Chapter 15: On the intellect of God; definition
CHAPTER FIFTEEN. On the intellect of God.
The intellect of God is His highest perfection, by which He distinctly, most inwardly, and most perfectly knows all and each things which in any way are, were, will be, or can be, and the order, connection, and various respects of all and each among themselves which they have and can have, and their opposites.
Intellect, so called by the Latins from inter and lego, by force of etymology notes the power, act, and habit by which we know so as to have choice between this and that — which is to know so as to discern. The material in this attribute also is the same as in the others, namely God's highest perfection. But the formal consists in the position of the most supereminent mode of spiritual life by which God most perfectly understands all things.
Latin
CAPUT DECIMUMQUINTUM, De intellectu Dei. Intellectus Dei est summa illius perfectio, qua omnia et singula, quae quomodocunque sunt, fuerunt, erunt, esse possunt, omniumque et singulorum inter se ordinem, connexionem, variosque respectus quos habent et habere possunt, eorumque opposita, distincte, penitisime, perfectissimeque cognoscit. Intellectus, ab inter et lego Latinis dictus, vi etymi notat potentiam, actum et habitum, quo novimus ita ut delectum habeamus inter hoc et aliud, quod est cognoscere ut dignoscas. Materiale quidem etiam in hoc attributo idem est quod in aliis, summa nempe Dei perfectio. Formale vero est in positione modi spiritualis vitae supereminentissimi, quo Deus omnia perfectissime intelligit.