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John Cassian

5th century · AD 435 · Western · 247 passages

Background on John Cassian

In his own words on Ephesians

  • Ephesians 6:17

    This is the sword that for our health spills the noxious blood that animates the matter of our sins, cutting out and excising whatever it finds in our soul that is carnal or earthly and, once it has made us dead to vices, causing us to live to God and flourish in spiritual virtues.

    CONFERENCES 20.8.11

Quoted verbatim from public-domain English translations of the fathers — Aquinas's Catena Aurea, the Ante-Nicene and Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers, and related editions. Each quotation links to its source.