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Chapter XVII.; original source section: Chapter 17; original book/conference: XVII. The Second Conference of Abbot Joseph.
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How the saints have profitably employed a lie like hellebore.
Complete source paragraph · Conferences of John Cassian, Part II, Chapter XVII.; original source section: Chapter 17; original book/conference: XVII. The Second Conference of Abbot Joseph., source paragraph 2 · Original source
And so we ought to regard a lie and to employ it as if its nature were that of hellebore; which is useful if taken when some deadly disease is threatening, but if taken without being required by some great danger is the cause of immediate death. For so also we
Complete source paragraph · Conferences of John Cassian, Part II, Chapter XVII.; original source section: Chapter 17; original book/conference: XVII. The Second Conference of Abbot Joseph., source paragraph 3 · Original source