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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
"Flee fornication." He said not, "abstain from fornication," but "Flee:" that is, with all zeal make to yourselves deliverance from that evil. "Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body." This is less than what went before; but since he had to speak of fornicators, he amplifies that guilt by topics drawn from all quarters, from greater things and smaller alike, making the charge heinous. …
Theophylact of Ohrid
He prescribes to flee from fornication as from a kind of persecutor, from whom we cannot be safe for even a single moment, and to strain every effort to abstain from it. Fornication, he says, defiles the entire body, which is why those who have committed fornication usually go to the baths as well, testifying thereby that their body has been defiled. Thus the fornicator sins against his own body, defiling and soiling it. …
Cyprian
Or if he appoints himself a searcher and judge of the heart and reins, let him in all cases judge equally. And as he knows that it is written, "Behold, thou art made whole; sin no more, lest a worse thing happen unto thee," let him separate the fraudulent and adulterers from his side and from his company, since the case of an adulterer is by far both graver and worse than that of one who has taken a certificate, because the latter has sinned by necessity, the former by free will: the latter, thinking that it is sufficient for him …
Western Saints
Ambrose of Milan
And therefore the Apostle says: Flee from fornication; so that by a swift flight, we may avoid the cruelty of the raging mistress and be able to escape from her foul service.
Thomas Aquinas
Then when he says, Flee fornication, he presents a third reason, which is taken from the body's contamination. First, he presents the conclusion, saying, Flee fornication. Here it should be noted that other vices are overcome by resisting, because the more a man considers and deals with particulars, the less will he find in them anything in which to take delight, but more to be cautious about. …
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