Thursday, January 23, 2025
Chains
Augustine, Sermons 335E.3 (C. Lambot, "Nouveaux sermons de S. Augustin. IV-VII. 'De Martyribus'," Revue Bénédictine 50 [1938] 3-25 [at 12-13]; tr. Edmund Hill):
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So there are many chains binding the soul; love of wealth, love of power, love of the affection of wife, parents, children, brothers and sisters, love of country, love of one's land, love of this daylight, love of any sort of life simply because it's life.
Tenent ergo animam multa vincula: amor divitiarum, amor potestatum, amor affectus uxoris parentum filiorum fratrum, amor patriae, amor terrae suae, amor lucis huius, amor qualiscumque vitae tantum quia vitae.
