Temperance

Temperance can be translated as “self-control.” Solomon likens a person  without  self-control  to a city that has no walls and is broken down, vulnerable to attack. A person who lacks temperance is vulnerable to attacks from the devil. Such a person lacks the ability to say no to the pleasures of this world and the ability to say no to his or her own will. People who lack tem- perance try to obtain excess. They do not tell themselves that what they have is enough—they let their human desire...