| rdfs:comment | - Mortification of the Flesh is an Aes Sedai penance where the penitant is physically harmed such as by birching, whipping, or other corporal punishment.
- The term "mortification of the flesh" comes from Saint Paul in this quote: "For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body you will live". The same idea is seen in the following verses: "Put to death what is earthly in you: fornication, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry". "And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires".
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| abstract | - The term "mortification of the flesh" comes from Saint Paul in this quote: "For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body you will live". The same idea is seen in the following verses: "Put to death what is earthly in you: fornication, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry". "And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires". According to Christian exegesis, "deeds of the body" and "what is earthly", refer to the "wounded nature" of man or his concupiscence, evil inclinations due to forming part of the Fall of Man - humanity that suffered the consequences of the original sin. Thus, Jesus expected believers to repent from slavery to their fleshes' desires: "Woe to you, Korazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes". However, Paul wrote to the Colossians: "If YOU died together with Christ toward the elementary things of the world, why do YOU, as if living in the world, further subject yourselves to the decrees: "Do not handle, nor taste, nor touch," respecting things that are all destined to destruction by being used up, in accordance with the commands and teachings of men? Those very things are, indeed, possessed of an appearance of wisdom in a self-imposed form of worship and [mock] humility, a severe treatment of the body; but they are of no value in combating the satisfying of the flesh." - Col 2:20-23 Paul was condemning what he perceived to be the error of putting great import on what one should eat and drink. Also the insistence of manmade festivals or observances which Christians were not obligated to follow, was to be viewed as worthless – as of "no value." Therefore if such insistent decrees and recommendations by men, were to be rejected – how much more so are the recommendation of those who deny the body its normal God given functions, the "severe treatment" thereof to be rejected.
- Mortification of the Flesh is an Aes Sedai penance where the penitant is physically harmed such as by birching, whipping, or other corporal punishment.
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