the good change, transferring wholly to God their faculty of desire, so that we are able to say, “Lord, before you is all my desire,”215 and, “I have not desired the day of a human being.”216 For it is necessary to become a “man of desires,”217 those of the Spirit. Thus also we can destroy the dragon, which carries most of its strength in its navel and its loins,218 if we mortify the power that comes to it from these places. And do not marvel if indeed I give more abundant honor to our unseemly parts,