The leach has two daughters, crying, Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things say not, It is enough:
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Hippolytus of Rome
AD 235
As to the horse-leech. There were three daughters fondly loved by sin—fornication, murder,(Other reading (φθόνος) ="envy.”) and idolatry. These three did not satisfy her, for she is not to be satisfied. In destroying man by these actions, sin never varies, but only grows continually. For the fourth, he continues, is never content to say “enough,” meaning that it is universal lust. In naming the “fourth,” he intends lust in the universal. For as the body is one, and yet has many members; so also sin, being one, contains within it many various lusts by which it lays its snares for men. Wherefore, in order to teach us this, he uses the examples of Sheol (Hades), and the love of women, and hell( [The place of torment (2 Pet. ii. 4). Vol. iv. 140.]) (Tartarus), and the earth that is not filled with water. And water and fire, indeed, will never say, “It is enough.” And the grave( [Sheol, rather,—the receptacle of departed spirits. See vol. iii. pp. 59 and 595; also vol. iv. p. 194.]) (Hades) in no wise ceases to receive the souls of unrighteous men; nor does the love of sin, in the instance of the love of women, cease to be given to fornication, and it becomes the betrayer of the soul. And as Tartarus, which is situated in a doleful and dark locality, is not touched by a ray of light, so is every one who is the slave of sin in all the passions of the flesh. Like the earth not filled with water he is never able to come to confession, and to the laver of regeneration, and like water and fire, never says, “It is enough.”
