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• struggles againstConcupiscence in eating and drinking

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  The author daily strives to resist the temptation of excessive desires related to food and drink.

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  Placed then amid these temptations, I strive daily against concupiscence in eating and drinking

• fearsLust

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  The author expresses a greater fear of the spiritual uncleanness of lust than of the physical uncleanness of meat.

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  I fear not uncleanness of meat, but the uncleanness of lusting

• struggles againstDelights of the ear

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  The author confesses that the pleasures of sound once strongly captivated him, though he now has more control.

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  The delights of the ear had more firmly entangled and subdued me

• struggles againstPleasure of the eyes

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  The author confesses to being assailed by the allurements of visual forms and colors, seeking God to occupy his soul instead.

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  There remains the pleasure of these eyes of my flesh, on which to make my confessions in the hearing of the ears of Thy temple, those brotherly and devout ears; and so to conclude the temptations of the lust of the flesh, which yet assail me, groaning earnestly, and desiring to be clothed upon with my house from heaven

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