There is no sinfulness in the will and affections without some error in the understanding. All lusts which a natural man lives in, are lusts of ignorance.

  • -- George Gillespie 乔治·吉莱斯皮

没有错误的理解,就没有意志和情感的罪恶。一个自然人的一切欲望都是无知的欲望。

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I seem to have been like a child playing on the seashore, finding new and then a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay undiscovered before me.

我好像是一个在海边玩耍的孩子,发现了一个比平常更美丽的新贝壳,而真理的大海却在我面前未被发现。

The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.

所有生物中最强烈的欲望是欲望和饥饿;第一种是不断地呼唤他们繁衍自己的同类,而后者则是保护自己。

If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love.

如果一个人想要另一个人只是为了某种自我满足,通常是以感官享受的形式,那么错误的欲望就会以欲望而不是爱的形式出现。

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.

不把一件事想错的长期习惯使它表面上看起来是对的。