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This question is divided according to the four kinds of
causes, since God is the efficient, exemplary, and
final cause of all things, and since He is the efficient
cause of matter itself, the causality of which is entirely
imperfect and cannot be attributed to the supreme
principle. We treat here especially of the efficient
cause and in the following question of its mode. Final
causality, or God as the ultimate end, is considered at
length in the first part of the second part of the Summa,
while exemplary causality was considered in the first part
under the divine ideas.[713]
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