As virtues appropriate to our human nature, we have also said that they fix the good in this act according to a shared rule, the “rule of human reason” [regulam rationis humanae) (ibid.). This rule gives this material object a certain form, and this form is provided, in the case of tolerance, by wise judgment about the demands of justice, and, in the case of forbearance, by wise judgment about the gifts and requirements of friend- ship. If we say, as we should, that gracious forbearance has this same object considered materially, that it also regards an act of patient endurance in response to objectionable difference, we must also admit that the formal aspect of its object and thus its materia circa quam—the matter about which it is concerned—comes, not from the rule of human reason, but secundum regulam divinam, “according to the Divine rule” (ibid.).