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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 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 of the monastery . His See also:life has been written by See also:Daniel, a See also: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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