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Often appears with: sexuality and desire · moderation, luxury, and excess · thessalonians · theatre and public pleasure · theatre and performance · sanctification · resurrection of the dead · public prostitution · old age and the generations · multiple marriages · marriage and betrothal · luxury and wealth-seeking
Usually: temptation (2) · indignation (2) · argument (1) · description (1) · narrative (1) · coming of age (1) · confronting death (1) · censure (1) · exhortation (1) · lament (1)
“What sane man would compare a republic such as this, I will not say to the Roman empire, but to the palace of Sardanapalus, the ancient king who was so abandoned to pleasures, that he caused it to be inscribed on his tomb, that now that he was dead, he possessed only those things which he had swallowed and consumed by his appetites while alive?” Augustine (Aurelius Augustine), Saint of Hippo, The City of God, Volume I · vivid
Paul urges the Thessalonians to pray, grow in holiness and brotherly love, avoid sexual immorality and exploitative bargaining, and comfort the grieving with the hope of Christ’s return and the resurrection.
joy for your sakes before our God, while we night and day pray exceedingly, that we might see you presently, and might fulfil that which is lacking in your faith. God himself our father, and our lord Iesus Christ guide our journey unto you: and the lord increase you, and make you flow over in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you, to stablish your hearts that they might be without oug…
Augustine describes the happiness sought by critics of Christianity as wealth, domination, sexual license, theaters, prostitutes, lavish banquets, and tolerance of wrongdoing, comparing it to Sardanapalus’ self-indulgent reign.
20. _Of the kind of happiness and life truly delighted in by those who inveigh against the Christian religion._ But the worshippers and admirers of these gods delight in imitating their scandalous iniquities, and are nowise concerned that the republic be less depraved and licentious. Only let it remain undefeated, they say, only let it flourish and abound in resources; let it be glorious by its victories, or still b…
Polygamus narrates his licentious youth at Paris, multiple secret wives including a “French woman” with a French husband, continual remarriage, and how excessive drinking, late hours, and whoring caused his old age.
Eighth should die to Day, I would marry the Ninth to-Morrow. Nay, it vexes me that I must not have two or three, when one Cock has so many Hens. *Eu.* Indeed I don't wonder, Mr. Cock, that you are no fatter, and that you have brought old Age upon you to that Degree; for nothing brings on old Age faster, than excessive and hard Drinking, keeping late Hours, and Whoring, extravagant Love of Women, and immoderate Vener…