Bonaventure, on Rom 11:36

“For of him, and by him, and in him, are all things: to him be glory for ever. Amen.”

“But because from itself, therefore it lacks a producer and creator: therefore it can neither depend nor begin; and through this it has the highest and most perfect necessity, which excludes all mutability and dependence, inevitability and indigence, coercion and violence, which denote a diminished necessity: and conversely it posits the highest permanence and stability, the highest sufficiency and freedom. For because it is through itself, therefore it is permanent and most stable: because indeed for its own sake, therefore most generous and most sufficient: because indeed it is through itself and for its own sake, therefore it is the alpha and the omega: and therefore all other things are from it, and all other things for the sake of it, whether necessary or contingent. For just as all movable things flow from one first immovable being and are reduced to it; so all contingent things flow from the necessary being and are reduced to it. Therefore the necessity of the divine being is the origin and completion of all being, living and understanding; and all things proclaim that the first principle is necessary, whether they be necessary or contingent.”

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