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From the middle of the fifth century, and probably from the late fourth century, collections of sayings from the hermits of the Egyptian desert began to be circulated. Smaller collections of these sayings were gradually assembled into larger collections arranged alphabetically, by author, or by subject. In The Sayings of the Fathers, Owen Chadwick translates the standard and celebrated edition of...

Ammon said to him: “None of these three would profit you. Stay in your cell, and eat a little every day, keeping always in your heart the words of the publican in the Gospel,29 and you can be saved.” 17. Abba Daniel said: “If the body is strong, the soul withers. If the body withers, the soul is strong.” He also said: “If the body is fat, the soul grows lean: if the body is lean, the soul grows fat.” 18. Abba Daniel also said that when Abba Arsenius was in Scete, there was a monk who stole the property
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