itself into a perfect blossom, a perfect monk must first live, who should represent in himself, at least in outline, an ideal for this state, whose agency was to be felt throughout the world. It was for this the Holy Ghost had moulded Antony. For this He had impressed the Holy Scriptures so deeply on his memory, that they were now become as it were his own interior. For this Antony had had to unlearn the language of men, that he might speak as if with a fiery tongue. For this he had imbibed so much