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17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I know Who Thou art, the holy one of God (Mark 1:24)."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The demons also"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "(James 2:19). And Dionysius observes (Div. Nom. iv), that"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The pride of them th... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The devil has power over them who despise God's commandments, and he rejoices over this sinister power."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Who was made to fear no one."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As much as she hath glorified herself, and lived in delicacies, so much torment and sorrow give ye to her."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He was made to fear no one, this is to be understood of the fear of God which restrains from sin. For it is written elsewhere that"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If our earthly house of this habitation be dissolved, we have a house in heaven."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They carry fire of hell with them wherever they go. Nor is this contrary to what is said (Luke 8:31),"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They besought the Lord not to cast them into the abyss ; for they asked for this, deeming it to be a punishment for them to be cast ou... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In the beginning God created heaven and earth ; the work of distinction as given in the words,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He divided the light from the darkness, and the waters that are above the firmament from the waters that are under the firmament ; and the wo... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have learned that all the works which God hath made, continue for ever. But visible bodies do not continue for ever, for it is said (2 Cor. 4:18):"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal."... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "While we look not at the things which are seen."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all things that are in them."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The god of this world hath blinded the minds of unbelievers. But this posi... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "(Rom. 1:20). If, then, they withdraw men from God, it is the fault of those who use them foolishly. Thus it is said (Wis. 14:11):"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Creatures are turned into a snare to the feet of the unwise."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Lord hath made all things for Himself."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "God saw that it was good"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thou hast made all things in wisdom. But"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In the beginning God created heaven and earth"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In the beginning God created heaven and earth."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "From forms that are without matter come the forms that are in matter."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We must not suppose that this corporeal matter serves the angels at their nod, but rather that it obeys God thus."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "(Phaedo xlix). And, according to the Platonists, the order of forms corresponds to the order of those separate substances;... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, such are the forms of corruptible things that at one time they exist and at another exist not, without being themselves generated or corrupted, but by reason of the generation or corruption of the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "; since even forms have not being,... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The earth was void and empty, or"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The works of God are perfect."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And the earth lacked beauty in two ways: first, that beauty which it acquired when its watery veil was withdrawn, and so we read that"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "or"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "inasmuch as the waters covered and concealed it from v... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In the beginning God created heaven and earth. The second distinction mentioned is that of the elements according to their forms, since both earth and water are named. That air and fire are not mentioned by name is due to the fact that the corporeal nature of these would not be ... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I find two things Thou hast made, one formed, the other formless,"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Things that are one in genus are one in matter."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "By your own nature you are subject to dissolution, but by My will you are indissoluble, for My will is more powerful than the link that binds you together."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In so far as we mentally apprehend eternal things, so far are we not of this world"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In the beginning God created heaven and earth,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Just as the lost are driven into the lowest darkness, so the reward for worthy deeds is laid up in the light beyond this world, where the just shall obtain the abode of rest."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The ministering spirit could not live in darkness, but made his habitual dwelling in light and joy."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is certain that the heaven was created spherical in shape, of dense body, and sufficiently strong to separate what is outside it from... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I find two things that Thou didst create before time was, the primary corporeal matter, and the angelic nature."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "God divided the light from the darkness."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Both spiritual and corporeal creatures were created at the beginning of time."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Light"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "is used in its proper sense in spiritual things. For Augustine says (Gen. ad lit. iv, 28) that"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All that is made manifest is light."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Splendor"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "originally applied to the act of the sense, and then, as sight is the noblest and most trustworthy of the senses, extended in common speech to all... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "or in earthly matter is"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In the beginning God created heaven and earth, a spiritual nature as yet formless is to be understood by the word"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and formless matter of the corporeal creature by the word"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and another where it is said that"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He called the light day, and the darkness night."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God called the firmament heaven. But the heaven existed before days, as is clear from the words,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In the beginning God created heaven and earth."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God said: let there be a firmament, and further on (verse 8);"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And the evening and morning were the second day."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For a body is called firm, that is dense and solid,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "as is remarked by Basil (Hom. iii in Hexaem.). If, then, this explanation is adopted none of these opinions will be found repugnant to reason. Augustine, in fact (Gen. ad lit. ii, 4), ... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "These words of Scripture have more authority than the most exalted human intellect. Hence, whatever these waters are, and whatever their mode of existence, we cannot for a moment doubt that they are there. As to the nature of these waters, all are not agreed. Origen says (Hom. i... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is our business here to inquire how God has constituted the natures of His creatures, not how far it may have pleased Him to work on them by way of miracle."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All water is the same species."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let there be a firmament made amidst the waters; and let it divide the waters from the waters."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Darkness was upon the face of the deep, the word"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Darkness was upon the face of the deep,"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In the beginning God created heaven and earth."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Praise Him, ye heavens of heavens."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will ascend into heaven ; whereby the evil spirit is represented as seeking to make himself equal with God. Sometimes also spiritual blessings, the recompense of the Saints, from being the highest of all good gifts, are signified by the word heaven, and, in fact, are so signif... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "in the words,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "God said: Be light made, and"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let there be a firmament made."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In the beginning God created heaven and earth."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not that this formlessness preceded formation, in time, but only in origin; nor yet that one formation preceded another in duration, but mer... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "filled it, because it was the source of light. The formlessness of water, which holds the middle place, is called the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "because, as Augustine says (Contr. Faust. xxii, 11), this word signifies the mass of waters without order. Thirdly, th... