Sin against prudence, being reducible to the vice of prudence of the flesh. It executes, principally by word, deceits conceived by astuteness so as to end in fraud. Its opposite is that simplicity of the just scorned by the wicked, but praised in Nathanael by Our Lord Himself.
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