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Updated: May 10, 2025
"Then they read the Conferences of Cassien, the 'Holy Ladder' of Climacus, the Lives of the Fathers of the Desert, or some other pious book." "And on Sunday?" "On Sunday they rise an hour earlier; but on the whole it is their best day, for they can follow all the offices and pass their whole time in church." "Humility and self-denial carried to such an extent are superhuman!" cried Durtal.
'I have been, as you know, at Cusanus' library, and found there many Hebrew books which were quite unknown to me; also a few Greek. I remember the names of the following: Epiphanius against heresies, a very big book; Dionysius on the Hierarchy; Athanasius against Arius; Climacus.
And he adds, that often such a deceit is the greatest possible benefit to the man who is deceived, and therefore allowable. Also St. Hilary, St. John Climacus, etc., in Thomassin, Concina, the Mélanges, etc. Various modern Catholic divines hold this doctrine of the "material lie" also. I will quote three passages in point.
John Climacus says it is the great cry of petition for help to triumph over our invisible enemy, who wishes to distract us and to mar our prayer. It should be said with humility and with confidence in God.
John Climacus or The Spiritual Ladder" had been printed in the Spanish tongue, in Mexico; and no less than one hundred and sixteen other Spanish works in the sixteenth century, as the "Bibliografia Mexicana" testifies. If the printing of all these various editions was poor, and the diction worse, the binding certainly was good and could be copied in modern times to much advantage.
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