Some 30 years after Christ’s death, the apostle Peter wrote to Christians living in different parts of the Roman world: “Beloved, I exhort you as aliens and temporary residents to keep abstaining from fleshly desires, which are the very ones that carry on a conflict against the soul.
او نوشت :‏ « ای عزیزان ،‏ از شما تمنا دارم چون کسانی که در این جهان بیگانه و غریبند ،‏ از امیال نفسانی که با روح شما در ستیزند ،‏ بپرهیزید .‏