Pride
Gregory placed pride first, as the root the other six grow from: the refusal to be under anything.
- SuperbiaIn Latin
- HumilityIts opposite
- Terrace 1Dante’s Purgatory
Picture: The Tower of Babel, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1563. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
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What is pride, as one of the seven deadly sins?
Pride is the refusal to be under anything: not confidence, and not enjoying work well done, but the settled need to be right, to be first, and to owe nobody. The old writers put it at the root of the other six, because each of them is a way of serving yourself.
Why it matters
Pride is the hardest of the seven to see in yourself, because it is the one doing the looking. It shows up as the argument you cannot drop, the apology you cannot make, the credit you quietly keep. The questions on it ask about exactly those moments, when being right matters more than being fair.
Where does the Bible name it?
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Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
Proverbs 16:18
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When pride comes, disgrace follows, but with humility comes wisdom.
Proverbs 11:2
Berean Standard Bible
Did you know?
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Gregory the Great did not count pride among his seven at all. In the Moralia he set it outside the list as the root every other vice grows from, and named vainglory as the first of the seven. The Middle Ages folded the two together, and pride took the top of the list it had been planted under.
Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job, Book XXXI
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In Dante’s Purgatory the proud climb the first terrace bent double under great stones, so low they cannot look up. Those who held their heads highest in life now carry the heaviest load.
Dante, Purgatorio, cantos X to XII
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Augustine put pride before the first sin itself. Adam and Eve would never have eaten, he argued, if they had not already begun to please themselves, and he called pride the craving for undue exaltation.
Augustine, City of God, Book XIV