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Often appears with: the problem of evil and theodicy · religious persecution and toleration · reason and the intellect · prophecy and revelation · waking from a dream · vision conclusion · the passions and the emotions · the nature and attributes of God · the fear of death · testing the wife’s situation · supernatural truths · study and writing
Usually: detachment (4) · argument (3) · speech or oration (2) · crisis of belief (2) · wonder (2) · dialogue (1) · reflection (1) · ambition and its cost (1) · confronting death (1) · temptation (1)
“And therewith I anon abraid Out of my sleepe, half afraid; Rememb’ring well what I had seen, And how high and far I had been In my ghost; and had great wonder Of what the mighty god of thunder Had let me know; and gan to write Like as ye have me heard endite.” Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems · vivid
“Madam," returned the pilgrim:--"well wot I what it is, nor shall I question you thereof for my better instruction, but that the rehearsal may give you increase of remorse therefor.” Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron, Volume I · precept
“Consequently divination is always a sin; and for this reason Jerome says in his commentary on Mic. 3:9, seqq. that "divination is always taken in an evil sense.” Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) · insight
“Since therefore grace does not destroy nature but perfects it, natural reason should minister to faith as the natural bent of the will ministers to charity.” Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) · insight
“God will at last punish him severely; he is reserved for the judgment, and is to be cast into the bottomless pit, to dwell with everlasting fire.” Daniel Defoe, The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe · precept
Athene reveals herself, praises Odysseus’s craft, and coordinates a plan to hide his gifts and test against the wooers, ordering him to endure sorrow in silence until the wooers repay their wrongdoing.
where I myself lay upon the sands. Then they went on board, and departed for the fair-lying land of Sidon; while as for me I was left stricken at heart.” So spake he and the goddess, grey-eyed Athene, smiled, and caressed him with her hand; and straightway she changed to the semblance of a woman, fair and tall, and skilled in splendid handiwork. And uttering her voice she spake unto him winged words: “Crafty must h…
The vision escalates into a chaotic crowd scene of people climbing and stamping, and the narrator awakens, astonished at the thunder-god’s revelation, then resolves to study and write daily.
leap, And clomb* upon each other fast, <88> *climbed And up the noise on high they cast, And trodden fast on others’ heels, And stamp’d, as men do after eels. But at the last I saw a man, Which that I not describe can; But that he seemed for to be A man of great authority. And therewith I anon abraid* *awoke Out of my sleepe, half afraid; Rememb’ring well what I had seen, And how…
Thomas replies that doctrine comes from faith and divine revelation, while human reason and authorities serve as clarifying, probable supports, with Scripture and Church doctors treated with different degrees of certainty.
Reply Obj. 1: Although arguments from human reason cannot avail to prove what must be received on faith, nevertheless, this doctrine argues from articles of faith to other truths. Reply Obj. 2: This doctrine is especially based upon arguments from authority, inasmuch as its principles are obtained by revelation: thus we ought to believe on the authority of those to whom the revelation has been made. Nor does this ta…
Aquinius argues Adam in innocence had knowledge suited to humanity’s natural aptitude and necessary supernatural truths for directing life, but lacked knowledge of thoughts, future contingents, and trivial particulars.
body for that purpose. Now man would have advanced in merit in that state of life; therefore also in knowledge. Therefore he was not endowed with knowledge of all things. *On the contrary,* Man named the animals (Gen. 2:20). But names should be adapted to the nature of things. Therefore Adam knew the animals' natures; and in like manner he was possessed of the knowledge of all other things. *I answer that,* In the …
In Q. 95, Art. 1, Aquinas defines divination as foretelling the future and argues it is always sinful unless it comes from divine revelation, because only God can know certain contingent future things.
the Decretals (26, qu. v, can. Qui divinationes): "Those who seek for divinations shall be liable to a penance of five years' duration, according to the fixed grades of penance." *I answer that,* Divination denotes a foretelling of the future. The future may be foreknown in two ways: first in its causes, secondly in itself. Now the causes of the future are threefold: for some produce their effects, of necessity and …
Ermellina begs the pilgrim to act, believing his prophecy, and he explains her suffering as divine retribution for her past love, questioning why she cut off Tedaldo under fear from a friar.
I have it by revelation of God that the tribulation wherein you stand is come upon you in requital of a sin which you did once commit, of which God is minded that this suffering be a partial purgation, and that you make reparation in full, if you would not find yourself in a far more grievous plight." "Sir," replied the lady, "many sins have I committed, nor know I how among them all to single out that whereof, more …
Friday struggles with Robinson’s claim that God will eventually punish the devil, asking why God does not kill the devil now, leading Robinson to stress that only divine revelation can teach redemption through Jesus.
our affections, and to adapt his snares to our inclinations, so as to cause us even to be our own tempters, and run upon our destruction by our own choice. I found it was not so easy to imprint right notions in his mind about the devil as it was about the being of a God. Nature assisted all my arguments to evidence to him even the necessity of a great First Cause, an overruling, governing Power, a secret directing P…