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WE also ought first to give evidence of our freedom from subjection to
the flesh. For "of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he the slave."
And "every one that doeth sin slave of sin."And when the scrutiny is the
of the president of the contest finds that we are stained by no infamy of
disgraceful lust, and when we are judged by him not to be slaves of the
flesh, and ignoble and unworthy of the Olympic struggle against our vices,
then we shall be able to enter the lists against our equals, that is the
lusts of the flesh and the motions and disturbances of the soul. For it is
impossible for a full belly to make trial of the combat of the inner man:
nor is he worthy to be tried in harder battles, who can be overcome in a
slight skirmish.
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