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "is to be understood not simply, but as contrasted with the place of the dry land, so that the sense would be,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Let the waters be gathered together in one place, that is, apart from the dry land. That the waters occupied more places than ... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Cursed is the earth in thy work, thorns and thistles shall it bring forth to thee,"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The earth brought forth the green herb, after which there follows,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The evening and the morning were the third day."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "or"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "being covered by the waters; o... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Shall it bring forth _to thee."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He set them in the firmament."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So the heavens and the earth were finished and all the furniture of them, thereby indicating that the work was threefold. In the first work, that of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "the heaven and the earth were produced, but as yet without form. In the second, or work... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Be not afraid of the signs of heaven, which the heathens fear."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "(Topic. iii). But the lights are nobler than the earth. Therefore they were not made"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But such it probably did when first made; for men begin to count from the new moon. The moon, therefore, was not made"
},
{
"from": "human",
... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "rather than"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Every living substance stands higher in the order of nature than one that has not life."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let no one esteem the heavens or the heavenly bodies to be living things, for they have neither life nor sense."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "On the other hand, the Platonists held that the heavenly bodies have life. Nor was there less diversity of opinion among the... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let the waters bring forth the creeping creature having life, and the fowl that may fly over the earth,"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let the waters bring forth the creeping creature having life."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let the waters bring forth the creeping creature having life, are followed by these:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "God created great whales,"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let the earth bring forth the living creature, should rather have been,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Let the earth bring forth the living four-footed creatures."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "but"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "; whereas it does call land animals"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "domestic animals are signified, which in any way are of service to man: but by"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "wild animals such as bears and lions are designated. By"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "those animals are meant which either have no feet and ca... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If an unskilled person enters the workshop of an artificer he sees in it many appliances of which he does not understand the use, and which, if he is a foolish fellow, he considers unnecessary. Moreover, should he carelessly fall into the fire, or wound himself with a sharp-edge... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "(Gal. 4:4). And Christ Himself, at the moment of His death, cried out,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is consummated"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Lord hath created a new thing upon the earth. Miracles also are new works, of which it is said (Eccles. 36:6):"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Renew thy signs, and work new miracles. Moreover, all things will be made new when the Saints are glorified, according to... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And again, the glory that is spiritual was anticipated in the angels by way of similitude; and that of the body in the heaven, especially the empyrean. Hence it is written (Eccles. 1:10),"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nothing under the sun is new, for it hath alread... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God created or"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God rested on the seventh day from all the work which He had done."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "His works, as though needing them for His own happiness, but to have rested"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "[blessing] is derived from"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God saw that it was good."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He had rested from all His work."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Increase and multiply."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "but creation"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "These are the generations of the heaven and the earth, when they were created, in the day that the Lord . . . made the heaven and the earth, and every plant of the field, before it sprung up in the earth. Therefore the day in which God made"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He that liveth for ever, created all things together."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The evening and the morning were the second day . . . the third day,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "the knowledge in the mind of the angels, and hence, according to him, the first day denotes their knowledge of the first of the Divine works, the second day their know... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God saw all the things that He had made, and they were very good. It ought, then, to have been said of each work,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "God saw that it was good."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Spirit of God moved over the waters,"
},
{
... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Spirit of the Lord, the air or the wind, as Plato also did, and says that it is so called according to the custom of Scripture, in which these things are throughout attributed to God. But according to the holy writers, the Spirit of the Lord signifies the Holy Ghost, Who is said... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "are used when day is first instituted, to denote that one day is made up of twenty-four hours. Hence, by mentioning"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "[*i.e. having a soul] and those things which have no life,"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and of"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who understands that the nature of the soul is that of a substance and not that of a body, will see that those who maintain the corporeal nature of the soul, are led astray through associating with the soul those things without which they are unable to think of any nature--i.e. ... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This particular thing can be taken in two senses. Firstly, for anything subsistent; secondly, for that which subsists, and is complete in a specific nature. The former sense excludes the inherence of an accident or of a material form; the latter excludes also the imperfection of... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Man alone we believe to have a subsistent soul: whereas the souls of animals are not subsistent."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Though our outward man is corrupted, yet the inward man is renewed day by day."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "man; and sometimes the sensitive part with the body is called man in the opinion of those whose observation does not go beyond the senses. And this is called the"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "[*The Leonine edition has,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Parma edition of St. Thomas's Commentary on Aristotle has,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "must have existence by participation; for"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "or anything of t... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and that they have"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let the earth bring forth the living soul (Gen. 1:24): while of man it is written (Gen. 2:7) that"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He breathed into his face the breath of life. And so in the last chapter of Ecclesiastes (12:7) it is concluded:"
},
{
"from": "hu... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Angelic minds have simple and blessed intelligence, not gathering their knowledge of Divine things from visible things."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If I were to say that there are many human souls, I should laugh at myself."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "says the Philosopher, _Metaph._ x (Did. ix, 10). But the sensitive soul in the horse, the lion, and other brute animals, is corruptible. If, therefore, in man it be incorruptible, the sensitive soul in man and brute animals will not be of the same genus. Now an animal is so call... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nor do we say that there are two souls in one man, as James and other Syrians write; one, animal, by which the body is animated, and which is mingled with the blood; the other, spiritual, which obeys the reason; but we say that it is one and the same soul in man, that both gives... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If, therefore, man were _living_ by one form, the vegetative soul, and _animal_ by another form, the sensitive soul, and _man_ by another form, the intellectual soul, it would follow that man is not absolutely one. Thus Aristotle argues, _Metaph._ viii (Did. vii, 6), against Pla... |
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