CHAPTER XXIV: QUESTION 105 THE CHANGE OF CREATURES BY GOD

[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.