Are these latter precepts those which make up the Decalogue?
Yes, they are these very precepts.
Then the precepts relating to faith and hope are not, properly speaking, precepts in the Decalogue?
No, they are not, properly speaking, precepts of the Decalogue; for, first of all, they precede and make the latter possible; and then in the unfolding of the law of God, such as the Prophets or Jesus Christ and the Apostles have made, they take on a new form, developing in their turn the character of counsels or of complementary formal precepts (XXII. 1, ad 2).
Nothing then is more necessary nor more ardently desired by God and ordained by Him than that man's mind should be wholly submitted to Him by faith and by hope, which relies on His help for attaining unto Him through the means of a life altogether supernatural?
No, there is nothing more necessary nor more ardently desired and ordained by God than this.
Is there a special virtue which has precisely the rôle of making man lead a wholly supernatural life with a view to the possession of God?
Yes, and this virtue is called charity.
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