IF ANY ONE SHUNS EVILS
FOR ANY OTHER REASON
THAN BECAUSE THEY ARE SINS,
HE DOES NOT SHUN THEM,
BUT MERELY PREVENTS THEM
FROM APPEARING BEFORE THE WORLD.
DLIFE 108
There are moral people
who keep the commandments of the second table of the Decalogue,
not committing fraud, blasphemy, revenge, or adultery;
and such of them as confirm themselves in the belief
that such things are evils because they are injurious to the public weal,
and are therefore contrary to the laws of humane conduct,
practice charity, sincerity, justice, chastity.
But if they do these goods and shun those evils merely because they are evils,
and not at the same time because they are sins,
they are still merely natural people,
and with the merely natural the root of evil
remains imbedded and is not dislodged;
for which reason the goods they do are not goods,
because they are from themselves.
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
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