Monologium, on the Being of God14 Chapter XIV. This Being is in all things, and throughout all; and all derive existence from it and exist through and in it.

sant'Anselmo d'Aosta († 1109) · Monologion · 1075-1076

Chapter XIV. This Being is in all things, and throughout all; and all derive existence from it and exist through and in it.

But if this is true — rather, since this must be true, it follows that, where this Being is not, nothing is. It is, then, everywhere, and throughout all things, and in all. But seeing that it is manifestly absurd that as any created being can in no wise exceed the immeasurableness of what creates and cherishes it, so the creative and cherishing Being cannot, in anyway, exceed the sum of the things it has created; it is clear that this Being itself, is what supports and surpasses, includes and permeates all other things. If we unite this truth with the truths already discovered, we find it is this same Being which is in all and through all, and from which, and through which, and in which, all exist.

Quod si ita est, imo quia ex necessitate sic est, consequitur ut ubi ipsa non est, nihil sit. Ubique igitur est, et per omnia, et in omnibus. At quoniam absurdum est, ut, scilicet, quemadmodum nullatenus aliquid creatum potest exire creantis et foventis immensitatem; sic creans et fovens nequaquam valeat aliquo modo excedere factorum universitatem; liquet quoniam ipsa est quae cuncta alia portat et superat, claudit et penetrat. Si igitur haec illis, quae superius sunt inventa, jungantur, eadem est quae in omnibus est, et per omnia, et ex qua, et per quam, et in qua.

Sidney Norton Deane (1878–1943), Chicago: Open Court, 1903. Fonte del testo digitale: English Wikisource transcription of the 1903 edition (each chapter checked against the OCR of the Internet Archive scan stanselmeproslog00anseuoft). Testo originale: Corpus Corporum (University of Zurich) TEI of the Patrologia Latina, via the CatholicCorpus mirror. Public domain in the US and Canada: published 1903; translator died 1943. Latin: Migne, PL 158 (1853), public domain.

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