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), but in the sense that the inordinate desireof personal excellence is a motive that can impel one to any kind ofsin, just as covetousness offers a means that is useful for everytemporal end (I Tim. that it contains something gravely and unjustly harmful tothemselves (such as conspiracy, a trap, calumny). (b) There is venial sin if the delay is unreasonable but does notnotably diminish what is promised or endanger its fulfillment. (b) If the vower intended that his promise should be severable, thedifficulty can be settled as follows: he is held to nothing if thematter is severable but the principal part impossible (e.

, if some deception is practised in order to win forthe side that is in the right), or if charity is wronged (e. Hence, before making a vowone should consider carefully and consult one's confessor or directoror some other prudent man. Thus, whether one obeys God, or theChurch, or the State, or parents, the virtue is always one and the same. Extra huncnaturalem actum, ne in ipso quidem matrimonio ius datur ad sexuali hacfacultate plene fruendum.