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[963] cf. Summa Theol., Ia, q. 19, a. 8
[964] Gen. 2:7.
[965] cf. Summa Theol., Ia, q. 110, a. 2.
The same universality is required in a cause to produce a
thing as to change it directly without the mediation of an
inferior effect. Thus the imagination, which cannot
produce an intellectual judgment, cannot directly change
an intellectual judgment directly; it can do so only
through the mediation of another phantasm. God alone can
produce matter, which can be produced only by creation
from nothing since it is the ultimate subject of change.
Therefore God alone can directly move matter to a form
without any previous accidental dispositions for example,
God alone can change water directly into wine, whereas
nature does it progressively by the fermentation of the
grape
[966] cf. ibid., a. 3, 4
[967] Phil. 2:13
[968] Summa Theol., Ia, q. 19, a. 8
[969] Ibid., Ia IIae, q. 4, a. 4.
[970] Ibid., Ia, q. 19, a. 8.
[971] ibid., Ia IIae, q. 10, a. 4
[972] Isa. 21:12
[973] Acts 17:28
[974] I Cor- 12:6
[975] cf, reply to the third difficulty
[976] cf. Contra Gentes, Bk. III, chap. 67;
De potentia, q. 3, a. 7.
[977] ibid., ad 7
[978] Molina, Concordia (Paris, 1876), p.
152.
[979] op. cit., p. 158
[980] Disp. met., XXII, sect. 2, no. 51;
sect. 3, sect. 12.
[981] For false miracles and portents caused by demons,
cf. Summa Theol., Ia, q. 110, 114. cf.
Garrigou-Lagrange, De revelatione, chap. 19, a.
2, on the possibility of miracles.
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