Abstract
The chapter is devoted to desire in Apostle Paul's letters, especially in his Epistle to the Romans. On the one hand, desire is, according to St.
Paul, a natural feature of man; yet on the other hand, human nature had been cottupted after Adam's fall and thus desire becomes primarilz the desire of evil. In comparison to earlier tradition, the originalitz of Paul's conception becomes apparent in his rendition of ''prohibition" - prohibition arouses desire for transgression bz presenting the potential goal as something forbidden and inaccessible.
In the situation of humanitz left to itself, man is by no means an autonomous being, but a being succumbed to the rule of sin. There is, according to St.
Paul, onlz one solution: divine grace and, in the worldly sphere, a regulatory political power whose task is to regulate desire.