Whether an angel can understand many things at the same time?
Objections
❌ Objection 1 : It would seem that an angel cannot understand many things at the same time. For the Philosopher says (Topic. ii, 4) that "it may happen that we know many things, but understand only one."
❌ Objection 2 : Further, nothing is understood unless the intellect be informed by an intelligible species; just at the body is formed by shape. But one body cannot be formed into many shapes. Therefore neither can one intellect simultaneously understand various intelligible things.
❌ Objection 3 : Further, to understand is a kind of movement. But no movement terminates in various terms. Therefore many things cannot be understood altogether.