Thomas Aquinas · thesis 2.3

Thesis 2.3

Latin

Contingens rerum quae sunt, erunt, aut fuerunt, existentia ideo deo ab aeterno fuit infallibiliter nota, quia fuit aeternitati eius praesentialiter praeposita.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 11315

English

God has known from eternity, and infallibly, the contingent existence of whatever is, will be, or has been, because that existence was laid out before him, present within his eternity.

Sense checked against farmer1998:11365; no further crux.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T01b; sense checked against farmer1998:11365; 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: 2 (deterministic harvest; see Method).

Farmer's cross-references

• 2.2 Processus spiritus sancti temporalis attenditur secundum dona gratiae gratum facientia.
• 4.1 Charitas non est distinctus habitus ab habitu gratiae, quo mediante spiritus sanctus animam inhabitat.
• 4.11 Gratia est subiectiue in uoluntate, non in essentia animae.
• 4.13 De potentia dei absoluta possibile est culpam originalem deleri sine infusione gratiae.