Question — Bontempi, Palladium Theologicum V · from Schola Thomistica
Question IV: On the precepts of fortitude
We do not have affirmative precepts of fortitude in particular; although we do have precepts of Patience and Perseverance, annexed to fortitude, as D. Thomas says quaest. 140. art. 2. ad 3. Tannerus disp. 3. quaest. 2. dub. 3.
De praeceptis Fortitudinis.
Affirmativa quidem praecepta fortitudinis in particulari non habemus; Tametsi praecepta Patientiae, et Perseverantiae adnexarum fortitudini habeamus, ut ait D. Thom. quaest. 140. art. 2. ad 3. Tannerus disp. 3. quaest. 2. dub. 3.
Some have precepts in a certain genus, for instance in wars, of not yielding Deuter. 20. et Iosue 1. et prima Ioan. 3., of laying down one's life for the brethren. Nor is there any doubt that the acts of fortitude themselves fall under a precept, as I said in my Tract. de Charitate, when treating of the order of that virtue.
Habere aliqui in aliquo genere, puta in bellis, praecepta non cedendi Deuter. 20. et Iosue 1. et prima Ioan. 3. ponendi animam pro fratribus. Nec dubium, quin ipsi actus fortitudinis sub praecepto cadant, ut dixi Tract. de Charitate, agendo de ordine ipsius.
As to the negative precepts, inordinate fear, opposed to fortitude, is forbidden: Deut. 20. et Matth. 10. Fear not them who kill the body.
Quoad praecepta negativa, prohibetur inordinatus timor, fortitudini oppositus, Deut. 20. et Matth. 10. Nolite timere eos, qui occidunt corpus.