CHAPTER XX: QUESTION 46 THE DURATION OF CREATED BEINGS

[858] cf. Revue thomiste (1897), the series of articles by P. Sertillanges: "La prevue de l'existence de Dieu et l'eternite du monde"

[859] Denz., no. 428

[860] Ibid., no. 1783

[861] ibid., nos. 501 ff.

[862] Gen. 1:1

[863] Gen. 1:1

[864] Prov. 8:22 ff.

[865] John 17:5, 24

[866] Eph. 1:4

[867] St. Basil, St. Gregory Nazianzen, St. Chrysostom, St. John Damascene, St. Ambrose, St. Hilary

[868] Summa Theol., Ia. q. 61, a. 3.

[869] Ibid., q. 19, a. 3, 4

[870] Ibid., q. 23, a. 5 ad 3

[871] Denz., no. 1783

[872] ibid., no. 1805

[873] Aristotle, I Topicorum, chap. 9.

[874] Physica, VIII

[875] ibid

[876] cf. replies to ninth and tenth difficulties

[877] Summa Theol., IIa IIae, q. 1, a. 6.

[878] ibid., a. 8

[879] ibid., Ia, q. 45, a. 2

[880] Ibid., q. 19, a. 3

[881] De civitate Dei, Bk. X, chap. 31

[882] De potentia, q. 3, a. 14 ad 8

[883] Contra Gentes, Bk. II, chap. 38

[884] Physica, Bk. III, chap. 8

[885] Summa Theol., Ia, q. 7, a. 4

[886] Physica, loc. cit.

[887] De aeternitate mundi (written 1264).

[888] cf. Quodl., 12, q. 2. We have explained this at length in Dieu, son existence et sa nature (7th edition) no. 78 ff.

[889] De civitate Dei, Bk. XI, chap. 6.

[890] Matt. 6:11