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Volume 37 · pp. 133–134
Question 77. Whether peace was in her
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QUAESTIO LXXVII.
Utrum pax fuerit in ipsa?
Post haec quaeritur de pace, et quod ipsa similiter fuerit in beatissima Virgine, probatur hoc modo:
1. Beati pacifici 1. Glossa: "Pacifici sunt qui omnes motus animi rationi subjiciunt:" quia his nihil repugnat: qui similes Patri suo sunt, qui est summa quies: hoc autem totum in summo fuit in beatissima Virgine: ergo est pacifica in summo.
2. Item, Alia Glossa, ibidem: "Dum lex carnis repugnat legi mentis, non modo alteri, sed nec nobis possumus esse pacifici:" ergo super omnes improportionabiliter pacifica existit, in qua caro adversus spiritum non rebellavit.
3. Item, Sicut est praemium ad praemium, ita meritum ad meritum, etc. Et si aliis pacificis datum est praemium, quod filii Dei sint per adoptionem, beatae Virgini datum est, quod sit mater Dei per naturam: hoc autem improportionabiliter plus est quam esse filium Dei per adoptionem: ergo praemium beatissimae Virginis improportionabiliter est super praemium aliorum: ergo meritum super meritum: hoc autem est pacificatio: ergo beata Virgo in hac beatitudine excellit omnes.
QUESTION 77.
Whether peace was in her.
After these things inquiry is made concerning peace, and that it likewise was in the most blessed Virgin is proved in this way:
1. Blessed are the peacemakers 1. The Gloss says: "Peacemakers are those who subject all the movements of the soul to reason," because nothing resists them; they are like their Father, who is supreme rest. But all this was in the highest degree in the most blessed Virgin; therefore she is peace-making in the highest degree.
2. Likewise, another Gloss in the same place says: "While the law of the flesh resists the law of the mind, we cannot be peaceful not only toward another, but not even toward ourselves." Therefore she exists disproportionately peaceful above all, she in whom the flesh did not rebel against the spirit.
3. Likewise, as reward is to reward, so merit is to merit, and so forth. And if to other peacemakers the reward was given that they should be sons of God by adoption, to the blessed Virgin it was given that she should be the Mother of God by nature; but this is disproportionately more than to be a son of God by adoption. Therefore the reward of the most blessed Virgin is disproportionately above the reward of others; therefore merit above merit; but this is peacemaking; therefore the blessed Virgin in this beatitude surpasses all.
4. Item, Beata Virgo fuit medium universale et causa pacis: universalis enim fuit mediatrix et reconciliatrix: omnes enim per ipsam fuerunt reconciliandi: ergo excellit in pacificatione omnes viatores 2.
4. Likewise, the blessed Virgin was the universal medium and cause of peace; for she was universal mediatrix and reconciler, for all were to be reconciled through her. Therefore in peacemaking she surpasses all wayfarers 2.
Notes
- Matthew 5:9. (Matth. V, 9.) ↩
- For the solution of the objections, see below after Question 81. (Pro solutione objectorum, vide infra post Quaest. LXXXI.) ↩
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