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Sexual desire’s origin is therefore rightly defined as lying in the fire of life.Once this has been established, bodily desire must be attributed to the one through whom bodily life came into being.
So this appetite is not blameworthy in its general kind, its particular form, or its proper measure, but in its excess.Its kind and form belong to the Creator’s work; its measure to the choice of honorable conduct; its excess to the fault of the will.
Merito igitur - inquis - concupiscentiae origo definitur in igne vitali, quo collecto necesse est ut ei reputetur concupiscentia carnalis, per quem constitit vita carnalis
Huius itaque appetitus non in genere suo, non in specie, non in modo culpa est, sed in excessu: quia genus eius et species ad conditoris operam pertinent, modus eius ad arbitrium honestatis, excessus ad vitium voluntatis