Peter Jones
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It's kind of believing you can stand alone.
It's isolating yourself and saying, I don't need any of this.
And that, therefore, that kind of selfish impulse, that turning away, can allow and open the floodgate for all these other things.
My judgment is the only judgment that matters.
And then we have envy and anger.
And then in the middle, sloth, which is the enigmatic one.
We'll have to come on to it because sloth is a terrible translation.
That's not what this sin really is.
Then we have the three lesser sins, avarice, gluttony, and then lust.
They're all deadly, but there is a hierarchy.
But they didn't become this seven, and they didn't get this hierarchy until Pope Gregory the Great...
He died in 604, to give context.
But Gregory recognized that Cassian's system was really effective, really worked.