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Book II: Teaching what befell the spies in that exploration

Question XIV. Whether Rahab lied more gravely than the midwives of Exodus ch. 1

—at least of the truth [some proof] was likewise to be attempted [demanded]; and because the midwives themselves were bidden to kill those [infants] with their own hands. Otherwise [it is] both with the spies and with Rahab in all respects [the same]. And quaest. 41, ad 1[um], he [Abulensis] teaches [that] she merited not eternal but temporal goods.

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Nicolaus Serarius, S.J., “Question XIV. Whether Rahab lied more gravely than the midwives of Exodus ch. 1,” in Commentary on Joshua, Volume I, English translation, Mind of the Church, https://mindofthechurch.com/works/serarius-joshua-1/228-question-xiv-whether-rahab-lied-more-gravely-than-the-mi/.

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