Of God and His Creatures
That the Truth of God is the First and Sovereign Truth
THE standard in every genus is the most perfect instance of the
genus. But the divine truth is the standard of all truth. The
truth of our mind is measured by the object outside the mind: our
understanding is called true, inasmuch as it is in accordance
with that object. And again the truth of the object is measured
by its accordance with the divine mind, which is the cause of all
things (B. II, Chap. XXIV), as the truth of artificial objects is
measured by the art of the artificer. Since then God is the first
understanding and the first object of understanding, the truth of
every understanding must be measured by His truth, as everything
is measured by the first and best of its kind.
1.61 : That God is Pure Truth
1.63 : Arguments of those who wish to withdraw from God the Knowledge of Individual Things