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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...

66. Another old man had lived in the desert for a long time. And it happened that a brother came to him and found him sickening. He washed his face, and made a meal for him out of what he had brought. And when the old man saw it, he said: “Truly, brother, I had forgotten that men found comfort in food,” And he offered him a cup of wine as well. And when he saw it, he wept, saying: “I hoped I would never drink wine until I died.” 67. An old man made a resolution not to drink for forty days. And if
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