But because man, on deserting God, had stooped to corporeal things, it was necessary that God should take flesh, and by corporeal things should afford him the remedy of salvation.
Wherefore, properly speaking, it is only in corporeal things; and of spiritual things is said metaphorically.
The second reason is taken from the state of man who in sinning subjected himself by his affections to corporeal things.
I answer that, A stain is properly ascribed to corporeal things, when a comely body loses its comeliness through contact with another body, e.
Further, every sin is a transgression of the rule of reason, which is to human acts what a linear rule is in corporeal things.
Now in corporeal things we see that for movement there is required not merely the form which is the principle of the movement or action, but there is also required the motion of the first mover.
Wherefore in the Divine worship it is necessary to make use of corporeal things, that man's mind may be aroused thereby, as by signs, to the spiritual acts by means of which he is united to God.
But that the divine presence is known by the intellect immediately on the sight of, and through, corporeal things, happens from two causes--viz.
Holy Writ puts before us spiritual and divine things under the comparison of corporeal things.
Hence also God is in things containing them; nevertheless, by a certain similitude to corporeal things, it is said that all things are in God; inasmuch as they are contained by Him.
These changes, especially when they take place in corporeal things, are properly described as movement or motion (motus, motio).
The individual of a given corporeal species can exist only because the material principle, receptive of this specific form, has a natural relation to the fundamental property of corporeal things, viz.
Wherefore the love of God is better than the cognizance (cognitio); but the cognizance of corporeal things is better than the love.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "corporeal things" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
