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The Ordinatio of John Duns Scotus
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Ordinatio. Book 4. Distinctions 1 - 7
Book Four. Distinctions 1 - 7
Seventh Distinction
Introduction. About the Idea or Definition of Confirmation
IV. Response to the Objections
C. To the Third Objection
2. Second Way of Speaking and its Rejection

2. Second Way of Speaking and its Rejection

24. The second way of speaking is that he conceded it, or rather permitted it, for a time to avoid scandal [Albert the Great, Thomas Aquinas].

25. But this is a nothing, because “it is more useful for scandal to be permitted to arise than for truth to be abandoned” [Gregory IX, Decretals V tit.41 ch.3].

26. Again, Gregory [the Great] would have sinned mortally in making this concession if he had conceded de facto what he could not have conceded de iure; and he would have given priests an occasion for sinning mortally, namely for doing what it was not licit for them to do.