Saint Augustine, The City of God, Vol. II (1877) - Page 12

Hence they fear and desire, they grieve and rejoice, and do not

Look up at the heavens,

closed in darkness and a blind prison:

nevertheless, our faith holds otherwise. For the corruption of the body, which weighs down the soul, is not the cause of the first sin,
5 but its punishment; nor did the corruptible flesh make the soul sinful, but the sinful soul made the flesh corruptible. From which corruption of the flesh, although certain incitements to vices and vicious desires themselves arise, not all vices of an iniquitous life are to be attributed to the flesh, lest we cleanse the devil of all these things, who does not have flesh. For although the devil cannot be called a fornicator or a drunkard or whatever evil of this kind pertains to the pleasures of the flesh,
14 since he is even the hidden persuader and instigator of such sins: yet he is above all proud and envious. This viciousness took hold of him so that, on account of this, he was destined for eternal punishment in the prisons of this dark air. These vices, however, which hold supremacy in the devil, the apostle attributes to the flesh, which it is certain the devil does not have.
20 For he says that enmities, contentions, emulations, animosities, envies are works of the flesh; of all which evils the head and origin is pride, which reigns in the devil without flesh. Who, however, is found to be more inimical to the saints than he? Who is found more contentious, more animated, and more envious against them? But since he has all these things without flesh, how are they works of the flesh, unless because they are the works of man, whom, as I have said, he calls by the name of flesh? For not by having flesh, which the devil does not have, but by living according to himself, that is according to man, was man made similar to the devil; because he too wished to live according to himself, when he did not stand in the truth, so that he would not speak a lie from God, but from himself,

3) Aeneid 6, 730 ff. 21) Galatians 5:20. 32) John 8:44.

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