2. But some one will say, What can sin
be? Is it a living thing? Is it an angel? Is it a
demon? What is this which works within us? It is not an
enemy, O man, that assails thee from without, but an evil shoot growing
up out of thyself. Look right on with thine eyes Prov. iv. 25., and there is no lust. [Keep thine own,
and Omitted by recent
editors with the best mss.] seize not the things of others, and robbery
has ceased Gr. κεκοίμηται
“has fallen asleep.”. Remember the
Judgment, and neither fornication, nor adultery, nor murder, nor any
transgression of the law shall prevail with thee. But whenever
thou forgettest God, forthwith thou beginnest to devise wickedness and
to commit iniquity.