Note 68 — CONTENTS

(p. 37). This is the standing doctrine of the great theologians, as e.g. Thomas Aquinas in his Summa Theologica. Only certain nominalists, like Robert Holcot, teach the complete arbitrariness of the divine commands. Cf. my essay on the Geschichte der kirchlichen Wissenschaften im Mittelalter, in Möhler’s Church History (published by Gams, 1867) vol. ii. 526 seq., respecting which, however, the reader is asked not to overlook the revision of the printer’s errors in the “errata,” p. 103 seq., at the end of that work.