A Topic of Moral Theology
The guilt of punishment
The debt of punishment that sin incurs, temporal and eternal.
The works themselves ask 4 questions under this heading — see them together with their answers.
In the index as Penalty · Punishments of sin · Mortal sin · Numerical distinction of sin · Authority of St. Thomas · Damage · Eternal punishment, why · Fault · God · Guilt of fault · Medicinal penalties · Moral conscience · Moral evil · Punishment, guilt of (reatus poenae) · Sanctifying grace · Sin · Sin, effects of · The damned · Venial sin · Vindicative penalty
In the manuals
Read the manuals side by side → — each work's whole treatment in its own column
Synopsis of Moral and Pastoral Theology
Vol. II, Fundamental Moral Theology…, On Sins and Vices, nn. 470 & 471 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)
Theologia Moralis: Principles — Responses — Counsels
Vol. I, Tr. V, Chapter I: The Punishments of Sin, nn. 442, 443, 444, 445 & 446 (5 passages — hover a number to read it)
Summa Theologiae Moralis
Vol. I, General Moral Theology, Treatise: On Sins in General, Third Part: On the Effects…, Third Question: On the Debt of Punishment, nn. ¶1, 521, 522, 523, 524, 525, 526, 527, 528 & 529 (35 passages — hover a number to read it)
Summa Summae S. Thomae (Billuart)
Billuart, Summa Summae, Tomus II. On the Prima Sec…, On Sins, On the Effects of Sin, On the guilt of punishment, nn. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 & 10 (10 passages — hover a number to read it)
Billuart, Summa Summae, Tomus II. On the Prima Sec…, On Sins, On the Effects of Sin, What guilt of punishment sin induces?, nn. 1–31 (31 passages)
Treated under the broader heading The Effects of Sin — Wouters, Manual of Moral Theology · Prümmer, Manuale Theologiae Moralis — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)