Question 15 — The Means of Making Satisfaction

We must now consider the means of making satisfaction.

Under this head there are three points of inquiry:

(1) Whether satisfaction must be made by means of penal works?

• (2) Whether the scourges by which God punishes man in this life are satisfactory?
• (3) Whether the works of satisfaction are suitably reckoned by saying that there are three, namely, almsgiving, fasting, and prayer?