QUESTION 155

OF CONTINENCE

(In Four Articles)

We must next consider the potential parts of temperance:

(1) continence; (2) clemency; (3) modesty. Under the first head we

must consider continence and incontinence. With regard to continence

there are four points of inquiry:

(1) Whether continence is a virtue?

(2) What is its matter?

(3) What is its subject?

(4) Of its comparison with temperance.

_______________________

Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province · 第 930 / 1128 题