Assertion: vow | /r/HasProperty | kept
Facets:
value: to the letter
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: A vow was as binding as an oath (see OATH) and therefore to be kept to the letter; and it was not to be lightly made (Proverbs 20:25).
text: In addition to warning against the making of false vows, the Old Testament was understood to teach that a vow which was made should be kept.
text: Elsewhere men are taught that they need not make vows, and that when they do, these should be made very thoughtfully, and that all vows ought then to be kept.
text: And so we see that a legalistic view of vows meant that very few vows were actually kept, or even intended to be kept.
text: And so we see that a legalistic view of vows meant that very few vows were actually kept, or even intended to be kept.
text: Some vows were kept some vows were broken.
text: Some vows were kept some vows were broken.
text: Likewise, when anyone rightly determines of his own authority that in his case a vow is not to be kept, he would seem not to be bound; since a vow need not be kept if it have an evil result (Article 2, Reply to Objection 2).
text: Some vows were kept some vows were broken.