| ### QUESTION 45 ### THE MODE OF EMANATION OF THINGS FROM THE FIRST PRINCIPLE ###  |

| #### Prologue |

| #### #### The next question concerns the mode of the emanation of things from the First Principle, and this is called creation, and includes eight points of inquiry: #### (1) What is creation? #### (2) Whether God can create anything? #### (3) Whether creation is anything in the very nature of things? #### (4) To what things it belongs to be created? #### (5) Whether it belongs to God alone to create? #### (6) Whether creation is common to the whole Trinity, or proper to any one Person? #### (7) Whether any trace of the Trinity is to be found in created things? #### (8) Whether the work of creation is mingled with the works of nature and of the will? ####  |