Excerpt from Doctoris Angelici Divi Thom� Aquinatis Sacri Ordinis F. F. Pr�dicatorum Opera Omnia, Vol. 18: Expositiones in Job, in Psalmos Davidis, in Canticum Canticorum, in Isaiam Prophetam
Post prosperitatem beati Job enumera tam, ponitnnr advcnsitas ipsius; et prime inducitur causa ipsius et ne qnnis pnntaret adversitates justornm absque divina pro videntia procedere, ac per lnoc zestimaret res bumanas providentize subjectas non esse, praemittitur qnomodo Deus de re bus humanis cura... habet, et eas dispen sat. Hoc Mcc et sub enigmate pro pouitur, secunndnnm consuetudine... Sacra* Scriptnra*, qua: res spirituales sub liguris rerum corporalinm describit sicut patet lsaiee vn, Vidi Dominum sedenlem su per selimu exec/sum e! Elevatum; et in principio Elech., et in plnnribus aliis locis. Et quamvis spiritualia sub flgnris rerum eorporalium proponxantnnr, non tamen ea quae circa spiritualia inntenduntnr per figuras sennsibiles, ad mysticum pertinent sensum, sed litteralem: quia sensus littera lis est qui primo per verba intenditur, sive proprie dieta, sive figurate. Scienn da... est autem, quod divina providentia tali ordine res gubernat, quod inferiora per superiora dispensat corpera cinini gennerahilia ct corruptibilia snnbduntur motnni corpornnm cmlestium et similiter innt'eriores spiritnns rationales mortalibnns corporibus uniti, scilicetannimm, per supe rieres spiritus inncorporcos administran tnnr. Hanc autem lnabet ecclesiastica tra ditio, qnnod inter inncorporeos spiritus.
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Thomas Aquinas was an immensely influential philosopher and theologian in the tradition of scholasticism, known as Doctor Angelicus and Doctor Communis.
He was the foremost classical proponent of natural theology, and the father of the Thomistic school of philosophy and theology. His influence on Western thought is considerable, and much of modern philosophy was conceived as a reaction against, or as an agreement with, his ideas, particularly in the areas of ethics, natural law and political theory.
The philosophy of Aquinas has exerted enormous influence on subsequent Christian theology, especially that of the Roman Catholic Church, extending to Western philosophy in general, where he stands as a vehicle and modifier of Aristotelianism, which he fused with the thought of Augustine.
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