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| Evagrius the monk.
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Chapter XI.
Evagrius2588
the monk, the
intimate disciple of the above mentioned Macarius, educated in2589
| 2589 educated in T 31 e Her.; omit A 25 30
a. | sacred and profane literature and
distinguished, whom the book which is called the Lives of the
fathers mentions as a most continent and erudite man, wrote many
things of use to monks among which are these: Suggestions against
the eight principal sins. He was first to mention or among the
first at least to teach these setting against them eight books taken
from the testimony of the Holy Scriptures only, after the example of
our Lord, who always met his tempter with quotations
from Scripture, so that every suggestion, whether of the devil or of
depraved nature had a testimony against it. This work I have, under
instructions, translated into Latin translating with the same
simplicity which I found in the Greek. He composed also a book of
One hundred sentiments for those living simply as anchorites,
arranged by chapters, and one of Fifty sentiments for the
erudite and studious, which I first translated into Latin. The former
one, translated before, I restored, partly by retranslating and partly
by emendation, so as to represent the true meaning of the author,
because I saw that the translation was vitiated and confused by time.
He composed also a doctrine of the common-life suited to Cenobites and
Synodites,2590
| 2590 Synodites a kind of monks. | and to the virgin consecrated to God,
a little book suitable to her religion and sex. He published also a few
collections of opinions very obscure and, as he himself says of them,
only to be understood by the hearts of monks, and these likewise I
published in Latin. He lived to old age, mighty in signs and
miracles.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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