The Rule of St Benedict Chapter 7, Part 1
Of Humility (or Snakes and Ladders)
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Scripture cries to us, brothers, saying: Everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and everyone who humbles himself will be exalted.1
Clamat nobis scriptura divina, fratres, dicens: Omnis qui se exaltat, humiliabitur, et qui se humiliat, exaltabitur.
As it says this, it shows us that all exaltation is a kind of pride: as the prophet shows himself to…
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