Didymus the Blind, on Jas 4:10

“Be humbled in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.”

“Pride is the greatest of all evils. To the extent that humility can oppose it, it is a great good. And when both of these are consciously and deliberately at work, good I mean and evil, everyone who humbles himself before God and rejects the proud will be raised up, and his humility will take him to the heights.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.