| ### QUESTION 72 ### OF REVILING ###  |

| #### Prologue |

| #### #### We must now consider injuries inflicted by words uttered extrajudicially. We shall consider (1) reviling, (2) backbiting, (3) tale bearing, (4) derision, (5) cursing. #### Under the first head there are four points of inquiry: #### (1) What is reviling? #### (2) Whether every reviling is a mortal sin? #### (3) Whether one ought to check revilers? #### (4) Of the origin of reviling. ####  |