Sacred things

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Often appears with: simony (introduced as next topic) · sacrilege · sacredness from deputation to divine worship · religious persecution and toleration · prayer and worship · irreverence injures god · irreligion · crime and punishment

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Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) primary

Thomas, Aquinas, Saint · c. 1271–1273 (Part II-II written within this period)
PART II-II ("Secunda Secundae") > i.e. without previous judgment [*Vulg.: 'Observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing by declining to either side.']. Therefore these three should not be associated with an oath any more than with other human actions. (60/163)

Thomas argues that sacrilege is the violation of something sacred: sacred things are deputed to divine worship, and any irreverence toward them injures God.

is due to it, which reverence is referred to God. Therefore whatever pertains to irreverence for sacred things is an injury to God, and comes under the head of sacrilege. Reply Obj. 1: According to the Philosopher (Ethic. i, 2) the common good of the nation is a divine thing, wherefore in olden times the rulers of a commonwealth were called divines, as being the ministers of divine providence, according to Wis. 6:5,…