Sacred Texts  Christianity  Early Church Fathers  Index  Previous  Next 

Chapter IX.

That vainglory is the more dangerous through being mixed up with virtues.

Lastly, other passions which are entirely different from the virtues which are their opposites, and which attack us openly and as it were in broad daylight, are more easily overcome and guarded against: but this being interwoven with our virtues and entangled in the battle, fighting as it were under cover of the darkness of night, deceives the more dangerously those who are off their guard and not on the lookout.


Next: Chapter X. An instance showing how King Hezekiah was overthrown by the dart of vainglory.