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Nor ought we to be moved by the fact that in God essence and existence are the same, as the first argument proposed. But it is not understood of the existence that signifies the composition of intellect, for thus God's existence falls to demonstration when from demonstrative arguments our mind is led to form of God the proposition which expresses that God exists.

“Thus it is that a thing seeks to be united with God as to its ultimate end to the degree this is possible for it. But a thing is more intimately united with God insofar as it attains to his substance, whích comes about when it knows something of the divine substance, which requires some likeness of him. Therefore the intellectual substance tends towards divine knowledge as to its ultimate end.”

“Because good, as was said, indicates the order of being to appetite, the true indicates its order to intellect. Hence […] in Metaphysics 6.4 that good and evil are in things, but the true and false are in the mind. The thing is called true only insofar as it is adequated to intellect. So the true is primarily in intellect and secondarily in things

“Symbolic theology is not argumentative, especially since it is not the exposition of any author. It can be said however that it is not called a mixing when one of the two passes into the power of the other, but when both are altered in their nature. Hence those who employ philosophical texts in sacred doctrine, putting it to the service of the faith, do not mingle water with wine, but change water into wine.”