QUESTION 96
SIXTH ARTICLE
WHETHER HE WHO IS UNDER A LAW MAY ACT BESIDE THE LETTER OF THE LAW?
We proceed thus to the Sixth Article:
Objection i. It seems that he who is subject to a law may not act beside the letter of the law. For Augustine says (De Vera Relig. xxxi) : Although men judge about temporal laws when they make them, yet when once they are made they imist pass judgment not on them, but according to them. But if anyone disregard the letter of the law, saying that he observes the intention of the lawgiver, he seems to pass judgment on the law. Therefore it is not right for one who is under a law to disregard the letter of the law, in order to observe the intention of the lawgiver.
SIXTH ARTICLE
WHETHER HE WHO IS UNDER A LAW MAY ACT BESIDE THE LETTER OF THE LAW?
We proceed thus to the Sixth Article:
Objection i. It seems that he who is subject to a law may not act beside the letter of the law. For Augustine says (De Vera Relig. xxxi) : Although men judge about temporal laws when they make them, yet when once they are made they imist pass judgment not on them, but according to them. But if anyone disregard the letter of the law, saying that he observes the intention of the lawgiver, he seems to pass judgment on the law. Therefore it is not right for one who is under a law to disregard the letter of the law, in order to observe the intention of the lawgiver.