- Whether a good or a wicked angel can sin venially?
Whether a good or a wicked angel can sin venially?
Objections
❌ Objection 1 : It seems that a good or wicked angel can sin venially. Because man agrees with the angels in the higher part of his soul which is called the mind, according to Gregory, who says (Hom. xxix in Evang.) that "man understands in common with the angels." But man can commit a venial sin in the higher part of his soul. Therefore an angel can commit a venial sin also.
❌ Objection 2 : Further, He that can do more can do less. But an angel could love a created good more than God, and he did, by sinning mortally. Therefore he could also love a creature less than God inordinately, by sinning venially.
❌ Objection 3 : Further, wicked angels seem to do things which are venial sins generically, by provoking men to laughter, and other like frivolities. Now the circumstance of the person does not make a mortal sin to be venial as stated above (Article [3]), unless there is a special prohibition, which is not the case in point. Therefore an angel can sin venially.