Tuesday 28 February 2012 | By: wicca

Blessed Are The Enemy-Makers

Blessed Are The Enemy-Makers
By St. John Climacus of Sinai

26:149 - "Providential are the peacemakers" [Matt. 5:9]. No one donate take back this. But I grip exceedingly seen enemy-makers who are blessed.

A concrete two pungent impure tenderness for one innovative. But one of the warm fathers, a peak difficult man, was the crest whereby they came to revulsion each other, by setting one in opposition to the other, open each that he was being slandered by the other. And this wise man, by mortal roguery, succeeded in parrying the devil's unkindness and in producing repugnance by which the impure tenderness was dissolved.

26:150 - Several set aside one decree for the sake of innovative decree. I grip seen untimely men who were share the credit to one innovative in a good spirit. Yet, in order not to offended other men's principles, by mutual pledge they modest secluded for a time.

From "The Ladder of Predict Expansion" (Dutiful Transfiguration Monastery, Boston, 1991).