Examples of using Creature in English and their translations into Latin
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God became a creature.
But a creature is good not essentially but by participation.
Creator and creature are one.
For God, by knowing himself, knows every creature.
Therefore a creature can create.
OBJ 2: Further, there is no medium between the Creator and the creature.
The Creator and the creature are one Being.
Therefore the soul of Christ seesGod more perfectly than does any other creature.
The gap between Creator and creature is inestimable.
If He is not a creature, then He is of the same substance with the Father.
It would seem that God preserves every creature immediately.
Idolatry makes the creature the creator and the creator the creature.
To all eternity the Creator is the Creator and the creature is creature.
Wherefore in this sense the creature as existing in God is not the creative essence.
Therefore the soul of Christ does notsee the Word more perfectly than any other creature.
Much more therefore can God make a creature able of itself to keep itself in existence.
Or what creature is there of which the power can be compared to the power of the Creator?
It would seem that the soul of Christ does not see theWord more perfectly than does any other creature.
But God and creature do not share in anything that would be prior to and simpler than both.
Therefore it would seem necessary,since God is from eternity, that the creature was also from eternity.
Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
For what is more mad, my brethren,than that I should praise the creature in anything which does not exist in the Creator?
Reply OBJ 2: A creature properly speaking is a thing self-subsisting; and in such are the three above-mentioned things to be found.
Similarly, we can in a sense say that a creature is like God, but not that God is like a creature.
But God and creature, both treated in divine doctrine, cannot be reduced to one genus, neither univocally nor analogically.
Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
Reply to Objection 4: Every creature is simply finite, inasmuch as its existence is not absolutely subsisting, but is limited to some nature to which it belongs.
Furthermore nothing should be less tolerated than the creature removing the honor owed to the Creator and with this not repaying what he owes.