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Often appears with: theological virtues · the nature and attributes of God · religious persecution and toleration · justice as a virtue · god as measure · faith hope charity
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“because our faith is ruled according to Divine truth; charity, according to His goodness; hope, according to the immensity of His omnipotence and loving kindness.” Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) · observation
He concludes theological virtues do not observe a mean in their divine measure: since God as their rule is infinite, charity, faith, and hope increase toward God’s summit, with only an accidental mean relative to us.
Nestorius, who maintained the existence of two persons and two natures, and the heresy of Eutyches, who held to one person and one nature. Therefore theological virtue observes the mean. *On the contrary,* Wherever virtue observes the mean it is possible to sin by excess as well as by deficiency. But there is no sinning by excess against God, Who is the object of theological virtue: for it is written (Ecclus. 43:33)…