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title: "Summa Theologica, First Half"
author: "Thomas Aquinas"
translator: "Fathers of the English Dominican Province"
languages: [en]
shelf: "Medieval"
section: 873 of 1210
url: https://scriptura.si/works/thomas-aquinas-summa-theologica-first-half/873/
cite: "Thomas Aquinas, tr. Fathers of the English Dominican Province, Summa Theologica, First Half, section 873. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/thomas-aquinas-summa-theologica-first-half/873/"
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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.

## 873. II–II · Question 19: Of the Gift of Fear (twelve Articles)

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[¶0] OF THE GIFT OF FEAR (TWELVE ARTICLES)

[¶1] We must now consider the gift of fear, about which there are twelve points of inquiry:

[¶2] (1) Whether God is to be feared?

[¶3] (2) Of the division of fear into filial, initial, servile and worldly;

[¶4] (3) Whether worldly fear is always evil?

[¶5] (4) Whether servile fear is good?

[¶6] (5) Whether it is substantially the same as filial fear?

[¶7] (6) Whether servile fear departs when charity comes?

[¶8] (7) Whether fear is the beginning of wisdom?

[¶9] (8) Whether initial fear is substantially the same as filial fear?

[¶10] (9) Whether fear is a gift of the Holy Ghost?

[¶11] (10) Whether it grows when charity grows?

[¶12] (11) Whether it remains in heaven?

[¶13] (12) Which of the beatitudes and fruits correspond to it?