angelic doctor 834 of wisdom, does not fear any virus of error. And in indeed, this water of wisdom is not only limpid, clear, refined, pure, and health-giving for those who drink [it], but is also a medicine against every virus of heresy.” For which he gives evidence: “For every heresy”, he says, “has either been expressly refuted by this holy Doctor, or is easily able to be refuted by the irrefragable principles and foundations left by him.” Therefore, this is perhaps what the teacher of this Doctor, St. Albert the great, had predicted when he called him an ox whose bellowing would be heard by the whole world.42 Though he would have more rightly called [him] an ocean of knowledge, from which so many rivers and springs bursting forth everywhere fertilized the holy Church of God with salubrious and rich documents, and refreshed the minds of so many philosophers and theologians, that it is barely able to be thought that someone could confess his teaching not to flow from or be full of [the teaching] of St. Thomas. From this vast ocean arise that Suarian river,43 those most pleasant Opatovian springs, [and] those sweetest waters of Philippe de Gamaches.44 Whatever we contemplate and enjoy anywhere of more pure and sound doctrine, it is necessary that we concede it to have flowed out as water from this ocean. But I said too little, when I called this most wise doctor an ocean of knowledge. He is the trumpet, that archangelic trumpet, admirable efficacious, awe inspiring. For just as at the sound of that fated trumpet by an unheard miracle the souls of all men from the Stygian marsh, the cleansing flames, and the heavenly dwellings going forth in a moment will be clothed with their bodies and will be summoned to the divine tribunal;45 thus the whole world [being] moved and roused comes to hear the voice of our angelic doctor and reformed by [his] salutary doctrine puts on 42 Cf. G. de Tocco, Vita S. Thomae Aquinatis, §12 (c. III). 43 Cf. Dalmau, Giuseppe, art. Suarez, Francisco (1548-1617): ECat XI, 14511458. 44 Cf. Anon., art. Filip z Gamaches (1568-1625): PEK XI-XII, 272. 45 Cf. Mt 25:31-46.
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