Question 87. Whether longanimity was in her

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QUAESTIO LXXXVII.

Utrum longanimitas fuerit in ipsa?

Post haec quaeritur de longanimitate. Glossa: "Longanimitas est in exspectatione boni." Inde sic:

1. Bonum exspectatum reficit: sed beatissima Virgo improportionabile gaudium aliis exspectavit: ergo fructum longanimitatis improportionabiliter habuit.

2. Item, Bonum exspectatum non reficit nisi aliquo modo certum sit haberi: ergo ubi major certitudo de habendo, ibi major refectio in exspectando: sed beatissima Virgo habuit exspectationem omnibus aliis improportionabiliter certiorem: ergo omnibus aliis improportionabilem fructum habuit longanimitatis.

3. Item, Omnis alterius viatoris exspectatio est per modum esurientis: exspectatio autem Mariae Virginis fuit per modum comedentis: sed improportionabiliter magis delectat exspectatio in comedendo quam in esuriendo.

Patet igitur, quod beatissima Virgo fructum longanimitatis habuit improportionabiliter viatoribus universis ¹.

QUESTION 87.

Whether longanimity was in her.

After these things inquiry is made concerning longanimity. The Gloss says: "Longanimity is in the expectation of good." From this, thus:

1. An expected good refreshes. But the most blessed Virgin expected a joy disproportionate to others; therefore she had the fruit of longanimity disproportionately.

2. Likewise, an expected good does not refresh unless in some way it is certain to be had. Therefore where there is greater certainty concerning the having, there is greater refreshment in expecting. But the most blessed Virgin had an expectation disproportionately more certain than all others; therefore she had the fruit of longanimity disproportionate to all others.

3. Likewise, the expectation of every other wayfarer is through the mode of one hungering; but the expectation of the Virgin Mary was through the mode of one eating. But expectation in eating delights disproportionately more than in hungering.

Therefore it is clear that the most blessed Virgin had the fruit of longanimity disproportionately beyond all wayfarers ¹.

Notes

For the solution of the objections, see below after Question 94. (Pro solutione objectorum, vide infra post Quaest. XCIV.) ↩