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sorum (also known as the Summa Cum miseration.es Domini, written c.
1216) on circumstances which magnify sins:
Quedam enim circumstantie augent peccata... ut si quis fomicetur in loco sa-
cro vel in die sancta augetur peccatum.27
Spec. Pen. 75-93 presents an outline of sins of omission (‘delicta og
omissa’); and once again a parallel is available in CTV(Ill.xxxiii. 121B,
9-36).28 The next section, Spec. Pen. 94-110, a treatment of sins against
the Father, Son and especially the Holy Ghost, renders sections of C7Y
Ill.xxix (119B, 8-27; 120A, 18-38).29 This discussion is followed by a
waming (Spec. Pen. 110-114) against the consequences of allowing
one’s conscience to become either too ‘strict’ (prong), or too ‘liberal’
(rum), for the First condition breeds desperation and the second fosters
presumption:
varandizt er samv[i]zka miok pravng og miog rum. pviat miog pravng leidir
manninn j orv[ilnan] e[n] m[i]og rum j ofvilnan. Pessar syndir bleckia mann-
inn miog [Jiviat] a[u]rvilnan segir illt gott. Enn ofvilnan segir gott illt. ofviln-
an hfialpar fyrirdjæmiligan enn aurvilnan fyrirdæmir hialpligann
These remarks correspond fairly closely to a note in C7YIl.lii. 74B, 21-
27, although the same ideas are expressed in a slightly different order:
Cavenda est conscientia nimis larga, et nimis stricta. Nam prima generat
præsumptionem, secunda desperationem. Item, prima dicit sæpe malum bo-
num, secunda e contra bonum malum. Item, prima sæpe salvat damnandum,
secunda e contra damnat salvandum.
It is then pointed out (Spec. Pen. 115-116) that desperation on the one
hånd resists God’s mercy, while presumption opposes divine justice.
There is no parallel for this observation in CTV, although it might be
27 F. Broomfield, ed., Thomae de Chobham Summa Confessorum, Analecta Mediaevalia
Namurcensia 25 (Louvain/ Paris, 1968), Art. III, Dist. II De circumstantiis peccatorum,
Questio la., p. 47; cf. Questio Ila. De circumstantiis in secularibus libris, pp. 51 and 54.
Cf. B. Geyer, ed., Sententiae divinitatis, Beitrage Baumker, VII, fase. 2,3 (Miinster,
1909), p. 153*; J. Warichez, ed., Les Disputationes de Simon de Tournai, Spicilegium sa-
erum Lovaniense 12 (Louvain, 1932), p. 65. On Chobham’s work, see Goering, William
de Montibus, pp. 82-86.
28 For the Latin parallel to Spec. Pen. 75-93, see Appendix I, p. 169.
29 For the Latin parallel to Spec. Pen. 94-110, see Appendix I, pp. 169-170.