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FATHER GERÁSIM. But we have to understand in what connection a thing is
said.
NICHOLAS IVÁNOVICH. I do try to understand, and all that is said in the
Sermon on the Mount is plain and comprehensible.
FATHER GERÁSIM. Spiritual pride.
NICHOLAS IVÁNOVICH. Where is the pride, since it is said that what is
hidden from the wise is revealed to babes?
FATHER GERÁSIM. Revealed to the meek, but not to the proud.
NICHOLAS IVÁNOVICH. But who is proud? I, who consider myself a man like
the rest of mankind, and one who therefore must live like the rest by
his own labour and as poorly as his brother men, or those who consider
themselves to be specially selected sacred people, knowing the whole
truth and incapable of error; and who interpret Christ's words their own
way?
FATHER GERÁSIM [offended] Pardon me, Nicholas Ivánovich, I did not come
here to argue which of us is right, nor to receive an admonition, but I
called, at Alexándra Ivánovna's request, to talk things over with you.
But since you know everything better than I do, we had better end our
conversation. Only, once again, I must entreat you in God's name to come
to your senses. You have gone cruelly astray and are ruining yourself.
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