Dearly beloved, I beseech you as aliens and exiles, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
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Cyprian of Carthage
AD 258
And similarly Peter exhorts: "As strangers "says he, "and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul, having your conversation honest among the Gentiles; that whereas they speak against you as evil-doers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify the Lord."
