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Cover design by Enrique Javier Aguilar Pinto

Cover design by Enrique Javier Aguilar Pinto

Quotes from the Summa Theologica, first complete American edition

© 1947 by Benziger Brothers, New York

In most cases the Scripture quotations in this book have been taken from the Revised Standard Version of the Holy Bible, Second Catholic Edition, © 2006. The Revised Standard Version of the Holy Bible: the Old Testament, © 1952, 2006; the Apocrypha, © 1957, 2006; the New Testament, © 1946, 2006; the Catholic Edition of the Old Testament, incorporating the Apocrypha, © 1966, 2006; the Catholic Edition of the New Testament, © 1965, 2006 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. All rights reserved.

Some of the Scripture quotations, especially from the Psalms and the Wisdom books, are taken from the Douay-Rheims Version of the Bible. The notation differs from that of modern versions like the RSV.

Cover art: St. Thomas Aquinas by Carlo Crivelli, 1476

National Gallery, London

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Cover design by Enrique Javier Aguilar Pinto

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ISBN 978-1-58617-968-7

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