Whether the precepts of the parts of fortitude are suitably given in the Divine Law?

❌ Objection 1 : It seems that the precept of the parts of fortitude are unsuitably given in the Divine Law. For just as patience and perseverance are parts of fortitude, so also are magnificence, magnanimity, and confidence, as stated above (Question [128]). Now we find precepts of patience in the Divine Law, as also of perseverance. Therefore there should also have been precepts of magnificence and magnanimity.

❌ Objection 2 : Further, patience is a very necessary virtue, since it is the guardian of the other virtues, as Gregory says (Hom. in Evang. xxxv). Now the other virtues are commanded absolutely. Therefore patience should not have been commanded merely, as Augustine says (De Serm. Dom. in Monte i), as to the preparedness of the mind.

❌ Objection 3 : Further, patience and perseverance are parts of fortitude, as stated above (Question [128]; Question [136], Article [4]; Question [137], Article [2]). Now the precepts of fortitude are not affirmative but only negative, as stated above (Article [1], ad 2). Therefore the precepts of patience and perseverance should have been negative and not affirmative.The contrary, however, follows from the way in which they are given by Holy Writ.