The Platinian Division of Virtues

In the Sumathe Logea while treating of the cardinal virtues Thomas considers a fourfold division of virtue. The exemplar virtues are not human at all, they are types of human virtues as existing in the divine mind. Because to man he's going on with the quotation but because it pertains to man that he should also draw himself to divine things so far as he can is necessary to posit certain middle virtues between them. And these middle virtues can be considered either on the way to divine things or at the end of this movement to the divine,. On the way they are called the purgatorial virtues. At the end of the movement the virtues of the purged soul are the same