Properties of Blood, Chapter I part D
This text is being made available at no cost for a limited time. Soon, readers will have the opportunity to become subscribers. How are we to take these and other terrifying pronouncements? St. Augustine quite properly regarded the Sermon on the Mount as a the loftiest compendium of Christian ethics, and, while he certainly recognized the difficulties to be encountered in living up to such a standard, he thought it was necessary for us to do our best. Thomas Aquinas, in different ways, sought to distinguish the more practical from the more impossible strands in the Sermon, Thomas, by distinguishing...