[429] Tyrannicide was defended by some of the more extreme opponents of the temporal power, like John of Salisbury, the secretary of Thomas Becket (Policraticus VIII. 17, 'Tyrannus pravitatis imago; plerumque etiam occidendus'). But it was condemned by the sounder judgment of Aquinas (De Reg. Princ. I. 6, 'Hoc apostolicae doctrinae non congruit').
[430] Thomas Aquinas, Comm. Sent. XLIV. q. 2 a. 2; q. 1 a. 2. In Comm. Pol. v. 1 § 2 he goes so far as to make Insurrection in certain cases a duty.
[431] Janet, Histoire de la Science politique, third edition, 1887, vol. i. p. 330.
[432] Hooker, Eccl. Pol. VIII. ii. 5, 9. Cp. I. x. 4.
[433] Eccl. Pol. VIII. ii. 11.
[434] Eccl. Pol. VIII. App. No. I. (ed. Keble.) Cp. I. x. 8.
[435] Acts iv. 34, 35.
[436] Especially in S. Ambrose; the passages are collected in Dubief, Essai sur les idées politiques de S. Augustin, 1859, ch. vi. S. Augustine himself opposed the obligatory Communism, advocated by Pelagianism; cp. Ep. 157 (Ed. Bened.) to Hilary, quoted by Dubief.
[437] Sen. De vita beata, 24.
[438] Uhlhorn, Christian Charity in the Ancient Church, Eng. Transl. 1883, Bk. I. ch. i. pp. 18-21, 41, 42.