For money was intended to be used in exchange, but not to increase at interest.’17 St Augustine, a guiding light of the early Church, similarly warned about the three sins of fallen men: the lust for power, sexual lust, and the lust for money. Of these, he was most ambivalent about the lust for power, which if accompanied by a sense of civic duty and honour, could protect the community against external attack.18 He also discussed in his startlingly frank Confessions how his private desires such as sex – as a young man, he was sexually active, and later, he lived with a mistress who bore him a
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3 sins of fallen men
