A Lusty Man Chastised

Τί καὶ εἰκῆ βιβλιοφορεῖς, καὶ τὴν ἀνάγνωσιν ἐκτρέπῃ οἶς ποιεῖς; Τοῦ Κυρίου γὰρ καὶ αὐτὴν τὴν περίεργον θέαν κατακρίνοντος, σὺ οὐ μόνον ἐπιμαίνῃ τοῖς κάλλεσιν, ἀλλὰ καὶ βίον, ὡς ἔγνων, ἀνδραποδώδη ἠγάπησας, πόρνην σύνοικον λαβὼν, καὶ αἰώνιον ἀτιμίαν ἀγαπῶν, δέον συνιδεῖν τὸ γεγραμμένον· Τίμιος ὁ γάμος ἐν πᾶσι, καὶ ἡ κοίτη ἀμίαντος· πόρνους δὲ καὶ μοιχοὺς κρινεῖ ὁ Θεός· καὶ τὸ μὲν ζηλῶσαι, τὸ δὲ μυσῆσαι. Φονερὸν τὸ ἐμπεσεῖν εἰς χεῖρας Θεοῦ. Οὐχ ἥδεται τούτοις, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἀντιτάσσεται προσέχων. Ἅγιος Ἰσίδωρος Του Πηλουσιώτου, Βιβλίον Πρῶτον, Ἐπιστολή ΣΛΔ' , Ἀμαζονιῳ

Why do you oppose the carrying and reading of the Book by what you do? For it is of the Lord that even a lingering look is condemned, but you are not only maddened by the sight of beauty but even your life, as I understand it, has been trodden underfoot by passion since you have taken to living with a whore, and so it is that you love endless ignominy rather than understanding of Scripture: ' Marriage honourable in everything and an immaculate bed.' Fornicators and adulterers shall be judged by God, and that for which they were eager He has despised. ' A fearful thing it is to fall into the hands of God.' Let not such things be desired but oppose those things about which you were warned. Saint Isidore of Pelusium, Book 1, Letter 234, to Amazonios