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17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "with the Father, and to the Son"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not by natural necessity was the Father led to beget the Son."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He transferred us to the kingdom of the Son of His love"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If anyone say that the Son was made by the Will of God, as a creature is said to be made, let him be anathema. The reason of this is that will and nature differ in their manner of causation, in such a way that nature is determined to one, while the will is not determined to one;... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Taken in the latter sense, it has a twofold meaning: firstly, as an efficient and compelling cause, and thus necessary means what is violent; secondly, it means a final cause, when a thing is said to be necessary as the means to an ... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In them nothing diverse or different exists. If the Father begets the Son from Himself, since again that whence a thing is generated, if it be something permanent, receives as predicate the thing generated therefrom just as we say,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The ... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I came out of the mouth of the Most High, the first-born before all creatures : and further on (Ecclus. 24:14) it is said as uttered by the same Wisdom,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "From the beginning, and before the world was I created. Therefore the Son was not b... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "--that is, of the Father Who is essence; and so Augustine says (De Trin. xv, 13):"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "When I say of the Father Who is essence, it is the same as if I said more explicitly, of the essence of the Father."
},
{
"from": "human",
"va... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wisdom was created, this may be understood not of Wisdom which is the Son of God, but of created wisdom given by God to creatures: for it is said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He created her [namely, Wisdom] in the Holy Ghost, and He poured her out over all His wor... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If God the Father could not beget a co-equal Son, where is the omnipotence of God the Father?"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The birth of God cannot but contain that nature from which it proceeded; for He cannot subsist other than God, Who subsists from no other source than God."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "power is signified directly, generation indirectly: just as if I were to say, the"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Son did not beget a Creator: not that He could not, but that it behoved Him not."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "[of begetting] thus taking"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "as the gerund of the active verb, so that the sense would be that the Son has the"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Just as, although Father and Son have the same being, it does not follow that the ... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If an image answers perfectly to that whereof it is the image, it may be said to be equal to it; but that which it represents cannot be said to be equal to the image."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They must needs admit a difference [namely, of Godhead] who speak of either increase or decrease, as the Arians do, who sunder the Trinity by distinguishing degrees as of numbers, thus involving a plurality."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "or dimensive quantity, which is to be found only in corporeal things, and has, therefore, no place in God. There is also quantity of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "which is measured according to the perfection of some nature or form: to this sort of quantity we allud... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Equality and likeness are not mutual."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let Splendor tell thee that the co-eternal Son existed always with the Father; let the Word announce the impassibility of His birth; let the name Son insinuate His consubstantiality."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "stands ever still, as we have said above (Q. 10, A. 2, ad 1; A. 4, ad 2). But the generation of the Son is not in the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "of time, or in time, but in eternity. And so to express the presentiality and permanence of eternity, we can say that"... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not whereby one is prior to another, but whereby one is from another."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Father is greater than I ; and the Apostle says (1 Cor. 15:28):"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Son Himself shall be subject to Him that put all things under Him."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He thought it not robbery to be equal with God."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Remove bodily weakness, remove the beginning of conception, remove pain and all human shortcomings, then every son, by reason of his natural nativity, is the father's equal, because he has... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "His going forth is from the beginning, from the days of eternity."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am in the Father, and the Father is in Me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The unchangeable God, so to speak, follows His own nature in begetting an unchangeable subsisting God. So we understand the nature of God to subsist in Him, for He is God in God."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Son cannot do anything of Himself but what He seeth the Father doing."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "As the Father gave Me commandment so do I. The Father also teaches the Son:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Father loveth the Son, and showeth Hi... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Whatsoever things the Father doth, these the Son also doth in like manner."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "do not withdraw from the Son any power possessed by the Father, since it is immediately added,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Whatsoever things the Father doth, the Son doth in like manner ; but their meaning is to show that the Son derives His power from the Father,... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "signified when we say that He is able to beget; while the Son possesses the power of"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is joined and tied in one body cannot be sent."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am not alone, but I and the Father that sent Me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He was previously"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Son is sent as He is begotten."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When the fullness of the time was come, God sent His Son."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Others express the term of procession together with the relation to the principle. Of these some express the eternal term, as"
... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "have only a temporal significance in God; but"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "are exclusively eternal; whereas"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "denotes the habitude of some cause. But the divine person is the cause why the gift of sanctifying grace is possessed, and not conversely, according to Rom. 5:5,"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We will come to him and make Our abode with him."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Father alone is never described as being sent."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "as a free bestowal of something, the Father gives Himself, as freely bestowing Himself to be enjoyed by the creature. But as implying the authority of the giver as regards what is given,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "only applies in God to the Person Who is from ano... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Send her from heaven to Thy Saints, and from the seat of Thy greatness."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We will come to him, and will make Our abode with him."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Son is sent to anyone invisibly, whenever He is known and perceived by anyone."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Word we speak of is knowledge with love. Thus the Son is sent not in accordance with every and any kind of intellectual perfection, but according to ... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thus the words,"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "of grace, but by the further revelation of mysteries; which goes on till the day of judgment. Such an increase is by the"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The prophetic vision is not displayed to corporeal eyes by corporeal shapes, but is shown in the spirit by the spiritual images of bodies. But whoever saw the dove and the fire, saw them by their eyes. Nor, again, has the Holy Ghost the same relation to these images that the Son... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "--that is, of the Church. This utility consists in the confirmation and propagation of the faith by such visible signs. This has been done chiefly by Christ and by the apostles, according to Heb. 2:3,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This is My beloved Son (Matt. 3:17)... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Father is sent by no one because He is from no one."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now the Lord God hath sent Me and His Spirit."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of Him, and by Him, and in Him are all things."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "--viz. angels--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "under some particular aspect, either as"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "or as"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "; and so they assigned particular efficient causes to things. Then others there were w... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Lord has made all things for Himself."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To make concerns what did not exist at all; but to create is to make something by bringing forth something from what was already."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "[ex] imports relation of some cause, and especially of the material cause; as when we say that a statue is made from brass. But"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In the beginning God created, etc., the gloss has,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To create is... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "[ex] does not signify the material cause, but only order; as when we say,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "--i.e. after morning is midday. But we must understand that this preposition"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "[ex] can comprise the negation implied w... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In the beginning God created heaven and earth."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "are more suitable expressions here than"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "because"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The first of creatures is being."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In the beginning God created heaven and earth."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "than"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Therefore, as accidents and forms and the like non-subsisting things are to be said to co-exist rather than to exist, so they ought to be c... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "resists more than"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "in"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": ": and so it is necessary to presuppose that whereby a thing is this thing, before the action whereby it makes its own likeness. But in an immaterial substance it is not possible to presuppose anything whereby it is this thing; becaus... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and the potentiality presupposed by the power of a natural agent, as there is no proportion between"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He is the Creator of all things visible and invisible ; to the Son is attributed that by Him"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "; and to the Holy Ghost is attributed that He is"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lord and Life-giver."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Through Him all things were made, inasmuch as He has the same power, but from another; for this preposition"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "usually denotes a mediate cause, or"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But to the Holy Ghost, Who has the same power f... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and the justification of the sinner to"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "poured out super-abundantly. But creation, which is the production of the very substance of a thing, is reduced to"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": ": for a trace shows that someone has passed by but not who it is. Other effects represent the cause as regards the similitude of its form, as fire generated represents fire generating; and a statue of Mercury represents Mercury; and this is called the representation of"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "According as it has a form and species, it represents the Word as the form of the thing made by art is from the conception of the craftsman. According as it has relation of order, it represents the Holy Ghost, inasmuch as He is love, because the order of the effect to something ... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "they asserted that they pre-exist"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Others, however, said that the forms were given or caused by a separate agent by way of creation; and accordingly, that to each operation of nature is joined creation. But this opinion arose from ignora... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Glorify Me, O Father, with Thyself with the glory which I had before the world was ; and (Prov. 8:22),"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Lord possessed Me in the beginning of His ways, before He made anything from the beginning."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and not in time"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "belong to time, according as they are in movement. Hence beginning and end in time must be taken in the same way as in movement. Now, granted the eternity of movement, it is necessary that any given moment in movement be a beginning... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "signifies priority not of time, but of eternity. Or we may say that it signifies the eternity of imaginary time, and not of time really existing; thus, when we say that above heaven there is nothing, the word"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "(Heb. 11:1). But that God is the Creator of the world: hence that the world began, is an article of faith; for we say,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I believe in one God, etc. And again, Gregory says (Hom. i in Ezech.), that Moses prophesied of the past, saying,"
... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And they try to explain their meaning thus (De Civ. Dei x, 31): for as, if the foot were always in the dust from eternity, there would always be a footprint which without doubt was caused by him who trod on it, so also the world always was, because its Maker always existed."
}... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But in the beginning of time, since it is indivisible, there is no"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Therefore, since to be created is a kind of"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In the beginning God created heaven and earth."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In the beginning God created heaven and earth, are expounded in a threefold sense in order to exclude three errors. For some said that the world always was, and that time had no beginning; ... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "by means of movement, or as the term of movement. Because, since in every movement there is"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "before any one point in a given movement--that is, whilst anything is in the process of being m... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hence time cannot be made except according to some"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "; not because in the first"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God said: Be light made . . . And He divided the light from the darkness."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why does one day excel another, and one light another, and one year another year, one sun another sun? [Vulg.: 'when all come of the sun']. By the knowledge of the Lord they were distinguished."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "God saw all the things that He had made, a... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God saw the light that it was good (Gen. 1:4); and in like manner of each one of the rest. But of all together it is said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "God saw all the things that He had made, and they were very good"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I mean the form, and when I say"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I mean the form in matter; so when we say"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "the form is signified, and when we say"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The world was made by Him,"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Evil is neither a being nor a good."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Evil does not act, nor is it desired, except by virtue of some good joined to it: while of itself it is nothing definite, and beside the scope of our will and intention."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But Dionysius says (Div. Nom. iv) that"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "; and in that sense it is convertible with thing, and thus no privation is a being, and neither therefore is evil a being. In another sense being conveys the truth of a proposition which unites together subject and attribute by a copula, notified by this word"
},
{
"from... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "as Dionysius says (Div. Nom. iv); but it belongs to nature that what may fail should sometimes fail; secondly, because, as Augustine says (Enchir. 11),"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "God is so powerful that He can even make good out of evil."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Woe to you who call evil good, and good evil!"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not-being, understood negatively, does not require a subject; but privation is negation in a subject, as the Philosopher says (Metaph. iv, text 4), and such"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "but"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Our sins have divided between us and God."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": ": such was its original signification, being derived from"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In this sense we say"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pain of death, Pain of loss, Pain of sense."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To be punished is not an evil; but it is an evil to be made worthy of punishment."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There is no possible source of evil except good."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Lord calls an evil will the evil tree, and a good will a good tree."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am the Lord, and there is no other God, forming the light, and creating darkness, making peace, and creating evil. And Amos 3:6,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Shall there be evil in a city, which the Lord hath not done?"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God is not the author of evil because He is not the cause of tending to not-being."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Lord killeth and maketh alive. But when we read that"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "God hath not made death"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good is set against evil, and life against death; so also is the sinner against a just man."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Every creature is limited within its own nature. But to be limited belongs to bodies. Therefore, every creature is corporeal. Now angels are God's creatures, as appears from Ps. 148:2:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Praise ye the Lord,"
},
{
"from": "human",
... |
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