“Pride, haughtiness and arrogance are the sins of the devil, and for these faults you must leave heaven for earth. Thus, "God resists the proud and gives grace to the humble." And "How can he make dust and ashes proud?" so that one becomes arrogant, forgetting what he will become, in which fragile casing he is containe…”
Origen of Alexandria, 3th c. — HOMILIES ON EZEKIEL 9:2
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9Why is earth and ashes proud? There is not a more wicked thing than a covetous man: for such an one setteth his own soul to sale; because while he liveth he casteth away his bowels.
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7Pride is hateful before God and man: and by both doth one commit iniquity.
8Because of unrighteous dealings, injuries, and riches got by deceit, the kingdom is translated from one people to another.
— Sirach 10:9 —
10The physician cutteth off a long disease; and he that is to day a king to morrow shall die.
11For when a man is dead, he shall inherit creeping things, beasts, and worms.