the knowledge of God's works, so that he might be led by them to God; wherefore he says elsewhere ( Ps. 142:5,6 ): "I meditated on all Thy works: I meditated upon the works of Thy hands: I stretched forth my hands to Thee." Reply to Objection 2: By considering the divine judgment…

d out of it; that earth of which it is said in the Psalms, “Thy lot is in the hand of the living,” [ Ps 142:5 ] meaning the fixedness of a perpetual inheritance, in which the soul that hath good dispositions rests as in its own place, as the body does in an earthly possession, it…

12) . [Col. 0716A] Item id: Meditabor in omnibus operibus tuis, et factis manuum tuarum exercebor (Psal. CXLII, 5) . Quae si quis investigare sufficeret, mirabilem in eis Dei sapientiae lucem inveniret. Et haec ego utinam possem tam subtiliter perspicere, tam competenter enarrar…