CHAPTER II: PRELIMINARY QUESTION THE POSSIBILITY OF THE INCARNATION

[168] Ibid., no 54

[169] Denz., no. 1796

[170] An example would be to prove that the following proposition: The Word, who is consubstantial with the Father, was made man, is equivalent to this revealed truth: The Word was made flesh

[171] Com. in III Sent., d. 1, a. 1.

[172] John 1:14

[173] Cf. St. Thomas, Com. in III Sent., d. 1, a. 2, q. 1.

[174] Eph. 3:9

[175] Denz., nos. 282, 284f.

[176] Ibid., nos. 1669-71. A few lines above in this same document, Frohschammer applied this teaching about reason to the supernatural end of man and the most sacred mystery of the Incarnation. (Tr.)

[177] Ibid., no. 1671

[178] Ibid., nos. 1671, 1795.

[179] Cf. Contra Gentes, Bk. IV, chap. 27; cf. also Dict. theol. cath., art. "Incarnation, " colt 1453-63; E. Hugon, Le mystère de l'Incarnation, pp. 52f.

[180] See St. Thomas Com. in Boetium de Trinit., q. 2, a. 3

[181] De incarnatione, beginning of treatise

[182] The expression according to scholastic terminology, means that the truth of this proposition: God exists, understood as the Creator of the universe, has its foundation and objective validity in the subject itself of the proposition, inasmuch as God is externally related to all things He has created, real on the part of creatures to God, though logical on the part of God to creatures. (Tr.)

[183] Summa theol., Ia, q. 3, a. 4, ad 2

[184] See Chapters 2-16 (passim).

[185] Summa theol., IIIa, q. 16, a. 6, 2nd. obj. Also III sent., d. 1, a. 1, ad 1.

[186] Summa theol., IIa, q. 16, a. 6, ad 2.

[187] Ibid., ad 2

[188] Com. in III Sent., d. 1, q. 1, ad 1.

[189] Summa theol., IIIa, q. 2, a. 6, ad 2.