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John Cassian , also known as John the Ascetic and John Cassian the Roman , was a Christian monk and theologian celebrated in both the Western and Eastern churches for his mystical writings. Cassian is noted for his role in bringing the ideas and practices of Christian monasticism to the early medieval West. Wikipedia  

✵ 360 – 435
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“How will he see to cast out the mote from his brother's eye, who has the beam of anger in his own eye?”

Book VIII, Chapter V
Institutes of the Coenobia (c. 420 AD)

“With the increase of wealth the mania of covetousness increases.”

Book VII Chapter VII
Institutes of the Coenobia (c. 420 AD)

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