Commentary on Thomas Aquinas's Treatise on Divine Law

Personal preface: on discovering Thomas Aquinas; Commentator's introduction; 1. Was a divine law needed?; 2. Does divine law come in one edition, or in two, old and new?; 3. Were any of the old law's precepts moral?; 4. Were any of the old law's precepts judicial?; 5. Were the promises of benefits and threats of penalties appropriate?; 6. Are all of the old law's moral precepts also included in the natural law?; 7. Why does the old law contain just these moral precepts?; 8. Were the old law's moral precepts appropriately formulated?; 9. Can any exceptions be made to the old law's moral precepts?; 10. Was it enough to obey the old law's moral precepts, or did they have to be obeyed in a certain way?; 11. Did the old law's moral precepts have to be obeyed according to love or charity?; 12. How are the moral precepts of the decalogue related to the old law's other moral precepts?; 13. Did the moral precepts of the old law make man just and acceptable in the sight of god?; 14. Were the old law's ceremonial precepts arbitrary, or given for intelligible reasons?; 15. Reasons for old law judicial precepts about relations between citizens and rulers; 16. Reasons for old law judicial precepts about relations among citizens; 17. Reasons for old law judicial precepts about relations with non-citizens; 18. Is the new law a written law, or is it poured into us?; 19. Does the new law make men just and acceptable in the sight of god?; 20. Is it appropriate that the new law includes not only precepts but also 'counsels'?; 21. Afterword: Implications of St Thomas's teaching for the world of the present.