7/26/2023 0 Comments And yet it moves op![]() ![]() Therefore, since the Divine power extends over matter, as produced by God, it can be reduced to act by the Divine power: and this is what is meant by matter being moved to a form for a form is nothing else but the act of matter. I answer that, God can move matter immediately to form because whatever is in passive potentiality can be reduced to act by the active power which extends over that potentiality. On the contrary, It is written ( Genesis 2:7): " God formed man of the slime of the earth." Therefore the forms of things are produced by God, only by means of particular causes. But the determinate being of a particular thing is from its own form. As universal being depends on the first universal cause, so determinate being depends on determinate particular causes as we have seen above ( I:104:2). ![]() Therefore it cannot produce any particular form, except by means of a particular agent. But the Divine power is the universal cause of all things. Further, any agent inclined to several effects will produce none of them, unless it is determined to a particular one by some other cause for, as the Philosopher says (De Anima iii, 11), a general assertion does not move the mind, except by means of some particular apprehension. Therefore He cannot cause a form in matter. vi, 8), nothing can bring a form into any particular matter, except that form which is in matter because, like begets like. ![]() It would seem that God cannot move the matter immediately to receive the form. Whether God can move the matter immediately to the form? Can He do anything outside the order imposed on things?Īrticle 1.Can God move immediately the matter to the form?. ![]()
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