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75 Through the wine and the bread he proclaims the antitypes of Christ's bodily members. 76 He calls Christ Wisdom, her sensible image, describing visible prudence and signifying her business to be embraced <before> all things; and no form of wickedness or cunning opposing her prevails; for presenting a clear sign to those who love her, he cries out with praise: she is well-known to all, and everything precious is not worthy of her.

77 For a general, having once taken a city, disposed of it as he wished, but the charioteer of the passions subdues them, for as long as he is in this life; for the internal enemy is in every way more difficult than the external one, since the one who sacked the city became free from care, but the other struggles against an unceasing enemy. A great achievement, therefore, is to control anger and a great stratagem against the spirit of anger.

78 It is said not only concerning a prostitute, but also concerning wicked desire; for when the mind rushes toward an evil deed, then what the heart says, the mouth devises perverse things; for then he will be as in the heart of the sea, being choked by the brine of many thoughts and like a pilot in a great surge, driven by the waves of evil desire, he struggles toward the wicked deed.

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75 ∆ιὰ τοῦ οἴνου καὶ τοῦ ἄρτου τὰ ἀντίτυπα τῶν σωματικῶν τοῦ Χριστοῦ κηρύττει μελῶν. 76 Τὸν Χριστὸν λέγει Σοφίαν, τὴν αἰσθητὴν αὐτῆς εἰκόνα, διαγράφων τὴν ὁρατὴν φρόνησιν τήν τε ἐμπορίαν αὐτῆς <πρὸ> πάντων ἀσπαστέαν σημαίνων· καὶ οὐδὲν αὐτῇ κακίας εἶδος ἢ πανουργίας ἀντιτασσόμενον ἰσχύει· τοῖς γὰρ ἐρῶσιν αὐτῆς πρόδηλον γνώρισμα παριστῶν, ἐκβοᾷ μετ' εὐφημίας· εὔγνωστός ἐστι πᾶσι, καὶ πᾶν δὲ τίμιον οὐκ ἄξιον αὐτῆς.

77 Ὁ μὲν γὰρ στρατηγὸς πόλιν ἅπαξ ἑλὼν ὡς ἠβουλήθη διέθηκεν, ὁ δέ γε τῶν παθῶν ἡνίοχος ὑποτάττει ταῦτα, ἐφ' ὅσον ἐστὶν ἐν τῇ ζωῇ· ὁ γὰρ ἐμφύλιος πολέμιος πάντως τοῦ ἔξωθέν ἐστι χαλεπώτερος, ὡς ὅ γε πορθήσας ἀπεμερίμνησεν, ὁ δὲ πρὸς ἄπαυστον ἐχθρὸν ἔχων ἀγωνίζεται. Μέγα τοίνυν κατόρθωμα τὸ κρατεῖν ὀργῆς καὶ μέγα στρατήγημα κατὰ τοῦ πνεύματος τῆς ὀργῆς.

78 Οὐ μόνον περὶ πόρνης εἴρηται, ἀλλὰ καὶ περὶ πονηρᾶς ἐπιθυμίας· ὅταν γὰρ ὁ νοῦς πρὸς τὴν κακὴν πρᾶξιν ὁρμήσῃ, τότε ἡ καρδία ὃ λέγει στόμα μελετᾷ σκολιά· τότε γὰρ ἔσται ὡς ἐν καρδίᾳ θαλάσσης, ὑπὸ τῆς ἅλμης τῶν πολλῶν λογισμῶν πνιγόμενος καὶ ὡς κυβερνήτης ἐν πολλῷ κλύδονι, ὑπὸ τῶν τῆς κακῆς ἐπιθυμίας κυμάτων ὠθούμενος πρὸς τὴν πονηρὰν πρᾶξιν ἀγωνιᾷ.