Question 1: "Is there justice in God?"
Ordinatio IV, d. 46, qq. 1–3 "Is there justice in God?"
"Is there mercy in God?"
"Are justice and mercy distinct in God?"
"What follows now concerns the very wicked."1,2
Because distinction 46 deals with God's justice and mercy as they work together in the punishment of the wicked, there are four questions: First, is there justice in God?
Second, is there mercy in God? Third, are justice and mercy distinct in God? Fourth, does justice work together with mercy in the punishment of the wicked on the part of God as the one punishing?3
Question 1: "Is there justice in God?"
On the first question, arguments for the negative:
According to Ethics V.11 [1134b9–11], "There is no justice on the part of a master toward a servant," because there is no equality. A fortiori, there is no justice on the part of God toward a creature, or vice versa, because he is the Master entitled above all others to say to his servant, in the words of 1 Corinthians 4:7, "What do you have that you have not received" from me?
Also, according to Ethics X [1178b8–27], it is absurd to praise the separated substances for exercising the virtues, and he makes this case for justice in particular
[V.3, 1129b25–1130a9]. He confirms the point by argument from a similar case: there is no temperance in God; therefore, similarly, there is no justice in God.
Also, justice inclines one to repay what one owes; but God owes no one anything.
On the contrary: from Psalm 47:11, "Your right hand is full of justice."
1 Reading Sequitur hic de valde malis (PNQ) against the edition's Sed quaeritur hic de valde malis (AZ).
2 Lombard, Sent. IV d. 46 c. 1 n. 1.
3 Only the first three questions are included here.