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17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The first creatures are understood to be as immaterial as they are incorporeal."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "which differ by addition and subtraction of unity, as the Philosopher says (Metaph. viii, text 10). But in material things there is one thing which determines to a special grade, and that is the form; and another thing which is determined, and this is the matter; and hence from ... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "or"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "as Boethius says. For"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "is the form itself subsisting; and the existence itself is whereby the... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thousands of thousands ministered to Him, and ten thousands times a hundred thousand stood before Him."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There are many blessed armies of the heavenly intelligences, surpassing the weak and limited reckoning of our material numbers."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Difference"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O gods of gods, whose maker and father am I: You are indeed my works, dissoluble by nature, yet indissoluble because I so will it."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is God's attribute alone--that is, it belongs to the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, as a property of nature, that He is understood to exist without any material substance and without any companionship of corporeal addition. Bernard likewise says (Hom. vi. super Cant.):"... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thy magnificence is exalted beyond the heavens"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Lord killeth, and maketh alive."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Abraham walked with the angels, who had appeared to him,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "; and when Tobias said to the angel (Tob. 5:7, 8):"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Knowest thou the way that leadeth to the city of Medes? he answered:"
},
{
... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "After the sons of God went in to the daughters of men, and they brought forth children, these are the mighty men of old, men of renown"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When I was with you, I seemed indeed to eat and to drink; but I use an invisible meat and drink"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Many persons affirm that they have had the experience, or have heard from such as have experienced it, that the Satyrs and Fauns, whom the common folk call incubi, have often presented themselves before women, and have sought and procured intercourse with them. Hence it is folly... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The common opinion of the learned is that things incorporeal are not in a place. And again, Aristotle observes (Phys. iv, text 48,57) that"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let Thy holy angels who dwell herein, keep us in peace."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "regarding the same thing, would be called movement: hence, in whichever of those"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They are all [*Vulg.: 'Are they not all . . . ?'] ministering spirits, sent to minister for them who receive the inheritance of salvation."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "he is no longer in motion, but is changed. But a process of changing precedes every actual change: consequently he was being moved while existing in some place. But he was not moved so long as he was in the term"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The middle is that into ... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "in which the body moved is not in one place and in another; for if it were in one and the same place in two"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "it would follow that it would be at rest there; since to be at rest is nothing else than to be in the same place now and previou... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "of time: hence they say that a last"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "of time which measures rest, the subject reposing is in the same"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "in the first, in the middle, and in the last"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "On the other hand, it is of the very nature of movement for the subject moved to ... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "is not the same as that between"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "; but rather as that between"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "of which the object is"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "; and the act"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "of which the object is"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "express the power of understanding. But in many passages of his writings, Dionysius styles angels"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "while He made primary matter"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Secondly, it may be said that such authorities and the like are to be understood by way of similitude. Because, since sense has a sure apprehension of its proper sensible object, it is a common usage of speech, when we understand so... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "as to say that"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The other things which are lower than the angels are so created that they first receive existence in the knowledge of the rational creature, and then in their own nature."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "As the type, according to which the creature is fashioned, is in ... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "that is to say the angels,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": ": instead of which the old translation read--"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Afterwards he adds that,"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We see now through a glass in a dark manner; but then face to face."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The invisible things of God are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The sense has for its object singulars, but the intellect, universals."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He hath given His angels charge over Thee."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They are all ministering spirits. Now, if they had no knowledge of singulars, they could exercise no provision over what is going on in this world; since acts belong to individuals: and this is... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Show the things that are to come hereafter, and we shall know that ye are gods."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God moves the spiritual creature according to time."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gold or crystal cannot equal it, says that"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "namely in the bliss of those rising from the dead,"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The heart is perverse above all things, and unsearchable; who can know it? I am the Lord, Who search the heart."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "; although (Retract. ii, 30) he says"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For what man knoweth the things of a man, ... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This mystery was hidden in God through the ages, yet so that it was known to the princes and powers in heavenly places. And the Apostle says (1 Tim. 3:16):"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That great mystery of godliness appeared unto angels*."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For the Lord God doth nothing without revealing His secret to His servants the prophets."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sacred Scripture describes some heavenly essences as questioning Jesus, and learning from Him the knowledge of His Divine work for us; and Jesus as... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As you reading, may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ, which in other generations was not known to the sons of men, as it is now revealed to His holy apostles. Among the prophets also, the later ones knew what the former did not know; according to Ps. 118:100:"
... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "On Whom the angels desire to look."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Since the angels were created, in the eternity of the Word, they enjoy holy and devout contemplation."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "that is, before it has the habit of knowledge; secondl... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The spiritual faculty of the angelic mind comprehends most easily at the same time all things that it wills."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But experimental knowledge is discursive: for,"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": ": because even with ourselves the things which are instantly grasped by the mind are said to be understood [intelligi]; hence"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "is defined as the habit of first principles. But human souls which acquire knowledge of truth by the discursiv... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Augustine likewise says (QQ. 83, qu. 32) that"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Morning and an"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Evening"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The sciences are divided just as things are."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You were heretofore darkness; but now, light in the Lord : yet this very life of the faithful, when set in contrast to the life of glory, is termed darkness, according to 2 Pet. 1:19:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You have the firm prophetic word, whereunto you do w... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "there is no night, but"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There was evening and morning, one day. But by the expression"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There is a vast difference between knowing anything as it is in the Word of God, and as it is in its own nature; so that the former belongs to the day, and the latter to the evening."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "denotes the form of a principle; because, as has been... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The will is in the reason."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Others, again, are inclined towards good, but with some knowledge; not that they know the aspect of goodness, but that they apprehend some particular good; as in the sense, which knows the sweet, the white, and so on. The inclination which follows this apprehension is called"
... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "while counsel is"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Love is a uniting and a binding power."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Love for others comes of love for oneself."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "while the first is called"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That on account of which a thing is such, is yet more so."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Two loves have made two cities; namely love of self unto the contempt of God has made the earthly city; while love of God unto the contempt of self has made the heavenly city."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "as He is good to the angel, if the expression"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Praise ye Him, all His angels ; and further on, verse 5:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "For He spoke and they were made."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "or of"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"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": "God moves the spiritual creature according to time."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Six thousand years of our time have not yet elapsed; yet how shall we measure the time, how shall we count the ages, in which the Angels, Thrones, Dominations, and the other orders served God? Damascene also says (De Fide Orth. ii):"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Som... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In the beginning God created heaven and earth."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "as it is said Deut. 32:4, should have created the angelic creature before other creatures. At the same time the contrary is not to be deemed erroneous; especially on account of the opinion ... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In the beginning God created heaven and earth, the words,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In the beginning, must be interpreted,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In the Son, or"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In the beginning of time : but not,"... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will ascend into heaven"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In the beginning God created heaven and earth, says:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "By heaven he does not mean the visible firmament, but the empyrean, that is, the fiery or intellectual firmament... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Turn ye to Me, and I will turn to you."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The grace of God is life everlasting."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "which is beyond a power; and this happens in two ways. First of all, because it is beyond the natural capacity of the power. Thus, if it can be attained by some help, it is said to be"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "; but if it can in no way be attained, then it is"
... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Convert us, O Lord, to Thee, and we shall be converted."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": ": but afterwards it received its form, and was then called"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who wrought the good will of the angels? Who, save Him Who created them with His will, that is, with the pure love wherewith they cling to Him; at the same time building up their nature and bestowing grace on them?"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "in that heavenly Jerusalem is"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God makes use of us for our own gain, and for His own goodness. The same thing happens to the angels, whom He uses for spiritual ministrations ; since"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There is [Vulg.'shall be'] joy before the angels of God upon one sinner doing penance."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In His angels He found wickedness."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will ascend into heaven . . . I will be like the Most High. And Augustine (De Qu. Vet. Test. cxiii) says that being"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There is a class of demons of crafty nature, pretending that they are gods and the souls of the dead."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Their malice is natural."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He was a murderer from the beginning."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "which is said to have been created in the beginning, signifies the angelic nature while as yet not fully formed: and when it is said that God said:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Be li... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God saw all the things that He had made, and they were very good."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How art thou fallen . . . O Lucifer, who didst rise in the morning! and it is said to the devil in the person of the King of Tyre (Ezech. 28:13):"
},
{
"from": "h... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He alone could discern light and darkness, Who also could foreknow, before they fell, those who would fall."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thou didst walk perfect [*Vulg.: 'Thou hast walked in the midst of the stones of fire; thou wast perfect . . .'] in thy ways from the day of thy creation until iniquity was found in thee."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He stood not in the truth : and, as Augustine says (De Civ. Dei xi, 15),"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The serpent of old did not from the first walk upon his breast and belly,"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thou wast a cherub stretched out, and protecting, and I set thee in the holy mountain of God."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "while"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Seraphim means"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "or"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This dragon which Thou hast formed--He who was the more excellent than the rest in nature, became the greater in malice."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "with him"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Go [Vulg. 'Depart from Me'], you cursed, into everlasting fir... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Evil is in many, but good is in few."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The number of fools is infinite."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There are more with us than with them"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "comes"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "knowledge. For the evening is akin to darkness, yet it possesses some light: but when the light fails utterly, then it is night. So then the knowledge of things in their own nature, when referred to the praise of the Creator, as it is in the good angels, has something of the Div... |
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