Sirach 23:6 (WEB)
Let neither gluttony nor lust overtake me. Don’t give me over to a shameless mind.
Fathers and councils · 2
Augustine of Hippo
“Another have I heard entreating that he might receive,—“Take from me,” saith he, “the greediness of the belly;” by which it appeareth, O my holy God, that Thou givest when what Thou commandest to be done is done.” — editor's note: Ecclus. xxiii. 6.
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Clement of Alexandria
“Ventris appetitio et coitus ne me apprehendant.”” — editor's note: Ecclus. xxiii. 4, 5, 6.
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