CHAPTER XXXVIII: MAN

[1267] Averroes, De anima, III, 165.

[1268] Gen. 2:7; 15: 15; 25: 8; 35: 28

[1269] Ezech. 37:10

[1270] Wisd. 9:15; 3:1-4; 5:16; Prov. 12:28; 14:32; Eccles. 12:7; Ecclus. 3:19ff

[1271] II Mach. 7:23; 6:26; 12:43-46

[1272] Matt. 10:28.

[1273] I Cor. 2:11

[1274] Rouet de Journel, op. cit., Index theol., nos. 216 f

[1275] Denz., no. 428; cf. ibid., nos. 255, 1783.

[1276] Ibid., nos. 2 ff., 16, 40, 86, 738

[1277] Summa Theol., Ia, q. 75, a. 5; cf. ibid., IIa IIae, q. 8, a. 1

[1278] Post. Analyt., II, final chap., lect. 20.

[1279] Summa Theol., Ia, q. 75, a. 2

[1280] The argument was presented in this way by St. Thomas against the Averroists who always based their arguments directly on the text of Aristotle

[1281] Pascal, speaking of the three orders (of bodies, spirits, and charity), in a celebrated passage of his Les Pensees, says: "Tous les corps, le firmament, les etoiles, la terre et ses royaumes, ne valent pas le moindre des esprits; car il connait tout cela, et soi et les corps, rien."

[1282] Contra Gentes, Bk. II, chap. 49, no. 7

[1283] St. Thomas, De veritate, q. 1, a. 9

[1284] cf. Plato, Convivium; Summa Theol., Ia, q. 60, a. 5; IIa IIae, q. 26, a. 3

[1285] Summa Theol., Ia IIae, q. 10, a. 2

[1286] cf. ibid.

[1287] cf. ibid., Ia, q. 75, a. 6

[1288] cf. ibid

[1289] Ibid., q. 118, a. 2