "human", "value": "adds something to" }, { "from": "gpt", "val...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "convertible with" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "is the same as the" }, { "from": "human", "value": "which is the principle of number, were divided into contrary opinions. Pythagoras and Plato, seeing that the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "con...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Many is taken in two ways: absolutely, and in that sense it is opposed to" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "; in another way as importing some kind of excess, in which sense it is opposed to" }, { "from": "human", "value": "One is opposed to" }, { "f...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "For there be many gods and many lords" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "One, as the principle of number, cannot be predicated of God, since quantity is not predicated of God; likewise, neither can" }, { "from": "human", "value": "which is convertible with" ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Our God is one," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "One which is the principle of number is not predicated of God, but only of material things. For" }, { "from": "human", "value": "the principle of number belongs to the genus of mathematics, which are material...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "is so called from the privation of division. But privation cannot be greater or less. Therefore God is not more" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "than other things which are called" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Among all things called one, the unity of the Divine Trinity holds the first place." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No man hath seen God at any time, says:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not prophets only, but neither angels nor archangels have seen God. For how can a creature see what is increatable? Dionysius also says (Div. Nom. i), speaking of God:" }, { "from": "human...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We shall see Him as He is" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He is universally to all incomprehensible, etc. Chrysostom likewise after the words quoted says:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He says this of the most certain vision of the Father, which is such a perfect consideration and comprehension as the Father has of the Son...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We know that when He shall appear, we shall be like to Him, and [Vulg.: 'because'] we shall see Him as He is" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "When we know God, some likeness of God is made in us." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We see through a glass and in an enigma [*Douay: 'in a dark manner']," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "In Thy light we shall see light." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "In my flesh I shall see . . . God, and (Job 42:5)," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "With the hearing of the ear I have heard Thee, but now my eye seeth Thee." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Those eyes (namely the glorified)" }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No one has ever seen God either in this life, as He is, nor in the angelic life, as visible things are seen by corporeal vision." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "In my flesh I shall see God my Saviour, do not mean that God will be seen with the eye of the flesh, but that man existing in the flesh after the resurrection will see God. Likewise the words," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now my eye seeth Thee, are to be understood...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "An angel is a pure mirror, most clear, receiving, if it is right to say so, the whole beauty of God." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The grace of God is life everlasting (Rom. 6:23). But life everlasting consists in the vision of the Divine essence, according to the words:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This is eternal life, that they may know Thee the only true God," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "In Thy light we shall see light" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The glory of God hath enlightened it --viz. the society of the blessed who see God. By this light the blessed are made" }, { "from": "human", "value": "--i.e. like to God, according to the say...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We shall see Him as He is." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "One person cannot see one and the same thing more perfectly than another." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is eternal life, that they may know Thee the only true God, etc. Therefore if all saw the essence of God equally in eternal life, all would be equal; the contrary to which is declared by the Apostle:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Star differs from star in glory...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We shall see Him as He is, the conjunction" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But I follow after, if I may by any means comprehend [Douay: 'apprehend']. But the Apostle did not follow in vain; for he said (1 Cor. 9:26):" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I . . . so run, not as at an uncertainty. Therefore he comprehended; and in the same way, othe...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "but not" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "it may be contrarily urged that" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "O most mighty, great, and powerful, the Lord of hosts is Thy Name. Great in counsel, and incomprehensible in thought" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Comprehension is twofold: in one sense it is taken strictly and properly, according as something is included in the one comprehending; and thus in no way is God comprehended either by intellect, or in any other way; forasmuch as He is infinite and cannot be included in any finit...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What do they not see, who see Him Who sees all things?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Unhappy the man who knoweth all these (i.e. all creatures)" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have heard secret words which it is not granted to man to utter" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It may happen that many things are known, but only one is understood." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "God moves the spiritual creature according to time" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Our thoughts will not be unstable, going to and fro from one thing to another; but we shall see all we know at one glance." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have seen God face to face (Gen. 32:30). But to see Him face to face is to see His essence, as appears from the words:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We see now in a glass and in a dark manner, but then face to face" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I sp...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Man shall not see Me, and live (Ex. 32:20), and a gloss upon this says," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "In this mortal life God can be seen by certain images, but not by the likeness itself of His own nature." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have seen God face to face," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The lessons of instruction can only be seen as it were by their own sun," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The weak eye of the human mind is not fixed on that excellent light unless purified by the justice of faith." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That which is known of God, namely, what can be known of God by natural reason," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "; but it can know" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I do not approve what I said in prayer, 'God who willest that only the pure should know truth.' For it can be answered that many who are not pure can know many truths," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "God hath revealed to us His spirit, what" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is My beloved Son" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "God" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "God" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Who is," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Of Him there is neither name, nor can one be found of Him; and it is written:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What is His name, and what is the name of His Son, if thou knowest?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Lord is a man of war, Almighty is His name." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Everything said of God signifies not His substance, but rather shows forth what He is not; or expresses some relation, or something following from His nature or operation." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You will find a chorus of holy doctors addressed to the end of d...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The being of God is the being strong, or the being wise, or whatever else we may say of that simplicity whereby His substance is signified." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and the like, various and many opinions have been given. For some have said that all such names, although they are applied to God affirmatively, nevertheless have been brought into use more to express some remotion from God, rather tha...