Envy Expounded.
Q. WHAT is envy?
A. It is a sadness or repining at another's good, in as much as it seems to lessen our own excellency.
A. It is a sadness or repining at another's good, in as much as it seems to lessen our own excellency.
Q. How prove you envy to be a mortal sin?
A. Because, by the "Devil's envy death entered into the world, and envy was the cause of all sin." Wis. ii. 24.
A. Because, by the "Devil's envy death entered into the world, and envy was the cause of all sin." Wis. ii. 24.
Q. What are the daughters of envy?
A. Hatred, detraction, rash judgment, strife, reproach, contempt, and rejoicing at another's evil.
A. Hatred, detraction, rash judgment, strife, reproach, contempt, and rejoicing at another's evil.
Q. What are the remedies of envy?
A. To consider that it robs us of charity, and deforms us to the likeness of the Devil.
A. To consider that it robs us of charity, and deforms us to the likeness of the Devil.
Q. What is the opposite to envy?
A. Brotherly love, which is the chiefest badge of Christianity, "In this all men should know that you are my disciples, if you love one another." John xiii. 35.
A. Brotherly love, which is the chiefest badge of Christianity, "In this all men should know that you are my disciples, if you love one another." John xiii. 35.
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