168: Backbiting, Slander, and Calumny
Today we're going to talk with Aquinas about backbiting, slander, and calumny.
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We're reading from the Secunda Secundae, Q. 73. A. 1;4.
On the contrary, It is written (Ecclesiastes 10:11): "If a serpent bite in silence, he is nothing better that backbiteth."
I answer that, Just as one man injures another by deed in two ways—openly, as by robbery or by doing him any kind of violence—and secretly, as by theft, or by a crafty blow, so again one man injures another by words in two ways—in one way, openly, and this is done by reviling him, as stated above (II-II:72:1)—and in another way…
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