A conservative estimate of the words written by the Dominican theologian-philosopher priest from the 13th century is eight million. His last words were, “Such secrets have been revealed to me that all I have written now appears as so much straw.” Lie down on the couch and listen without thinking too much.
Aquinas read the Vulgate Bible (St. Jerome, A.D. 400). The Vulgate is a late-4th-century Latin translation of the Bible. In 382 Jerome had been commissioned by Pope Damasus I to revise the Vetus Latina Gospels used by the Roman Church. Reading anything that is not a translation of the Vulgate can mislead. Aquinas wrote encyclopedic theological treatises, such as the Summa theologiae and the Summa contra gentiles; Questions on Truth; On Being and Essence; commentaries on Aristotle and on other philosophical texts; and biblical commentaries.
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