From whence [come] wars and fightings among you? [come they] not hence, [even] of your lusts that war in your members?
KJV
Greek original
Louis Segond 1910
D'où viennent les luttes, et d'où viennent les querelles parmi vous? N'est-ce pas de vos passions qui combattent dans vos membres?
KJV
From whence [come] wars and fightings among you? [come they] not hence, [even] of your lusts that war in your members?
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
ter of anger? Objection 1: It would seem that strife is not a daughter of anger. For it is written ( James 4:1 ): "Whence are wars and contentions? Are they not . . . from your concupiscences, which war in your members?" But anger is not in the concupiscible faculty. Therefore st…
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
s opposed to meekness. Therefore strife or quarreling is also. Objection 3: Further, it is written ( James 4:1 ): "From whence are wars and quarrels [Douay: 'contentions'] among you? Are they not hence, from your concupiscences which war in your members?" Now it would seem contra…
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
f wisdom bringeth to the everlasting kingdom": secondly, as denoting an act of the sensuality, as in James 4:1, "From whence are wars and contentions among you? Are they not . . . from your concupiscences which war in your members?" Now the concupiscence of the sensuality is not…
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