Publisher's Synopsis
St Nektarios' homilies on Christian Ethics continued on from Part 1.According to Plato, "Envy is sadness for the good things possessed by others whether real or never actually coming into being." Aristotle calls envy the opponent of the successful. St Basil says, "There is nothing more destructive to the souls of men than envy...for just as rust to iron, so does envy dissolve the soul of the one who has it." Gregory the Theologian calls envy a passion which leads to mourning and thus he calls out, "Ο envy, root of death, the convoluted illness of the heart, O sharpest nail! For what nail is sharper than such a goad as anger which wounds the heart?" And Chrysostom says envy is to, "be continually living in death, as if being extended in envy"; it considers everyone to be enemies and never as ones who have been dealt injustice; it says and does everything so as to also bring down one's neighbor. What is more pathetic than such a soul?
