The redeemed must follow God; refuse soft vice; live lawfully and young-hearted
ON ADORATION AND WORSHIP IN SPIRIT AND TRUTH — BOOK FOUR. That the one called unto justification from God and redeemed must follow along after him, and must decline the softening unto baseness, and rather hasten to live lawfully and young-heartedly. Slippery therefore, as it seems, Palladius, and I would say even most abominable, and having stepped inside every absurdity, is not loving to play the man against baseness and sin; but being melted as it were unto outlandish pleasures, and letting soft womanish habits down into the (Ephesians 6:10)
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ΠΕΡΙ ΤΗΣ ΕΝ ΠΝΕΥΜΑΤΙ ΚΑΙ ΑΛΗΘΕΙΑΙ ΠΡΟΣΚΥΝΗΣΕΩΣ ΚΑΙ ΛΑΤΡΕΙΑΣ ΛΟΓΟΣ ΤΕΤΑΡΤΟΣ. Ὅτι τὸν κεκλημένον εἰς δικαίωσιν παρὰ Θεοῦ καὶ λελυτρωμένον, αὐτῷ κατακολουθεῖν χρὴ, καὶ παραιτεῖσθαι μὲν τὸν εἰς φαυλότητα μαλακι σμὸν, ζῇν δὲ μᾶλλον ἐπείγεσθαι συννόμως καὶ νεανικῶς. Σφαλερὸν μὲν οὖν, ὡς ἔοικεν, ὦ Παλλάδιε, φαίην δ' ἂν ὅτι καὶ βδελυρώτατον, εἴσω τε πάσης βεβηκὸς ἀτοπίας, μὴ τὸ κατανδρίζεσθαι φιλεῖν φαυλότητός τε καὶ ἁμαρτίας· θρυπτομένους δὲ ὥσπερ εἰς ἐκτόπους ἡδονὰς, καὶ θηλυπρεπεῖς μαλακίας ἐγκαθιέντας τῷ