Tuesday, July 04, 2006

Q26 A2: Whether God is called blessed in respect of His intellect?

Yes. Beatitude must be assigned to God in respect of His intellect because the beatitude of every intellectual nature consists in understanding; and, in God, to be and to understand are one and the same thing.

This argument proves that beatitude belongs to God: not that beatitude pertains essentially to Him under the aspect of His essence, but rather under the aspect of His intellect.