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17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The habit of knowledge may regard many things at once; but actual understanding regards only one thing at a time."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God does not see all things in their particularity or separately, as if He saw alternately here and there; but He sees all things together at once."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Whom He called, them He also justified, etc.:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A thing will happen not because God knows it as future; but because it is future, it is on that account known by God, before it exists."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The thing known is prior to knowledge, and is its measure,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not because they are, does God know all creatures spiritual and temporal, but because He knows them, therefore they are."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who . . . calleth those things that are not as those that are"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hell and destruction are before God [Vulg: 'the Lord']."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "God through Himself receives the vision of darkness, not otherwise seeing darkness except through light."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All the ways of a man are open to His eyes."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "as the Philosopher says (Phys. iii). Moreover, Augustine says (De Civ. Dei xii) that"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Although we cannot number the infinite, nevertheless it can be comprehended by Him whose knowledge has no bounds."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If God knew that this thing will be, it will be,"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He Who hath made the hearts of every one of them; Who understandeth all their works,"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God knew this contingent to be future, is not necessary, but contingent; because, although it is past, still it imports relation to the future. This however does not remove necessity from it; for whatever has had relation to the future, must have had it, although the future some... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Lord knoweth the thoughts of men"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lord ,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Creator and the like, import relations to creatures in so far as they are in themselves. But the knowledge of God imports relation to creatures in so far as they are in God; because everything is actually understood according as ... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Christ is born and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "; because the same thing is signified by these three--viz. the nativity of Christ. Therefore it follows, they said, that whatever God knew, He knows; because now He kno... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Such is the power inherent in ideas, that no one can be wise unless they are understood."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ideas are certain principal forms, or permanent and immutable types of things, they themselves not being formed. Thus they are eternal, and existing always in the same manner, as being contained in the divine intelligence. Whilst, however, they themselves neither come into being... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Acts of the divine will are the determining and effective types of things."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and belongs to practical knowledge. But so far as it is a principle of knowledge, it is properly called a"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "nor as a"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "but only in so far as it denotes a"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That is true which is seen ; since it would follow that stones hidden in the bosom of the earth would not be true stones, as they are not seen. He also condemns the following,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That is true which is as it appears to the knower, who is wi... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Truth is that whereby is made manifest that which is; and Hilary says (De Trin. v) that"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Truth makes being clear and evident and this pertains to truth according as it is in the intellect. As to the truth of things in so far as they are ... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now composition and division are neither in the senses nor in the intellect knowing"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "truth is"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "When, however, it judges that a thing corresponds to the form which it apprehends about that thing, then first it knows and expresses truth. This it does by composing and dividing: for in every proposition it either applies to,... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "is not truth in general, but a certain kind of truth according to which man shows himself in deed and word as he really is. But truth as applied to"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "is used in a particular sense, inasmuch as a man fulfills in his life that to which he i... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Similarly, the divine truth can be called a"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "--is entirely from God. But to argue,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Therefore that this person fornicates is from God"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Truths are decayed from among the children of men."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Truths are decayed from among the children of men, says:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As from one man's face many likenesses are reflected in a mirror, so many truths ar... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nothing is more eternal than the nature of a circle, and that two added to three make five."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Truth and mind do not rank as equals, otherwise truth would be mutable, as the mind is."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "in so far as a thing answers to that which is in the divine mind concerning it. But this proposition that"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Socrates sits"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Socrates sits, will sit, sat."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Truths are decayed from among the children of men."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Socrates sits,"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Socrates sits,"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If the true is that which is, it will be concluded that the false exists nowhere; whatever reason may appear to the contrary."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Every body is a true body and a false unity: for it imitates unity without being unity."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why do you love vanity, and seek after lying? (Ps. 4:3): as on the other hand virtuous deeds are called the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "as being obedient to the order of the divine intellect. Thus it is said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He that do... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The true tragedian is a false Hector,"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If all the bodily senses report as they are affected, I do not know what more we can require from them."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It appears that the senses entrap us into error by their deceptive similitudes."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sense, about its proper object, is never false."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Everyone who is deceived, understands not that in which he is deceived."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "would be of this kind, and the intellect false in making it; for such a statement as"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "as Augustine says (Soliloq. ii, 5),"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A tragedian would not be a false Hector, if he were not a true tragedian."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "as Augustine says (De Civ. Dei xii, 2). But falsity is opposed to God, for an ido... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God is good, is,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "God is not good."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Movement is like a kind of life possessed by all things existing in nature."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The last echo of life is heard in the plants,"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now this is eternal life, that they may know Thee, the only true God."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In living things, to live is to be."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "is used to denote a genus of substances from the fact of their possessing three dimen... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My heart and my flesh have rejoiced in the living God."