Opera Omnia (vol. 30): Super IV Sententiarum

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contains St. Albert's questions on matrimony (many of which St. Thomas doesn't treat)

cf. circa Distinctions 32 (DjVu p. 276) ff.

St. Albert's commentary on the Sentences addresses some questions St. Thomas's doesn't, e.g., in "An solvere debitum sit pro perfectione sanctitatis matrimonii?" (DjVu p. 281) he writes (In IV Sent. d. 32b a. 3 ad 1):

si justitia et castitas comparantur secundum hoc quod valent politegiis et ad alterum, vincit iustitia castitatem: si autem comparantur secundum decorem et honestatem quam habent, vincit castitas justitiam.

He, like St. Thomas (II-II q. 152 a. 5 co.: "castitati antonomastice attribuitur decor "), who quotes St. Ambrose ("Pulchritudinem quis potest maiorem aestimare decore virginis? ") and St. Gregory of Nyssa (De virginitate), relates beauty and chastity, but why isn't beauty ascribed to justice antonomastically, too? St. Thomas shows it's the greatest of the moral virtues (which contains another pro-life quote: "Maximum autem in his quae ad hominem pertinent, est vita, a qua omnia alia dependent. ").

"An debitum debet solvi non exigenti?" (DjVu p. 282) says something similar to St. Thomas's Summa suppl. q. 64 a. 2 arg. 2 = Super Sent. , lib. 4 d. 32 q. 1 a. 2 qc. 1 arg. 2: "melius est etiam conjugibus continere quam matrimonio uti ":

In IV Sent. d. 32 b a. 4 arg. 1: "melius sit abstinere, quam uti coitu "