In vain had the most famous casuists, consulted as to the necessity of adherence to a vow in a case where its performance would obviously do harm, replied that the vow could not be regarded as broken in a criminal fashion, so long as the person bound by a promise to God failed to keep that promise not for a vain pleasure of the senses but so as not to cause an obvious evil.
Kasuistarik ospetsuenei galde egin zitzaien ea boto jakin bat bete beharra zegoen, hura betetzea argi eta garbi kaltegarria zenean, eta haiek erantzun, alferrik ordea, ezin zitekeela esan botoa gaiztakeriaz hautsia zenik, non eta Jainkoari promesa batez lotutako pertsonak hura betetzen ez zuen artean ez zentzumenen atsegin hutsal batengatik, kalte nabarmen bat ez egiteko baizik.