chain of sin augustines
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- A metaphorical progression of moral decline described by Augustine, starting from a forward will, leading to lust, then custom, and finally necessity, which held him in hard bondage.
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- forward will, lust, custom, necessity
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- For of a forward will, was a lust made; and a lust served, became custom; and custom not resisted, became necessity. By which links, as it were, joined together (whence I called it a chain) a hard bondage held me enthralled
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