Question 100 — Of the Moral Precepts of the Old Law

We must now consider each kind of precept of the Old Law: and (1) the moral precepts, (2) the ceremonial precepts, (3) the judicial precepts. Under the first head there are twelve points of inquiry:

(1) Whether all the moral precepts of the Old Law belong to the law of nature?

• (2) Whether the moral precepts of the Old Law are about the acts of all the virtues?
• (3) Whether all the moral precepts of the Old Law are reducible to the ten precepts of the decalogue?
• (4) How the precepts of the decalogue are distinguished from one another?
• (5) Their number;
• (6) Their order;
• (7) The manner in which they were given;
• (8) Whether they are dispensable?
• (9) Whether the mode of observing a virtue comes under the precept of the Law?
• (10) Whether the mode of charity comes under the precept?
• (11) The distinction of other moral precepts;
• (12) Whether the moral precepts of the Old Law justified man?