Gluttony…

Gluttony… 2017-01-26T19:04:39-05:00

…”Gluttony is the mother of lust, the nourishment of evil thoughts, laziness in fasting, obstacle to asceticism, terror to moral purpose, the imagining of food, sketcher of seasonings, unrestrained colt, unbridled frenzy, receptacle of disease, envy of health, obstruction of the (bodily) passages, groaning of the bowels, the extreme of outrages, confederate of lust, pollution of the intellect, weakness of the body, difficult sleep, gloomy death.”

-Evagrius Ponticus

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Bosch, Seven Deadly Sins & Four Last Things.


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