s not an effect of pleasure. For expansion seems to pertain more to love, according to the Apostle ( 2 Cor. 6:11 ): "Our heart is enlarged." Wherefore it is written ( Ps. 118:96 ) concerning the precept of charity: "Thy commandment is exceeding broad." But pleasure is a distinct…

f the rational creature is increased by charity, because the heart is enlarged thereby, according to 2 Cor. 6:11 : "Our heart is enlarged"; so that it still remains capable of receiving a further increase. Reply to Objection 3: This argument holds good in those things which have…

stiamini in nobis, angustiamini autem in visceribus vestris. Tanquam filiis dico, dilatamini et vos (II Cor. VI, 11) . Unde autem vel quo ordine provenerit, ut salutaribus aquis mundus [Note: [Col. 1246D] Al., ablueretur ] aspergeretur, utque abyssus sapientiae coelestis terris…