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060 - Lx That God Is Truth · Summa Contra Gentiles, First Book (On God)

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  Speaker 1: Chapter sixty of Summa Contragentilees, first Book on God, by
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  Speaker 1: Saint Thomas aquinas translated by the Fathers of the English
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  Speaker 1: Dominican Province. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain
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  Speaker 1: Chapter sixty. That God is truth, it follows from what
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  Speaker 1: has been said that God himself is truth. For truth
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  Speaker 1: is a perfection of the intelligence or intellectual operation, as
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  Speaker 1: stated above. Now, God's active intelligence is his substance. And
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  Speaker 1: since this very active intelligence is God's being, as we
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  Speaker 1: have shown, it is not made perfect by some additional perfection,
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  Speaker 1: but is perfect in itself, just as we have said
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  Speaker 1: about the divine being. It remains therefore that the divine
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  Speaker 1: substance is truth itself. Again, truth is a good of
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  Speaker 1: the intellect, according to the philosopher. Now God is his
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  Speaker 1: own goodness, as we have shown. Therefore he is also
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  Speaker 1: his own truth. Further, nothing can be said participatively of God,
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  Speaker 1: since he is his own being, which participates nothing. Now
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  Speaker 1: truth is in God, as was shown above. If then
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  Speaker 1: it be not said of him participatively, it follows that
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  Speaker 1: it is said essentially. Therefore God is his own truth. Moreover,
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  Speaker 1: although properly speaking, the true is not in things, but
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  Speaker 1: in the mind, according to the philosopher. Nevertheless, sometimes a
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  Speaker 1: thing is said to be true in so far as
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  Speaker 1: it attains to the act of its own nature. Hence,
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  Speaker 1: Avicenna says in his Metaphysics that the truth of a
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  Speaker 1: thing is the property of the nature immutably attached to it,
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  Speaker 1: in so far as that thing is naturally inclined to
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  Speaker 1: cause a true estimate of itself and reflects the type
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  Speaker 1: of itself that is in the divine mind. Now, God
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  Speaker 1: is his own essence. Therefore, whether we speak of the
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  Speaker 1: truth of the mind or of the truth of the thing,
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  Speaker 1: God is his own truth. This is confirmed by the
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  Speaker 1: authority of our Lord, who says of himself in John
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  Speaker 1: chapter fourteen, verse six, I am the Way, the Truth,
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  Speaker 1: and the Life. End of chapter sixty read by Michael
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  Speaker 1: Shane Craig Lambert l SI