ACC ~ James 1 v14

HEALING OUR NATURE. AUGUSTINE: Against this fault medicinal aid is sought from him who can heal all illnesses of this sort, not by separating an alien nature from us but by healing our own nature. ON CONTINENCE 7.

WILLING CONSENT TO EVIL. AUGUSTINE: The one giving birth is lust, the thing born is sin. Lust does not give birth unless it conceives, and it does not conceive unless it entices and receives willing consent to commit evil. Therefore our battle against lust consists in keeping it from conceiving and giving birth to sin. AGAINST JULIAN 6.15.47.

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