{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/211/2110489.htm","path":"chr/ecf/211/2110489.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/211/2110489.htm","text":"How accidie hinders the mind from all contemplation of the virtues.\nAll the inconveniences of this disease are admirably expressed by David in a single verse, where he says, \u201cMy soul slept from weariness,\u201d 967 that is, from accidie. Quite p. 268 rightly does he say, not that his body, but that his soul slept. For in truth the soul which is wounded by the shaft of this passion does sleep, as regards all contemplation of the virtues and insight of the spiritual senses.\nPsa. 119.28, where the LXX. has \u1f10\u03bd\u03cd\u03c3\u03c4\u03b1\u03be\u03b5\u03bd \u1f21 \u03c8\u03c5\u03c7\u03ae \u03bc\u03bf\u03c5 \u1f00\u03c0\u1f78 \u1f00\u03ba\u03b7\u03b4\u03af\u03b1\u03c2.","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. XI: The Wor...","type":"page"}