We continue the reading of St. Augustine known as "City of God." In the appointment today, St. Augustine dwells sull'insensatezza of suicide as a response to sexual violence suffered. To explain this nonsense, take for example the story of Lucretia, a Roman woman who committed suicide as a result of rape. In this passage we see the great speaking skills of St. Augustine is able to show as Lucrezia, a woman admired as a kind of heroine, is only a woman far above all heroic and deeply unjust against himself. The words of St. Augustine, however, confirm a reality that Christians should already know: the suicide may never be deemed proper and never you can think of to repair the crime of another, even if committed within us, with another crime committed to themselves (like the typical case of rape):
19. 1. With this obvious reason we say that even if the body is contaminated, but the purpose of the will is not altered by consent to evil, sin is only of those who joined carnally with violence, not the one who overpowered him without wanting to immediately . But this reasoning will dare to oppose those against which we defend the sanctity not only of mind but also the body of Christian women raped during the occupation of Rome? They really bring out for large merits of modesty and ancient Roman matron Lucretia Noble. The son of King Tarquinius had owned with violence on his body for the purpose of lust. She pointed to the misdeeds of the young profligate Collatino her husband and his friend Brutus, the illustrious men of valor, and induced them to vengeance. Then enduring the disgrace of malice committed against her is killed 61. What can I say? You must judge adulterous or caste? Who thinks to rush into a discussion like this? Such a singular speaking truth to the fact he said: What wonderful, they were two and only one has committed adultery 62. Expression wonderfully true. Noting fact carnal union of the two bodies of a shameful passion and the will of the caste and reflecting on what happened not in the union of bodies but in the diversity of minds, he said, were two and only one has committed adultery.
19. 2. But this principle is that more severely against it is punished adultery that she did not commit? The paramour is expelled from the country with his father, she suffers the more serious penalty. If it is not the shamelessness with which she reluctantly is raped, justice is not one in which caste she is punished. I turn to you, Roman law and the courts. Just that you have provided is a crime to kill after the crimes committed if a criminal has not been convicted. So, if you bring this offense to your opinion and be derived from evidence that a woman was killed, not only not condemned, but chaste and innocent, strike with due severity who had committed the crime? But he committed Lucrezia, Lucrezia just so excited that he executed Lucretia chaste, innocent, raped. Handed down the sentence. And if you can not because there is no blame for what reason who can both praise exalted with the murder of an innocent woman and honest? But for any reason you can defend in the courts beyond the grave, which appear in some songs of your own poets, precisely because it is located between those innocent dead and shook hating the light they cast the soul into darkness. And if she wanted to return here, to prevent the fate and keeps the dismal swamp waters hate 63. But perhaps it is not there since it is not because they killed innocent but because he was aware of the guilt? For if, and only she could know this, too overwhelmed by his passion, he agreed that the young man grappling with the violence and to punish themselves because they repented at the point of thinking to expiate by death? But even in this case was not to kill himself if he could do with a salutary penance false gods. But if so and it is false that there were two and only one committed adultery, but both committed adultery, overt aggression with him, she hid with consent, not killed innocent. So you can tell by his literary defenders that the grave is not among those who gave themselves innocent death. But this process is restricted from one and the other side. If you have extenuating circumstances murder, adultery is ratified, if you have no excuse adultery, is aggravated murder and is not quite the solution to the dilemma: if allowed to adultery, because he is praised? if he was honest, because she killed herself?
19. 3. But we are so famous episode of this woman enough to refute those who lay in every concept of holiness, insult to the Christian women raped during the occupation, which, in his highest praise was said, were two and one committed adultery. Letters from Lucrezia was considered incapable of consent by a stain of adultery. So why not also adulteress is killed, and that is not tolerated because the lover, love, honesty is not weakness but of shame. He was ashamed of the fact she committed in the debauchery of the other, though without her. From Roman woman, very desirous of praise, he feared that what we thought had been violently while he lived he would now voluntarily if they remained alive. So I think to use the eyes of men as a witness of their inner disposition that penalty because they could not show to their own conscience. He was ashamed to be held shared the fact if he had endured submissively what the other had done in her dishonestly. So you do not have behaved Christian women. Despite having suffered the same insult to continue to live and not have punished him in the murder of another. So they did not add his own murder to that of others, for if the enemy had done no violence to lust, they would commit murder for shame. They have in the inner witness of conscience as an ornament of chastity. In God's eyes then, they have, and just claim, as no other to behave honestly, not to deviate from the authority of divine law, thereby avoiding the guilt of the suspected human disfavor.
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