1 John 2:16
Douay-Rheims
For all that is in the world, is the concupiscence of the flesh, and the concupiscence of the eyes, and the pride of life, which is not of the Father, but is of the world.
Augustine of Hippo
This love of the world, which contains in itself the universal lust of the world, is the general kind of fornication by which one sins against one's own body, in that the human mind is unceasingly enslaved to all bodily and visible desires and pleasures, left marooned and abandoned by the very Creator of all things.
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A.D. 430 · on 1John 2:16 (SERMONS 162.4)
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.