thewealth or poverty of the person injured, since the financial situationof this person is a purely extrinsic circumstance of the theft. (b) Guilt. Our Lord rejected thebelief of the pagans that the efficacy of prayer depends on many words(Matt, vi. Temptation of God offends also against other virtues, such as faith(e.
The greatest men ofthe Old and New Testaments practised fasting--Moses, Samson, Elias,John the Baptist, and St. Envy, 269; sin against charity, 1328 sqq. Public worship is also a necessity on accountof the nature of the Church as a visible society. It is this characteristic thatdistinguishes vain observance from divination: the latter aims atoccult knowledge, the former at supranatural results.
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