PHILOKALIA MINISTRIES

How Calumny Devours Both the Speaker and the Listener “Set a guard, O Lord, before my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips.” — Psalm 141:3 Synopsis of Hypothesis XLIX G - midH Volume II of The Evergetinos The fathers speak about calumny with a severity that unsettles the modern mind. They do not treat it as a small fault of speech, nor as an unavoidable habit of human conversation. They speak of it as fire. An elder says that the man who keeps company with many will not