ST Suppl., q. 49
Of the Marriage Goods
Supplement — compiled posthumously from Aquinas's early Sentences commentary
In the next place we must consider the marriage goods. Under this head there are six points of inquiry:
(1) Whether certain goods are necessary in order to excuse marriage?
(2) Whether those assigned are sufficient?
(3) Whether the sacrament is the principal among the goods?
(4) Whether the marriage act is excused from sin by the aforesaid goods?
(5) Whether it can ever be excused from sin without them?
(6) Whether in their absence it is always a mortal sin?
Articles
- a. 1Whether certain blessings are necessary in order to excuse marriage?
- a. 2Whether the goods of marriage are sufficiently enumerated?
- a. 3Whether the sacrament is the chief of the marriage goods?
- a. 4Whether the marriage act is excused by the aforesaid goods?
- a. 5Whether the marriage act can be excused without the marriage goods?
- a. 6Whether it is a mortal sin for a man to have knowledge of his wife, with the intention not of a marriage good but merely of pleasure?