Question One. Whether between the Creation and Blessedness of the Good Angel there was any Interval
1. About the fourth distinction, where the Master treats of what sort the angels were when created (‘perfect or imperfect, blessed or wretched’), I aska whetherb between the creation and blessedness of the good angel there was any interval or interval.1
a. a[Interpolation]: whether the good angels were blessed in the first instant of creation and the bad angels wretched (and then the text of q. 1 follows). Again I ask...
b. b[Interpolation]: About the fourth distinction, where the Master shows of what sort the angels when created were as to their non-natural conditions (which are happiness and misery), there is one question, whether namely between the creation and blessedness of the good angel there was any interval, or - under the other term - whether the good angels were blessed in the first instant of their creation and the bad wretched (and the text of the question follows). Second the same question is asked, under the other term, whether namely.
2. That there was not:
Because the good angel had without interval natural blessedness, - therefore supernatural blessedness too.
3. Proof of the antecedent: for the created angel at once had the species (spoken of in d.3) in which there was present the object2 and the power for natural blessedness - and consequently, not being impeded, the angel could use the power, by considering the di