On prayer and the contemplative life

by Saint Aquinas Thomas

[45] Ps. xv. 5.

[46] Ps. lxxvi. 1.

[47] Of the Nature of Good, iii.

[48] Fear is one of the "Gifts" of the Holy Ghost.

[49] S. Jerome, Ep. LIV., alias X., ad Furiam.

[50] II., vi. 15.

[51] iv. 5-6.

[52] i. 6.

[53] The Latin word ordinare means "to set in due order"; there is no precise English equivalent which can be consistently employed.

[54] Of the City of God, x. 6.