ST I, q. 41
Of the Persons in Reference to the Notional Acts
We now consider the persons in reference to the notional acts, concerning which six points of inquiry arise:
(1) Whether the notional acts are to be attributed to the persons?
(2) Whether these acts are necessary, or voluntary?
(3) Whether as regards these acts, a person proceeds from nothing or from something?
(4) Whether in God there exists a power as regards the notional acts?
(5) What this power means?
(6) Whether several persons can be the term of one notional act?
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- a. 1Whether the notional acts are to be attributed to the persons?
- a. 2Whether the notional acts are voluntary?
- a. 3Whether the notional acts proceed from something?
- a. 4Whether in God there is a power in respect of the notional acts?
- a. 5Whether the power of begetting signifies a relation, and not the essence?
- a. 6Whether several persons can be the term of one notional act?