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Saint Macarius the Spiritbearer: Coptic Texts Relating to Saint Macarius the Great is unavailable, but you can change that!

These three texts—The Sayings of Saint Macarius, The Virtues of Saint Macarius, and The Life of Saint Macarius of Scetis—provide insight into one of the most venerated saints of the Coptic Church and into the life in the Egyptian monastic communities of the fourth century. Macarius the Great (also referred to as Macarius of Egypt or Macarius the Egyptian) presided over a loosely knit scattering...

The Devil, however, is powerless, like the reed, and if he falls on a person and uses force on him and tyrannizes him, if the person does not heed him and does not cry out to the goodness of God but instead falls in with the passions of the Devil, the Spirit of God withdraws from him.98 Then the soul, since it is in the body, dies on account of the drunkenness of the passions and their stench.” Abba Macarius Teaches about Relying upon the Name of Christ 41 [160] Abba Macarius the Great said, “Concentrate
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