Thomas Aquinas · thesis 2.8

Thesis 2.8

Latin

Nec habens gratiam potest, etiam de potentia dei absoluta, deo non esse acceptus ad uitam aeternam, nec non habens esse acceptus.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 11331

English

Not even by God's absolute power can one who possesses grace fail to be accepted by God to eternal life, nor can one who lacks it be so accepted.

Sense checked against farmer1998:11387; no further crux.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T01b; sense checked against farmer1998:11387; 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: 3 (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.