Chapter VI.
That no one comes to grief by a sudden fall, but is
destroyed by falling through a long course of
carelessness.
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For
no one is ever driven to
sin by being provoked through another’s fault, unless he has the
fuel of evil stored up in his own heart. Nor should we imagine that a
man has been deceived suddenly when he has looked on a woman and fallen
into the abyss of shameful lust: but rather that, owing to the
opportunity of looking on her, the symptoms of disease which were
hidden and concealed in his inmost soul have been brought to the
surface.
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Incuriam
(Petschenig):
Injuriam
(Gazæus).