 | Thomas Aquinas, Anton C. Pegis - 1997 - 1222 páginas
...inducing false humility, or to love enkindling us to undue ardor.17 For it is written ( / John ii. 1 6) that all that is in the world is the concupiscence of the flesh, or the concupiscence of the eyes, or the pride of life. Now a thing is said to be in the world because... | |
 | Everett Ferguson - 1999 - 422 páginas
...CLINGING: QUID SIM1LWS ET QUID DISSIM1L1US? "In truth, you command me to be continent with regard to 'the concupiscence of the flesh, and the concupiscence of the eyes, and the ambition of the world,'"11 wrote Augustine at a critical juncture in book ten of the Confessions. Robert... | |
 | M. F. Toal - 2000 - 502 páginas
...world of which it was written: If any man love the world, the charity of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, is the concupiscence of...and the concupiscence of the eyes, and the pride of life, which is not of the Father (I Jn. ii. 15). The devils and their angels rule that world; that... | |
 | Amélie Rorty - 2001 - 376 páginas
...vanity. Hence the Apostle John says, "Do not love the world or the things that are in the world; because all that is in the world is the concupiscence of the...and the concupiscence of the eyes and the pride of life." The concupiscence of the flesh pertains to pleasures, the concupiscence of the eyes to riches,... | |
 | Arcangela Tarabotti - 2007 - 213 páginas
...too, should show a little consideration in providing for their woeful condition. Are you not aware that, "All that is in the world is the concupiscence...and the concupiscence of the eyes, and the pride of life" (1 Jn 2:16)? These poor wretches are formed of the same flesh and blood as yourselves,- so when... | |
 | Alexander Bless - 2005 - 167 páginas
...things which are in the world. If any man love the world, the charity of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world is the concupiscence of the flesh, and the concupiscence of the eyes, which is not of the Father but is of the world. "I. John 2:15-16 (DRB). This and similar teachings... | |
 | Rama P. Coomaraswamy - 2006 - 461 páginas
...things that are in the world. If any man loves the world the charity of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world is the concupiscence of the...and the concupiscence of the eyes and the pride of life, which is not of the Father but is of the world. And the world passeth away." What thinking person... | |
 | Fiona Griffiths - 2007 - 422 páginas
...traditional link between the three temptations of Christ and the three temptations of I John 2:16 — "the concupiscence of the flesh and the concupiscence of the eyes and the pride of life" — Herrad connected the third temptation of Christ with the second temptation of I John, the... | |
 | Aaron Stalnaker - 2006 - 364 páginas
...rejection of such desire. Augustine, following 1 John 2:16, sees this tendency as having three main forms: "the concupiscence of the flesh and the concupiscence of the eyes and the ambition of the world," or sexual and other bodily lusts; misplaced curiosity75 and the desire for... | |
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Love not the world, nor the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the charity of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world is the concupiscence of the flesh, and the concupiscence of the eyes, and the pride of life, which... 
