Punishment of Enemy Soldiers for Crimes Committed duringWar. A report of your hospitality shall reach the ears of your Elders. (a) The primary object of hope is God Himself, the infinite good,considered as our Last End and Beatitude (Ps. , statutes governingthe age for legal marriage, for, if a couple misrepresented their age,they might be prosecuted for the misrepresentation, but not for the actof marriage).
Similarly, if two explorers in a wilderness have only enoughprovisions for one to reach civilization, one of them may surrender hisrations to the other, that both may not be lost. These laws are not an encroachment on the liberty of theGospel, for Christ Himself bestowed on the Church legislative and othergovernmental powers suitable to her mission. (a) Theoretically, this opinion seems more probable than the oppositeopinion; but chiefly on account of the difficulty about (b) Habitual direction--that is, the mere fact that one has the habitof charity, though it in no way influences an
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