“The one who tamed anger stopped the emergence of memory and malice; for childbearing comes only from a living father.”
Venerable John Climacus
Hatred. He who hates his brother is in darkness, and walks in darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes (John 2:11). Anyone who hates his brother is a murderer; and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him (1 John 3:15). He who says, “I love God,” but hates his brother, is a liar: for he who does not love his brother whom he sees, how can he love God whom he does not see? (1 John 4:20).
Extortion is “when, under the guise of some right, but in fact in violation of justice and philanthropy, they turn to their advantage someone else’s property or someone else’s labor, or even the very misfortunes of their neighbors, for example, when lenders burden debtors with an increase (loan interest), when owners exhaust those who depend on them with excessive taxes or work, if during a famine they sell bread at too high a price” (see “Orthodox Catechism”). In a broad sense, the word covetousness generally means covetousness, greed (the passion of love of money); in this meaning the word is used in the New Testament (Rom. 1:29; 2 Cor. 9:5; Eph. 4:19, 5:3; Col. 3:5).
Serious sins committed during life, from among those that are not directly named in this prayer, should be included in it, and not “subsumed” under one of the points (for example, blasphemy, murmuring against God, or attempted suicide, or the murder of unborn children - abortion, etc.). In particular, this list does not include sins related to the passion of fornication (and among them are such as adultery and any extramarital cohabitation, and all violations of purity and chastity), and to the passion of pride, which is rightfully considered the most terrible of passions.