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title: "Summa Theologica, Second Half"
author: "Thomas Aquinas"
translator: "Fathers of the English Dominican Province"
languages: [en]
shelf: "Medieval"
section: 341 of 935
url: https://scriptura.si/works/thomas-aquinas-summa-theologica-second-half/341/
cite: "Thomas Aquinas, tr. Fathers of the English Dominican Province, Summa Theologica, Second Half, section 341. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/thomas-aquinas-summa-theologica-second-half/341/"
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# Summa Theologica, Second Half

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

Courage and temperance, the states of life, then Christ, the sacraments and the last things.

## 341. III · Question 33: Of the Mode and Order of Christ's Conception (four Articles)

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[¶0] OF THE MODE AND ORDER OF CHRIST'S CONCEPTION (FOUR ARTICLES)

[¶1] We have now to consider the mode and order of Christ's conception, concerning which there are four points of inquiry:

[¶2] (1) Whether Christ's body was formed in the first instant of its conception?

[¶3] (2) Whether it was animated in the first instant of its conception?

[¶4] (3) Whether it was assumed by the Word in the first instant of its conception?

[¶5] (4) Whether this conception was natural or miraculous?