On the evil of preferring the commands of men to those of God (Bernard of Clairvaux)

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[Y]ou have preferred the commands of a man to that of God, and have thus scandalized very many. What man of any sense would say that such an audacious act was good, or could become good, by the direction of any man, whatever his dignity? And if it is not good, nor can become good, without doubt it is wholly evil.

Letter II (A.D. 1126) to the Monk Adam in Some Letters of Saint Bernard Abbot of Clairvaux. From the Translation by the Late Dr. Eales Vicar of Stalefield, ed. Francis Aidan Gasquet (London: John Hodges, 1904), p. 11.
 
A bit later he writes:

Is it likely that either an evil will cease to be or even be rendered less because the Pope has consented to it?

Letter II (A.D. 1126) to the Monk Adam in Some Letters of Saint Bernard Abbot of Clairvaux. From the Translation by the Late Dr. Eales Vicar of Stalefield, ed. Francis Aidan Gasquet (London: John Hodges, 1904), pp 13-14.
 
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