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It is necessary, following the style of the Jewish priests, plotting the death of Christ, it is necessary that the poor should perish to secure the proprietor his for tune, expedit unum hominem pro populo mori.
That our rule should not be Caiaphas’ expedit nobis, but Christ’s expedit vobis,—for you it is good, you, the disciples, John xi. 50; and make that the rule of our going out and our coming in. The heathens themselves could say that we are born, partly for God, partly for our country, partly for our friends, &c.
II. non statutum. et cap. non examplo. The solution is that where rules fail recourse must be had from similars to similars, otherwise not. Likewise the argument holds that good is assumed from the very fact that it has come from something good. As VII. quaest. I. omnis qui. & XXXIIII. quaest. I. cum beatissimus. IX. quaest. II. Lugdunensis. XII. quaest. I. expedit. XXVIII. quaest. I. sic enim.
"By the command of God, it is lawful to murder the innocent, to rob, and to commit lewdness; and thus to fulfil his mandate, is our duty." The seventh commandment. In his Aphorisms, p. 80, and p. 259, Sa thus decides "Copulari ante benedictionem, aut nullam aut leve peceatum est; quin etiam expedit, si multum isla differatur."
"The condition of these wretched beings improved but little under the emperors; and the best that can be said of the goodness of Antoninus is that he prohibited intolerable cruelty, as an ABUSE OF PROPERTY. Expedit enim reipublicae ne quis re re sua male utatur, says Gaius.
Expedit esse deos, et ut expedit esse putemus; "the existence of the gods is a matter of public policy, and we must believe it accordingly," Ovid had said, in the most daring and cynical of his poems. The old associations, the antiquarian charm, that lingered round this faded ancestral belief, appealed strongly to the romantic patriotism of the historian.
That we should avoid Hophni’s non vult enim, and make our vult our enim, 1 Sam. ii. 15; that is, that we should not give our will for a reason, but a reason for our will; 2. That we should not, with the Corinthians, stand upon licet,—it is lawful, but frame our rule by expedit,—it is expedient, 1 Cor. vi. 13; x. 23; 3.
John xvi. 7: "Expedit vobis ut Ego vadam; si enim non abiero, Paracletus non veniet ad vos." Ch. xxviii. section 4. St. Matt. iii. 17: "Hic est Filius Meus dilectus, in quo Mihi complacui." St. John x. 7, 9: "Ego sum ostium." See St. John of the Cross, Mount Carmel, bk. iii. ch. i. p. 212. Ch. xii. sections 5, 7. Ch. xv. section 21. Ch. xx. section 2. St.
Law makers, therefore, may not enjoin quod libet, that which liketh them, nay, nor always quod licet, that which is in itself lawful, but only quod expedit, that which is expedient and good to the use of edifying.
And saith not Bishop Spotswood, “It is not to be denied, but they are ceremonies, which for the inconveniency they bring, ought to be resisted?” 6. Dare Mr Sprint deny that which Ames saith he heard once defended in Cambridge, viz., that quicquid non expedit, quatenus non expedit, non licet: Whatsoever is not expedient, in so far as it is not expedient, it is not lawful.
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