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[461] Ia, q. 25, a. 1.

[462] Ia, q. 46, a. 2.

[463] Ex nihilo sui et subjecti

[464] Ia, q. 46, a. 1, 2, 5.

[465] Ibid.: a. 5

[466] Disp. met.: XX, 1, 2, 3.

[467] Cf. Ia, q. 44, a. 2.

[468] Met.: V (IV): 2

[469] Ia, q. 44, a. 5, ad 3

[470] Cf. the twenty-fourth Thomistic thesis

[471] Elevations sur les mysteres, IIIe sernaine, le elev.: against Leibnitz, Theod.: §8

[472] Cont. Gent.: II, 22-24, 26-30; III, 98 f. ; De potentia, q. 6; Ia, q. 105, a. 6

[473] Theod.: §8.

[474] Ia, q. 25, a. 5.

[475] Dum Deus calculat fit mundus

[476] Ia, q. 25, a. 6, ad 1

[477] Qualibet re a se facta potest facere aliam meliorem.

[478] Ia, q. 46, a. 2.

[479] Cf. Cont. Gent.: II, 34, and especially 38.

[480] Ibid.: 31-37

[481] Novitas divini effectus absque novitate actionius divinae. Cf. ibid.: Bk. II, 35; Ia, q. 46, a. 1, ad 9

[482] Ia q. 104

[483] Cf. N. del Prado, De veritate fundamentali philosophiae christianae, 1911, pp. 404-15.

[484] Ia, q. 104, a. 1, ad 4.

[485] Ia, q. 8, a. 1

[486] Isa. 26: 12

[487] Acts 17: 28.

[488] I Cor. 12: 6.

[489] Ia, q. 105, a. 5

[490] Ibid

[491] Cf. Cont. Gent.: III, 67.

[492] Sic ergo Deus est causa actionis cujuslibet in quantum dat virtutem agendi, et in quantum conservat eam, et in quantum applicat actioni, et in quantum ejus virtute omnia alia virtus agit. De potentia, q. 3, a. 7.

[493] Ibid.: ad 7: Rei naturali conferri non potuit quod operaretur absque operatione divina.

[494] Cf. the twenty-fourth Thomistic thesis

[495] Concordia, ed. Paris, 1876, p. 152: Duo sunt quae mihi difficultatem pariunt circa doctrinam hanc D. Thomae. Primum est, quod non videam quidnam sit motus ille et applicatio in causis secundis qua Deus illas ad agendum moveat et applicet

[496] Ibid.: p. 158: non secus ac cum duo trahunt navim

[497] Disp. met.: XXII, sect. 2, no. 51; sect. 3, no. 12; sect. 4.

[498] For extended treatment, see our article in Dict. de theol. cath.: s. v. Premotion, cols. 31-77.