(CG 3/59). How they who see the Divine Substance see all things (Book 3. God, the End of Creatures) (Summa Contra Gentiles) (Aquinas, Thomas, St.) | bible.booksai.org



		(CG 3/60). That they who see God see all things in Him at once



		SINCE it has been shown that a created intelligence in seeing the divine substance understands therein all the species of things; since moreover all things that are seen by one presentation must be seen together by one vision; it necessarily follows that the intelligence which sees the divine substance views all things, not successively, but simultaneously. Hence Augustine says (De Trinitate XV, xvi): "Our thoughts will not then be unstable, coming and going from one thing to another, but we shall see all our knowledge together at one glance."