Is there a sin opposed to continence?
Yes; and it is called incontinence (CLVI.).
In what does it consist?
It consists in this, that man gives way to the violence of passion and becomes its slave (CLVI. 1).
Which is the more grave sin, that of intemperance or that of incontinence?
Intemperance; for just as continence is less perfect than temperance in the order of virtue, so, in the order of sin, incontinence is less evil than intemperance (CLVI. 3).
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