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In Him we live, and move, and be."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What was made, in Him was life."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In Him we live, move, and be"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That you may prove what is the will of God."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is the will of God, your sanctification."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who worketh all things according to the counsel of His will."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As our sun, not by reason nor by pre-election, but by its very being, enlightens all things that can participate in its light, so the divine good by its very essence pours the rays of goodness upon everything that exists."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Because God is good, we exist."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How could anything endure, if Thou wouldst not?"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Because God is good, we exist,"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who would venture to say that God made all things irrationally?"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Every efficient cause is greater than the thing effected."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Philosophers in their vanity have thought fit to attribute contingent effects to other causes, being utterly unable to perceive the cause that is shown above all others, the will of God."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God will have all men to be saved, and to come to the knowledge of the truth."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God hath done all things, whatsoever He would."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God will have all men to be saved, etc. can be understood in three ways. First, by a restricted application, in which case they would mean, as Augustine says (De praed. sanct. i, 8: Enchiridion 103),"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "God wills all men to be saved that a... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It repenteth Me that I have made man."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I will speak against a nation and against a kingdom, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy it; but if that nation shall repent of its evil, I also will repent of the evil that I have thought... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God is not as a man, that He should lie, nor as the son of man, that He should be changed"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lazarus will not rise again, but looking at the divine first cause might have said:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Lazarus will rise again. And God wills both: that is, that in the order of the inferior cause a thing shall happen; but that in the order of the higher ... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No one is saved, except whom God has willed to be saved. He must therefore be asked to will it; for if He wills it, it must necessarily be."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nature always works in the same way, if there is nothing to hinder it. But the will of God canno... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Although evil in so far as it is evil is not a good, yet it is good that not only good things should exist, but also evil things."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Evil would conduce to the perfection of everything, i.e. the universe. And Augustine says (Enchiridion 10,... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No wise man is the cause of another man becoming worse. Now God surpasses all men in wisdom. Much less therefore is God the cause of man becoming worse; and when He is said to be the cause of a thing, He is said to will it."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God alone is He who is not liable to sin, nor can be liable: all others, as having free-will, can be inclined to either side."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Holy Spirit divideth unto each one as He will, namely, according to the free choice of the will, not in obedience to necessity."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Great are the works of the Lord, sought out according to all His wills."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. That permission and operation are called the will of God is clear from Augustine (Enchiridion 95), who says:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nothing is done, unless the Almighty wills it to be done, either by permitting it... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Love is a uniting and binding force."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "God is love"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God rejoices by an operation that is one and simple,"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thou hatest all the workers of iniquity."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thou lovest all things that are, and hatest none of the things which Thou hast made."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "On behalf of the truth we must make bold to say even this, that He Himself, the cause of all things, by His abounding love and goodness, is placed outside Himself by His providence for all existing things."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He hath equally care of all"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God loves all things that He has made, and amongst them rational creatures more, and of these especially those who are members of His only-begotten Son Himself."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thou hast made him a little less than the angels (Ps. 8:6). But God loved men more than He loved the angels, for it is said:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nowhere... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Every beast loveth its like."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "in so far as He was true God. Nor did anything of His excellence diminish when God delivered Him up to death for the salvation of the human race; rather did He become thereby a glorious conqueror:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The government was placed upon His shou... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and no other"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In battle the general loves the soldier who after flight returns and bravely pursues the enemy, more than him who has never fled, but has never done a brave deed."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God worketh all things according to the counsel of His will"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good regards the essence; justice the act."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Lord is just, and hath loved justice."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who hath first given to Him, and recompense shall be made him? (Rom. 11:35). The other consists in distrib... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When Thou dost punish the wicked, it is just, since it agrees with their deserts; and when Thou dost spare the wicked, it is also just; since it befits Thy goodness."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mercy and truth have met each other"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If we believe not, He continueth faithful: He cannot deny Himself."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He is a merciful and gracious Lord."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Forgive one another, as Christ has forgiven you (Eph. 4:32). Hence it is clear that mercy does not destroy justice, but in a sense is the fulness thereof. And thus it is said:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mercy exalteth itself above judgement"
},
{
"from": ... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All the ways of the Lord are mercy and truth."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Many sins are forgiven her, because she hath loved much"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The evils that press on us in this world force us to go to God."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But Thou, Father, governest all things by providence [*Vulg. But 'Thy providence, O Father, governeth it.']."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In this way prudence or providence may suitably be attributed to God. For in God Himself there can be nothing ordered towards a... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Prudence is the right reason of things contingent concerning which there is counsel and choice."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "God made man from the beginning, and left him in the hand of his own counsel (Ecclus. 15:14). And particularly in reference to the wicked:"
... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Those things that are of God are well ordered [*Vulg. 'Those powers that are, are ordained of God': 'Quae autem sunt, a Deo ordinatae sunt.' St. Thomas often quotes this passage, and invariably reads: 'Quae a Deo sunt, ordinata sunt.']"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Almighty God would in no wise permit evil to exist in His works, unless He were so almighty and so good as to produce good even from evil."
}
] |
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