Goodness B.
Question 1: Does divine goodness produce good in itself and in other
beings?
Question 2: Does divine goodness produce its likeness in itself
and in other beings?
Solution: [Goodness, greatness, power.][God, end, equality.]
Greatness C.
Question 1: Is divine magnitude infinite in every respect?
Question 2: Does the magnitude of God have power to act within itself?
Solution: [Greatness, goodness, power.][God, majority, affirmation.]{Fire,
fire.]
Eternity D.
Question 1: Is it more proper to eternity to eternize than to create?
Question 2: In eternity, is there an active eternizer with immense
velocity?
Solution: [Eternity, greatness, justice.][God, majority, affirmation.]
Power E.
Question 1: Is divine power as great in willingness as in unwillingness?
Question 2: Can divine power empower anything that divine will does
not want?
Solution: [Power, perfection, justice.][God, concordance, end.]
Wisdom F.
Question 1: Does divine wisdom understand as much in understanding
what it is, as in understanding what it is not?
Question 2: Does divine wisdom intrinsically know its mode of understanding
whereby it understands itself to be free of any matter or accident?
Solution: [Wisdom, will, virtue.][God, operation, end.][Fire, fire.]
Will G.
Question 1: Can anything in God resist God's will?
Question 2: Are willingness and unwillingness equal in the will
of God?
Solution: [Will, glory, simplicity.][God, end, equality.]
Virtue H.
Question 1: Does divine virtue specify anything in immensity, eternity
and velocity?
Question 2: Can divine virtue be specified in generosity and simplicity,
as much as in wisdom and will?
Solution: [Virtue, power, perfection.][God, operation, equality.]
Truth I.
Question 1: Is divine truth as great in its verifying as it is in
its being?
Question 2: Is every true thing an effect of God's truth?
Solution: [Truth, justice, simplicity.][God, operation, end.]
Glory K.
Question 1: Can there be great perfection of glory without the glorifier
and the glorified?
Question 2: Do the Saints enjoy greater glory in God's internal
being, than in His external being?
Solution: [Glory, greatness, power.][God, operation, end.]
Perfection L.
Question 1: Is it inappropriate for the divine essence to have an
act of perfecting?
Question 2: Would there be any perfection without the one who perfects,
the one who is perfected, and the act of perfecting?
Solution: [Perfection, will, virtue.][God, operation, majority.]
Justice M.
Question 1: Does divine justice justify its power in an immense,
eternal velocity of goodness?
Question 2: Does divine justice justify itself independently of
anything else?
Solution: [Justice, greatness, eternity.][God, majority, equality.]
Generosity N.
Question 1: Is divine generosity as powerful in divine magnitude
as it is in divine wisdom and will?
Question 2: Has divine generosity given anyone all it could give
him?
Solution: [Generosity, magnitude, will.][God, concordance, majority.]
Simplicity O.
Question 1: Can the power of divine simplicity be as great if it
simplifies nothing, as when it simplifies something?
Question 2: Is divine simplicity as great in its unifying power,
as in itself?
Solution: [Simplicity, goodness, virtue.][God, operation, end.]
Nobility P.
Question 1: Is divine nobility greater in reality than in the rational
mind?
Question 2: Does divine nobility have any form without action?
Solution: [Nobility, will, generosity.][God, creature, operation.]
Mercy Q.
Question 1: Does any quantity stand between divine justice and divine
mercy?
Question 2: Does divine will have greater power than divine mercy
in the magnitude of immensity, eternity and velocity?
Solution: [Mercy, magnitude, eternity.][God, end, equality.]
Dominion R.
Question 1: Is God's dominion accidental?
Question 2: Why is dominion desirable, given that man was produced
from nothingness?
Solution: [Dominion, magnitude, justice.][God, beginning, end.]
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