The seven deadly sins (i.e. sloth, lust, gluttony, greed, pride, wrath, and envy) are categorized by the Catholic Church as having two different types of severity: venial sins and mortal sins. Venial sins have minimal guilt to the conscience and are forgivable in the eyes of the Church through repentance while mortal sins decimate a person’s inner grace and charity (Lewis 17). “Seven Devils”, performed by Florence and the Machine in the album Ceremonials, is told from two speakers, the sins and the sinner; the sins speak the versus around the chorus and the sin also speaks the chorus “Seven devils all around you/ Seven devils in your house/ See I was dead when I woke up this morning/ I'll be dead before the day is done/ Before the day is done”
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It becomes so ingrained that there is no religious escape nor no physical escape. Those who have fallen from faith to the way of the devil tend to look for God for help begging him to rid the sins they bare, but as the speaker of the song explains, “Holy water cannot help you now,” (Florence line 1) because that internal battle with sin is up to the person who is being tempted toward the dark. It becomes the sinner’s job to fight off the dark temptation they cannot rely on anyone other than himself. In the song the devils can be kept out of the sinner’s heart but not for long because it will tear the walls down, sin always wins over a person’s soul (Florence line 36 and …show more content…
These evils, sins, devils, whatever the name are always present thus making a person ‘dead’ at all times even after the realization that the sins are wrong because it takes more than an epiphany to be cured of sin. The sins will “destroy the new life of grace that Christ won for us upon the cross, a destruction that will, unless repented of, result in the loss of that divine life forever,” (Lewis 17). In Florence and the Machine’s song “Seven Devils” from the album Ceremonials, a story is told of two speakers, one being sin (or the seven devils in this case) and the sinner and the hold that sin has over humans and how is can tempt the purest soul beyond redemption. The seven deadly
It becomes so ingrained that there is no religious escape nor no physical escape. Those who have fallen from faith to the way of the devil tend to look for God for help begging him to rid the sins they bare, but as the speaker of the song explains, “Holy water cannot help you now,” (Florence line 1) because that internal battle with sin is up to the person who is being tempted toward the dark. It becomes the sinner’s job to fight off the dark temptation they cannot rely on anyone other than himself. In the song the devils can be kept out of the sinner’s heart but not for long because it will tear the walls down, sin always wins over a person’s soul (Florence line 36 and …show more content…
These evils, sins, devils, whatever the name are always present thus making a person ‘dead’ at all times even after the realization that the sins are wrong because it takes more than an epiphany to be cured of sin. The sins will “destroy the new life of grace that Christ won for us upon the cross, a destruction that will, unless repented of, result in the loss of that divine life forever,” (Lewis 17). In Florence and the Machine’s song “Seven Devils” from the album Ceremonials, a story is told of two speakers, one being sin (or the seven devils in this case) and the sinner and the hold that sin has over humans and how is can tempt the purest soul beyond redemption. The seven deadly