waxest

Updated: May 15, 2025

Thus spake he, and straightway thought that he saw Barlaam, as it were, chiding him and saying, "These are my words, Ioasaph, which I once spake unto thee, saying, 'When thou waxest passing rich, thou wilt not be glad to distribute, and thou understoodest not my saying.

Saint John of Damascus - Barlaam and Ioasaph

And by this mayst thou wit, when He goes from thee; the gladness wanes, slow thou waxest dry and heavy, as a stone; love cools in thee like a pot that had been welded, and the fire was withdrawn therefrom. But then needs the soul to mourn sorely until He come again.

of Hampole Richard Rolle - The Form of Perfect Living and Other Prose Treatises