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16) false testimony is forbidden among the sinsagainst justice: Thou shalt not bear false testimony against thyneighbor. --(a) All admitthat fear does not invalidate when it proceeds from a natural cause(e. 16; Ecclus. Since civil law forbids many forms of organizedgambling, the question arises whether a wager that has been outlawedconstitutes matter for a valid contract that must be fulfilled.

_per se_ andother things being equal, it is a greater favor to be kept from sinthan to be rescued from it. ndant; they are commanded when (as in the case of patience andperseverance) they are necessitated by normal conditions of earthlyexistence. But some authors add that only one sin iscommitted if all the evils wished are united in the mind as expressionsof the one sin of hate or as means of the one purpose of injury (see217). This is the sin of those who aremartyrs to fashion, who in order to have a frail figure follow a diet(e.