Saturday, June 10, 2006

Q21 A2: Whether the justice of God is truth?

Yes. God's justice, which establishes things in the order conformable to the rule of His wisdom (which is the law of His justice) is suitably called truth because as works of art are related to art, so are works of justice related to the law with which they accord.

When the mind is the rule or measure of things, truth consists in the equation of the thing to the mind, just as the work of an artist is said to be true, when it is in accordance with his art.

Justice, as to the law that governs, resides in the reason or intellect; but as to the command whereby our actions are governed according to the law, it resides in the will.