Question LIV. Are the builders, the masons, and the workmen liable to the same imprecation?

They were not. For here that rule of law must hold good, which bids that privileges be extended, but penalties

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restricted. But this penalty was aimed only at him who, as the principal cause, should rebuild Jericho: not at those who sought a living by craft and the labor of their hands. Whence [Scripture] hands down that only his children [the principal rebuilder’s] suffered those curses (1 Kings, ch. 16, as we shall see a little later); and this is also Abulensis’s opinion (q. 67).