John Climacus
John Climacus
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John Climacus
约翰·克利马库斯 (John Climacus)
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Abbot of the monastery of Sinai around the year 600.
约公元 600 年西奈 (Sinai) 修道院院长。
Abbot of the Monastery of Sinai around the year 600. Climacus (klimakos) means ‘of the Ladder’, after the title of an important spiritual treatise in which he describes the monk’s ascent to God as a ladder of thirty steps, each step being a particular stage of the spiritual life. The work was originally composed in Greek and enjoyed great popularity in the Byzantine tradition. A Syriac translation originated in Melk. circles, but was in the East mostly read in Arabic. In the W.-Syr. tradition this Melk. Syriac version (ktābā d-massqāne) remained virtually unknown until Bar ʿEbroyo (d. 1286) inserted important fragments into his ‘Ethicon’ and the ‘Book of the Dove’.
公元 600 年左右西奈 (Sinai) 修道院的院长。克利马科斯 (Climacus) (klimakos) 意为“阶梯的”，得名于一部重要灵修论著的标题，他在书中将修士通往上帝的上升之路描述为三十级阶梯，每一级代表灵修生活的特定阶段。该著作最初以希腊语写成，在拜占庭 (Byzantine) 传统中享有盛誉。一个叙利亚语译本源于默基特 (Melk.) 界，但在东方主要以阿拉伯语阅读。在西方叙利亚语 (W.-Syr.) 传统中，这一默基特 (Melk.) 叙利亚语版本（《阶梯书》(ktābā d-massqāne)）几乎无人知晓，直到巴尔·埃伯罗约 (Bar ʿEbroyo)（卒 (d.) 1286 年）将重要片段插入其《伦理书》(Ethicon) 和《鸽子书》(Book of the Dove) 中。
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CPG 7850–7853.
C. Luibheid and N. Russell, John Climacus. The Ladder of Divine Ascent (1982).
H. Teule, ‘L’Echelle du Paradis de Jean Climaque dans la tradition syriaque: Premières investigations’, ParOr 20 (1995), 279–93.
Citation
Herman G. B. Teule. 2011. “John Climacus.” In Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage. Beth Mardutho. https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/John-Climacus.