{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/211/2110422.htm","path":"chr/ecf/211/2110422.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/211/2110422.htm","text":"How difficult the evil of covetousness is to drive away when once it has been admitted.\nWherefore let not this evil seem of no account or unimportant to anybody: for as it can easily be avoided, so if it has once got hold of any one, it scarcely suffers him to get at the remedies for curing it. For it is a p. 250 regular nest of sins, and a \u201croot of all kinds of evil,\u201d and becomes a hopeless incitement to wickedness, as the Apostle says, \u201cCovetousness,\u201d i.e. the love of money, \u201cis a root of all kinds of evil.\u201d 879","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. XI: The Works of John Cassian.: Chapter VI. How difficult the evil of covetousness is to drive away when once it has been admitted.","type":"page"}