Origen, on Luke 9:23

“And he said to all: If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.”

“(in Matt. tom. 12.) A man also denies himself when by a sufficient alteration of manners or a good conversation he changes a life of habitual wickedness. He who has long lived in lasciviousness, abandons his lustful self when he becomes chaste, and in like manner a forsaking of any crimes is a denial of one’s self.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.