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17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As the mind itself acquires the knowledge of corporeal things by means of the corporeal senses, so it gains from itself the knowledge of incorporeal things."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "were we unable to understand abstract substances,"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The things that are in heaven, who shall search out? But these substances are said to be in heaven, according to Matt. 18:10,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Their angels in heaven,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ideas,"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and the active intellect is"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No man hath seen God at any time"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": ": while the first object of our knowledge in this life is the"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Whatever causes a thing to be such is more so,"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If the soul had no proper operation, it could not be separated from the body."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "--i.e. by knowing itself (Q. 88, A. 1, ad 1). Therefore from the knowledge which the separated soul has of itself, we can judge how it knows other separate things. Now it was said above (A. 1), that as long as it is united to the body the soul understands by turning to phantasms... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have five brethren"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Knowledge shall be destroyed"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let us learn on earth that kind of knowledge which will remain with us in heaven."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "as the Philosopher says (De Anima iii, 4), the habit of knowledge here acquired must be partly in the aforesaid sensitive powers and partly in the intellect. This can be seen by considering the very actions from which knowledge arises. For"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "above all as regards simple intelligence of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But contrariety may exist in the intellect as regards mental composition and division, or also reasoning; so far as what is false in statement or argument is contrary to truth. And thus knowle... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, I know in part."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Remember thou didst receive good things in thy lifetime."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have five brethren . . . he may testify unto them, lest they also come into the place of torments."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He will not understand whether his children come to honor or dishonor."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The dead do not know how the living act, for the life of the spirit is far from the life of the flesh; and so, as corporeal things differ from incorporeal in genus, ... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God formed man of the slime of the earth, and breathed into his face the breath of life, and man was made a living soul."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "among which the first is the opinion that"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "God made the soul not out of nothing, but from Himself."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God is a soul governing the world by movement and reason,"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God created man to His own image."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "; which cannot be said of the soul, because neither was it made of any pre-existing corporeal or spiritual matter, nor could it be produced from any created virtue. Therefore it seems that the soul itself, during the work of the six days, when all things were made, was created, ... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "is farther off from actual existence than"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God made man of the slime of the earth."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "God's works are perfect (Deut. 32:4). He Himself is simply perfect by the fact that"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "in Him, not as component parts, but as"
},
{
"from": "gpt",... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God created man out of the earth."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God made man right."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And because it is better so, not absolutely, but for each one's substance."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God said; Let it be made, and it was made."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Let us make man."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God made man of the slime of the earth, he should not have added:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And He breathed into h... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let us make man,"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God made man, must be understood of the production of the body with the soul; and that the subsequent words,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "should be understood of the Holy Ghost; as the Lord breathed on His Apostles, saying,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thou shalt be under the man's power ; and Gregory says that,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Where there is no sin, there is no inequality. But woman is naturally of less strength and dignity than man;"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is not good for man to be alone; let us make him a helper like to himself."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And they shall be two in one flesh"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He created of him, that is, out of man,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "God made the whole human race from one (Acts 17:26). Secondly, that man might love woman all the more, and cleave to her more closely, knowing her to be fashioned from himself. Hence it is written... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A body cannot increase in bulk except by rarefaction."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God built the rib, which He took from Adam, into a woman."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Christ filled five thousand men with five loaves, in the same way as from a few seeds He produces the harvest of corn"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God alone, to Whom all nature owes its existence, could form or build up the woman from the man's rib."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The first creation of things did not demand that woman should be made thus; it made it possible for her to be thus made."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "To whom have you likened God? or what image will you make for Him?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who is the image of the invisible God, the First-Born of every creature."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "; an... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let Us make man to Our own image and likeness."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Where an image exists, there forthwith is likeness; but where there is likeness, there is not necessarily an image. Hence it is clear that likeness is essential to an image; and that an ima... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where there is an image there is not necessarily equality, as we see in a person's image reflected in a glass. Yet this is of the essence of a perfect image; for in a perfect image nothing is wanting that is to be found in that of which it is a copy. Now it is manifest that in m... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Effects are contingent images of their causes."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Holding the world in His mind, and forming it into His image."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Man's excellence consists in the fact that God made him to His own image by giving... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "to express the likeness which the product of an art bears to the artistic species in the mind of the artist. Thus every creature is an image of the exemplar type thereof in the Divine mind. We are not, however, using the word"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Whom God foreknew, He also predestined to be made conformable to the image of His Son."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Surely man passeth as an image."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The light of Thy countenance, O Lord, is signed upon us (Ps. 4:7), the gloss distinguishes a threefold image of"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "a... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One in essence is the Godhead of the Holy Trinity; and one is the image to which man was made. And Hilary (De Trin. v) says:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Man is made to the image of that which is common in the Trinity."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "G... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The plurality of the Divine Persons is proved from the fact that man is said to have been made to the image of God."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We see, rather than believe, the trinity which is in ourselves; whereas we believe rather than see that God is Trinity."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Let Us make man to Our own image and likeness ; but"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When, therefore, it... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God created man to His own image; to the image of God He created him; male and female He created them."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "or imaginary, and"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and put on the new man. Whence we are given to understand that our renewal which consists in putting on the new man, belongs to the mind. Now, he says (Col. 3:10):"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Putting on the new man;"
},
{... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "as we have explained above (AA. 1,2); whereas in other creatures we find a likeness by way of a"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now the intellect or mind is that whereby the rational creature excels other creatures; wherefore this image of God is not found even in the... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All of this is manifestly absurd; first, because it would follow that the Holy Ghost is the principle of the Son, as the woman is the principle of the man's offspring; secondly, because one man would be only the image of one Person; thirdly, because in that case Scripture should... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But these three are"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But since, as he says,"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "; which some take to mean that the soul ever actually understands, and loves itself. But he excludes this interpretation by adding that"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thus it is clear that the soul always understands and loves itself, not actually but habitually; tho... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We . . . are transformed into the same image from glory to glory."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The image of God exists in the mind, not because it has a remembrance of itself, loves itself, and understands itself; but because it can also remember, understand, and l... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "as he adds in the same passage. But in that part of the reason which is concerned with temporal things,"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "as it were clouded,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "as in those who have not the use of reason;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "as in sinners; or"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Likeness Is Properly Distinguished from"
},
{
"from": "hum... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "exists in the soul. Nor it is unfitting to us the term"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "from one point of view and from another the term"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "; but love of virtue belongs to"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "as Damascene says (De Fide Orth. ii, 11). And Augustine says (De Civ. Dei xiv, 10):"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If man was gifted with the same tastes as now, how happy must he have been in paradise, that place of ineffable happiness!"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God cast a deep sleep upon Adam"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God made man right. And man was made right by God in this sense, that in him the lower powers were subjected to the higher, and the higher nature was made so as not to be impeded by the lower. Wherefore the first man was not impeded by exterior things from a clear and steady con... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In paradise man was accustomed to enjoy the words of God; and by purity of heart and loftiness of vision to have the company of the good angels."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "; the second is by the soul ascending"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "namely the angels; the third is when the soul is"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "yet further"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To regard what is true as false, is not natural to man as created; but is a punishment of man condemned."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The first Adam was made into a living soul; the last Adam into a quickening spirit."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Adam did not possess the Holy Ghost."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God so ordered the life of the angels and men, as to show first what t... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God at the same time fashioned their nature and endowed them with grace."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God made man right. For this rectitude consisted in his reason being subject to God, the lower powers to reason, and the body to the soul: and the first subjection was the cause of both the second and the third; since while reason was subject to God, the lower powers remained su... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The prince of sin overcame Adam who was made from the slime of the earth to the image of God, adorned with modesty, restrained by temperance, refulgent with brightness."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Shame, which regards what is ill done, may be found in a virtuous man, but only conditionally; as being so disposed that he would be ashamed if he did wrong"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He . . . is not crowned except he strive lawfully and the Philosopher says (Ethic. ii, 3):"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The object of virtue is the difficult and the good."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God gave man mastership over the animals, although before sin he had no need of them: for God foresaw that after sin animals would become useful to man."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let him have dominion over the fishes of the sea, and the birds of the air, and the beasts of the earth [Vulg."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That he may have dominion over . . . every creature."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where there is no sin, there is no inequality."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Every beast loveth its like; so also every man him that is nearest to himself."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The things which are of God, are well ordered [Vulg."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Those that are, are ordained of God ]. But order chiefly consists in inequality; for Augustine says (De Civ. Dei xix, 13):"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Order disposes ... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God willed that man, who was endowed with reason and made to His image, should rule over none but irrational creatures; not over men, but over cattle."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thou shalt be under thy husband's power."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": ... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As every man hath received grace, ministering the same one to another. Wherefore Augustine says (De Civ. Dei xix, 14):"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Just men command not by the love of domineering, but by the service of counsel : and (De Civ. Dei xix, 15):"
},
{... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He brought him out of his sins."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Death shall be no more."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "By sin death came into the world."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "God made man's soul of such a powerful nature, that from i... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God cast a deep sleep upon Adam."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He took a rib out of Adam."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Excessive suffering wastes the very substance."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Passion may be taken in two senses. First, in its proper sense, and thus a thing is said to suffer when changed from its natural disposition. For passion is the effect of action; and in nat... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of every tree in paradise ye shall [Vulg. 'thou shalt'] eat."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Man was made into a living soul"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "[*From 'anima', a soul; Cf. 1 Cor. 15:44 seqq.], through having its life from the soul. Now the first principle of life in these inferior creatures as the Philosopher says (De Anima ii, 4) is the vegetative soul: the operations of which are the use of food, generation, and growt... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lest perhaps he put forth his hand, and take of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever. Further, Augustine says (QQ. Vet. et Nov. Test. qu. 19 [*Work of an anonymous author], among the supposititious works of St. Augustine):"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A tas... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Increase and multiply, and fill the earth."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But in the future state of the resurrection, when men will be like the angels,"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Man, when he was in honor, did not understand; he is compared to senseless beasts, and is become like to them."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We must be far from supposing that offspring could not be begotten without concupiscence. All the bodily members would have been equally moved by the will, without ardent or wanton incentive, with calmness of soul and body."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This weakness of the body befits their weakness of mind."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God made man right"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The northern wind favors the generation of males, and the southern wind that of females"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Before sin the first man would have begotten children sinless; but not heirs to their father's righteousness."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As long as man did not sin, he would have begotten children endowed with righteousness together with the rational soul."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For now I should have been asleep, etc. :"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If no sinful corruption had infected our first parent, he would not have begotten 'children of hell'; no children would have been born of him but such as were destined to be saved by the Redeeme... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Happy would have been the whole human race if neither they--that is our first parents--had committed any evil to be transmitted to their descendants, nor any of their race had committed any sin for which they would have been condemned."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "in the sense that they would contract from him sin which is the cause of hell: yet by sinning of their own free-will they could have become"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If, however, they did not become"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It seems that if they had lived, etc."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The corruptible body is a load upon the soul"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She is a tree of life to them that lay hold on her"
}
] |
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