Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts
Proverbs 16:25
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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 11, page 305, footnote 5 (Image)
Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins, John Cassian
The Works of John Cassian. (HTML)
The Conferences of John Cassian. Part I. Containing Conferences I-X. (HTML)
Conference I. First Conference of Abbot Moses. (HTML)
Chapter XX. About discerning the thoughts, with an illustration from a good money-changer. (HTML)
... rather than with the whole mass of commands to fall into some error which by an evil custom separates us from our strict rule and the system purposed and entered upon, and leads to such loss, that it will never outweigh the harm that will follow, but will cause all our past fruits and the whole body of our work to be burnt in hell fire. Of which kind of illusions it is well said in the Proverbs: “There are ways which seem to be right to a man, but their latter end will come into the depths of hell,”[Proverbs 16:25] and again “An evil man is harmful when he attaches himself to a good man,” i.e., the devil deceives when he is covered with an appearance of sanctity: “but he hates the sound of the watchman,” i.e., the power of discretion which comes from the words ...
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 11, page 501, footnote 10 (Image)
Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins, John Cassian
The Works of John Cassian. (HTML)
The Conferences of John Cassian. Part III. Containing Conferences XVIII.-XXIV. (HTML)
Conference XX. Conference of Abbot Pinufius. On the End of Penitence and the Marks of Satisfaction. (HTML)
Chapter IX. How valuable to the perfect is the forgetfulness of sin. (HTML)
... this saying of our Saviour: “For where I am,” He says, “there also shall My servant be.” For it often happens that when anyone out of pity is in thought going over his own falls or those of other faulty persons, he is affected by the delight and assent to this most subtle attack, and that which was undertaken and started with a show of goodness ends with a filthy and damaging termination, for “there are ways which appear to men to be right, but the ends thereof will come to the depths of hell.”[Proverbs 16:25]