| ### QUESTION 12 ### OF SATISFACTION, AS TO ITS NATURE ###  |

| #### Prologue |

| #### #### We must now consider satisfaction; about which four things have to be considered: (1) Its nature; (2) Its possibility; (3) Its quality; (4) The means whereby man offers satisfaction to God. #### Under the first head there are three points of inquiry: #### (1) Whether satisfaction is a virtue or an act of virtue? #### (2) Whether it is an act of justice? #### (3) Whether the definition of satisfaction contained in the text is suitable? ####  |