(c) Finally, there is a special enormity in derision of saintlypersons, for virtue deserves honor, and those who dishonor it determen, as far as in them lies, from cultivating or esteeming it. Hence,just as the stealing of a cow and the stealing of a cat are onlygreater and lesser forms of the sin of theft, so likewise calumny anddetraction, etc. reaten destruction against a city unless it put to death an innocentperson who dwelt in its borders. (b) The natural secret obliges less _per se_than the entrusted secret, for the safeguarding of the latter is agreedto in an onerous contract, while no engagement is made to keep theformer.
The penance should also take into consideration the moralmalice and the frequency of the sins. --When therevelation concerns one who was in disrepute formerly, but who has agood name now, either because his crime ator, or in cases in which he had previouslyacted as advocate or proxy, or from which he stands to profit or lose. e and present goods, and no moreefficacious proof of this faith can be given than martyrdom (Job, ii.
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