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Often appears with: sin, guilt, and repentance · justice as a virtue · fear of the lord · faith as first principles · duty, conscience, and obligation · divine law
Usually: argument (1) · crisis of belief (1) · exhortation (1)
“Thus the beginning of wisdom as to its essence consists in the first principles of wisdom, i.e. the articles of faith, and in this sense faith is said to be the beginning of wisdom.” Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) · insight
He answers that fear can be the beginning of wisdom by effect, while faith is the beginning by essence, because fear disposes people to avoid sin and submit to God’s direction.
*On the contrary,* It is written in the Ps. 110:10: "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom." *I answer that,* A thing may be called the beginning of wisdom in two ways: in one way because it is the beginning of wisdom itself as to its essence; in another way, as to its effect. Thus the beginning of an art as to its essence consists in the principles from which that art proceeds, while the beginning of an a…