Letter 685
To the same person.
That it is possible, even after [a season of] chastity, to be carried away through filthy thoughts into bodily uncleanness, by those who have grown weak in virtue but strong in vice—receive the testimony [of Scripture]; for it says: "The watchmen were shaken in the streets, they were defiled with blood; in their inability, they laid hold of their own imaginings." [Lamentations 4:14-15, Septuagint]
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Latin / Greek Original
Ὅτι δυνατὸν καὶ μετὰ σωφροσύνην ἐξενεχθῆναι διὰ τῶν ῥυπαρῶν λογισμῶν εἰς τὴν σωματικὴν ἀκαθαρσίαν ἀτονησάντας μὲν τῇ ἀρετῇ, ἰσχύσαντας δὲ τῇ κακίᾳ, δέχου τὴν μαρτυρίαν· λέγει γάρ· «Ἐσαλεύθησαν ἐγρήγοροι ἐν ταῖς ἐξόδοις, ἐμολύνθησαν ἐν αἵματι, ἐν τῷ μὴ δύνασθαι αὐτούς, ἥψαντο ἐνθυμημάτων αὐτῶν.»
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