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1 | Are the Seven Deadly Sins in the Bible? | Prov 6:16 | suzybeezy | 125260 | ||
As you will see this question also perplexed me because I had been researching this same subject. I then asked my brother about why I couldn't find reference to the seven deadly sins and he advised me that it's only a Catholic thing. That regular translations do not include the reference of the seven deadly sins as they are classically thought of. Take that info for what it's worth. | ||||||
2 | Are the Seven Deadly Sins in the Bible? | Prov 6:16 | Emmaus | 125266 | ||
suzbeezy, Here is a little more on the topic. "The Capital Sins or Vices According to St. Thomas (II-II:153:4) "a capital vice is that which has an exceedingly desirable end so that in his desire for it a man goes on to the commission of many sins all of which are said to originate in that vice as their chief source". It is not then the gravity of the vice in itself that makes it capital but rather the fact that it gives rise to many other sins. These are enumerated by St. Thomas (I-II:84:4) as vainglory (pride), avarice, gluttony, lust, sloth, envy, anger. St. Bonaventure (Brevil., III, ix) gives the same enumeration. Earlier writers had distinguished eight capital sins: so St. Cyprian (De mort., iv); Cassian (De instit. cænob., v, coll. 5, de octo principalibus vitiis); Columbanus ("Instr. de octo vitiis princip." in "Bibl. max. vet. patr.", XII, 23); Alcuin (De virtut. et vitiis, xxvii sqq.). The number seven, however, had been given by St. Gregory the Great (Lib. mor. in Job. XXXI, xvii), and it was retained by the foremost theologians of the Middle Ages." http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14004b.htm Emmaus |
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