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1, II Mach. --This law is notdivine but ecclesiastical, since it arose, not from any command ofChrist, but from a custom of the Church that goes back to the firstcenturies. Persons who occasionally act or omit to act in some indifferentmatter on account of dreams they have had are often excused from allsin on account of the fear or hope which the dreams excited. Similarly, petty damages or vexations mayaccumulate into a mortal injustice.

The prodigal is not the absolute owner of his goods, but a steward whois held to administer them according to reason. (b) _Per accidens_, or from their circumstances, these acts are oftenvenially or mortally sinful against purity or against some othervirtue, or against both. ideration; and hence that the following intervals between theftsseparate them into distinct venial sins without coalesce t are found in material or living things, though they are notsimilar to those parts in all respects (see 1647, 1648, 2139).