“It’s because, sir,” he blurted unexpectedly in a loud voice, “that if this praiseworthy soldier’s feat was so great, sir, then, in my opinion, there would have been no sin if, in this occurrence, he’d renounced the name of Christ, so to speak, and even denied his own christening, and, by so doing, saved his own life for future good deeds, which, in the course of years, he’d do as penance for his sin of cowardliness.”
This runs counter to what St Paul says in Romans, that doing wrong that may result in good isn’t proper..
