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II. To the Initial Arguments
29. To the first argument [n.3] I agree that one obligates oneself to the act if it be asked for, at least for some determinate time; but within that time it is not necessary to render the act if one want to enter Religion. But one cannot obligate oneself to the act for any time at all if there is a perpetual impediment, because, as said at the beginning of the solution [n.9], only perpetual impediments impede, and it is contained in Gregory IX, Decretals IV tit.15 ch.6, “Fraternity.”
30. To the second [n.4], if the old man be altogether impotent, I would say that he would not contract matrimony, although she96 could perhaps licitly allow certain things to him for living together as brother and sister; and thus perhaps do many women espouse to themselves wealth rather than persons.
31. To the third [n.5] the answer is plain from what was said [nn.17-23]: if the sorcery is temporary, it only impedes temporarily; but it is presumed to be perpetual if it persist for three years.