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What Place Does Scripture Have in Thomas Aquinas’s Reasoning?

“…of grace overcomes the desire of nature," 154 and the fervour of this desire (v. 2) even proves [having] a dwelling not made with hands, "because if the desire of nature is not in vain, much less is the desire of grace in vain." 155 Returning to De rationibus fidei, to confirm that the glory of beholding God is available to the soul before it receives the body, Thomas cites other further biblical testimonies: the Lord's promise to the penitent thief (Lk 23:43: "Today you will be with me in paradise"), the Lord's assurance of the Father's house in which there are many dwellings (cf.…”