Hypocrisy is the pretense of friendship, or hatred hidden in the form of friendship, or enmity operating under the guise of affection, or envy simulating the character of love, or a style of life adorned with the fiction but not the reality of virtue, or the pretense of righteousness maintained in external appearance, or deceit with the outer form of truth. Hypocrisy is the trade of those who emulate the serpent with their twistings and twinings.
St Maximos the Confessor
Third Century on Love
Text 67
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