The Lazy Man

Quid est quod ait: Vult piger et non vult? Si ergo vult, quomodo non vult? Per pigrum ille designatur qui se non vult exercere in bonis operibus. Vult ergo piger regnare, et non vult laborare pro Deo; vult pervenire ad beatitudinem, et non vult Christi praecepta implere, ut beatitudinem mereatur obtinere. De hoc enim Jacobus dicit: Vir duplex animo, inconstans est in omnibus viis suis. Honorius Augustodunensis, Quaestiones Et Ad Easdem Responsiones In Duos Salomonis Libros, Caput XIII Source: Migne PL 172.319d

Why is it said, 'The lazy man wishes and does not wish.' 1 If he wishes, how does he not wish? By the lazy man is designated one who is unwilling to exert himself in good works. Thus the lazy man wishes to reign and yet he does not wish to labour for God. He wishes to come to blessedness, and yet he does not wish to fulfill the commandments of Christ that he might merit the reward of blessedness. Concerning which James says: 'A man of twofold soul, inconstant in all his ways.' 2 Honorius of Autun, Questions and Answers on Two Books of Solomon, Chapter 13 1 Prov 13.4 2 Jam 1.8