“But that even the powers above are, as we said, subject to change is shown by those who fell from their ranks through the fault of a corrupt will. This is why we should not think that the nature of those who remain in the blessed condition in which they were created is unchangeable, simply because they were not simila…”
John Cassian, 5th c. — CONFERENCES 1:6.16
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28Judge none blessed before his death: for a man shall be known in his children.
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26For it is an easy thing unto the Lord in the day of death to reward a man according to his ways.
27The affliction of an hour maketh a man forget pleasure: and in his end his deeds shall be discovered.
— Sirach 11:28 —
29Bring not every man into thine house: for the deceitful man hath many trains.
30Like as a partridge taken and kept in a cage, so is the heart of the proud; and like as a spy, watcheth he for thy fall: