The sluggard says, 'There's a lion outside! I'll be killed in the streets!'—yet the sluggard remains inside his house—a comic portrayal of the lazy person's excuse-making, establishing that laziness masquerades as caution. The exaggerated fear (a lion in the city!) is absurd, yet the sluggard uses it as justification for inaction. The irony is that his solution is to hide away, not to prudently avoid danger. The theological significance involves the principle that sloth justifies itself through false reasoning.

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