Hello RomanJoe, I don't know whether this is relevant to your question, but I just came across it: "... the potency for not existing in spiritual creatures and heavenly bodies is more in God, who is able to take away His own influx/influence, than it is in the form or matter of such creatures." ST Ia 104 q. 1 ad 1. God has the power to take away the influx by which He sustains in existence those beings that do not undergo natural corruption, but He does not do so. So He is not actualizing His potency to remove their acts of existence? Here potentia seems to be used in Aristotle's sense of "active potency" rather than as passive potentiality or potency.
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