>>11898746It's in commentary on sentences by Thomas Aquinas. Kings were granted special pardons in heaven it's some medievial doctrine. Middle ages were tough times to be a king
here's something from teh Summa as well. Lying is till a sin but thats why kings got the pardons
>Some, however, are commended in the Scriptures, not on account of perfect virtue, but for a certain virtuous disposition, seeing that it was owing to some praiseworthy sentiment that they were moved to do certain undue things. It is thus that Judith is praised, not for lying to Holofernes, but for her desire to save the people, to which end she exposed herself to danger. And yet one might also say that her words contain truth in some mystical sense. 