Saturday, March 30, 2024
The World, the Flesh, and the Devil
Augustine, Sermons 158.4 (Patrologia Latina, vol. 38, col. 864; tr. Edmund Hill):
I now see that Wenzel cites this passage on pp. 48-49.
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There remains, however, the struggle with the flesh, there remains the struggle with the world, there remains the struggle with the devil.Is this the first occurrence of this unholy trinity? I don't have access to Siegfried Wenzel, "The Three Enemies of Man," Mediaeval Studies 29 (1967) 47–66, rpt. in his Elucidations: Medieval Poetry and Its Religious Backgrounds (Louvain: Peeters, 2010 = Synthema, 6), pp. 17-38.
restat tamen lucta cum carne, restat lucta cum mundo, restat lucta cum diabolo.
I now see that Wenzel cites this passage on pp. 48-49.
