s not more harmful to the body than the other passions of the soul. On the contrary, It is written ( Prov. 17:22 ): "A joyful mind maketh age flourishing: a sorrowful spirit drieth up the bones": and ( Prov. 25:20 ): "As a moth doth by a garment, and a worm by the wood: so the sa…

of the body, so does interior sorrow show itself in the exterior members: wherefore it is written ( Prov. 17:22 ): "A sorrowful spirit drieth up the bones." Reply to Objection 3: Although the sorrow of contrition is finite in its intensity, even as the punishment due for mortal s…

as conscientiae mordacis affectum? Si enim, juxta Salomonem: «Animus gaudens aetatem floridam facit (Prov. XVII, 22) ,» et is esse cognoscitur paradisus, quem ab initio Dominus plantaverit (Gen. II, 8) , intellectualibus videlicet angelorum et hominum animis primo [Col. 0645B] i…