(1) Whether these two are parts of justice?
(2) Whether transgression is a special sin?
(3) Whether omission is a special sin?
(4) Of the comparison between omission and transgression.
Whether to decline from evil and to do good are parts of justice?
which is a special kind of virtue.
OBJ 2: Further, a gloss on Ps. 33:15, "Turn away from evil and do good,"
evil is not a part of justice.
implied in doing good: since no one does evil and good at the same time.
Therefore declining from evil and doing good are not parts of justice.
"declining from evil and doing good" belong to the justice of the law.
due in respect of Divine or human law.
to God, and to avoid the opposite evil.
special justice, because each is required for the perfect act of justice.
disturb the equality established is another.
movement of the will in repudiating evil, as the very term "decline"
imperfect act, and a secondary part of that virtue. Hence it is a.
Whether transgression is a special sin?
is not a species of sin.
Faust. xxii, 27), while transgression is also against nature, or custom.
Therefore transgression is not a species of sin.
transgression is not a special sin.
On the contrary, It is opposed to a special virtue, namely justice.
speaking, is to act against a negative precept.
because man transgresses a Divine precept by any species of mortal sin.
from omission which is opposed to an affirmative precept.
point of view of legal injustice.
from the sin of transgression.
Whether omission is a special sin?
treating of sins in general. Therefore omission is not a special sin.
doing so. Therefore omission is not always a sin.
to do good and doth it not, to him it is sin."
transgression is opposed, so too is omission distinct from transgression.
action, as stated above (FS, Q, A, ad 1).
wherefore no man sins by omission, if he does not do what he cannot.
of which the subsequent omission becomes voluntary.
the merit of justice requires an act, whereas an omission does not.
Whether a sin of omission is more grievous than a sin of transgression?
omission is a graver sin than transgression.
OBJ 3: Further, sins of transgression may be either venial or mortal.
graver than the sin of transgression.
virtue. Now contrariety is the greatest remoteness, according to Metaph.
it is a sin of transgression to revile them or injure them in any way.
graver than a particular transgression.
which reason it demands a greater expiation.
Reply OBJ 2: The opposite of "doing good" is both "not doing good,"
taking both in a broad sense they may be venial sins.
conversion to any mutable good.