CHAPTER XIX: QUESTION 45 THE EMANATION OF THINGS

[762] Gen. 1:1

[763] cf. Wellhausen, Prolegomena zur Geschichte Israel (Berlin, 1883), p. 321.

[764] Amos 4:13; Jer. 10:12-17; Isa. chaps. 40-56

[765] Ps. 32:6, 9; 103; 113:3; 135:5-10

[766] Prov. 8:22-32; Eccles. 39:30-39

[767] II Mach 7:28

[768] Exod. 3:13, 15; 6:2 f.

[769] John 1:3

[770] Acts 4:24; 14:14.

[771] Rom. 11:36

[772] I Cor. 8:6

[773] Col 1:16f

[774] Isa. 41:4; 48:12; Apoc. 1:8

[775] Wisd. 11:18

[776] Cf. Hermas, Mand., I, I; Ep. ad Diogn., VII, 2; Aristides, Apol. I; St. Irenaeus, Adv. haeres., II, XXX, 9; xxiv, 3; R. de Journel, op. cit., nos. 85, 98, 110, 205, 207

[777] Cf. R. de Journel, op. cit., nos. 154, 161, 171, 178, 267

[778] Cf. ibid., nos. 85, 179, 199, 275, 323, 328

[779] Cf. ibid., Index theol., nos. 188 f

[780] Cf. Dict. theol. cath., "Creation," Epoque patristique

[781] St. Augustine, De Gen. ad litt., Bk. IX, chap. 15

[782] St. Augustine, Confessiones, Bk. XII, chap. 8

[783] Cf. Dict. theol. cath., "Creation."

[784] Cf. Fourth Lateran Council, Denz., no. 428; Council of Florence, Denz., no. 706; Vatican Council, Denz., nos. 1782 f.

[785] Denz., no. 203

[786] ibid., nos. 501 ff.

[787] ibid., no. 1665

[788] ibid., no. 1905

[789] ibid., nos. 1803 f

[790] ibid., nos. 34, 232, 1665 1804

[791] ibid., nos. 374 f.; cf. Vacant, Etudes sur le Concile du Vatican, I, a. 21 f

[792] H. Bergson, L'evolution creatrice (1907), pp. 10, 270, 341 f

[793] Cf. Summa Theol., Ia, q. 44, a. 2

[794] Gen. 1:1.

[795] Aristotle. II Post. Analyt

[796] Denz., no. 480

[797] Cf. Garrigou-Lagrange, The One God, pp. 17-20.

[798] Cousin, Introd. a l'hist. de la phil. (4th ed.), p. 10

[799] Cf. Summa Theol., Ia, q. 90., a. 1: whether the human soul is of the substance of God; Contra Gentes, Bk. II, chap. 84. Cousin's teaching revives the doctrine of emanatism condemned by the Vatican Council, Denz., no. 1783: "If anyone shall say that finite things emanate from the divine substance, or that the divine substance by its manifestation and evolution becomes all things,....let him be anathema." God does not act by a necessity of nature for then He would cause something infinite in being. Nor can He produce anything except by the determination of His will and intellect. And God produces freely, not by generation but by creation

[800] Rom. 11:36

[801] Cf. first article of the preceding question

[802] Cf. a. 5 ad 3

[803] Cf. preceding article ad 2

[804] Cf. Summa Theol., IIIa, q. 2, a. 7

[805] III Phys., chap. 3

[806] ibid

[807] Contra Gentes, Bk. II, chap. 35.

[808] Gen. 1:3.

[809] Summa Theol., Ia, q. 13, a. 7.

[810] St. Thomas, De potentia, q. 3, a. 3 ad 3: "This relation is an accident and considered in its being, as it inheres in a subject, it is posterior to the thing created, just as an accident is posterior to the subject in intellect and nature, even though it is not such an accident as is caused by the principle of the subject. But, considered according to its nature, inasmuch as it is engendered by the action of the agent, it is in some sense prior to the subject."

[811] Summa Theol., Ia, q. 44, a. 1. ad 1

[812] cf. third objection

[813] St. Thomas, in II Sent., d. 26, q. 1, a. 2 ad 5

[814] Gen. 1:2

[815] Aristotle, Met. VII, chap. 1

[816] Summa Theol., Ia, q. 90, a. 2

[817] ibid., Ia IIae, q. 113, a. 9.

[818] ibid., Ia, q. 44, a. 1

[819] Suarez, Disp. Met., 20, sect. 1.

[820] cf. Del Prado, De veritate fundamentali philosophiae christianae (1911), pp. 199, 203

[821] Peter Lombard, IV Sent., d. 5

[822] Heb. 3:4

[823] Denz., no. 428

[824] cf. Journel, Ench. patrist., Index theol., no. 190; St. Athanasius, St. Basil, St. Augustine, St. Cyril of Alexandria, and St. John Damascene.

[825] Summa Theol., Ia, q. 44, a. 2

[826] Aristotle, Met., V, chap. 2

[827] ibid., XII, chap. 7

[828] Summa Theol., Ia, q. 104, a. 1

[829] cf. Aristotle, Post. Analyt. I, lect. 10: the four ways of predication per se: 1. definition; 2. property; 3. per se subsisting; 4. the proper cause with reference to the proper effect

[830] Summa Theol., Ia, q. 104, a. 1

[831] St. Thomas, in II Sent., d. 1, q. 1, a. 3; IV, d. 5, q. 1, a. 3

[832] Denz., no. 428

[833] De civitate Dei, Bk. XIII, chap. 24

[834] Molina, Vasquez, and Suarez consider this argument only probable.

[835] Summa Theol., IIIa, q. 75, a. 8.

[836] ibid

[837] ibid., Ia IIae, q. 113, a. 9.

[838] De div. nom., Bk. II, chap. 1

[839] Wisd. 1:7; John 1:3.

[840] Col. 1:16

[841] Heb. 1:10

[842] Denz., nos. 19, 48, 77, 79, 281, 284, 421, 428, 461, 691, 703

[843] ibid., no. 428

[844] ibid., no. 254

[845] ibid., nos. 281, 284, 429

[846] ibid., nos. 703 f

[847] ibid., no. 704

[848] Summa Theol., Ia, q. 32, a. 1

[849] ibid., q. 4, a. 3.

[850] Ibid., q. 33, a. 3 ad 1

[851] Matt. 11:25.

[852] Ps. 2:7.

[853] Summa Theol., Ia, q. 39, a. 8.

[854] ibid., q. 118, a. 1. ff.

[855] ibid., q. 25, a. 5; q. 47, a. 3

[856] ibid., q. 22, a. 2

[857] ibid., q. 48 f.