Screwtape examines the virtue of Humility:
Your patient has become humble; have you drawn his attention to the fact?
All virtues are less formidable to us /once the man is aware that he has them, but this is specially true of humility.
Catch him at the moment /when he is really poor in spirit and smuggle into his mind [the gratifying reflection],
‘By Jove! I’m being humble’, and almost immediately pride—pride at his own humility—will appear.
If he awakes /to the danger and tries /to smother this new form of pride, make him proud of his attempt—and so on, through as many stages /as you please.
But don’t try this too long, for fear you awake his sense of humour and proportion,
in which case he will merely laugh at you and go to bed.
* for fear (that) ; for fear of something because you are worried that you will make something happen
* 비교 ; A sense of humour is a reflection of a sense of proportion. --by Kahlil Gibran
A SENSE OF PROPORTION (phrase): the ability to know whether things are important.
But there are other profitable ways of fixing his attention on the virtue of Humility.
By this virtue, as by all the others, our Enemy wants to turn the man’s attention away from self to Him,
and to the man’s neighbours.
All the abjection and self-hatred are designed, in the long run, solely for this end;
unless they attain this end they do us little harm;
and they may even do us good /if they keep the man concerned with himself,
and, above all, if self-contempt can be made the starting point for contempt of other selves,
and thus for gloom, cynicism, and cruelty.
* The term abjection literally means "the state of being cast off".
겸손도 오만이 될 수 있다는 사실은 아마도 마귀만 아는 비밀인가 아니면 마귀의 기만장난일까?
false humility 인위적 겸손인 자기가 자기를 스스로 낮추는 노력으로 된 자주자조자립의 3자 열매가 아니고
하나님께서 허락하시고 말씀으로 도우셔서 하나님 임재에서 이루어진 삼위일체 결과라 결코 자만할 수 없을 것이다
From The Screwtape Letters
Compiled in A Year with C.S. Lewis
The Screwtape Letters. Copyright © 1942, C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. Copyright restored © 1996 C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. All rights reserved. Used with permission of HarperCollins Publishers. A Year With C.S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works. Copyright © 2003 by C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. All rights reserved. Used with permission of HarperCollins Publishers.