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from heaven from your royal throne.” And the sermo of Hebrews should be understood similarly as “the living Verbum of God.” 2 If God’s word is living and active, this should transform our understanding of the human word, including the logos or “account” that we must render to God (Heb 4.13). 3 “For the Word of God conceived from eternity in the paternal intellect is the primordial word, of which Sirach 1.5 speaks: ‘The word of God on high is the fountain of wisdom.’” This means, Thomas reflects, that from the Word are “derived all other words, which are nothing other than certain conceptions expressed in the mind of an angel or in our mind.” 4 That is, inverting the order of Hebrews 4.12: (i) all words are derived from the Word as a reflection of its activity in expressing them, (ii) according to the pattern of its own, original conception. Each attribute may be taken in turn. (i) The Word is called active or “effectual” (efficax) on account of its “power,” which is seen first of all in creation: “through it all things were made, as it says in John 1.3, and again, Psalm 32.6: ‘By the word of the Lord the heavens were established.’” Second, in terms of divine communication, “all words coming forth from God, by the 2 In Heb 4.12, n. 217: “Dicit ergo vivus est sermo Dei. Ista littera de se videtur habere difficultatem, tamen considerando aliam translationem, planior est. Ubi enim nos habemus sermo, in Graeco habetur logos, quod est idem quod verbum. Unde sermo, id est, verbum. Et sic etiam exponit Augustinus illud Jn 12: sermo quem locutus sum, id est, ego ipse qui sum verbum. Wis 18.15: omnipotens sermo tuus, domine, exiliens de caelo a regalibus sedibus venit. Et similiter hic sermo Dei est vivus, id est, verbum Dei vivum.” 3 See In Heb 4.13, n. 231: “Ad istum ergo est nobis sermo, ut scilicet reddamus rationem de operibus nostris. II Cor 5.10: omnes nos manifestari oportet ante tribunal Christi, ut referat unusquisque propria corporis prout gessit, sive bonum, sive malum sit.” 4 In Heb 4.12, n. 217: “Verbum enim Dei ab aeterno conceptum, in paterno intellectu est verbum primordiale, de quo Sir 1.5 dicitur: fons sapientiae verbum Dei in excelsis. Et quia est primordiale, ideo ab ipso derivantur omnia alia verba, quae nihil aliud sunt quam quaedam conceptiones expressae in mente Angeli, vel nostra. Unde illud verbum est expressio omnium verborum, quasi fons quidam.” 2
mediation of angel or man, have efficacy” on account of the Word, according to Sirach 8.4: “his word is full of power,” and again, Isaiah 55.11: “So will my word be, which will go forth from my mouth: it will not return to me empty, but will accomplish whatsoever I have determined, and will prosper in that for which I sent it.” 5 (ii) Because, however, the Word of God and all other words are not identical—as, for instance, the act of creation is not the same as the mediating witness of the prophet— their relation is analogous or “similar,” following on the living nature of God’s first word. The “word” of Hebrews 4.12 should accordingly be understood in several ways that mount or are compounded from a singular point of origin. First of all, the word “is called living as it has its own motion and operation,” just as “a fountain gushing forth..., perpetually vigorous.” This is the person of the Word of God to which the psalmist adverts: “For ever, O Lord, your word stands firm in heaven” (118.89), and again, John 5.26: “just as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself.” Second, the word in question may “be referred to Christ’s human nature,” which “is living..., because since he rose again he dies now no more,” according to his own statement at Revelation 1.18: “behold I am living forever.” Third, the word of Hebrews may be taken as “the word of Scripture,” which is “living and unfailing” according to Romans 9.6: “It is not as though the word of God had failed.” 6 Fourth and 5 Ibid., n. 218: “Consequenter cum dicit et efficax, ostendit eius potestatem.... Per ipsum enim facta sunt omnia Jn 1.3, et Ps 32.6: verbo domini caeli firmati sunt. Item est efficax quia ex ipso omnia verba prolata a Deo, mediante Angelo vel homine, efficaciam habent. Sir 8.4: sermo illius potestate plenus est. Is 55.11: verbum quod egredietur de ore meo, non revertetur ad me vacuum, sed faciet quodcumque volui, et cetera.” Cf. In Col 1.25, n. 65. 6 Ibid, n. 217: “De illo autem dicitur, quod est vivus. Dicitur autem res viva, quamdiu habet motum et operationem suam. Sicut enim fons scaturiens dicitur vivus, sic et verbum illud quod habet 3
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Thomas thus defends in these articl
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CHAPTER 3: “FROM GOD I PROCEEDED
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through Scripture, to the disciplin
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(Jn 17.3). 169 In this case, to hav
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must content itself with names for
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invisible in his sight.” 192 Fina
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something unless we know it; and wh
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immanent concept that the mind has
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for instance, the sign or effect of
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of a form” by which an agent work
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will come to them, and make our hom
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knowledge—according to Sirach 6.2
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miracles or of prophecy, or in the
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argument from preceding questions,
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and likeness.” 255 As Augustine o
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eatific vision, according to II Cor
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CHAPTER 4: “MOSES... WROTE ABOUT
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Lord” (93.12), and the words of J
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dispose human beings to the end of
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about things to be done, ... requir
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evelation of his wisdom through the
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manner, in the lover, and again, th
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y reviewing the point that God crea
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“honor your father and mother”
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Thomas will develop it as a kind of
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3. Because Christ is our sacrificed
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Thomas completes his treatment of t
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Because, therefore, “the Word was
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eceived... the Spirit that is from
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truth about God in this life “thr
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word, but as what it really is, God
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In this case, furthermore, in a tex
