CCXLV. Corollary XLI

COROLLARY XLI.

Things which are distinct and diverse in themselves can, and indeed also demand to, be expressed by distinct and diverse words. For it is no more fitting that ideas should suitably correspond to things than that signs should suitably correspond to ideas. Since, therefore, the cause from which the faculty of attaining salvation flows forth is one thing, and that from which the attainment of salvation itself must be derived is another, it is altogether expedient that each should be signified by proper and distinct words. Now it was a received custom among the Fathers and ecclesiastical writers¹ that they should call the prior cause the divine and antecedent will, but should name the latter the divine-human and consequent will. There is reason, therefore, that we too should use formulas of this kind and properly retain their force and signification.