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| Chapter XIII. That we cannot enter the battle of the inner man unless we have been set free from the vice of gluttony.
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Chapter XIII.
That we cannot enter the battle of the inner man unless
we have been set free from the vice of gluttony.
We also ought first to
give evidence of our freedom from subjection to the flesh. For
“of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he the
slave.”836
And
“every one that doeth sin is the slave of sin.”837
And when the scrutiny of the president
of the contest finds that we are stained by no infamy of disgraceful
lust, and when we are judged by him not to be slaves of the flesh, and
ignoble and unworthy of the Olympic struggle against our vices, then we
shall be able to enter the lists against our equals, that is the lusts
of the flesh and the motions and disturbances of the soul. For it is
impossible for a full belly to make trial of the combat of the inner
man: nor is he worthy to be tried in harder battles, who can be
overcome in a slight skirmish.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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