[345] _De Trinitate_, xv. 8.
[346] _De Consideratione_, v. 14.
[347] _De Fide Orthodoxa_, ii. 15.
[348] S. Luke x. 39.
[349] Wisd. vii. 7.
[350] 2 Cor. v. 6-7.
[351] Hab. ii. 4.
[352] Ps. cxliii. 15.
[353] 1 Tim. i. 5.
[354] Ps. lxxii. 21-28.
[355] _Moralia in Job_, vi. 28.
[356] _On the Trinity_, i. 8.
[357] _Ethics_, X., vii. 2.
[358] Rom. i. 20.
[359] _De Vera Religione_, xxix.
[360] Ps. cxlii. 5, 6.
[361] _De Consideratione_, v. 14.
[362] _Of Contemplation_, i. 6.
[363] 1 John iii. 2.
[364] Ps. xxvi. 4.
[365] Ps. xxxv. 9, 10.
[366] Phil. iv. 7; Rom. viii. 26.
[367] Isa. xxv. 8, 9.
[368] _Hom._ XIV., _On Ezechiel_.
[369] _De Genesi ad Litt._, xii. 27.
[370] Gen. xxxii. 30.
[371] _Epistola I., to Caius the Monk._
[372] _Hom._ XIV., _On Ezechiel_.
[373] The _Glossa Ordinaria_, taken from S. Gregory's _Moralia in Job_,
xxiv. 5.
[374] _Moralia_, vi. 27.
[375] _De Anima_, III., vii. 3.
[376] _Dialogues_, ii. 35.
[377] Isa. xxvi. 3, 4, 8, 9.
[378] _Of the Divine Names_, IV., i. 7.
[379] _De Anima_, III., vii. 1 and 2.
[380] _Physica_, VIII., vii. 2.
[381] viii. 16.
[382] _Of Contemplation_, i. 5.
[383] Job xvi. 20, 23.
[384] _Hom._ XIV., _On Ezechiel_.
[385] Ps. xxxiii. 9.
[386] _Hom._ XIV., _On Ezechiel_.
[387] _Ibid._
[388] _Conf._, viii. 3.
[389] Wisd. ix. 15.
[390] Rom. vii. 24.
[391] _Hom._ XIV., _On Ezechiel_.
[392] _Ethics_, X., iv. 6.
[393] 1 Cor. xiii, 12.
[394] Ps. xxxv. 9.
[395] _De Partibus Animalium_, i. 5.
[396] xxxii. 30-32.
[397] _Hom._ XIV., _On Ezechiel_.
[398] Ps. xxxiii. 9.
[399] S. Luke x. 42.
[400] _Topics_, I., xiii. 5.
[401] _Ethics_, X., vii. 2.
[402] 1 Cor. xiii. 8.
[403] _Conf._, x. 40.
[404] _Of the Divine Names_, IV., i. 7; and _Of the Heavenly Hierarchy_,
iii.
[405] _Ethics_, X., vii. 8.
[406] Isa. xii. 1-6.
QUESTION CLXXXI
OF THE ACTIVE LIFE
I. Do all Acts of the Moral Virtues come under the Active Life?
II. Does Prudence pertain to the Active Life?
III. Does Teaching belong to the Active or to the Contemplative
Life?
IV. Does the Active Life continue after this Life?
I
Do all Acts of the Moral Virtues come under the Active Life?
S. Isidore says[407]: "In the active life all the vices are first of all
to be removed by the practice of good works, so that in the
contemplative life a man may, with now purified mental gaze, pass to the
contemplation of the Divine Light." But all the vices can only be
removed by the acts of the moral virtues. Consequently the acts of the
moral virtues belong to the active life.
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