See also:JOHN See also:CLIMAX (c. 525–600 A.D.)
, ascetic and mystic, also called Scholasticus and Sinaites
.
After having spent See also:forty years in a See also:cave at the See also:foot of See also:mount See also: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)
abbot of the monastery
.
His See also:life has been written by See also: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)
monk belonging to the monastery of Raithu, on the Red See also:Sea
.
He derives his name See also:Climax (or Climacus) from his See also:work of the same name (K~iµa Tpu Ilapaieivou, See also:ladder to See also:Paradise), in See also:thirty sections, corresponding to the thirty years of the life of See also:Christ
.
It is written in a See also:simple and popular See also:style
.
The first See also:part treats of the vices that hinder the attainment of holiness, the second of the virtues of a See also:Christian
.
Enrrtoxs.—J
.
P
.
See also:Migne, Patrologia graeca, lxxxviii
.
(including the See also:biography by Daniel) ; S
.
Eremites (See also:Constantinople, 1883) ; see also C
.
See also:Krumbacher, Geschichle der byzantinischen Litteratur (1897); Gass-See also:Kruger in See also:Herzog-Hauck, Realencyklopadie See also:fur protestantische Theologie, Bd
.
9(1901)
.
The Ladder has been translated into several See also:foreign See also:languages—into See also:English by See also:Father See also:Robert, Mount St See also:Bernard's See also:Abbey, See also:Leicestershire (1856)
.
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