His eyes turned constantly to look at David, whom he perceived as being more favoured than him. However, Saul failed to see his own giftings. “There was no other Israelite handsomer than Saul he stood head and shoulders above the people” (1 Samuel 8:2). According to Scripture, Saul was exceedingly handsome, tall, well-built. In Scripture, Cain becomes envious of the favour God shows Abel and kills him (Genesis 4) King Saul was handpicked by God as His anointed king. The more he is shown kindness, the more indignant and displeased and disgusted he becomes.” While acts of kindness may soothe those who might otherwise be our enemies, this same kindness shown to the envious and malicious person irritates him even more. St Basil warns, the envious waits for his more fortunate neighbour to be “deprived of his happiness, to become an object of pity.” St Basil teaches us, “Envy is the form of hatred that is the hardest to tame. The cure he seeks for the misery of his envy is waiting for his neighbour to fall on hard times. The envious man is embarrassed to reveal the envy rotting his soul and to admit to himself, ‘I am resentful and bitter,” “I am depressed by the joy of my brother,” “My neighbour’s good fortune is my affliction.”
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The jealous person is never free from anguish, never free from despair.” Often the person who envies buries his envy deep in his soul, and wishes it to be hidden. Basil, “Envy is distress caused by your neighbor’s prosperity. He henceforth suffered weak health from that venomous plot, and until the day he died at an early age, never quite recovered.Īccording to St. Unfortunately, the Jansenists who were jealous of his success, instigated members of St Louis’ community to poison him. St Louis Marie de Montfort was doing amazing work with the sick and the poor at La Rochelle. Arius’ envy led to the propagation of the Arianism heresy where he denied that Christ was truly God. This culminated to a point, when Arius managed to gain a following with erroneous teaching and doctrine, in direct opposition to the sound doctrine taught by St. Alexander was elected to the See of Alexandria, but his election caused much unhappiness in Arius, a priest who while having an exterior show of virtue, contrived means to tear the reputation of St. However, as St Benedict said his customary blessing before partaking of his food, the poisoned goblet shattered, spilling the poison it held within, and he was spared. The monks in the monastery that St Benedict headed, became envious at his ability to preach and convert souls, so much so that they took it to their heads to poison St Benedict’s cup of wine. The saints were no stranger to the malice and poison of envy. While, at the instigation of jealousy, he robs man of the grace of immortality conferred, he himself has lost that which he had previously been.”
This is an unfortunate turn of events, as he was initially in the words of St Cyprian of Carthage, “sustained in angelic majesty, he who was accepted and beloved of God, when he beheld man made in the image of God, broke forth into jealousy with malevolent envy – not hurling down another by the instinct of his jealousy before he himself was first hurled down by jealousy, captive before he takes captive, ruined before he ruins others. In envy, the devil was the first to perish himself, and in envy, he now seeks to destroy Man. Its wickedness is hidden, and it originates from the devil. But by the envy of the devil, death entered the world, and they who are allied with him experience it.” – Wisdom 2: 23-24Įnvy operates in a heinous and subtle manner. “For God formed us to be imperishable the image of his own nature he made us.
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