Bible Encyclopedia: Being Envious

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How the Kindly-Disposed and the Envious are to be Admonished.
... The envious are therefore to be told that, when they fail to keep themselves from
spite, they are being sunk into the old wickedness of the wily foe. ...
/.../leo/writings of leo the great/chapter x how the kindly-disposed.htm

How Man's Activity Should be Purely in the Intellect and not in ...
... For this reason the Devil tries eagerly and with all his power to hinder this practice
so far as he can, being envious of this in man, since it is a sort of ...
/.../albert/on cleaving to god/chapter 4 how mans activity.htm

Letter iv. --For 332. Easter-Day vii Pharmuthi , iv Non. Apr. ...
... Constantine to see him. But the Meletians, who were present there, being envious,
sought our ruin before the Emperor. But they were put ...
/.../select works and letters or athanasius/letter iv for 332 easter-day vii.htm

The Subsequent Wickedness of Licinius, and his Death.
... Being envious of the common benefactor he waged an impious and most terrible war
against him, paying regard neither to laws of nature, nor treaties, nor blood ...
/.../pamphilius/church history/chapter viii the subsequent wickedness of.htm

Men not Excluded from These Remarks on Personal Adornment.
... Of course, now, I, a man, as being envious [205] of women, am banishing
them quite from their own (domains). Are there, in our case ...
/.../tertullian/on the apparel of women/chapter viii men not excluded from.htm

The Way of Life and the Way of Death.
... was preferred; [3399] the second persecuted holy David, who had slain Goliah the
Philistine, being envious of the praises of the women who danced; [3400] the ...
/.../various/constitutions of the holy apostles/sec i on the two ways.htm

1 Cor. xiii. 4
... "Is not puffed up." For so we see many who think highly of themselves on the score
of these very excellencies; for example, on not being envious, nor grudging ...
/.../homily xxxiii 1 cor xiii.htm

Whether Envy is a Kind of Sorrow?
... Secondly, another's good may be reckoned as being one's own evil, in so far ... way that
envy grieves for another's good: and consequently men are envious of those ...
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How Love Produces Zeal.
... not our good: for the jealous man does not grieve at his fellow's being beloved
by ... And if at any time one be envious of the affection which is borne to another ...
/.../francis/treatise on the love of god/chapter xii how love produces.htm

Whether Envy is a Mortal Sin?
... For it is directly contrary to pity, their principal objects being contrary to one
another, since the envious man grieves over his neighbor's good, whereas the ...
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