The Twelve Books on the Institutes of the Cœnobia, and the Remedies for the Eight Principal Faults 217How our seventh combat is against the spirit of vainglory, and what its nature.
Open in the readerOur seventh combat is against the spirit of kenodoxia, which we may term vain or idle glory: a spirit that takes many shapes, and is changeable and subtle, so that it can with difficulty, I will not say be guarded against, but be seen through and discovered even by the keenest eyes.