V. OF THE CREATION
It is meant that God made all things out of nothing (XLIV., XLV.).
There was then nothing at all beside God before He made all things?
Of a truth there was nothing beside God before He made all things, He Himself being by Himself, and all things else through Him (XLIV. 1).
When did God thus make all things out of nothing?
God made all things out of nothing when it pleased His will (XLIV.).
Had He so wished then, He need not have created the things He has made?
It is even so.
Why therefore did God wish to create at some given moment the things He has made?
God created the things He has made to make manifest His glory (XLIV. 4).
What is meant by this?
It is meant that God wished to make manifest the abundance of His goodness by communicating to others in part something of the infinite goodness which is none other than Himself.
It was not then through need, nor in order to acquire some perfection, that God created the things that He has made?
No, on the contrary, it was merely to give unto others something of what He Himself possesses in an infinite degree and out of sheer goodness that He created the things He has made.
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Pegues OP, R P Thomas. Catechism of the "Summa Theologica" of Saint Thomas Aquinas for the Use of the Faithful (pp. 44-45). Veritatis Splendor Publications. Kindle Edition.
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