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good; but in disobeying man alone it is moreserious to transgress against the good, higher or lower, which thelawgiver has more at heart. Thus, wine is unfit for the Eucharist if corruptedinto vinegar, or made unsuitable as a drink (e. --The precept of fasting is grave, both from the purpose ofthe law (see 2469), and from the express declaration of the lawgiver(Denzinger, n. Even jesting whose purpose is good may be sinful on account ofthe offensive or immoderate way in which it is conducted (see 2010).

(c) There is an obligation of charity to testify (but not at the costof serious inconvenience), if the testimony is necessary for averting aserious evil that threatens a private person. The difference between the injury done in sacrilege and thatdone in simony is that the former injustice belongs to th Moreover, those who procure abortion effectively, the mother notexcepted, incur excommunication _latae sententiae_ reserved to theOrdinary, and, if clerics, they are to be deposed (Canon 2350). Even a promiseor resolution made under oath is not necessarily a vow; and hence onewho swears to observe chastity may be free