Thomas Aquinas · thesis 2.13

Thesis 2.13

Latin

Sacramenta noue legis sunt causa gratiae, non solum sine qua non, sed per quam.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 11426

The sacraments of the New Law cause grace, and not merely as an indispensable condition for it, but as the very means through which it comes.

'New Law' = the New Testament dispensation. Sense checked against farmer1998:11482.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T01b; sense checked against farmer1998:11482; awaiting human check

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

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).

2.14 Verum corpus Christi est in coelo localiter, in altari sacramentaliter.
2.20 Non potest per dei potentiam idem corpus esse simul in diuersis locis.
2>3 Nec prima intentio nec secunda intentio alicubi sunt subiectiue.
4.12 Corpus Christi ex se fuit impassibile.
4.14 Post passionem Christi potuerunt cerimonialia ueteris legis sine peccato obseruari.
4.15 Per haec uerba precise (Hoc est corpus meum), non expressis uerbis precedentibus, scilicet pridie quam pateretur, non potest consecrari.
4>1 Qui dixerit accidens existere non posse nisi inexistat, Eucharistiae poterit sacramentum tenere etiam tenendo panis substantiam non remanere
4>10 Illa uerba (hoc est corpus, etc.), quae in consecratione dicuntur, materialiter tenentur non significatiuae.
4>2 Si teneatur communis uia de possibilitate suppositationis in respectu ad quamcunque creaturam, dico quod sine conuersione panis in corpus Ch