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- ↑ Chenu, Marie-Dominique, Aquinas and His Role in Theology (Liturgical Press, 2002), p. 46.
- ↑ "St. Thomas Aquinas, OP, Summa Theologiae, IIIª, Q. 4-45". www.corpusthomisticum.org.
