"the doctrine of sacred Scripture contains matters not only for speculation [(speculanda)], as in geometry, but also matters to be accepted [(approbanda)] by the will [(affectum)]. . . . Therefore, in the other sciences it is enough that they perfect man’s intellect, but in this one it is required that he be perfected in intellect and will [(perfectus secundum intellectum et affectum)]. . . .". . . because the things taught in sacred Scripture pertain to the will and not only to the intellect [(pertinent ad affectum, et non tantum ad intellectum)], a person must be perfect in both."
St. Thomas Aquinas, In ad Hebr. 5:14 =no. 2073, as trans. the Aquinas Institute for the Study of Sacred Doctrine. Schütz' Thomas-Lexikon on affectus; Deferarri's Lexikon of St. Thomas Aquinas on affectus. According to the latter, to approbate (approbare) something is to assent to it as a good. The phrase in the heading is Diogenes Allen's.
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