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Thus,miserliness and extravagance are specifically distinct sins, becauseone falls short of, while the other goes beyond, the golden mean thatis found in liberality. Hence the distinctionbetween temptation and sin. There is dangerin thoughts of this kind, however, if one indulges in them from merecuriosity, or immoderately, or if sin itself may take an attractionthrough them. In such a case the greaterobligation prevails, and the lesser obligation disappears.

It is Tazenda Ihave destroyed. The first condition required that a sin be called venial is thatits matter be light, either in reality, or in the invincible belief ofhim who commits it. ndividual, but to a wholecommunity, by a law which requires them in time of persecution todeliver themselves u , 39; Rom.