resume reading the work of St. Augustine known as the "City of God." St. Augustine, yet today, focuses on suicide because he wants to highlight how there is no evidence which might be able to make lawful and honorable suicide, which remains a grave sin which results in the murder of themselves!
are brought to light two diverse examples which serve to refute the view of suicide honorable are the Uticense the example of Cato, who committed suicide following the defeat suffered against Caesar, and to Regulus, who preferred to face the torture of the enemies rather than surrender to the disgrace of suicide.
Moreover, St. Augustine confirms her initial thought that the fear of sin must not and can not lead to suicide nor can it justify why a certain sin is not justified by committing another sin, even more serious because it prevents any form of repentance or atonement:
23. But even they, after Lucrezia on which I have sufficiently expressed my opinion, are not so easily someone, lean on whose authority, if not the famous Cato who committed suicide at Utica 76. It is certainly not the only one to have done so, but since it was estimated learned man and honest, with good reason could honestly believe that has been or would do what he did. But I should say of his act? I say mostly his friends, they also learned that more wisely advises him not to do so, they thought the gesture more than a weak man who is strong because it took over not the honesty that avoids the shame but the weakness does not hold all 'adversity. The Cato pointed towards his beloved son. If it was dishonorable to live after the victory of Caesar, which is why he advised his son told him this disgrace as to entrust all to the clemency of Caesar 77? Why not caused him to die with him? If Torquato, earning praise, killed his son, while the winner, who had fought against the enemies of order 78, Cato won spared because her son won if he did not spare himself?. Or was it more shameful to be winning against the command to bear against honor a winner? So in no way judged it to be dishonorable to live after the victory of Caesar. Otherwise, with his sword would liberate the child from this disgrace. What, then? But he, as he loved his son and wished that he wanted to be spared by Caesar, so envied the glory of Caesar himself, or to speak with greater indulgence, ashamed to be forgiven by him, as it is said that Caesar himself said 79 .
24. These, our opponents they do not want better reputation of Cato the holy man Job, who chose to bear in his body so atrocious evils instead of giving himself to death, free from all suffering, or other saints, in our literature, the most illustrious to secure authority and the most credible, preferred slavery under the dominion of the enemy rather than kill himself. However, according to their literature would prefer to Marcus Cato the already mentioned Mark Ruler. Cato indeed had never won Caesar and won disdained to submit to him and chose to kill himself for not submitting. Regulus other hand, had already won the Carthaginians and the Roman commander and the command of Rome had not reported a win against objectionable fellow citizens, but a commendable victory over enemies. But then stole from them in slavery instead chose to tolerate them to escape death. Retain the bearing in the hands of the Carthaginians and Romans to the constancy in love because it escaped from the enemies stole the body and the spirit undaunted by his fellow citizens. And who would not kill himself he did for the love of this life. I felt when, because of the promise with an oath, without any hesitation he returned from the enemies who had injured themselves more with the words in the Senate that the weapons in war. Therefore, such a heroic despisers of life, the fact that it chose to nip through various penalties to be cruel enemies rather than kill, undoubtedly taught that suicide is a great crime. Among all men worthy of their praise and the illustrious qualities of human dignity, the Romans did not have a bigger chance because he has not misled, because after a victory so stunning was very poor, 80, and the bad luck ' broke, because he knew intrepid return to torture so severe. So very brave men and great defenders of the fatherland, not lovers of liars liars which lent indeed a true oath, they could kill according to the custom of war, the enemy defeated, but defeated by the enemy would not kill and do not fear death at all preferred it to him that the enemy rather than impose its procurement itself. A stronger reason that Christians, who worship the true God and earnestly hope the home of the sky, you should refrain from this crime if a divine ordinance, or to prove or to correct them, made them slaves of the enemy for some time. But one who, so high, he came to them with so much meanness does not abandon them at this meanness, especially because the rights of the military and the army itself does not require them to kill the enemy won. Why then should creep injury so bad that a person should kill an enemy or because he has sinned or not to sin against him if he does not dare to kill the enemy who will sin or sin?
25. But to be feared and avoided the subject when lusty prime the body consciousness, with a very exciting pleasure, to consent to sin. So, they say, you must kill not because of another's sin, but just before the offense. But the conscience, which was more subject to God and his wisdom to the body and its desires, will not come to the point of agreeing to the passion of his own flesh burning from the passion of others. However, if action is detestable and abominable crime even kill themselves, as states the obvious truth, it can not be so foolish to say: "We sin now not to sin any after, and now commit a murder not to fall after possibly adultery. "And if dishonesty is crucial to the point that the integrity do not choose but sin is not adultery preferred the uncertain future that some of this murder? not is better to commit a crime that makes atonement by repentance, rather than a crime so great, after which time does not allow himself to a salutary repentance? I said these things to avoid those or those of others but not their own sin and may not allow their passion passion caused by selflessness of having to consider imposing a violence that he died. After all, it takes place in the consciousness of the Christian who trusts in his God, and mail confidence in him, is safe in his help, do not, I say, that conscience for any carnal pleasure yields to acceptance of the dishonest. The rebellious passion that still exists in a dying body has its own law for a moving almost independently of the law of our will. All the more reason, therefore, is without fault in the body of one who does not, if no fault can be in the body of the sleeper.
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