3. About the Third Conclusion

90. The third conclusion, namely that such concealing belongs to the positive right of the Church, is plain from what was alleged for the opposite [nn.63-64], the second argument of which was better and more reasonable. For [against the first argument, n.63] it is not expedient that someone be made a vagabond because of a crime, provided however his common or solitary sojourn among men can in some way be tolerated; for a vagabond would be more abandoned to his evil will, and so would sin and cause harm more, both as regard himself and as regard others, than if he were delivered over to a strict custody.