B. Weighing of the Aforesaid Possible Solution

53. Against this: no passage from contradictory to contradictory is without some change; but when to this person fault is remitted, it is such a passage;     therefore etc     . - The major is plain because, if there is no change, there is no reason why one part of the contradiction is more now true than the other and why the other was true before this one is. And this proof can be taken to a further deduction, that such passage cannot be without real change; because a change of reason must be reduced to some real change. The proof of the minor is that this man, before fault is remitted, is ordained to penalty and is deserving of penalty; but when guilt is remitted he is neither ordained to penalty nor deserving of penalty.

54. There is a confirmation, because before remission the divine intellect knows that he is to be deservedly punished;     therefore this known thing is true; after remission the divine intellect knows he is not to be punished; therefore this too is true; therefore there is a passage; therefore etc     .

55. And it can be argued further, from the proved conclusion [n.53], that, since this change is not in the divine will nor in its act, therefore it will be in him to whom guilt is remitted; and consequently remission of guilt in this person is, according to its proper idea, some change.