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062 - Lxii That The Divine Truth Is The First And Supreme Truth · Summa Contra Gentiles, First Book (On God)

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  Speaker 1: Chapter sixty two of Suma Contragentilees, First Book on God
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  Speaker 1: by Saint Thomas aquinas translated by the Fathers of the
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  Speaker 1: English Dominican Province. This LibriVox recording is in the public
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  Speaker 1: domain chapter sixty two, that the Divine Truth is the
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  Speaker 1: first and supreme truth. From what has been proved, it
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  Speaker 1: clearly follows that the Divine Truth is the first and
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  Speaker 1: supreme truth. For the disposition of things in truth is
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  Speaker 1: as their disposition in being, according to the philosopher in
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  Speaker 1: the Second Book of Metaphysics. And this because truth and
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  Speaker 1: being are mutually consequent upon one another. Since the true
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  Speaker 1: is when that is said to be which is, and
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  Speaker 1: that not to be which is not. Now God's being
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  Speaker 1: is first and most perfect. Therefore his truth is also
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  Speaker 1: first and supreme. Again, that which belongs to a thing
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  Speaker 1: essentially belongs there too, most perfectly. Now truth is ascribed
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  Speaker 1: to God essentially, as we have proved. Therefore his truth
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  Speaker 1: is the supreme and first truth. Further, truth is in
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  Speaker 1: our intellect, through the latter being equated to the thing understood. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the cause of equality is unity, as stated in the
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  Speaker 1: Fifth Book of Metaphysics. Since then, in the Divine intellect,
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  Speaker 1: intellect and thing understood are absolutely the same. His truth
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  Speaker 1: must be the first and supreme truth. Moreover, that which
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  Speaker 1: is the measure in any genus must be the most
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  Speaker 1: perfect in that genus. Wherefore all colors are measured by white.
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  Speaker 1: Now the Divine truth is the measure of all truth.
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  Speaker 1: For the truth of our intellect is measured by the
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  Speaker 1: thing that is outside the mind, since our intellect is
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  Speaker 1: said to be true from the very fact that it
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  Speaker 1: accords with the thing. And the truth of a thing
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  Speaker 1: is measured according to the divine intellect, which is the
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  Speaker 1: cause of things, as we shall prove further on, even
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  Speaker 1: as the truth of art products is measured by the
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  Speaker 1: art of the craftsman. For then is a casket true
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  Speaker 1: when accords with art. Also, since God is the first
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  Speaker 1: intellect and the first intelligible, it follows that the truth
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  Speaker 1: of every intellect must be measured by His truth, if
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  Speaker 1: each thing is measured by the first in its genus,
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  Speaker 1: as the philosopher teaches in the Tenth Book of Metaphysics. Hence,
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  Speaker 1: the divine truth is the first, supreme and most perfect truth.
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  Speaker 1: End of Chapter sixty two read by Michael Shane Craig
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