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17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Three general opinions prevail about paradise. Some understand a place merely corporeal; others a place entirely spiritual; while others, whose opinion, I confess, pleases me, hold that paradise was both corporeal and spiritual."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nothing... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is probable that man has no idea where paradise was, and that the rivers, whose sources are said to be known, flowed for some distance underground, and then sprang up elsewhere. For who is not aware that such is the case with some other streams?"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Lord God had planted a paradise of pleasure from the beginning"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Paradise was a divinely ordered region, and worthy of him who was made to God's image."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Paradise was permeated with the all pervading brightness of a temperate, pure, and exquisite atmosphere, and decked with ever-flowering plants."
},... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No irrational animal inhabited paradise"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Lord God took man and placed in the paradise of pleasure, to dress and keep it."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God took man and placed him in paradise."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But Thou, O Father, governest all things by Thy Providence. And Boethius says (De Consol. iii):"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thou Who governest this universe by mandate eternal."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Some ends are an operation; some are a work"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Lord hath made all things for Himself."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To us there is but one God, the Father . . . and one Lord"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Things refuse to be ill governed; and multiplicity of authorities is a bad thing, therefore there should be one ruler."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God contains all and fills all by His providence and perfect goodness."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I saw that under the sun the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor riches to the learned, nor favor to the skillful, but time and chance in all."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God hath no care for oxen."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not only heaven and earth, not only man and angel, even the bowels of the lowest animal, even the wing of the bird, the flower of the plant, the leaf of the tree, hath God endowed with every fitting detail of their nature."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God hath abandoned the earth"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "God hath no care for oxen,"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As the lower and grosser bodies are ruled in a certain orderly way by bodies of greater subtlety and power; so all bodies are ruled by the rational spirit of life; and the sinful and unfaithful spirit is ruled by the good and just spirit of life; and this spirit by God Himself."... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God disposes all for good."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O Lord, Lord, almighty King, all things are in Thy power, and there is none that can resist Thy will."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Their tongue and their devices are against the Lord."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There is nothing that can desire or is able to resist this sovereign good. It is this sovereign good therefore that ruleth all mightily and ordereth all sweetly,"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "as Dionysius says (Div. Nom. iv): secondly from the fact that, as we have said above (A. 1, ad 3; A. 5, ad 2), every inclination of anything, whether natural or voluntary, is nothing but a kind of impression from the first mover; as the inclination of the arrow towards a fixed p... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Upholding all things by the word of His power."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If the ruling power of God were withdrawn from His creatures, their nature would at once cease, and all nature would collapse. In the same work (Gen. ad lit. viii, 12) he says:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "As the air becomes light by the presence of the sun, so is ... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God is not the cause of anything tending to non-existence."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Because God is good, we exist."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Correct me, O Lord, but yet with judgment; and not in Thy fury, lest Thou bring me to nothing."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Whatsoever the Lord pleased, He hath done."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have learned that all the works that God hath made continue for ever."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "To each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit, unto profit"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Upholding all things by the word of His power"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God formed man of the slime of the earth."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There is no contact with God."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let the waters be gathered together into one place."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There is no contact with God"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is God who worketh in us [Vulgate--'you'] both to will and to accomplish."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lord, Thou hast wrought all our works in [Vulg.: 'for'] us."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh: Thou hast put me together with bones and sinews."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God the Maker and Creator of each nature, does nothing against nature."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God sometimes does things which are contrary to the ordinary course of nature."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God acts against the wonted course of nature, but by no means does He act against the supreme law; because He does not act against Himself."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That is natural to each thing which is caused by Him from Whom is all mode, number, and order in... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where God does anything against that order of nature which we know and are accustomed to observe, we call it a miracle."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "not above the hope"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In miraculous deeds, the whole measure of the deed is the power of the doer."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The works that I do, he also shall do, and greater than these shall he do."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Behold the Gentiles are as a drop from a bucket, and are counted as the smallest grain of a balance."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All that is made manifest is light. Hence to enlighten means nothing else but to communicate to others the manifestation of the known truth; according to the Apostle (Eph. 3:8):"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "To me the least of all the saints is given this grace . . ... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The names of the angels designate their properties. Now the Seraphim are so called because they"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "or"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Show me Thy glory, answered:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I will show thee all good"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "(Gal. 4:26). But in the Church even superiors are enlightened and taught by their inferiors, as the Apostle says (1 Cor. 14:31):"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn and all may be exhorted."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who is this King of glory? other angels, who knew, answered:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Lord of Hosts, He is the King of glory,"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In that heavenly country, though there are some excellent gifts, yet nothing is held individually. And Dionysius says:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Each heavenly essence communicates to the inferior the gift derived from the superior"
},
{
"from": "human",
... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is fitting that our mind, rising above the properties of bodily speech, should be lifted to the sublime and unknown methods of interior speech."
