Moral Concordance
S. Antonii de Padua Concordantiae Morales Sacorum Bibliorum
"Damned money! Alas! How many religious did it blind! How many cloistered religious did it deceive! Money is the 'droppings of birds' that blinded the eyes of Tobit."
Categories:
1. Against sin, absolutely.
2. Of the weight of sin.
3. Of the blindness of sin.
4. Of the hardness of sin.
5. Of the chains of sin.
6. Of new devices in sin.
7. Of gluttony.
8. Of drunkenness.
9. Against gluttony and drunkenness, in common.
10. Against daintiness in meats.
11. Against those who provoke to excessive eating and drinking.
12. Of temperance, or sobriety.
13. That the flesh must be subdued to the spirit; or of temperance and carnal, desires.
14. Of fasting.
15. Against indiscreet fasting.
16. Of a good feast.
17. Of good enebriation.
18. Of lasciviousness and its effects.
19. Of either fornication or riotess living.
20. Of spiritual fornication.
21. Against adultery.
22. Against either rape or deflowering.
23. Against prostitution.
24. Against incest.
25. Against womanizers.
26. Against sodomy.
27. Of a bad kiss.
28. Of a good kiss.
29. Of bad women.
30. Of good women.
31. That wives be submissive to husbands.
32. Of chastity or continence.
33. Of the twofold continence of mind and body.
34. Of virgins and virginity.
35. Against excessive confidence in continence.
36. Of widows and widowhood.
37. Of joining together and marriage.
38. Against opponents of marriage.
39. Against covetousness.
40. Against fraudulent buying, selling or negotiation.
41. Against bad loans or usurers
42. Of good loans or good lenders.
43. Against seeking and retaining earthly abundance.
44. Against those that keep back the pay of their labourers.
45. Against theft and thieves.
46. Against sacrilege.
47. Against holding back tithes, first-fruits and offerings.
48. Against simoniacs or simony.
49. Against the four sins crying to God.
50. That robbers and usurers have to restitute or recompense damages.
Scripture:
That robbers and usurers have to restitute or recompense damages.
| Ex 21:18 | If men quarrel, and the one strike his neighbour with a stone or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed: |
| Ex 22:1 | If any man steal an ox or a sheep, and kill or sell it: he shall restore five oxen for one ox, and four sheep for one sheep. |
| Ex 22:6 | If a fire breaking out light upon thorns, and catch stacks of corn, or corn standing in the fields, he that kindled the fire shall make good the loss. |
| Lev 5:15 | If any one shall sin through mistake, transgressing the ceremonies in those things that are sacrificed to the Lord, he shall offer for his offence a ram without blemish out of the flocks, that may be bought for two sicles, according to the weight of the sanctuary: |
| Lev 6:2 | Whosoever shall sin, and despising the Lord, shall deny to his neighbour the thing delivered to his keeping, which was committed to his trust; or shall by force extort any thing, or commit oppression; |
| Num 5:6 | Say to the children of Israel: When a man or woman shall have committed any of all the sins that men are wont to commit, and by negligence shall have transgressed the commandment of the Lord, and offended, |
| Prov 6:31 | And if he be taken he shall restore sevenfold, and shall give up all the substance of his house. |
| Prov 28:24 | He that stealeth any thing from his father, or from his mother: and saith, This is no sin, is the partner of a murderer. |
| Eccli 41:26 | Turn not away thy face from thy neighbour, and of taking away a portion and not restoring. |
| Lk 19:8 | But Zacheus standing, said to the Lord: Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have wronged any man of any thing, I restore him fourfold. |