The book of Psalms is a sapiential book of the Old Testament, it is a collection of songs, hymns and prayers that aims to praise and thank the wisdom of God.
The Psalm 118 is a hymn of thanksgiving, where is sing about the love of God for his people. But this love of God is special, that is, eternal.
The hymn says:
Gives thank to
the Lord, for he
is good; his
love is eternal.
Psalm 118.1
The spiritual gifts are perfections explains to us Thomas Aquinas in the Summa Theologica, we attribute the perfections we see in the creation to God and we call these perfections gifts.
Some gifts are trasnmisibles to man as Mercy, so we say that we inherit Mercy, Justice is a virtue is not inherited, it is practiced. Other perfections instead belong only to God's like omnipotence, omniscience, eternity, these gifts are called Divine Attributes.
Eternity is the simultaneous possession of all time, past, present and future. Christ in the Christian theology as the third person of the Trinity is eternal thence the affirmation in Revelation 1: "I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end."
It is important to note that from this point of view only the gifts of God are eternal, we can not attribute the concept of eternity to the creatures, including man. For the theologian Thomas Aquinas, God exists outside of any notion of time, God exists from an eternal present.
Christ in the Theology is coexistent from eternity with the Father. The creatures are created by God and therefore finite, justice is a human virtue is not eternal.
Eternity can only be perceived through the Contemplative meditation, thence the capacity of the contemplatives, the oracles, to see aspects, impresions of the future.
The Bible teaches us that the ability to see the future exists and is a spiritual gift: the dreams of the pharaoh in the book of Genesis 41, for example. The contemplation, remember is the same eternal life according to Thomas Aquinas and according to the Gospel of John: This is the eternal life that they may know you the only true God, John 17: 3.
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