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What the Fathers say

Proverbs 21:26

Western Saints

Gregory the Dialogist

"A dissolute soul shall suffer hunger." For, because it braces not itself towards higher things, it lets itself run loose uncared for in lower desires; and, while not braced with the vigour of lofty aims, suffers the pangs of the hunger of low concupiscence, and, in that it neglects to bind itself up by discipline, it scatters itself the more abroad hungry in its craving after pleasures. …

The Book of Pastoral Rule, Part 3 (Admonition 16) ↗