Annotation CCXCIV

”According to the prince of the power of this air, [the] spirit.” — Ephesians 2:2

The bodies of demons.

Thomas Cajetan, in the commentaries: “I WOULD believe,” he says, “that the demons are aerial spirits; and that this is consonant to the reason of true philosophy: [namely] that, as the vegetative is found without the sensitive, and without the locomotive [that moves according to place]; and the intellective without the locomotive; so there may be found a locomotive without the sensitive — which is to posit aerial spirits of this kind, consisting of the intellective and the locomotive.” Ambrose of Compsa, [in] the fourth book of the Annotations, rejects this opinion, because it was of old condemned by the fathers in Origen. Read Annotation 8 of the fifth book.