But the suffrages of the Church for the dead are, as it were, satisfactions offered by the living in place of the dead, and thus they free the dead from that debt of punishment which they have not paid. But the Saints who are in our Fatherland are not capable of making satisfaction. And thus there is no parity between their prayers and the Church's suffrages. FOOTNOTES: [267] xiv. 21. [268] _Moralia in Job_, xii. 14. [269] _Dialogue_, li. 35. [270] _Contra Vigilant._, vi. [271] S. Augustine: _Of the Trinity_, xiii. 5. [272] _Of the Heavenly Hierarchy_, iii. [273] lxiii. 16. [274] _De Cura Mortuorum_, 13, 14, 15. [275] S. Matt, xviii. 10. [276] _Of the Heavenly Hierarchy_, vii.; and _Of the Ecclesiastical Hierarchy_, vi. [277] v. 1. [278] _Moralia in Job_, v. 30. [279] Rom. xv. 30. [280] _Of the Ecclesiastical Hierarchy_, v. [281] Dan. ix. 14. [282] _Ep. contra Vigilantium_, vi. [283] Apoc. vi. 11. [284] vi. 10. [285] xv. 1. [286] S. Matt. xxii. 30. [287] x. 12-13. [288] _Moralia on Job_, xvii. 12. [289] _De Dono Perseverantiae_, xxii. [290] i. 8. QUESTION CLXXIX OF THE DIVISION OF LIFE INTO THE ACTIVE AND THE CONTEMPLATIVE I. May Life be fittingly divided into the Active and the Contemplative? S. Augustine, _De Consensu Evangelistarum_, I., iv. 8 " _Tractatus, cxxiv. 5, in Joannem_ II. Is this division of Life into the Active and the Contemplative a sufficient one? S. Augustine, _Of the Trinity_, I., viii. 17 I May Life be fittingly divided into the Active and the Contemplative? S. Gregory the Great says[291]: "There are two kinds of lives in which Almighty God instructs us by His Sacred Word--namely, the active and the contemplative." Those things are properly said to live which move or work from within themselves. But what especially accords with the innermost nature of a thing is that which is proper to it and towards which it is especially inclined; consequently every living thing shows that it is living by those very acts which are especially befitting it and towards which it is especially inclined. Thus the life of plants is said to consist in their growing and in their producing seed; the life of animals in their feeling and moving; while that of man consists in his understanding and in his acting according to reason. Hence among men themselves each man's life appears to be that in which he takes special pleasure, that with which he is particularly occupied, that, in fine, in which each one wishes to live with a friend, as is said in the _Ethics of Aristotle_.[292] Since, then, some men are especially occupied with the contemplation of the truth while others are especially-occupied with external things, man's life may be conveniently divided into the active and the contemplative. * * * * * Some, however, repudiate this division, thus: