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JOHN CLIMAX (c. 525–600 A.D.)

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 527 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN CLIMAX (c. 525–600 A.D.)  , ascetic and mystic, also called Scholasticus and Sinaites . After having spent
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forty years in a cave at the
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foot of mount
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Sinai, he became abbot of the monastery . His
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life has been written by Daniel, a monk belonging to the monastery of Raithu, on the Red Sea . He derives his name Climax (or Climacus) from his
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work of the same name (K~iµa Tpu Ilapaieivou, ladder to Paradise), in
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thirty sections, corresponding to the thirty years of the life of Christ . It is written in a
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simple and popular style . The first
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part treats of the vices that hinder the attainment of holiness, the second of the virtues of a Christian . Enrrtoxs.—J . P . Migne, Patrologia graeca, lxxxviii . (including the biography by Daniel) ; S . Eremites (Constantinople, 1883) ; see also C . Krumbacher, Geschichle der byzantinischen Litteratur (1897); Gass-Kruger in Herzog-Hauck, Realencyklopadie fur protestantische Theologie, Bd .

9(1901) . The Ladder has been translated into several

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foreign languages—into
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English by
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Father Robert, Mount St Bernard's Abbey, Leicestershire (1856) .

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