Thomas Aquinas · thesis 2.5

Thesis 2.5

Latin

Quodcunque contingens deus sciuit esse futurum, necessario sciuit illud esse futurum.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 11321

English

Whatever contingent thing God knew would come to be, he knew of necessity that it would come to be.

Sense checked against farmer1998:11374; no further crux.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T01b; sense checked against farmer1998:11374; 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.