love or hatred for some perceptible object; a passionate love or hatred that also fills post-fallen man’s entire life. The ‘law of sin’ is thus created within him, which the Apostle Paul calls ‘the mind-set of the flesh’.18 Desire, however, has a different meaning when it functions within its bounds and according to nature. First of all, such desire in no way constitutes a sinful passion. In fact we will see that this desire in itself is a basic faculty of the soul. It not only helps man to live