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160 THE INQUISITION<br />

eric II spoke in similar terms in his Constitutions of 1220,<br />

1224, and I232. 1<br />

out the Middle Ages. 2<br />

This was the current teaching through<br />

But it is important to know what men then under<br />

stood by the word heresy. We can ascertain this<br />

from the theologians and canonists, especially<br />

from St.<br />

Raymond of Pennafort and St. Thomas Aquinas. St.<br />

Raymond gives four meanings to the word heretic, but<br />

from the standpoint of the canon law he &quot;<br />

says: A heretic<br />

is. one who denies the faith.&quot; 3<br />

St. Thomas Aquinas is<br />

more accurate. He declares that no one is truly a heretic<br />

unless he obstinately maintains his error, even after it<br />

has been pointed out to him by ecclesiastical authority.<br />

This is the teaching of St. Augustine. 4<br />

1 &quot;Catharos, Paterenos, Leonistas, Speronistas, Arnoldistas, et omnes<br />

hareticos utriusque sexus, quocumque nomine censeantur, perpetua dampnamus<br />

infamia,&quot; etc. Constitution of November 22, 1220, cap. 6, in Mon. Germ.,<br />

Leges, sect, iv, vol. ii, pp. 107-109. &quot;Ut quicumque . . . fuerit de hceresi<br />

manijeste convictus et h&reiicus judicatus . . . illico capiatur,&quot; etc. Con-<br />

stitut. de 1223, ibid., p. 126. &quot;Si inventi fuerint a fide catholica saltern in<br />

articulo deviare . . . mortem , pad decernimus.&quot; Sicilian Constitution, i, 3,<br />

in Eymeric, Direct. Inquisit., Appendix, p. 14. This recalls the law of<br />

Arcadius of 395. Cod. Theod., xvi, v. 28; cf. supra p. 9,<br />

n. 2.<br />

* Cf. the canonists cited by Tanon, op. cit., pp. 455-458. An anonymous<br />

writer, whose commentary is found in Huguccio s Summa of the Decretum,<br />

says: &quot;Innuit quod pro sola haresi non sint morte puniendi. Solve ut prius.<br />

Quando enim sunt incorrigibles, ultimo supplicio feriantur; aliter non.&quot; Bibl.<br />

nation., Ms. 15379, fol. 49.<br />

3 &quot;Haereticus i qui errat a fide,&quot; etc. S. Raymundi, Summa, lib. i, cap.<br />

De Hcereticis, sect, i, Roman Edition, 1603, p. 39.<br />

4 &quot;Haeresis consistit circa ea quae fidei sunt . . . dissentiendo cum pertinacia<br />

ab illis.&quot; Summa, Ila, Ilae, quaest. xi, Conclusio; cf. ibid., ad 3um,<br />

quotations from St. Augustine

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