Thomas Aquinas: Summa Theologiae

Glossary

• Abraham, Isaac and Jacob patriarchs of the Jewish people in the Old Testament
• As a wise architect, I have laid the foundation from the biblical book of 1 Corinthians, chapter 3, verse 10
• As some also of your own poets said from the biblical book of Acts, chapter 17, verse 28
• Augustine Saint Augustine of Hippo, author of On the Trinity (in Latin, abbreviated as De Trin.), On the Usefulness of Believing (in Latin, abbreviated as De util. cred.), the Epistle to Hieronymus (or Saint Jerome, abbreviated in Latin as Epis. ad Hieronymi), and Enchiridion (Greek for “handbook”)
• Be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only from the biblical book of James, chapter 1, verse 22
• Bringing into captivity every understanding . . . from the biblical book of 2 Corinthians, chapter 10, verse 5
• But these things are written that you may believe from the biblical book of John, chapter 20, verse 31
• Damascene Saint John of Damascus, author of De fide orthodoxa (abbreviated here as De Fide Orth.), or Exposition of the Orthodox Faith
• de Animal Historia de animalibus (History of Animals) by Aristotle
• Destroying counsels and every height . . . from the biblical book of 2 Corinthians, chapter 10, verses 4 and 5
• Dionysius Dionysius the Areopagite, converted to Christianity by Saint Paul; author of Caelestis hierarchia (Coel. Hier.), or Celestial Hierarchy
• embrace that faithful word which is according to doctrine . . . from the biblical book of Titus, chapter 1, verse 9
• Ethic. Aristotle’s Ethics
• For all men have not faith from the biblical book of 2 Thessalonians, chapter 3, verse 2
• For many things are shown to thee above the understanding of man from the biblical book of Ecclesiastes, chapter 3, verse 25
• Gregory Saint Gregory the Great, author of Morals
• Hugh of St. Victor a French theologian and author of De sacramentis ecclesiasticis (here abbreviated Sacram.)
• I am Who am from the biblical book of Exodus, chapter 3, verse 14
• Metaph. Metaphysics, a work by Aristotle
• Osee a minor Old Testament prophet and author of the book of Osee, or Hosea
• that science is one which treats only of one class of subjects from Augustine’s On the Trinity
• The eye hath not seen, O God, besides Thee . . . from the biblical book of Isaiah, chapter 64, verse 4
• The spiritual man judgeth all things from the biblical book of 1 Corinthians, chapter 2, verse 15
• They that explain me shall have life everlasting from the biblical book of Ecclesiastes, chapter 24, verse 31
• This is your wisdom and understanding . . . from the biblical book of Deuteronomy, chapter 4, verse 6
• Wisdom gave him the knowledge [scientiam] of holy things from the biblical book of Wisdom, chapter 10, verse 10
• Wisdom is prudence to a man from the biblical book of Proverbs, chapter 10, verse 23
• Wisdom sent her maids to invite to the tower from the biblical book of Proverbs, chapter 9, verse 3