51.  This is a state of mind which demands, in special degree, our tears and groans, and has often stirred my pity, from the conviction that imagination robs us in great measure of reality, and that vain glory is a great hindrance to men’s attainment of virtue.  To heal and stay this disease needs a Peter or Paul, those great disciples of Christ, who in addition to guidance in word and deed, received their grace,121    Their grace, τὸ χάρισμα.  Elias takes this of the power to heal diseases.  Tillemont of miracles in general.  Perhaps better of the special position as Apostles to the Jews and to the Gentiles (Gal. ii. 8, 9) where the term is χάρις. and became all things to all men, that they might gain all.122    1 Cor. ix. 22.  But for other men like ourselves, it is a great thing to be rightly guided and led by those who have been charged with the correction and setting right of things such as these.

ΝΑʹ. Τοῦτο δακρύων μὲν καὶ στεναγμῶν, εἴπερ τι ἄλλο, τὸ πάθος ἄξιον: ὃ καὶ πολλάκις ἐγὼ κατηλέησα, εὖ εἰδὼς, ὅτι τὸ οἴεσθαι τοῦ εἶναι τὸ πλεῖστον ἀφαιρεῖται, καὶ μέγα τοῖς ἀνθρώποις ἡ κενοδοξία πρὸς ἀρετὴν ἐμπόδιον: ἰάσασθαι δὲ καὶ στῆσαι τὴν νόσον Πέτρου ἂν εἴη τινὸς ἢ Παύλου, τῶν μεγάλων Χριστοῦ μαθητῶν, καὶ μετὰ τῆς ἐν λόγῳ καὶ ἔργῳ κυβερνήσεως εἰληφότων τὸ χάρισμα, καὶ πᾶσι πάντα γινομένων, ἵνα τοὺς πάντας κερδήσωσιν: ἡμῖν δὲ τοῖς ἄλλοις μέγα, κἂν εἰ καλῶς κυβερνοίμεθα καὶ ἀγοίμεθα πρὸς τῶν ἐπανορθοῦν τὰ τοιαῦτα καὶ διευθύνειν πεπιστευμένων.