The Twelve Books on the Institutes of the Cœnobia, and the Remedies for the Eight Principal Faults

Giovanni Cassiano (360–435 d.C.) · De coenobiorum institutis · PL 49, 59–476

1. Chapter I. Of the Monk's Girdle
2. Chapter I. Of the Canonical System of the Nocturnal Prayers and Psalms
3. Chapter I. Of the services of the third, sixth, and ninth hours, which are observed in the regions of Syria
4. Chapter I. Of the training of those who renounce this world, and of the way in which those are taught among the monks of Tabenna and the Egyptians who are received into the monasteries
5. Chapter I. The transition from the Institutes of the monks to the struggle against the eight principal faults
6. Book VI. On the Spirit of Fornication
7. Chapter I. How our warfare with covetousness is a foreign one, and how this fault is not a natural one in man, as the other faults are
8. Chapter I. How our fourth conflict is against the sin of anger, and how many evils this passion produces
9. Chapter I. How our fifth combat is against the spirit of dejection, and of the harm which it inflicts upon the soul
10. Chapter I. How our sixth combat is against the spirit of accidie, and what its character is
11. Chapter I. How our seventh combat is against the spirit of vainglory, and what its nature
12. Chapter I. How our eighth combat is against the spirit of pride, and of its character

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Philip Schaff and Henry Wace (eds.), New York: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1890-1900. Public domain: English translation first published 1885-1900 (Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series). Latin: Migne, Patrologia Latina (1844-1855), public domain; transcription from Corpus Corporum (University of Zurich).