Cassian's Conferences · VI. Conference of Abbot Theodore. On the Death of the Saints
Chapter VII
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A question whether the man who causes the death of a good man is guilty, if the good man is the gainer by his death.
Germanus: Well then, if a good man does not only suffer no evil by being killed, but actually gains a reward from his suffering, how can we accuse the man who has done him no harm but good by killing him?
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series II, Volume 11, ed. Philip Schaff and Henry Wace (1890–1900). Public domain. Text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library.