Vulgar words in Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) - Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province (Page 1)

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ass x 6
buffoon x 1
whore x 2
            

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23:4): "If thou meet thy enemy's ass going astray, bring it back to him."

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But it is not left to his discretion to permit an injury to be done to another's good name, hence he is accounted guilty if he fails to resist when he can, for the same reason whereby a man is bound to raise another man's ass lying "underneath his burden," as commanded in Deut.

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4] "the whore's is a shameful trade in what she does but not in what she takes," and consequently what she takes she possesses lawfully.

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For this could have an evil result if, as indeed happened, he were to be met by some animal which it would be unlawful to sacrifice, such as an ass or a human being.

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For sometimes they give much to those who ought to be poor, namely, to buffoons and flatterers, whereas to the good they give nothing."

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23:17, says: "This is a prohibition against going with whores, whose vileness is venial."

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Nevertheless if the patriarchs of old had perfection of mind together with wealth and marriage, which is a mark of the greatness of their virtue, this is no reason why any weaker person should presume to have such great virtue that he can attain to perfection though rich and married; as neither does a man unarmed presume to attack his enemy, because Samson slew many foes with the jaw-bone of an ass.

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And yet it is not necessary for the precepts first of all to be observed without the counsels, and afterwards with the counsels, just as it is not necessary for one to be an ass before being a man, or married before being a virgin.

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21:33, 34): "If a man open a pit... and an ox or an ass fall into it, the owner of the pit shall pay the price of the beasts."

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