Thomas Aquinas · thesis 2.6

Thesis 2.6

Latin

Ex diuina bonitate potest sumi ratio praedestinationis aliquorum et reprobationis aliorum, et sola diuina uoluntas est ratio quod istos reprobet et illos eligat in gloriam.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 11324

Apparatus (Farmer): 1486, 1487 summi

1486 and 1487 apparatus read 'summi' where the text has 'sumi' (farmer1998:11342); sense is unaffected.

English

The ground of the predestination of some and the reprobation of others may be drawn from divine goodness, and God's will alone accounts for his rejecting the one group and choosing the other for glory.

Sense checked against farmer1998:11378; no further crux.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T01b; sense checked against farmer1998:11378; 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.