St. Maximos the Confessor: When the body sins through material things, it has the bodily virtues to teach it self-restraint...
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When the body sins through material things, it has the bodily virtues to teach it self-restraint.
Similarly, when the intellect sins through impassioned conceptual images, it has the virtues of the soul to instruct it, so that by seeing things in a pure and dispassionate way, it too may learn self-restraint.
St. Maximos the Confessor
