Thomas Aquinas · thesis 2.1

Thesis 2.1

Latin

Si spiritus a filio non procederet, a filio non distingueretur.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 11243

Apparatus (Farmer): 1487 Si spiritussanctus

1487 apparatus reads 'Si spiritussanctus...' for 'Si spiritus...' (farmer1998:11248).

English

Absent procession from the Son, the Spirit would not be distinguished from the Son.

Sense checked against farmer1998:11283; no further crux beyond the 1487 variant noted above.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T01b; sense checked against farmer1998:11283; awaiting human check

Attribution: reported according to Thomas Aquinas (section 2 of the historical theses) · Pico's stance: reports

Discussed in

• Amos Edelheit, A Philosopher at the Crossroads: Giovanni Pico della Mirandola's Encounter with Scholastic Philosophy (2022)

Mention records in the corpus: 1 (deterministic harvest; see Method).

Farmer's cross-references

• 1>2 Qui dicunt innascibilitatem esse positiuam proprietatem constituentem patrem in esse hypostatico incommunicabili, ab opinione sancti doctori
• 1>3 De ponenda sexta notione, quae est inspirabilitas, non debent discordare Thomistae et Scotistae, si recte suorum doctorum funda/menta intros
• 1>7 De attrıbutorum distinctione non discordant Thommas et Scotus.
• 3.1 Ideo haec est falsa: Essentia generat, quia essentia est ultimate abstracta, et generat formaliter praedicatur. u
• 4.3 Qui dixerit personas in diuinis absolutis proprietatibus distingui, catholicae ueritati non repugnabit.
• 4>26 Persone in diuinis numero distinguuntur.
• 4>27 Personalitates in diuinis sunt primo diuersae.
• 4>5 Attributales perfectiones nec in deo, nec secundum se quiditatiue sumptae, dicunt diuersas rationes in recto, et principaliter diffinibiles
• 5.2 Paternitas est principium generandi in patre.
• 5.3 Processiones distinguuntur in diuinis penes intellectum et uoluntatem.
• 5.4 Ista propositio non est concedenda: essentia est pater fihi.
• 6.1 Potentia generandi in diuinis nec est essentia diuina precise et absolute sumpta, nec relatio uel proprietas, nec constitutum ex ambobus, ne