Thomas Aquinas · thesis 2.22

Thesis 2.22

Latin

Deus per speciem non uidetur, sed ipse per suam essentiam intellectui applicatur ut species intelligibilis.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 11546

Apparatus (Farmer): 1487 Deus in patria per speciem

1487 apparatus reads 'Deus in patria per speciem...' (farmer1998:11552).

English

God is not seen by means of a species, but is joined to the intellect through his own essence, which there functions as an intelligible species.

Sense checked against farmer1998:11613; no further crux.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T01b; sense checked against farmer1998:11613; 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

• 28.35 Nulla res spiritualis descendens inferius operatur sine indumento.
• 2>5 Singulare non intelligitur ab intellectu, nec secundum ueritatem, nec secundum etiam opinionem Aristotelis, Commentatoris, et Thommae.