d. Crty of God, XIV, 4.
POLITICAL WRITINGS 7 wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God." ^ This whole passage of the apostolic epistle being considered, so far as it bears on the matter in hand, will be sufficient to answer the question, what it is to live after the flesh.
enunciating this proposition of ours, then, that because some hve according to the flesh and others according to the spirit there have arisen two diverse and conflicting cities, we might equally well have said, "because some live according to man, others according to God." For Paul says very plainly to the Corinthians, "For whereas there is among you envying and strife, are ye not carnal, and walk according to man?" ^ So that to walk according to man and to be carnal are the same; for by flesh, that is, by a part of man, man is meant.
the character of the human will is of moment; ... for the man who lives according to God, and not according to man, ought to be a lover of good, and therefore a hater of evil. And since no one is evil by nature, but whosoever is evil is evil by vice, he who lives according to God ought to cherish toward evil men a perfect hatred, so that he shall neither hate the man because of his vice, nor love the vice because of the man. For the vice being cursed, all that ought to be loved, and nothing that ought to be hated, will remain.
3. Gal. V. 19-21.
d. Crty of God, XIV, 4. 4. I. Cor. ill. 3.
e. City of God, XIV, 6-7.