Backbiting
Definition
“Total delusion” that shows the monk an upside-down world; it produces weariness of soul, relaxation of mind, neglect of asceticism and hatred of the vows, slanders God as unmerciful, and manifests physically in chill, headache and drowsiness at prayer.
Episodes
Related Concepts
- Despondency Ἀκηδία
Biblical References
- Matthew 19:27 — *Then Peter said to him, “Look, we have left everything to follow you! What then will there be for us?” *
- Genesis 28:12 — and had a dream. He saw a stairway erected on the earth with its top reaching to the heavens. The angels of God were going up and coming down it
- 1 Corinthians 15:31 — *Every day I am in danger of death! This is as sure as my boasting in you, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord. *
- Ephesians 4:13 — *until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God—a mature person, attaining to the measure of Christ’s full stature. *
- Genesis 2:2-3 — By the seventh day God finished the work that he had been doing, and he ceased on the seventh day all the work that he had been doing. God blessed the seventh day and made it holy because on it he ceased all the work th