But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becomes saints;
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
He has already spoken of the bitterest affection, which is wrath. Next he passes on to lust, which comes after wrath, as we see in the law of Moses, who first says “You shall not murder,” which springs from wrath, and then “You shall not commit adultery,” which springs from lust. For just as bitterness, clamor and every evil, including blasphemy and the like, belong to the angerprone, passionate nature, so do fornication, impurity and covetousness belong to the lustprone, appetitive nature. Just as he earlier prohibited clamorous disorder because it is a vehicle of anger, so he now prohibits filthy and loose talk, because it is a vehicle of lust. .
