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The Sayings of the Desert Fathers
Various Desert Fathers · Christianity · c. 4th–5th c. CE
Translated by E. A. Wallis Budge (1907)
17 chapters
The collected counsels and stories of the early Christian monks and hermits of Egypt and Palestine — the founding text of monasticism and Eastern Orthodox spirituality.
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Contents
- 1Book I: Of Flight from Men, and of Silent Contemplation
- 2Book I: Of Fasting and Abstinence
- 3Book I: Of the Reading of the Scriptures, and of Constant Prayers
- 4Book I: Of How It Is Meet for Us to Weep for Our Sins
- 5Book I: Of Voluntary Poverty
- 6Book I: Of Patient Endurance
- 7Book I: Of Obedience towards God and our Fathers and Brethren
- 8Book I: Of Scrupulous Watchfulness in our Thoughts and Words and Deeds
- 9Book I: Of Love, and Charity, and the Welcoming of Strangers
- 10Book I: Of Humility
- 11Book I: Of Fornication
- 12Book I: Of the Acceptance of Repentance
- 13Book I: Of the Fathers Who Wrought Wonderful Works
- 14Book I: Of the Greatness of the Sublime Rule of the Solitary Life
- 15Book II: Questions and Answers on the Rule of Life
- 16Book II: Questions by the Pupils and Answers by the Holy Fathers
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