Acts of War and Sacred Places. Ignorance is of various kinds. If the meaning intended is doubtful, the following rules of the Code(Canons 50, 68) should be followed: (a) wide i cence of the flesh: Hethat giveth his virgin in marriage, doth well; and he that giveth hernot, doth better (I Cor.
(b) The Gentiles were not bound by the laws peculiar to the MosaicCode, but only by the common precepts, natural and supernatural, thatwere in force in the state of the Law of Nature. Because it was a local name, suppressed later for greater secrecy. (b) The precepts of the Natural Law are unchangeable, since the natureof man always remains the same. Hence, it is notapplicable to those laws whose universal observance is demanded by thecommon good--that is, to irritant laws.
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