Various Church Fathers
Chapter V. A comparison which shows the nature of vainglory.
The Works of John Cassian. — translated by ANF/NPNF editors
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A comparison which shows the nature of vainglory.
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Our elders admirably describe the nature of this malady as like that of an onion, and of those bulbs which when stripped of one covering you find to be sheathed in another; and as often as you strip them, you find them still protected.
Translated by ANF/NPNF editors. Edition ccel.npnf211.division.iv.en.