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Concupiscence
Concupiscence meaning
An ardent desire, especially sexual desire; lust. | the desire of a person's lower appetite, contrary to reason, which subjugates and inclines them to experience temptation and to give in to sin, due to the Fall and original sin.
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He explains, “When we live apart from others, it is very difficult to fight against concupiscence, the snares and temptations of the devil and the selfishness of the world.
And although there is no condemnation for them that believe and are baptized, yet the Apostle doth confess, that concupiscence and lust hath of itself the nature of sin.
As a result of original sin, human nature is weakened in its powers, subject to ignorance, suffering and the domination of death, and inclined to sin (this inclination is called "concupiscence").
Augustine insisted that concupiscence was not a being but a bad quality, the privation of good or a wound.
A wounded nature comes to the soul and body of the new person from his/her parents, who experience libido (or concupiscence).
Further, marriage was said to be for the "relief of concupiscence " as well as any spiritual purpose.
On Marriage and Concupiscence,I,10 Augustine taught that the reason patriarchs had many wives was not because of fornication, but because they wanted more children.
St. Augustin On the Good of Marriage, ch.17; cf. On Marriage and Concupiscence,I,9.8 Augustine saw marriage as a non-sacrament-friendly covenant between one man and one woman, which may not be broken.
The virtue of continence is achieved thanks to the grace of the sacrament of Christian marriage, which becomes therefore a remedium concupiscentiae – remedy of concupiscence.