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Four Desert Fathers: Pambo, Evagrius, Macarius of Egypt, and Macarius of Alexandria: Coptic Texts Relating to the Lausiac History of Palladius is unavailable, but you can change that!

Pambo, Evagrius, Macarius of Egypt, and Macarius of Alexandria—the four fathers presented in this volume—were well known in Alexandria and lower Egypt some 1,600 years ago. Their lives, brought to fame by Palladius’ Lausiac History, provide valuable insight into the Egyptian monastic communities of the fourth century and into the saintly tradition of the Coptic Church. This volume offers the...

had God already told Abba Macarius concerning her? For they found him praying for her. Saint Abba Macarius opened the door, came out, and saw her; he said to the brothers, “It is you, rather, who are horses, you who have the eyes of horses. She is not a mare; rather you see her looking like a mare, for this is a woman and I am looking at her. It is not possible for a person to change one of God’s creatures into something else; rather, it is a spell63 that has been placed over our human eyes. So
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