Excerpt from Explication Suivie des Quatre Evangiles, Vol. 4
J'ai fait connaitre au commencement de cet ouvrage tout ce que j'ai du faire en general, pour corriger les fautes enormes qui s'y etaient glissees en si grand nombre; les recherches que j'ai faites pour combler certaines lacunes qui interrompaient l'ordre des idees ou rendaient le sens obscur; pour retablir les indications d'un grand nombre de passages qui n'en portaient aucune, ou dont l'ordre etait souvent interverti enfin pour enrichir cet ouvrage d'explications ne cessaires qui faisaient partout defaut. On trouve aussi dans ma preface et dans la lettre du docteur angelique au souverain pontife quelques observations qui sont plus particulieresa l'evangile de saint Matthieu, bien que les limites etroites dans lesquelles il a fallu me resserrer, ne m'aient pas permis de leur donner tout le developpement dont elles auraient eu besoin.
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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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