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| | SUMMA THEOLOGICA: In one hierarchy of angels, is there only one order? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) |
 | | So in every city, a threefold order of men is to be seen, some of whom are supreme, as the nobles; others are the last, as the common people, while others hold a place between these, as the middle-class [populus honorabilis]. |
 | | In the same way we find in each angelic hierarchy the orders distinguished according to their actions and offices, and all this diversity is reduced to three--namely, to the summit, the middle, and the base; and so in every hierarchy Dionysius places three orders (Coel. |
 | | All things are possessed in common by the angelic society, some things, however, being held more excellently by some than by others. |
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