The Seventh Combat: Empty Glory

The Institutes, the Conferences and On the Incarnation

The Institutes, Book 11

The Seventh Combat: Empty Glory

Our seventh combat is against the spirit of kenodoxia, which we may call vain or empty glory. It is a spirit that takes many shapes, changeable and subtle, so that even the keenest eyes can scarcely, I will not say guard against it, but even see through it and detect it.