Miscellanies 3.4.31

But how does one live as a citizen according to God who has given himself over to every desire, when the Lord said, “But I say, do not desire”? And does anyone wish to sin willingly and make a doctrine of committing adultery, living in luxury, and corrupting others' marriages, when we pity even others who sin unwillingly? Even if they have come into the world as into a foreign land, if they have not been faithful in what belongs to another, they will not have what is true. Does a foreigner insult and wrong the citizens, and not rather live as a sojourner, using what is necessary, without offense to the citizens? And how, doing the same things as those whom the Gentiles hate for not doing what the laws command, that is, the unjust, the intemperate, the covetous, and adulterers, do they say that they alone have known God? For they should have lived well even while present among what belongs to others, so as to show truly their royal nature.