Читать толкование: Книга пророка Иеремии, Глава 9, стих 21. Толкователь — Амвросий Медиоланский святитель

IF YOU LUST, DEATH HAS COME. AMBROSE: Amid so many passions of this body of ours, amid so many enticements of this world, who indeed can keep his footstep safe and undefiled? The eye looks back and leads the mind’s perception astray, the ear hears and turns one’s attention away, a whiff of fragrance hinders thought, a kiss of the mouth introduces guilt, a touch kindles the fire of passion. “Death has entered in through the window,” the prophet said. Your eye is your window. If you look at a woman to lust after her, death has entered in; if you listen to the harlot’s words, death has entered in; if licentiousness takes hold of your senses, death has gone in. FLIGHT FROM THE WORLD 1.3.