JOHN CLIMAX (c. 525–600 A.D.)
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Originally appearing in Volume
V06,
Page 527
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
JOHN CLIMAX (c. 525–600 A.D.)
, ascetic and mystic, also called Scholasticus and Sinaites
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After having spent forty years in a cave at the foot of mount Sinai, he became See also: - ABBOT (from the Hebrew ab, a father, through the Syriac abba, Lat. abbas, gen. abbatis, O.E. abbad, fr. late Lat. form abbad-em changed in 13th century under influence of the Lat. form to abbat, used alternatively till the end of the 17th century; Ger. Ab
- ABBOT, EZRA (1819-1884)
- ABBOT, GEORGE (1603-1648)
- ABBOT, ROBERT (1588?–1662?)
- ABBOT, WILLIAM (1798-1843)
of the monastery
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His life has been written by Daniel, a See also: - MONK (O.Eng. munuc; this with the Teutonic forms, e.g. Du. monnik, Ger. Witch, and the Romanic, e.g. Fr. moine, Ital. monacho and Span. monje, are from the Lat. monachus, adaptedfrom Gr. µovaXos, one living alone, a solitary; Own, alone)
- MONK (or MONCK), GEORGE
- MONK, JAMES HENRY (1784-1856)
- MONK, MARIA (c. 1817—1850)
belonging to the monastery of Raithu, on the Red Sea
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He derives his name Climax (or Climacus) from his work of the same name (K~iµa Tpu Ilapaieivou, ladder to Paradise), in thirty sections, corresponding to the thirty years of the life of Christ
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It is written in a simple and popular style
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The first part treats of the vices that hinder the attainment of holiness, the second of the virtues of a Christian
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Enrrtoxs.—J
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P
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Migne, Patrologia graeca, lxxxviii
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(including the biography by Daniel) ; S
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Eremites ( Constantinople, 1883) ; see also C
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Krumbacher, Geschichle der byzantinischen Litteratur (1897); Gass- Kruger in Herzog-Hauck, Realencyklopadie fur protestantische Theologie, Bd
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9(1901)
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The Ladder has been translated into several foreign languages—into English by Father Robert, Mount St Bernard's Abbey, Leicestershire (1856)
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