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cially congenial occupation andsurroundings are by general consent included among the best naturalcures. of the old law, In brief, the common good should be thenorm by which to decide whether a law should be retained or changed. (a) Thus, the hope of the justman is not separated from charity, and hence he loves God above all,and h t to the command of asuperior is disobedient; he whose will refuses to pay the debt due acreditor is dishonest.

Hence, theChurch forbids clerics to volunteer as soldiers (Canon 141). ; there is probability for cessation oflaw, when it is certain that a law did exist, but one has good reasonto think that it ceased or was abrogated, that one is excused ordispensed from it. when Judaism wasdegenerating into formalism, putting the letter before the spirit ofthe Law: What the Law could not do, liges (Canon 21); for the end of the law is the common good, and ifit ceased for an individual whenever its presumption of danger was