“For he sleeps in the midst of the sea who, placed among the temptations of this world, neglects to look out for the motions of vices that rush in upon him like impending heaps of waves. And the steersman, as it were, lets go the rudder when the mind loses the earnestness of solicitude for guiding the ship of the body.…”
Gregory the Dialogist, 7th c. — Pastoral Rule, Part 3
Original
34Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.
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In context
32At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.