Disputation — Bontempi, Palladium Theologicum V · from Schola Thomistica
Disputation XI: On Sacrilege
If by the Justinian law the gates of cities, and other places, enjoy that immunity, that it is a wicked thing to offer any violence to them, how much rather will it be execrated to bring into common use those things which are consecrated to God; whence from every age SACRILEGE has been counted among the most nefarious sins, being plainly opposed to the very dictamen of nature: of how many kinds it is, or what its nature is, I shall indicate here in few words.
Si iure Iustiniano portae ciuitatum, aliaque loca, ea gaudeant immunitate, ut illis vim ullam inferre nefas sit, quanto potius execrabitur, quae Deo sacrantur, in communem usum adducere; unde ab omni tempore SACRILEGIUM inter nefandissima peccata, quippe ipsius naturae dictamini euidenter oppositum, computatum est: quotuplex autem, aut cuius sit naturae, hic paucis indicabo.