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As for your statement, ‘It is the evil of desire that everywhere avoids being seen and seeks privacy out of shame’ (Augustine, Marriage and Sexual Desire 1.8), Mani says the same: ‘They act in secret shame; at that time they hate the light, so that their deeds will not be exposed’ (John 3:20).
Quod vero tu posuisti: Concupiscentiae malum est, quod vitat ubique conspectum et quaerit pudendo secretum [n229] ; ita et Manichaeus: Secretis - inquit - pudoribus agunt, quo tempore odio habent lucem, uti ne manifestentur opera eorum.