Catena Aurea: Commentary on the Four Gospels, Collected Out of the Works of the Fathers, Volume I Part 2 Gospel of St. Matthew

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Cosimo, Inc., 2013 M01 1 - 348 pages

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Section 1
403
Section 2
413
Section 3
422
Section 4
431
Section 5
479
Section 6
491
Section 7
492
Section 8
502
Section 14
599
Section 15
604
Section 16
621
Section 17
626
Section 18
637
Section 19
649
Section 20
678
Section 21
679

Section 9
522
Section 10
523
Section 11
548
Section 12
549
Section 13
581
Section 22
703
Section 23
722
Section 24
731
Section 25
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Page 404 - The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.

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Thomas Aquinas, the most noted philosopher of the Middle Ages, was born near Naples, Italy, to the Count of Aquino and Theodora of Naples. As a young man he determined, in spite of family opposition to enter the new Order of Saint Dominic. He did so in 1244. Thomas Aquinas was a fairly radical Aristotelian. He rejected any form of special illumination from God in ordinary intellectual knowledge. He stated that the soul is the form of the body, the body having no form independent of that provided by the soul itself. He held that the intellect was sufficient to abstract the form of a natural object from its sensory representations and thus the intellect was sufficient in itself for natural knowledge without God's special illumination. He rejected the Averroist notion that natural reason might lead individuals correctly to conclusions that would turn out false when one takes revealed doctrine into account. Aquinas wrote more than sixty important works. The Summa Theologica is considered his greatest work. It is the doctrinal foundation for all teachings of the Roman Catholic Church.

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