(a) The law that defends greater goods (those that are spiritual,internal, or common) has precedence over the law that defends lessergoods (the temporal, external, or private). (d) Sloth is a sadness about the divine good as shared by self, thatis, about the end offered oneself and the means thereto, such aseternal beatit to the manifest will of the legislator asdeclared in the law itself or expressed through dispensation. (b) Some causes are voluntary, such as neglect of the truth, vicioushabits, etc.
John says: Love not the world, nor the things that are in the world (I John, ii. It is of this special way of returning to God byman, His image, that Moral Theology treats. It is voluntary in its cause or indirectly,when it is not desired in itself, either as a means or an end, but isforeseen as the result of something else that is intended. No, no, put your derivations to one side.
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