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Mark the Ascetic - On the Spiritual Law 121-125
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- The trickster who works mischief in secret is a snake 'lying in wait on the road and biting the horse's heel' (Gen. 49:17. LXX).
- If you praise your neighbor to one man and criticize him to another, you are the slave of self-esteem and jealousy. Through praise you try to hide your jealousy, through criticism to appear better than your neighbor.
- Just as sheep and wolves cannot feed together, so a man cannot receive mercy if he tricks his neighbor.
- He who secretly mingles his own wishes with spiritual counsel is an adulterer, as the Book of Proverbs indicates (cf Prov. 6:32-33); and because of his stupidity he suffers pain and dishonor. 125. Just as water and fire cannot be combined, so self -justification and humility exclude one another.
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