God is in a genus because his essence is other than his existence
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If it is true that...
Forms closer to matter have no existence without matter 1 0 2and
God's essence is his existence itself 1 0 2Then it must be true that...
God is not in a genus because his essence is not other than his existence 1 0 2Citations
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God is known as a necessary being having of itself its own necessity 0 0 1God is absolute ontological Goodness in Himself and in relation to others 1 0 2God does not exist in place or time, but all things exist in him 1 0 2The intention of genus or species is appropriate to the essence as the essence is signified as a whole 1 0 2Existence is something other than the essence or quiddity, unless there is something whose quiddity is its very own existence 1 0 2Existence received from God allows substances to subsist in the nature of things 1 0 2God's essence is his existence itself 1 0 2God is not in a genus because his essence is not other than his existence 1 0 2God possesses all perfections that exist in every genus 1 0 2In created intellectual substances, existence is other than essence 1 0 2