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Corollary — Part II

Latin

Hinc sequitur quod esse formale rerum quæ modi non sunt cogitandi, non sequitur ideo ex divina natura quia res prius cognovit sed eodem modo eademque necessitate res ideatæ ex suis attributis consequuntur et concluduntur ac ideas ex attributo cogitationis consequi ostendimus.

English (Elwes 1883)

Hence the actual being of things, which are not modes of thought, does not follow from the divine nature, because that nature has prior knowledge of the things. Things represented in ideas follow, and are derived from their particular attribute, in the same manner, and with the same necessity as ideas follow (according to what we have shown) from the attribute of thought.

Modern English

From this it follows that the formal being of things that are not modes of thought does not result from the divine nature because God has prior knowledge of them. Rather, the things represented in ideas follow from and are derived through their respective attributes in the same way, and with the same necessity, as we have shown ideas to follow from the attribute of thought.

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