Theological Theses · §433 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Presence by essence — whole substance intimately in every creature

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By essence: His substance is nowhere missing.

It penetrates all — whole, by itself, intimately in each thing.

No creaturely recess lacks the whole divine essence.

Latin

IX. Denique Deus in rebus dicitur esse per essentiam, quia substantia ejus nusquam deest, nec deesse potest: sed, ut diximus, omnia penetrat, & per omnia diffusa est, omnibusque ac singulis rebus tota per seipsam intime inest; ita ut nulli dentur recessus in ulla plane creatura, in quibus tota divina essentia non reperiatur.

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