Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series II/Volume XI/John Cassian/Conferences of John Cassian, Part I/Conference VI/Chapter 7

Chapter VII.

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.

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?
 * Well then, if a good