The Efficiency Of God May Be Understood

Active Creation Is Conceived As A Transitive Action In Which There Is Always Presupposed An Object About Which The Agent Is Concerned; It Is Virtually But Not Formally Transitive Because It Makes, Not Presupposes, An Object.

The Goodness Of A Thing Created Is The Perfection Of Its Fitness For The Use Which It Serves. Now That Use Is Either Particular Or Universal.

Although The Whole Man Partakes Of This Grace, It Is First And Most Appropriately In The Soul And Later Progresses To The Body, Inasmuch As The Body Of The Man Is Capable Of The Same Obedience To The Will Of God As The Soul.

The Relative Property Of The Son Is To Be Begotten, That Is, So To Proceed From The Father As To Be A Participant Of The Same Essence And Perfectly Carry On The Father's Nature.

The First Act Of Religion, Therefore, Concerns Those Things Which Are Communicated To Us From God. The Other Concerns Those Things Which We Yield To God.