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Often appears with: solemn vow of continency · religious profession · religious persecution and toleration · priesthood and religious office · monastic rule · duty, conscience, and obligation
Usually: argument (1) · detachment (1)
He considers whether continency vows admit of dispensation, concluding that solemn continency vows are generally not dispensible because religious profession consecrates the person and the monastic state.
the vow is said to be "commuted." Hence it is less to commute a vow than to dispense from a vow: both, however, are in the power of the Church. Reply Obj. 1: An animal that could be lawfully sacrificed was deemed holy from the very moment that it was the subject of a vow, being, as it were, dedicated to the worship of God: and for this reason it could not be changed: even so neither may one now exchange for somethin…