3. Lastly, things that are contradistinguished are not identical. But in
all enumerations of the parts of justice sanctity is set against
religion.
But sanctity is set against religion because of the difference
aforesaid; they differ indeed in idea, not in substance.
* * * * *
_Cajetan:_ Religion is directly concerned with those things which
specially pertain to the Divine worship--ceremonies, for example,
sacrifices, oblations, etc. Whereas sanctity directly regards the mind,
and through the mind the other virtuous works, including those of
religion ... for it makes use of them so as thereby to apply the
mind--and by consequence all acts that proceed from the human mind--to
God. Thus we see that many religious people are not saints, whereas all
saints are religious. For people who devote themselves to ceremonies,
sacrifices, etc., can be termed religious; but they can only be called
saints in so far as by means of these things they give themselves
interiorly to God (_on_ 2. 2. 81. 8).
FOOTNOTES:
[33] _De invent. Rhetor._, ii. 53.
[34] _Etymolog._, x. _sub litt._ R.
[35] _Of the City of God_, x. 3.
[36] _Of the True Religion_, lv.
[37] St. Jas. i. 27.
[38] _Of the City of God_, x. 1.
[39] _Of the City of God_, x. 1.
[40] Gal. v. 13.
[41] The objection and its solution turn upon the Latin words _cultus_
and _colere_, which cannot be consistently rendered in English;
"reverence" is perhaps the most appropriate translation here.
[42] _Of the City of God_, x. 1.
[43] Gal. iv. 14.
[44] Rom. viii. 31.
[45] Ps. xv. 5.
[46] Ps. lxxvi. 1.
[47] _Of the Nature of Good_, iii.
[48] _Fear_ is one of the "Gifts" of the Holy Ghost.
[49] S. Jerome, _Ep._ LIV., _alias_ X., _ad Furiam_.
[50] II., vi. 15.
[51] iv. 5-6.
[52] i. 6.
[53] The Latin word _ordinare_ means "to set in due order"; there is no
precise English equivalent which can be consistently employed.
[54] _Of the City of God_, x. 6.
[55] II. x. 31.
[56] VIII. viii. 1.
[57] 2. 2. Qu. II., Art. 2.
[58] _Enchiridion_, iii.
[59] xliii. 33.
[60] xx. 1-17.
[61] _Ethics_, II. vi.
[62] lviii. 7.
[63] Ps. xv. 2.
[64] 1 Cor. ix. 16.
[65] See p. 30.
[66] i. 20.
[67] Ps. xlix. 13.
[68] _Of the City of God_, x. 5.
[69] _Ibid._, vi. 10.
[70] Ps. xciv. 3.
[71] i. 74-75.
[72] Thus Origen, _Hom._ XI, i. _in Leviticum_, where, however, he is
not really giving an etymology.
[73] X., _sub litt._ S.
[74] xii. 14.
[75] Rom. viii. 38-39.
[76] _De Affectibus_.
[77] _Of the Divine Names_, xii.
[78] _Of Virginity_, viii.
QUESTION LXXXII
OF DEVOTION
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