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TREATISE
FOURTH
God,
NINTH
"They that explain me shall have life everlasting"
"Give not that which is holy to dogs"
TENTH
the historical, the allegorical, and the tropological.
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THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
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Therefore it is necessary to arrive at a first mover, put in motion by no other; and this everyone understands to be God.
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Therefore it is necessary to admit a first efficient cause, to which everyone gives the name of God.
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Therefore there must also be something which is to all beings the cause of their being, goodness, and every other perfection; and this we call God.
This is part of the infinite goodness of God, that He should allow evil to exist, and out of it produce good.
"I am the way, the truth, and the life" (John 14:6).
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not different, but diverse.
Hence,
Therefore
"The Lord is good to them that hope in Him, to the soul that seeketh
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and hence it is that everything guards its unity as it guards its being.
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although the names applied to God signify one thing, still because they signify that under many and different aspects, they are not synonymous. Thus appears the solution of the First Objection, since synonymous terms signify one
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"persons" or masks the Greeks called prosopa, as they were placed on the face