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(previously quoted by Thomas in his
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CHAPTER 5: WORD INCARNATE AND CRUCI
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true, all of which pertain to the s
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Having introduced the wise purpose
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It is hard to overemphasize the imp
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aised a weak and earthly body to su
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divine light which is shed upon the
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several questions earlier. 480 In t
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sacrifice, to such an extent that t
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predestined to be the natural Son o
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things in secret to the crowds, by
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Likewise, in the passion God “set
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CHAPTER 6: WASHING OF WATER BY THE
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Aquinas begins from the Augustinian
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Articles 2 and 3 of question 60 spe
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and interprets the sensible element
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as they create it.” 551 Markus’
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Church by Baptism in the word, a wo
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with the sacrament’s power to cle
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signification (sensible and verbal)
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according to Deuteronomy 4.2 and al
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means of verbal signification which
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sacraments always originate in the
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their end,” both theologically an
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christological principle therefore
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Father is not the Word. Christ, how
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efficacy derives “from Christ’s
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preparatory to the sacraments: the
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eginners in the Christian religion,
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affirmation of the Word incarnate a
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Thomas occasionally in the Scriptum
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prophets; in these days he has spok
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experience a conformity or assimila
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man also baptizes, as a minister an
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cause of the building” and “lay
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CHAPTER 7: WORDS OF SPIRIT AND LIFE
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sacraments,” as Dionysius says. B
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excellence of conformity to Christ.
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The last two articles of question 7
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carries with it an obligation to be
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on this text, but “openly taught
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notes Thomas 741 —the incarnation
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shadow of what is to come, but the
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world.” 756 Thus “Christ’s bo
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will recall, three substances in Ch
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miraculous change in the species—
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others. But when the time comes for
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things. In the case of the Eucharis
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with reference to the “effect”
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The point is simple, and serves as
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should be united somehow with bodie
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the result that more sin, not forgi
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“represents” the passion “whe
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Jesus answered: ‘Fear not’ (Lk
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whereby priests offer themselves to
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it is written of me” (Heb 10.7 =
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continues (10.15), quoting Jeremiah
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the dispensers of the mysteries of
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sin, and punishment.” Third, the
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y the priest and then by others, be
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Testament, as a sign that this doct
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CHAPTER 8: CONCLUSION: A “GRAMMAR
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Marie-Dominique Chenu, in his class
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that already generates knowledge by
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infamous conclusion is, in effect,
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Torrell more nearly approaches with
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whole. In this way, the ordo discip
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“ontotheology,” 926 “postmode
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does not constitute faith” (since
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“phase” within the one “gnose
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faith (as revealed principles, inca
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Digging more deeply into Milbank’
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after the action of God in Christ.
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y his suffering and death, accordin
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I. Primary A. Aquinas BIBLIOGRAPHY
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De trinitate. Bibliothèque Augusti
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____. “The Twofold Division of St
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Constable, Giles. “The Ideal of t
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Gilby, Thomas. “Appendix 10: The
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ed. Alfred J. Freddoso (Notre Dame:
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Dame: UNDP, 2005) Martelet, G. “T
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Persson, E. “Le plan de la Somme
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____. “Die Bedeutung der Mysterie
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____. Le Verbe Incarné, t. I: IIIa
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A paper read to the Aquinas Society
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