00:00Is God infinite? Here is the answer from Saint Thomas Aquinas.
00:05As stated in Aristotle's physics, all ancient philosophers attributed infinity to the first principle.
00:11observing, with good reason, that things flow infinitely from the first principle.
00:15But some, having been mistaken about the nature of the first principle, were consequently mistaken about its infinity.
00:21Believing that the first principle was matter, they attributed to it a material infinity.
00:26saying that the first principle of things was an infinite body.
00:30Therefore, we must consider that which is not limited is called infinity.
00:34However, matter is limited, each in its own way, by form and form by matter.
00:41Matter is limited by form insofar as, before receiving form, it is potentially a multitude of forms.
00:47But, as soon as she receives one, her use is limited to her.
00:50Form, however, is limited by matter, because, considered in itself, it is common to many things.
00:56But, by the fact that it is received in a material, it definitively becomes the form of such a thing.
01:02The difference is that matter receives its perfection from form, which limits it, so that the infinite which comes from matter is imperfect by nature.
01:10It's like a formless substance.
01:12On the contrary, form does not receive its perfection from matter, but rather, its natural amplitude is restricted by it.
01:19It follows from this that infinity, which results from the fact that form is not determined by matter, belongs to the perfect.
01:27Now, what is most formal in all beings is being itself, as we have clearly seen above.
01:33Since the divine being cannot be received in a subject other than itself, God being its own subsisting being.
01:39As has been shown, it is evident that God is both infinite and perfect.
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