QUESTION 40

OF WAR

(In Four Articles)

We must now consider war, under which head there are four points of

inquiry:

(1) Whether some kind of war is lawful?

(2) Whether it is lawful for clerics to fight?

(3) Whether it is lawful for belligerents to lay ambushes?

(4) Whether it is lawful to fight on holy days?

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