{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/105/1050818.htm","path":"chr/ecf/105/1050818.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/105/1050818.htm","text":"Chapter 19.\u2014What It is to Accomplish What is Good.\nAnd now does not what follows most plainly show whence he spoke? \u201cFor I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwelleth no good thing\u201d? 2575 For if he had not explained what he said by the addition of \u201cthat is, in my flesh,\u201d it might, perchance, be otherwise understood, p. 384 when he said, \u201cin me.\u201d And therefore he repeats and urges the same thing in another form: \u201cFor to will is present with me, but to perform that which is good is not.\u201d 2576 For this is to perform that which is good, that a man should not even lust. For the good is incomplete when one lusts, even although a man does not consent to the evil of lust. \u201cFor the good that I would,\u201d says he, \u201cI do not; but the evil that I would not, that I do. Now, if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.\u201d 2577 This he repeated impressively, and as it were to stir up the most slothful from slumber: \u201cI find then that the law,\u201d said he, \u201cis for me wishing to do good, since evil is present with me.\u201d 2578 The law, then, is for one who would do good, but evil is present from lust, though he does not consent to this who says, \u201cIt is no longer I that do it.\u201d","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Vol. V: A Treatise Agains...","type":"page"}