Bonaventure, on Wis 11:20

“Whereof not only the hurt might be able to destroy them, but also the very sight might kill them through fear.”

“The whole of the world-machine was produced into being in time and from nothing by one first, sole, and supreme principle: whose power, although it is immense, nevertheless disposed all things in a certain weight, number, and measure. The creature is the effect of the creating Trinity under a threefold genus of causality: efficient, from which there is in the creature unity, mode, and measure; exemplary, from which there is in the creature truth, species, and number: final, from which there is in the creature goodness, order, and weight. Which indeed are found in all creatures as a vestige of the Creator, whether corporeal, or spiritual, or composed of both. Every creature is established in being by the efficient cause, is conformed to the exemplar, and is ordered to the end: and through this it is one, true, good: modified, beautiful, ordered: measured, distinct, and weighted: for weight is an ordinative inclination.”

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