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17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
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"from": "human",
"value": "In the hand of his own counsel. But since the very act of free will is traced to God as to a cause, it necessarily follows that everything happening from the exercise of free will must be subject to divine providence. For human providence is included under the providence of God,... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is better to be ignorant of some things than to know them, for example, vile things"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What other hath He appointed over the earth? or whom hath He set over the world which He made? On which passage Gregory says (Moral. xxiv, 20):"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Himself He ruleth the world which He Himself hath made."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fate from the immutable source of providence binds together human acts and fortunes by the indissoluble connection of causes."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It must be borne in mind that God foreknows but does not predetermine everything, since He foreknows all that is in us, but does not predetermine it all."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now we have received not the spirit of this world, but the Spirit that is of God: that we may know the things that are given us from God."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Whom He predestined, them He also called."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He does not will malice, nor does He compel virtue."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He who was predestined, etc. (Rom. 1:4):"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Predestination is of one who is not; destination, of one who is. And Augustine says (De Praed. Sanct.):"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is predestination but the destination of ... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Whom He predestined, them He also called and whom He called, them He also magnified [Vulg. 'justified']."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thou lovest all things that are, and Thou hatest none of the things Thou hast made."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Destruction is thy own, O Israel; Thy help is only in Me."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Consider the works of God, that no man can correc... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Destruction is thy own, O Israel."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Eligantur."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Those are chosen by God, who do not exist; yet He does not err in His choice."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Whom He foreknew, He also predestined. Again a gloss of Ambrose on Rom. 9:15:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I will have mercy upon whom I will have mercy says:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will give mercy to him who, I foresee, will turn to Me with... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There is no injustice in God"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not by works of justice which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For when they were not yet born, nor had done any good or evil . . . not of works, but of Him that calleth, it was said of her: The elder shall serve the younger."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What if God, willing to show His wrath [that is, the vengeance of His justice], and to make His power known, endured [that is, permitted] with much patience vessels of wrath, fitted for destruction; that He might show the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He hat... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Whom He foreknew, He also predestinated , says:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Predestination is the foreknowledge and preparation of the benefits of God, by which whosoever are freed will most certainly be freed."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He shall break in pieces many and innumerable, and make others to stand in their stead."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Lord God adds to this number many thousands, and a gloss adds,"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For wide is the gate, and broad the way that leadeth to destruction, and many there are who go in thereat. How narrow is the gate, and strait is the way that leadeth to life; and few there are who find it!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The number of the predestined ... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "(Rom. 8:28). Concerning the number of all the predestined, some say that so many men will be saved as angels fell; some, so many as there were angels left; others, as many as the number of angels created by God. It is, however, better to say that,"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who hath helped the Spirit of the Lord? [*Vulg.: 'Who hath known the mind of the Lord?'] Or who hath been His counsellor?"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Isaac besought the Lord for his wife because she was barren; and He heard him and made Rebecca to conceive"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But the triumpher in Israel will not spare and will not be moved to repentance (1 Kings 15:29); and that"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Labor more that by good works you may make sure your calling and election"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who hath hel... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All things are the book of life"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let them be blotted out of the book of the living,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This book is the knowledge of God, by which He hath predestined to life those whom He foreknew."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "fathers. Now it is clear from the preceding ... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil?"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God's foreknowledge, which cannot be deceived, is the book of life."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let them be blotted out from the book of the living"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Let them be blotted out of the book of the living. But because not to be blotted out of the book of life is placed among the rewards of the just, according to the text,"
},
{
"... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thou art mighty, O Lord, and Thy truth is round about Thee"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God's power is immeasurable. He is the living mighty one."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God hath made foolish the wisdom of this world (1 Cor. 1:20), a gloss says:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "God hath made the wisdom of this world foolish [*Vulg.: 'Hath not God', etc.] by showing those things to be possible which it judges to be impossible."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No word shall be impossible with God"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "God can do all things,"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No word shall be impossible with God."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If man is a donkey, he has four feet."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Although God can do all things, He cannot make a thing that is corrupt not to have been corrupted."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Whosoever says, If God is almighty, let Him make what is done as if it were not done, does not see that this is to say: If God is almight... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thinkest thou that I cannot ask My Father, and He will give Me presently more than twelve legions of angels?"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "may be understood in two ways: one, in direct connection with the verb"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "; and thus they would be restricted to the present order of things; and would concern His power. Then what is said i... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If God could, but would not, beget a Son His equal, He would have been envious."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God is able to do all things more abundantly than we desire or understand."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "is taken substantively, this proposition is true. For He can always make something else better than each individual thing: and He can make the same thing in one way better than it is, and in another way not; as was explained above. If, however,"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Which in His times He shall show, who is the Blessed and only Almighty, the King of Kings and Lord of Lords."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He is in glory, Who whilst He rejoices in Himself, needs not further praise. To be in glory, however, is the same as to be blessed. Therefore, since we enjoy God in respect to our intellect, because"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Star differeth from star in glory."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Blessed is he who knoweth Thee, though he know nought else."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "From God I proceeded"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That . . . we may be in His true Son. This is true God (1 John 5:20). Of the Holy Ghost it is also said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Know you not that your members are the temple of the Holy Ghost? ... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This day have I begotten Thee."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The depths were not as yet, and I was already conceived; before the hills, I was brought forth. (Prov. 8:24). In our way of understanding we use the word"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will ask My Father, and He will give you another Paraclete"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Holy Ghost is from the Father and the Son, not made, nor begotten, but proceeding."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All possible predicaments used as regards the Godhead refer to the substance; for nothing can be predicated relatively."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Relation in the Trinity of the Father to the Son, and of both to the Holy Ghost, is the relation of the same to the ... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let us adore the distinction of the Persons, and the equality of their Majesty."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "there is motion in the thing moved; whereas passion implies reference as of something"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is the same way from Athens to Thebes, as from Thebes to Athens."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Person"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "For nothing singular can be subject to definition. But"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "is superfluous, because first substance is individual substance; if it stands for second substance, the word"
},
{
"from"... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "because it exists in this particular subject. And so it is reasonable that the individuals of the genus substance should have a special name of their own; for they are called"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "is placed in the definition of person, as signifying the sing... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "in the definition of person stands for first substance, which is the hypostasis; nor is the term"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "superfluously added, forasmuch as by the name of hypostasis or first substance the idea of universality and of part is excluded. For we do ... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Person"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "is the same as"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For Boethius says (De Duab. Nat.) that"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"val... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In another sense substance means a subject or _suppositum,_ which subsists in the genus of substance. To this, taken in a general sense, can be applied a name expressive of an intention; and thus it is called _suppositum._ It is also called by three names signifying a reality--t... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "plurally in God, and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "so the Greeks say"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But because the word"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "which, properly speaking, corresponds in meaning to"
},
{
"from": "human",
"... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A simple form cannot be a subject."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Person"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "should not be said of God. For Dionysius says (Div. Nom.):"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No one should ever dare to say or think anything of the supersubstantial and hidden Divinity, beyond what has been divinely e... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "is not found applied to God in Scripture, either in the Old or New Testament, nevertheless what the word signifies is found to be affirmed of God in many places of Scripture; as that He is the supreme self-subsisting being, and the most perfectly intelligent being. If we could s... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But no word belongs to person more strictly than the very word"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "itself. Therefore this word"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "of itself expresses absolutely the divine essence; as this name"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "God and this word"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wise ; but that to meet heretical attack, it was ordained by conciliar decree that it was to be taken in a re... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One is the person of the Father, another of the Son, another of the Holy Ghost."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "includes"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "not as meaning the essence, but the _suppositum_ which is made clear by the addition of the term"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To signify the substance thus understood, the Greeks use the name"
},
{
