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4 <h2 id="XP.i-p0.1">EDITOR'S NOTE:</h2>
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5 <p id="XP.i-p1"> After writing these few questions of the treatise on Penance, St. Thomas was called to the heavenly reward which he had merited
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6 by writing so well of his Divine Master. The remainder of the Summa Theologica, known as the Supplement, was compiled probably
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7 by Fra Rainaldo da Piperno, companion and friend of the Angelic Doctor, and was gathered from St. Thomas's commentary on the
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8 Fourth Book of the Sentences of Peter Lombard. This commentary was written in the years 1235-1253, while
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9 St. Thomas was under thirty years of age. Everywhere it reveals the influence of him whom St. Thomas always called the
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10 Master. But that influence was not to be always supreme. That the mind of the Angelic Doctor moved forward to positions which
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11 directly contradicted the Master may be seen by any student of the Summa Theologica. The compiler of the Supplement was evidently
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12 well acquainted with the commentary on the Sentences, which had been in circulation for some twenty years or more, but it
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13 is
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14 probable that he was badly acquainted with the Summa Theologica. This will be realized and must be borne in mind when
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15 we read the Supplement, notably
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16 <a id="XP.i-p1.1" shape="rect" href="summa.TP_Q62_A1.html">TP, Q[62], A[1]</a>; also Q[43], A[3], ad 2 of the Supplement.
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17 </p>
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