Luxuria/Fornicatio ( lust, fornication).Ὑπερηφανία ( hyperēphania) pride, sometimes rendered as self-overestimation, arrogance, or grandiosity Įvagrius's list was translated into the Latin of Western Christianity in many writings of John Cassian, thus becoming part of the Western tradition's spiritual pietas or Catholic devotions as follows:.Ἀκηδία ( akēdia) acedia, rendered in the Philokalia as dejection.Λύπη ( lypē) sadness, rendered in the Philokalia as envy, sadness at another's good fortune.Πορνεία ( porneia) prostitution, fornication.
The fourth-century monk Evagrius Ponticus reduced the nine logismoi to eight, as follows:
These "evil thoughts" can be categorized as follows: Origin of the currently recognized seven deadly sins His first epistles say that "to flee vice is the beginning of virtue and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom." An allegorical image depicting the human heart subject to the seven deadly sins, each represented by an animal (clockwise: toad = avarice snake = envy lion = wrath snail = sloth pig = gluttony goat = lust peacock = pride). Roman writers such as Horace extolled virtues, and they listed and warned against vices. The seven deadly sins, along with the sins against the Holy Ghost and the sins that cry to Heaven for vengeance, are taught especially in Western Christian traditions as things to be deplored. The seven deadly sins are discussed in treatises and depicted in paintings and sculpture decorations on Catholic churches as well as older textbooks. Evagrius' pupil John Cassian with his book The Institutes brought the classification to Europe, where it became fundamental to Catholic confessional practices.
This classification originated with the Desert Fathers, especially Evagrius Ponticus. These sins are often thought to be abuses or excessive versions of one's natural faculties or passions (for example, gluttony abuses one's desire to eat). According to the standard list, they are pride, greed, wrath, envy, lust, gluttony and sloth, which are contrary to the seven capital virtues. Behaviours or habits are classified under this category if they directly give rise to other immoralities.
Although they are not directly mentioned in the Bible, there are parallels with the seven things God is said to dislike in the Book of Proverbs. The seven deadly sins, also known as the capital vices or cardinal sins, is a grouping and classification of vices within Christian teachings.
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