Peter Jones

And that's what's great about medieval Christianity.

It's so interesting when you dig.

They made this whole folklore, this mythology, which is way outside of the Bible.

For example, Judas, right?

There are stories of Judas where it's like Oedipus.

He marries his mother and kills his father.

Lucifer only appears really briefly in the Bible, but there's this huge folklore and mythology about him.

There are plays about him.

And the seven deadly sins belong to that.

They're this kind of extra-textual thing.

fun apparatus which develops as a way to kind of, yeah, it's embellishing and, you know, it's building on the kind of the core of the Bible.

Well, it's my sin as well, perhaps.

Sloth is... The original Greek word was akadia, right?

Which means something like lack of care.

And in the Middle Ages, they never translated it into Latin.

They left it as akadia because they couldn't come up with the right word.

What does it mean?

It's somewhere between inertia, depression, what we might call now depression, boredom, restlessness.

It's kind of... Okay, so what is it?

It's described by William Peraldas in this Summer of Vices that...