Annotation CCXCIV, The bodies of demons (Ephesians 2:2)
“According to the prince of the power of this air, [the] spirit.”
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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.
Sixtus of Siena, O.P., “Annotation CCXCIV, The bodies of demons (Ephesians 2:2),” in Annotations on the New Testament,
English translation, Mind of the Church,
https://mindofthechurch.com/works/bibliotheca-sancta-nt/296-annotation-ccxciv-the-bodies-of-demons-ephesians-2-2/.
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