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Often appears with: justice as a virtue · pride, vanity, and humility · “who maketh thee to differ?” · tongue of men as temptation · the passions and the emotions · sumptuary fashion and clothing · sin, guilt, and repentance · self as ultimate object · retinues and social hierarchy · providence and divine governance · poverty and wealth · pleasure, pain, and the good life
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“At the same time, let none doubt that the holy angels in their heavenly abodes are, though not, indeed, co-eternal with God, yet secure and certain of eternal and true felicity.” Augustine (Aurelius Augustine), Saint of Hippo, The City of God, Volume I · insight
“It is impossible a man can at the same time be both proud and humble; and where he has different reasons for these passions, as frequently happens, the passions either take place alternately; or if they encounter, the one annihilates the other, as far as its strength goes.” David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature · observation
He addresses a third temptation: wanting to be feared and loved by men for human praise; he contrasts God’s resistance to the proud with humility’s grace, and condemns rejoicing in others’ praise over God.
it is light unto me, because so hast Thou promised, and hast made it; and verily so it was, and I knew it not, when I feared to take it. But, O Lord, Thou alone Lord without pride, because Thou art the only true Lord, who hast no lord; hath this third kind of temptation also ceased from me, or can it cease through this whole life? To wish, namely, to be feared and loved of men, for no other end, but that we may have…
Augustine interprets apostate angels as cast into chains of darkness reserved for judgment, contrasting them with the angels who remain with God, and argues Genesis’ light/darkness signals these two communities.
32. *Of the opinion that the angels were created before the world.* But if some one oppose our opinion, and say that the holy angels are not referred to when it is said, "Let there be light, and there was light;" if he suppose or teach that some material light, then first created, was meant, and that the angels were created, not only before the firmament dividing the waters and named "the heaven," but also before th…
Hume explains pride and humility as contrary passions with the same object (self) but different causes, arguing that only a distinct productive principle can raise one rather than cancelling both.
SECT. II OF PRIDE AND HUMILITY, THEIR OBJECTS AND CAUSES The passions of PRIDE and HUMILITY being simple and uniform impressions, it is impossible we can ever, by a multitude of words, give a just definition of them, or indeed of any of the passions. The utmost we can pretend to is a description of them, by an enumeration of such circumstances, as attend them: But as these words, PRIDE and humility, are of general u…
The Parson defines pride as a hidden internal desire or outward behavior, then attacks sinful clothing, luxurious retinues, and ostentatious horsemanship as harms to the poor and society.
hypocrisy, despite, arrogance, impudence, swelling of hearte, insolence, elation, impatience, strife, contumacy, presumption, irreverence, pertinacity, vain- glory and many another twig that I cannot tell nor declare. . . .] And yet [moreover] there is a privy species of pride that waiteth first to be saluted ere he will salute, all [although] be he less worthy than that other is; and eke he waiteth [expecteth] or d…
Calvin portrays self-love as producing pride, contempt of others, and bias toward one’s own talents, but Scripture corrects this by reminding believers of God’s gifts, demanding humility, and urging honor toward others’ gifts to cultivate meekness.
the glories of heaven, and at the same time teaches us that we must live as strangers and pilgrims in the world, that we may not lose the heavenly inheritance. IV. In these words we perceive, that self‐denial relates partly to men, but partly, and indeed principally, to God. For when the Scripture enjoins us to conduct ourselves in such a manner towards men, as in honour to prefer one another, and faithfully to devo…