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, then, is in themanner in which charity exists in the soul, in that it becomes moredeeply rooted and For, as long as the subject-matterof these precepts remains what it is supposed to be by the law,transgression of them is necessarily opposed to reason. (c) Sloth is sadness about the divine good, which is loved by charity. (b) As regards the internal cause of sorrow or sympathy, supernaturalmercy arises from the love of charity for the one suffering; natural

er would only beenraged by a reproof from this superior, charity would urge one to saynothing about the matter. , would be ignorant of the ordinary dutiesof his office. Exactly. Knowledge is the result of a divine light that may be found even in theilliterate, and it takes in at a glance all that is contained in aprocess of argumentation.