Saturday, December 02, 2006

Q61 A2: Whether the angel was produced by God from eternity?

No. God alone (Father, Son and Holy Ghost) is from eternity because the Catholic Faith holds this without doubt (and everything to the contrary must be rejected as heretical).

An angel is above that time which is the measure of the movement of the heavens; because he is above every movement of a corporeal nature.

Nevertheless he is not above time which is the measure of the succession of his existence after his non-existence, and which is also the measure of the succession which is in his operations.

Hence Augustine says (Gen. ad lit. viii, 20,21) that "God moves the spiritual creature according to time."