Q3A1: St. Thomas does a fine job of demonstrating that God is not a body. How this will square with the incarnation (surely a later question), will be interesting to see.
Q3A2: Ah matter and form, one cannot help but hear the echoes of Plato and the wailings of the Nominalists in this analysis and the distinction itself. Beautiful - and persuasive.
Q3A3: Is God the same as his essence? This is some serious metaphysics here and I feel somewhat awed. Honestly, I do not know what I could add or what comment I could make.
Q3A4: The distinction between existence and essence is always interesting to me; the quote "Existence precedes essence" which I used to buy but no longer do, comes to mind. The part about it being a necessary factor of man to laugh was especially pleasing. I must say, it made me laugh.
A daily slog by a few Catholic men through the Summa.
Q3Q4: I can imagine quite many things that in potentiality could exist, where very relatively few actually do exist. To that end, I imagine existence as being a subset of essence (though not a strict one obviously).
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