CHAPTER XXX: QUESTION 60 THE LOVE OF THE ANGELS

[1213] Summa Theol., Ia, q. 60, a. 2

[1214] Ibid., a. 3.

[1215] Garrigou-Lagrange, L'Amour de Dieu et la croix de Jesus, "Le probleme de l'amour pur," I, 61-150

[1216] If it should be said that it is not the hand that exposes itself to defend the body but the body that exposes the hand, we may reply that this is indeed true, but that it is nevertheless according to the natural tendency of the hand, which loves the whole of which it is a part more than itself. As St. Thomas says: "The end of the agent and the patient is one and the same. although the mode is different. What the agent tends to imprint and what the patient tends to receive is one and the same" (Summa Theol. Ia, q. 44, a. 4

[1217] Summa Theol., IIa IIae, q. 26, a. 3.

[1218] Among those who deny is Ferrariensis

[1219] Dan. 3:57-90