QUESTION 153

OF LUST

(In Five Articles)

We must next consider the vice of lust which is opposed to chastity:

(1) Lust in general; (2) its species. Under the first head there are

five points of inquiry:

(1) What is the matter of lust?

(2) Whether all copulation is unlawful?

(3) Whether lust is a mortal sin?

(4) Whether lust is a capital vice?

(5) Concerning its daughters.

_______________________

Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province · 第 911 / 1128 题