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Orthodox Doctrine (Summary of Christian Divinity)

Metropolitan Platon of Moscow, tr. Pinkerton, 1814

Part 1, Section 1: With What Does the Knowledge of Man Begin?

Part First. Of the Knowledge of God as Derived from Nature, Being Subservient to the Belief of the Gospel

The knowledge of man begins with the knowledge of himself.

Know thyself, was reckoned by the ancients to be the first step towards real wisdom; and in conformity to this are the words of the apostle: “If we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.”¹ 1 Cor. xi. 31.

Notes

The Slavonian reading is more applicable—“If we would consider ourselves, we should not be condemned.”