Bodily Pleasures - Week 7: Tuesday

Bible Passage

1 Thessalonians 4:3, 7-8

For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from sexual immorality.

For God did not call us to uncleanness, but in holiness. Therefore he who rejects this does not reject man, but God, who has also given us His Holy Spirit.

Commentary

St. Augustine of Hippo

Lust does not merely invade the whole body and outward members. It takes such complete and passionate possession of the whole man, both physically and emotionally, that what results is the keenest of all pleasures on the level of sensation. And at the crisis of excitement, it practically paralyzes all power of deliberate thought.