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By Thomas Aquinas
12 Oct, 2019
Excerpt......Cicero says: "Religion offers internal and external reverence to that Superior Nature which we term the Divine."
S. Isidore says: "A religious man is, as Cicero remarks, so called from religion, for he is occupied with and, as it were
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Excerpt......Cicero says: "Religion offers internal and external reverence to that Superior Nature which we term the Divine."
S. Isidore says: "A religious man is, as Cicero remarks, so called from religion, for he is occupied with and, as it were, reads through again and again (relegit) the things that concern Divine worship." Thus religion seems to be so called from reading again (religendo) things concerning Divine worship; for such things are to be repeatedly revolved in the mind, according to those words of Proverbs iii. 6: In all thy ways think on Him. At the same time religion might be said to be so called because "we ought to choose again (re-eligere) those things which through our negligence we have lost," as S. Augustine has noted. Or perhaps it is better derived from "binding again" (religando); thus S. Augustine says: "Let religion bind us once more to the One Almighty God." Less
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