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LASTLY, on this account in those who are Eunuchs, we often detect the
existence of this lukewarmness of mind, because, as they are so to speak
free from the needs of the flesh, they fancy that they have no need either
of the trouble of bodily abstinence, or of contrition of heart; and being
rendered slack by this freedom from anxiety, they make no efforts either
truly to seek or to acquire perfection of heart or even purity from
spiritual faults. And this condition which is the result of their state in
the flesh, becomes natural, which is altogether a worse state. For he who
passes from the state of coldness to that of lukewarmness is branded by the
Lord's words as still more hateful.
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