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The Ladder of Divine Ascent (Lestvitsa)/Sub Rosa translation · Modern Readable

The Ladder of Divine Ascent (Lestvitsa)

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St. John Climacus (St. John of the Ladder), c. 525–606·c. 600 AD; Slavonic trans. 11th century·from the Greek

A full modern English translation of the work — 1 book, 2 chapters — translated sentence by sentence from the Greek, with scripture echoes traced and brief notes on the harder turns of phrase. Choose a section to begin reading.

2 chapters57 sentences16 scripture echoes
Devotional manualContemplatio — The Ascent
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Κλίμαξ (The Ladder of Divine Ascent), Step 30 / Λόγος Λʹ

  1. 1.1Λόγος Λʹ· Περὶ τοῦ συνδέσμου τῆς ἐναρέτου τριάδος ἐν ἀρεταῖς
  2. 1.2Προτροπὴ ἐπίτομος καὶ ἰσοδύναμος τῶν διὰ πλάτους εἰρημένων