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040 - Xl That God Is The Good Of Every Good · Summa Contra Gentiles, First Book (On God)

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  Speaker 1: Chapter forty 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 forty. That God is the good of every good.
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  Speaker 1: It is also proved from the foregoing that God is
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  Speaker 1: the good of every good. For the goodness of a
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  Speaker 1: thing is its perfection, as we have stated. Now, since
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  Speaker 1: God is simply perfect, he contains in his perfection the
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  Speaker 1: perfections of all things, as we have shown. Therefore, his
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  Speaker 1: goodness contains all goodnesses, and consequently He is the good
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  Speaker 1: of every good. Again, a thing is not said to
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  Speaker 1: have a quality by participation except in so far as
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  Speaker 1: it bears some resemblance to that which is said to
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  Speaker 1: have that quality essentially. Thus iron is said to be
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  Speaker 1: fiery in so far as it partakes of a resemblance
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  Speaker 1: to fire. Now, God is good essentially, while all else
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  Speaker 1: is good by participation, as we have proved. Therefore, nothing
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  Speaker 1: is said to be good except in so far as
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  Speaker 1: it bears some resemblance to the divine goodness. Therefore, He
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  Speaker 1: is the good of every good. Further, since a thing
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  Speaker 1: is desirable for the sake of an end, and the
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  Speaker 1: aspect of good consists in its being desirable. It follows
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  Speaker 1: that a thing is said to be good either because
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  Speaker 1: it is an end or because it is directed to
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  Speaker 1: an end. Therefore, the last end is that from which
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  Speaker 1: all things take the aspect of good. Now this is God,
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  Speaker 1: as we shall prove further on. Therefore, God is the
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  Speaker 1: good of every good. Hence the Lord, in promising Moses
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  Speaker 1: that he should see him, said in Exodus thirty three nineteen,
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  Speaker 1: I will show thee all good. And it is said
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  Speaker 1: of divine wisdom. In Wisdom chapter eight, all good things
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  Speaker 1: came to me together with her end of chapter forty
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  Speaker 1: read by Michael Shane, Craig, Lambert Elsie