The man is like the land. You remove the weeds from it, you dig it, you say ”Praised be the Lord!” and after a while it is overgrown back with weeds. The man is that way too. He has temptations till he dies. That is why it is necessary to have a ceaseless coercion of nature and a perfect guard of senses.
The man and the land
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