While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen [are] temporal; but the things which are not seen [are] eternal.
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Greek original
Louis Segond 1910
parce que nous regardons, non point aux choses visibles, mais à celles qui sont invisibles; car les choses visibles sont passagères, et les invisibles sont éternelles.
KJV
While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen [are] temporal; but the things which are not seen [are] eternal.
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
ich God hath made, continue for ever." But visible bodies do not continue for ever, for it is said ( 2 Cor. 4:18 ): "The things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal." Therefore God did not make visible bodies. Objection 2: Further, it is said…
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
us from God, but leads us to Him. But corporeal creatures withdraw us from God. Hence the Apostle ( 2 Cor. 4:18 ): "While we look not at the things which are seen." Corporeal creatures, therefore, are not from God. On the contrary, It is said ( Ps. 145:6 ): "Who made heaven and e…
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
by asking for temporal things, it descends to things beneath it, against the saying of the Apostle ( 2 Cor. 4:18 ), "While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen…
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