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Pachomius was a third-century Christian monk, often cited as the “father of monastic institutions.” He is credited with the foundation of Christian cenobitic monasticism, a tradition that stresses community life governed by religious rules and precepts. The rules he set forth for this lifestyle are collected and translated in this excerpt from The Presbyterian Review by George H. Schodde.

“Suffer each one to eat and to drink, and according to the measure of their eating give them their work. And prohibit neither fasting nor eating; but only as the food for the strong is powerful, and is weak for the weak, give them also the food of their works. And make a dwelling in one enclosed place, and three shall dwell in one house. And their eating shall be in one. And they shall sleep not by lying down, but like a chair of brickwork let them make inclining places for the back, and upon this

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