"511. Εἶπεν γέρων· Οὐαὶ τῷ ἔξω ἀπὸ τοῦ ἔσω, μᾶλλον δὲ οὐαὶ τῷ ἔσω ἀπὸ τοῦ ἔξω. Ὃ δὲ λέγει τοιοῦτόν ἐστιν, ὅτι ὁ κοσμικὸς εὑρίσκει λαβὴν κατὰ ἡσυχάζοντος ἢ ἀναχωροῦντος, τοῦτο πτώσις καὶ κρίσις τοῦ πάσχοντος τὴν λαβήν."

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An elder said: “Woe to the one outside from the one within, but woe a fortiori to the one within from the one without,” for he said: “such is the case that if a worldling finds occasion to take issue with a person practising hêsychia or an anchorite, this is the fall and the judgement of the one with whom issue is taken.”