"from... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Father is immense, the Son is immense, the Holy Ghost is immense."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There are three who bear witness in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost (1 John 5:7). To those who ask,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thre... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If we admit companionship --that is, plurality--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and Ambrose says (De Fide i):"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When we say one God, unity excludes plurality of gods, and does not imply quantity in God."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "convertible with"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "is related to being; which kind of oneness does not add anything to being, except a negation of division, as we saw when treating of the divine unity (Q. 11, A. 1); for"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "signi... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "which is the principle of that number. Therefore the numeral terms in God signify the things of which they are said, and beyond this they add negation only, as stated (Sent. i, D, 24); in which respect the Master was right (Sent. i, D, 24). So when we say, the essence is one, th... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Person"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "cannot be common to the three persons. For nothing is common to the three persons but the essence. But this term"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Three what? we say,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Three persons,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "is common to the three when we say"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "; for when we say"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "we show that"
... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "contains the word"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Others thought it to be a community of intention, as the definition of person contains the word"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "; as we say that to be a species is common to horse and ox. Both of these exp... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Trinity"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Trinity does not signify the substance; otherwise it would be predicated of each one of the persons: nor does it signify relation; for it does not express a name that refers to another. Therefore the word"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Trinity"
},
{
"from": "... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Unity in Trinity; and Trinity in Unity is to be revered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Trinity"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Trinity"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "is a multitude of men comprehended under a certain order. In the first sense, this word"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Trinity is taken in an absolute sense; for it signifies the threefold number of persons."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Triplicity"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Trinity in Unity, we do not place number in the unity of the essence, as if we meant three times one; but we place the Persons numbered in the unity of nature; as the _supposita_ of a nature are said to exist in that nature. On the other hand, we say"
},
{
"from": "gpt",... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "is a relative term implying diversity of substance. If, then, the Son is other than the Father, He must be different from the Father; which is contrary to what Augustine says (De Trin. vii), that when we speak of three persons,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and"
}... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There is one essence of the Father and Son and Holy Ghost, in which the Father is not one thing, the Son another, and the Holy Ghost another; although the Father is one person, the Son another, and the Holy Ghost another."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "on account of the relative opposition. Hence whenever we find terms of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "or"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "of Persons used in an authentic work, these terms of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "or"
},
{
"fro... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Difference implies distinction of form. There is one form in God, as appears from the text,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Who, when He was in the form of God (Phil. 2:6). Therefore the term"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "does not properly apply to God,... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Alone"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "[solus] is not to be added to an essential term in God. For, according to the Philosopher (Elench. ii, 3),"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He is alone who is not with another."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value":... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "properly speaking, does not affect the predicate, which is taken formally, for it refers to the _suppositum,_ as excluding any other suppositum from the one which it qualifies. But the adverb"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "being exclusive, can be applied either to su... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Socrates alone is white, that therefore"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "or that"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thou alone art Most High, O Jesus Christ."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Father alone is God"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Father alone is God, such a proposition can be taken in several senses. If"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "means solitude in the Father, it is false in a categorematical sense; but if taken in a syncategorematical sense it can again be understood in several ways. ... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thee the only true God, we do not understand it as referring to the person of the Father, but to the whole Trinity, as Augustine expounds (De Trin. vi, 9). Or, if understood of the person of the Father, the other persons are not excluded by reason of the unity of essence; in so ... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Through this number --namely, three--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And Augustine says (Confess. vii, 9):"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have read in their works, not in so many words, but enforced by many and various reasons, that in the beginning w... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I believe without doubt that probable and even necessary arguments can be found for any explanation of the truth. So even to prove the Trinity some have brought forward a reason from the infinite goodness of God, who communicates Himself infinitely in the procession of the divin... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let no man think to reach the sacred mystery of generation by his own mind. And Ambrose says (De Fide ii, 5),"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is impossible to know the secret of generation. The mind fails, the voice is silent."
}
] |
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