 | Saint Maximus (Confessor) - 1955 - 298 páginas
...them; such it severely rebukes, saying: Love not the world, nor the things which are in the world. The concupiscence of the flesh and the concupiscence of the eyes and the pride of life is not of God, but of the world, and the rest. 120 54. A monk is one who separates his mind from... | |
 | Saint Augustine (Bishop of Hippo.) - 1960 - 364 páginas
...kinds of sin. These, it seems to me, the Apostle John enumerates when he says: Love not the world. For all that is in the world is the concupiscence of the...and the concupiscence of the eyes, and the pride of life.™ The eyes above all minister to curiosity; the rest of the quotation is clear enough. The temptation... | |
 | Thomas Merton - 1965 - 262 páginas
...self-achieved "perfection," independently of our condition of creaturehood. "For all that is in the world is concupiscence of the flesh and the concupiscence of the eyes and the pride of life which is not of the Father but is of this world" (I John 2:16). Jesus told His disciples that... | |
 | J. Patout Burns - 1986 - 148 páginas
...originated either by a human person or by humanity's deceiver, but not by humanity's creator. This is indeed "the concupiscence of the flesh and the concupiscence of the eyes and the ambition of this age, which is not from the Father but from the world' ' [1 John 2: 16]. The scriptural... | |
 | David Heyd, Heyd David - 1982 - 208 páginas
...recommends humility as a means to total preoccupation with God and the denial of selfish pride. 4 'For all that is in the world is the concupiscence of the...and the concupiscence of the eyes and the pride of life. . .' (I St. John The Apostle, 1i, 16). This is the only place in the New Testament where the... | |
 | Saint Maximus (Confessor) - 1985 - 260 páginas
...them. Against these is the very sharp reproof: "Do not love the world nor the things in the world; the concupiscence of the flesh and the concupiscence of the eyes, and the pride of life are not from God but from the world." os' 54. A monk is one who separates his mind from material... | |
 | John Fearon - 2006 - 292 páginas
...makes no reference to flight from evil. Therefore, it is incomplete. ON THE OTHER HAND, St John writes that all that is in the world is the concupiscence of the flesh, the concupiscence of the eye, and the pride of life.6 This phrase in the world refers in this context... | |
 | John Fearon - 2006 - 292 páginas
...makes no reference to flight from evil. Therefore, it is incomplete. ON THE OTHER HAND, St John writes that all that is in the world is the concupiscence of the flesh, the concupiscence of the eye, and the pride of life* This phrase in the world refers in this context... | |
 | Walter Leggett Wakefield, Austin Patterson Evans - 1991 - 888 páginas
...this world passeth away." " And John: "Love not the world, nor the things which are in the world. For all that is in the world is the concupiscence of the flesh," « and so on. And Christ: "The prince of this world cometh"; 4" and again, "My kingdom is not of this world";... | |
 | Everett Ferguson - 1993 - 354 páginas
...laudable or condemnable." Moreover, of condemnable concupiscences, on the basis of the verse, "For all that is in the world, is the concupiscence of the flesh, the concupiscence of the eyes, and the pride of life, which is not of the Father, but is of the world"... | |
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Love not the world, nor the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the charity of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world is the concupiscence of the flesh, and the concupiscence of the eyes, and the pride of life, which... 
