"...I was once present when someone asked the poet Sophocles: 'How are you as far as sex goes, Sophocles? Can you still make love with a woman?' 'Quiet, man,' he replied, 'I am very glad to have escaped from all that, like a slave who has escaped from a savage and tyrannical master.' I thought at the time that he was right, and I still do, for old age brings peace and freedom from all such things. When the appetites relax and cease to importune us, everything Sophocles says comes to pass, and we escape from many mad masters." - Cephalus, Book I of Plato's Republic (Indianapolis/Cambridge: Hackett, 1992), pp. 3-4.
Mortification will bring about the same freedom--if not fully, at least to a great extent. (Rom. 8:13, Phil. 3)
posted by Unknown @ 6/29/2004 07:31:00 AM
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I heard a radio announcer talk about an elderly man--in his mid-eighties, I think--who was smiling ear to ear after having discovered that Viagara worked for him.
What a horribly different time we live in. Then lust and carnal pleasures were seen as distractions, hinderers of thought and life; now sex is the greatest good and all things seem to be a means to that end--better sex with a better looking person.
It's distressing.
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