},
{
"from": "human",
"val... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What man knoweth the things of a man, but the spirit of a man that is in him? The other obstacle whereby the mental concept is excluded from another one's knowledge, comes from the body; and so it happens that even when the will directs the concept of the mind to make itself kno... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God speaks to the angels by the very fact that He shows to their hearts His hidden and invisible things."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who is this King of Glory?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Heaven was created by God ; or,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Man is an animal. The manifestation, however, of what depends on the will of the one who understands, cannot be called an enlightenm... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The angel of the Lord answered and said: O Lord of hosts, how long wilt Thou not have mercy on Jerusalem."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "An angel works where he is."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For even our own intellectual operation takes place by abstraction from the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "except accidentally on the part of the phantasms, which do not exist at all in an angel. But as regards whatever is abstracted from"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The less one desires, the less one cries out."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Each one of the heavenly beings communicates what he learns to the others."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "principality, as above explained. Now principality includes two things: the prince himself and the multitude ordered under the prince. Therefore because there is one God, the Prince not only of all the angels but also of men and all creatures; so there is one hierarchy, not only... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "hierarchy. For in the Divine Persons there exists, indeed, a natural order, but there is no hierarchical order, for as Dionysius says (Coel. Hier. iii):"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The hierarchical order is so directed that some be cleansed, enlightened, and perfe... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For the order of deacons is"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "the order of priests, is"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and of bishops"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God has set the Man Christ above all principality and power, and virtue, and dominion"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He that is the lesser in the kingdom of heaven, is greater than he --namely, John the Baptist, than whom"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Seraphim cried to one another"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and Dionysius places in its definition that it"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "or"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "as Dionysius says (Coel. Hier. vii). This belongs to charity which comes not from nature but from grace; for"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "(Rom. 5:5):"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Know ye that the Lord He is God (Ps. 99:3). Therefore one order of the heavenly spirits is not properly called"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Dominations."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Domination seems to imply government and likewise the names"
},
... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So all the heavenly spirits, so far as they make known Divine things, are called"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But the superior angels enjoy a certain excellence, as regards this manifestation, from which the superior orders are denominated. The lowest order of ange... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dominion is attributed to God in a special manner, by way of excess: but the Divine word gives the more illustrious heavenly princes the name of Lord by participation, through whom the inferior angels receive the Divine gifts. Hence Dionysius also states (Coel. Hier. viii) that ... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Cherubim comes from a certain excess of knowledge; hence it is interpreted"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thrones excels the inferior orders as having an immediate knowledge of the types of the Divine works; whereas the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Cherubim have the excellence of knowledge and the"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Seraphim the excellence of ... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dominations,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Principalities, and"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Powers"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thrones is the nearest to God; for nothing is nearer to the sitter than the seat. Therefore the order of the... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thrones, belongs also to the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Cherubim and"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Seraphim,"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Principalities from their"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "which also agrees with the"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Virtues accordingly as this name expressed a certain strength, giving efficacy to the inferior spirits in the execution of the Divine mini... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stars remaining in their order and courses,"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When He shall have delivered up the kingdom of God and the Father,"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "(Matt. 22:30). _I answer that,_ As above explained (AA. 4,7), the orders of the angels are distinguished according to the conditions of nature and according to the gifts of grace. Considered only as regards the grade of nature, men can in no way be assumed into the angelic order... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Seraphim, or"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thrones, or"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dominations."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Our wrestling . . . is against principalities and powers, against the rulers of the world of this darkness."
... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Seraphim is given from the ardor of charity; and the name"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thrones from the Divine indwelling; and the name"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dominations"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Among the proud there are always contentions"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "While the world lasts, angels will preside over angels, men over men, and demons over demons."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What can be made clean by the unclean?"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "; and Gregory says (Hom. xxxiv) that"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "(1 Cor. 2:15), and the Philosopher says (Ethic. iii, 4; x, 5) that"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "; and Gregory says (Dial. iv, 6), that"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Every visible thing in this world has an angelic power placed over it ; and Damascene says (De Fide Orth. ii, 4):"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The devil was one of the angelic powers who presided over the terrestrial order ; and Origen says on the text,"
},
{
... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is not to be thought, that this visible matter obeys these rebel angels; for it obeys God alone."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Divine wisdom has joined the ends of the first to the principles of the second."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Those spirits are called virtues by whom signs and miracles are usually done."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But magicians work miracles because they are"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who alone doth great wonders."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "not in an absolute sense, but in reference to ourselves. In this way the magicians work miracles through the demons; and these are said to be done by"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "forasmuch as every power of the creature, in the universe, may be compared to the powe... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But faith is immediately from God, according to Eph. 2:8:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "By grace you are saved through faith, and that not of yourselves, for it is the gift of God."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God hath manifested it to them (Rom. 1:1... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is impossible for the divine ray to shine on us, otherwise than shrouded by the variety of the sacred veils."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No one believes except willingly. In this respect faith comes from God alone. Secondly, faith requires that what is to be believed be proposed to the believer; which is accomplished by man, according to Rom. 10:17,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Faith cometh by heari... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who maketh His angels spirits and His ministers a flame of fire (Heb. 1:7), the gloss notes that"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Damascene, however, says that he also sends them; for he remarks that"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The heart of the king is in the hand of the Lord, whithersoever He will He shall turn it."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One spirit by intermingling with another can communicate his knowledge to the other spirit by these images, so that the latter either understands it himself, or accepts it as understood by the other."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "that is, the impressions left from the movements are preserved in the animal spirits,"
}
] |
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