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These 18 prose letters serve as a spiritual autobiography, providing an intimate view of monastic life in Italy during the fifth century. Volume 2 contains letters 23–51.

And again, Samson’s blindness, by which he lost his bodily but not his spiritual eyes, enlightens me to right understanding, so that by his example I may know which eyes I should prefer to have. For Samson would not have called upon the Lord to lend aid to his strength if his inward eyes had not been sound. Their light is Christ, in whose light we shall see light.107 If this light always burns in the lamp of our bodies, the works of darkness will fall away, and the prince of this world will be cast
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