| Gratian's
Dictum before chapter 1 (ca. 1135),
Humanum
genus duobus regitur, naturali uidelicet
iure
et
moribus.
Ius
naturae est, quod in
lege
et euangelio continetur, quo quisque
iubetur alii facere, quod sibi uult fieri, et prohibetur alii inferre, quod
sibi nolit fieri. Unde Christus in euangelio: "Omnia quecunque uultis ut
faciant uobis homines, et uos eadem facite illis. Haec est enim
lex et
prophetae. [Matthew 7:12, cf. Luke 6:31]" The Human Race is ruled by two things: namely, natural ius and mos. The ius of nature is what is contained in the lex and the Gospel. By it, each person is commanded to do to others what he wants done to himself and is prohibited from inflicting on others what he does not want done to himself. This is the lex and the prophets. |
Köln, Erzbischöfliche Diözesan- und Dombibliothek , fol. 9ra |
