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The original text reads, " Although equivocal predications must be reduced to univocal, still in actions, the non-univocal agent must precede the univocal agent.

For the non-univocal agent is the universal cause of the whole species, as for instance the sun is the cause of the generation of all men ; whereas the univocal agent is not the universal efficient cause of the whole species ( otherwise it would be the cause of itself, since it is contained in the species ), but is a particular cause of this individual which it places under the species by way of participation.

Therefore the universal cause of the whole species is not an univocal agent ; and the universal cause comes before the particular cause.

But this universal agent, whilst it is not univocal, nevertheless is not altogether equivocal, otherwise it could not produce its own likeness, but rather it is to be called an analogical agent, as all univocal predications are reduced to one first non-univocal analogical predication, which is being.