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title: "Summa Theologica, First Half"
author: "Thomas Aquinas"
translator: "Fathers of the English Dominican Province"
languages: [en]
shelf: "Medieval"
section: 229 of 1210
url: https://scriptura.si/works/thomas-aquinas-summa-theologica-first-half/229/
cite: "Thomas Aquinas, tr. Fathers of the English Dominican Province, Summa Theologica, First Half, section 229. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/thomas-aquinas-summa-theologica-first-half/229/"
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# Summa Theologica, First Half

*Thomas Aquinas, tr. Fathers of the English Dominican Province*

God and creation, human action, law and grace, then faith, hope, charity and justice.

## 229. I · Question 66: On the Order of Creation Towards Distinction (four Articles)

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[¶0] ON THE ORDER OF CREATION TOWARDS DISTINCTION (FOUR ARTICLES)

[¶1] We must next consider the work of distinction; first, the ordering of creation towards distinction; secondly, the distinction itself. Under the first head there are four points of inquiry:

[¶2] (1) Whether formlessness of created matter preceded in time its formation?

[¶3] (2) Whether the matter of all corporeal things is the same?

[¶4] (3) Whether the empyrean heaven was created contemporaneously with formless matter?

[¶5] (4) Whether time was created simultaneously with it?