[16] "Though it be not lawful to cross over the lands of others, still, as this transit was necessary and harmless, they [the Amorites] ought not to have forbidden it--and, further, because it was a public route, and no one is forbidden to use a public route." [17] _In continente_, "on the spot;" that is, at the actual time of the assault or other wrong. _Nec sua repetere_, "nor recover his own" (by force or violence is implied). Silvester is cited in the _Theologia moralis_ of Alphonso Maria de Liguori.--_Joseph Fitzgerald_. [18] "Beyond the due limits of [lawful self-]defense." [19] "The Spanish writer cites "II Kings." But the books designated "I and II Kings" in the Septuagint, the Vulgate, and the Catholic canon are called in the English Bible "I and II Samuel."--_Joseph Fitzgerald_. [20] "Whether at command of God or that of some legitimate ruler, wars are undertaken even by good men, to be waged against the violence of rebels, when civil order itself justly constrains them either to command such action or to obey [_i.e._, to serve in the army]." _Quid culpatur_ is the opening of a chapter in Gratian's _Decretum_, a section of the canon law, and serves as the title of the chapter.--_Joseph Fitzgerald_. [21] "What is condemned in war? Is it that men who at some time must die, die in war? It is for cowards to fault this, not religious men. The desire to do injury, the cruelty of revenge, unappeased and implacable hate, the wild passions of rebellion, lust of power and the like--such are the things which are justly condemned in wars." [22] "With God's true worshipers even wars are not sinful if they are waged, not through greed or with cruelty, but for the sake of peace, that the wicked may be repressed and the good sustained." [23] "We wage war that we may live in peace." [24] "Peace is not sought that war may be waged, but war is waged that peace may be won." [25] "He hangs him out of hatred." [26] "When from dissensions and factions results, not peril to this one or that, but slaughter of whole populations, then severity must be relaxed somewhat, that sweet charity may intervene for the healing of those greater ills." [27] "Whenever evil is done by whole populations or by a multitude, then, because it is not possible to punish them all, on account of their great number, the matter usually passes by unpunished." [28] "The multitude should be spared." [29] "For when there are so many who fall that they defend their former iniquity by authority, and who make, as it were, a business of sinning, that hope itself must be cut off." [30] "As war is lawful, it is lawful to use the means needful to attain the end, which is victory." [31] "Plunder is no longer allowable."