Species is scholastic Latin for eidos .
Now eidos meant one thing in Plato, and another in Aristotle. Species labours under a similar ambiguity. In the objection now under consideration, the words of which are esse perpetuum speciei dicitur divinum esse , the language is rather Platonic than Aristotelian. The following account of them will commend itself to all Christian lovers of Plato. God contains in Himself in exuberant fulness that delights or can give pleasure.