On the Holy Trinity, Book III

Book III

• On the Holy Trinity III.1 — What is to Be Said Thereupon. 4. Let us, then, continue our inquiry now in order. For under the second head in that division the question occurred, whether the creature was formed for that work only, wherein God, in…vatican.va
• On the Holy Trinity III.2 — The Will of God is the Higher Cause of All Corporeal Change. This is Shown by an Example. Chapter 2.—The Will of God is the Higher Cause of All Corporeal Change. This is Shown by an Example. 7. But there is one kind…vatican.va
• On the Holy Trinity III.3 — Of the Same Argument. Let us take, then, the case of a wise man, such that his rational soul is already partaker of the unchangeable and eternal truth, so that he consults it about all his actions, nor does anything…vatican.va
• On the Holy Trinity III.4 — God Uses All Creatures as He Will, and Makes Visible Things for the Manifestation of Himself. Chapter 4.—God Uses All Creatures as He Will, and Makes Visible Things for the Manifestation of Himself. 9. What, then, we…vatican.va
• On the Holy Trinity III.5 — Why Miracles are Not Usual Works. 11. For since the divine power administers the whole spiritual and corporeal creature, the waters of the sea are summoned and poured out upon the face of the earth on certain days of…vatican.va
• On the Holy Trinity III.6 — Diversity Alone Makes a Miracle. And who is it that restored to the corpses their proper souls when the dead rose again, unless He who gives life to the flesh in the mother’s womb, in order that they may come into…vatican.va
• On the Holy Trinity III.7 — Great Miracles Wrought by Magic Arts. 12. I see here what may occur to a weak judgment, namely, why such miracles are wrought also by magic arts; for the wise men of Pharaoh likewise made serpents, and did other like…vatican.va
• On the Holy Trinity III.8 — God Alone Creates Those Things Which are Changed by Magic Art. 13. Yet it is not on this account to be thought that the matter of visible things is subservient to the bidding of those wicked angels; but rather to…vatican.va
• On the Holy Trinity III.9 — The Original Cause of All Things is from God. 16. For it is one thing to make and administer the creature from the innermost and highest turning-point of causation, which He alone does who is God the Creator; but…vatican.va
• On the Holy Trinity III.10 — In How Many Ways the Creature is to Be Taken by Way of Sign. The Eucharist. Excepting, therefore, all these things as I just now said, there are some also of another kind; which, although from the same corporeal…vatican.va
• On the Holy Trinity III.11 — Chapter 11.—The Essence of God Never Appeared in Itself. Divine Appearances to the Fathers Wrought by the Ministry of Angels. An Objection Drawn from the Mode of Speech Removed. That the Appearing of God to Abraham…vatican.va