CHAPTER XXIII: QUESTION 21: CHRIST'S PRAYER

[1528] Rom. 8:34

[1529] Heb. 7:25

[1530] I John 2:1

[1531] cf. IIa IIae, q. 83, a. 11

[1532] Concerning this doubt, cf. St. Thomas, Com. in Ep. ad Rom. 8:34; also ad Heb., and the Salmanticenses in their commentaries

[1533] Matt. 26:39.

[1534] Ibid.

[1535] Ibid.

[1536] John 17:1.

[1537] Ibid., 11:24

[1538] Ibid., 11:42

[1539] Heb. 5:7.

[1540] Luke 23 34

[1541] Certain professors of the Duacene theological faculty reviled this reply of St. Thomas as Jansenistic in their censure of August 22, 1722, which censure was condemned by Rome on June 18, 1726. These professors did not understand that St. Thomas in this reply to the second objection has in mind only efficacious prayer that is the result of what is simply willed; he is not speaking of conditional prayer that is in conformity with God's conditional will to save all.