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1p28s causa absolute proxima remota |
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... As certain things must be produced immediately by God, namely
those things which necessarily follow from his absolute nature, through the means of these primary attributes, which, nevertheless, can neither
exist nor be conceived without God, it follows ... |
... Cum quaedam a Deo immediate produci debuerunt videlicet ea
quae ex absoluta ejus natura necessario sequuntur et alia mediantibus
his primis quae tamen sine Deo nec esse nec concipi possunt, hinc
sequitur ... |
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... 1. That God is absolutely the proximate cause of those things immediately
produced by him. I say absolutely, not after his kind, as is usually stated. For
the effects of God cannot either exist or be conceived without a cause ... |
... I. quod Deus sit rerum immediate ab ipso productarum causa absolute proxima,
non vero in suo genere ut aiunt. Nam Dei effectus sine sua causa nec esse nec
concipi possunt ... |
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... 2. That God cannot properly be styled the remote cause of individual things,
except for the sake of distinguishing these from what he immediately produces,
or rather from what follows from his absolute nature ... |
... Sequitur II. quod Deus non potest proprie dici causa esse remota rerum
singularium nisi forte ea de causa ut scilicet has ab iis quas immediate
produxit vel potius quae ex absoluta ejus natura sequuntur, distinguamus ... |
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... For, by a remote cause, we understand a cause which is in no way conjoined
to the effect. But all things which are, are in God, and so depend on God, that
without him they can neither be nor be conceived ... |
... Nam per causam remotam talem intelligimus quae cum effectu nullo modo
conjuncta est. At omnia quae sunt in Deo sunt et a Deo ita dependent ut sine
ipso nec esse nec concipi possint ... |