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "God is good, the meaning is not," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "God is the cause of goodness, or" }, { "from": "human", "value": "God is not evil ; but the meaning is," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Whatever good we attribute to creatures, pre...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "[lapis] is imposed from the fact that it hurts the foot [loedit pedem], but it is not imposed to signify that which hurts the foot, but rather to signify a certain kind of body; otherwise everything that hurts the foot would be a stone [*This refers to the Latin etymology of the...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Some names there are which express evidently the property of the divinity, and some which express the clear truth of the divine majesty, but others there are which are applied to God metaphorically by way of similitude." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "signifies a material being, and names of this kind can be applied to God only in a metaphorical sense. Other names, however, express these perfections absolutely, without any such mode of participation being part of their signification as the words" }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Therefore if all names applied to God are synonymous, we cannot properly say" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "or the like, and yet it is written," }, { "from": "human", "value": "O most mighty, great and powerful, the Lord of hosts is Thy name" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let us make man to our image and likeness," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "applied to man, we signify some perfection distinct from a man's essence, and distinct from his power and existence, and from all similar things; whereas when we apply to it God, we do not mean to signify anything distinct from His essence, or power, or existence. Thus also this...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The invisible things of God are clearly seen being understood by the things that are made" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "predicated of medicine and urine in relation and in proportion to health of a body, of which the former is the sign and the latter the cause: or a...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": ", as the Philosopher says," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We name God from creatures. But names transferred from creatures to God, are said primarily of creatures rather than of God, as" }, { "from": "human", "value": "" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I bow my knees to the Father, of our Lord Jesus Christ, of Whom all paternity in heaven and earth is named" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "applied to animals comes into the definition of" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "applied to medicine, which is called healthy as being the cause of health in the animal; and also into the definition of" }, { "from": "human", "value": "which is applied to ur...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lord is the name of power, which is the divine substance; and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Creator" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have loved thee with an everlasting love (Jer. 31:3). Therefore also other names implying relation to creatures, as" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Lord and" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Creator," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Lord" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lord and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Creator" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Lord" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" }, { "from": "human", "value": "and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and the like, and these relatives are called predicamental [secundum esse]. But others are imposed to signify the things from which ensue c...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "or" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "are applied to God only in idea, with no change in Him, as for instance when we say," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Lord, Thou art become [Douay: 'hast been'] our refuge" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Saviou...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lord and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "are simultaneous by nature. Hence, God was not" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Lord" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "God" }, { "from": "human", "value": "God, is not a name of the nature. For ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "God is a name of operation so far as relates to the source of its meaning. For this name is imposed from His universal providence over all things; since all who speak of God intend to name God as exercising providence over all; hence Dionysius says (Div. Nom. ii)," }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "God" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "God is communicable. For whosoever shares in the thing signified by a name shares in the name itself. But this name" }, { "from": "human", "value": "God signifies the divine nature, which is communicable to others, accor...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "God is given to signify the divine nature as stated above (A. 8), and since the divine nature cannot be multiplied as shown above (Q. 11, A. 3), it follows that this name" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "God is incommunicable in reality, but communicable in opinion; ju...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "God is an appellative name, and not a proper name, for it signifies the divine nature in the possessor; although God Himself in reality is neither universal nor particular. For names do not follow upon the mode of being in things, but upon the mode of being as it is in our mind....
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "God" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "God is applied to God univocally by nature, by participation, and according to opinion. For where a diverse signification exists, there is no contradiction of affirmation and negation; for equivocation prevents contradiction. But a ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "God," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "of whomsoever it is predicated, whether truly or falsely, is predicated in one sense. But it would be multiplied if by the name" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "we meant to signify different things; for instance, if one meant to signify by this name" }, { "from...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "On the contrary, par. 1]: The term" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "On the contrary, par. 2] : Neither a Catholic nor a pagan knows the very nature of God as it is in itself; but each one knows it according to some idea of causality, or excellence, or remotion (Q. 12, A. 12). So a pagan can take this name" }, { "from": "gpt", "value"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "God" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But it especially belongs to God to be the universal principle of all things. Therefore this name" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If they should say to me, What is His name? what shall I say to them? The Lord answered him," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thus shalt thou say to them, HE WHO IS hath sent me to you" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "HE WHO IS, is the principal of all names applied to God; for comprehending all in itself, it contains existence itself as an infinite and indeterminate sea of substance. Now by any other name some mode of substance is determined, whereas this name HE WHO IS, determines no mode o...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "God, as regards its source, namely, existence; and as regards the mode of signification and consignification, as said above. But as regards the object intended by the name, this name" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "God" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "are the same in subject, and different in idea; for the idea of man is one thing, and that of whiteness is another. The same applies when I say," }, { "from": "human", "value": "; since the same thing which is man is tru...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The intellect understanding anything otherwise than it is, is false, can be taken in two senses, accordingly as this adverb" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "determines the word" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "O the depth of the riches of the wisdom and of the knowledge of God" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "With Him is wisdom and strength, He hath counsel and understanding" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Every knower who knows his own essence, returns completely to his own essence." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "as Hilary says (De Trin. iii)," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The things that are of God no man knoweth, but the Spirit of God" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Everything that understands itself, comprehends itself." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "signifies that one thing holds and includes another; and in this sense everything comprehended is finite, as also is everything included in another. But God is not said to be comprehended by Himself in this sense, as if His intellect were a faculty apart from Himself, and as if ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "In God to be is the same as to be wise." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "God does not behold anything out of Himself." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "All things are naked and open to His eyes" } ]