Catena Aurea: Commentary on the Four Gospels, Collected Out of the Works of the Fathers; St. John (Classic Reprint)

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Alcuin. After Speaking of the nature of the Son, he proceeds to His Operations, saying, All things were made by Him, i.e. Every thing, whether substance or property. Hilary. Or thus: [it is said], the indeed was in Milan. The beginning, but it may be that He was not before the seam beginning. But what saith be; All things were made by Him. He is infinite by 7h0m every thing, which is, was made: and since all things were made by Him, time is like wise chrys. Moses indeed, in the beginning of the Old Chrys. Testament, speaks to us in much detail of the natural world Ho'

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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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