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| Chapter I. Our arrival at Abbot Serapion's cell, and inquiry on the different kinds of faults and the way to overcome them.
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Chapter I.
Our arrival at Abbot Serapion’s cell, and inquiry
on the different kinds of faults and the way to overcome them.
In that assembly of
Ancients and Elders was a man named Serapion,1312
| 1312 Serapion when young
was a pupil of Theonas, and an anecdote of his youthful indulgence in
good things in secret has been already told in II. c. xi. Another story
of him is given in XVIII. xi. One of this name is mentioned by
Palladius in the Lausiac History, c. lxxvi., and by Rufinus in the
History of the Monks, c. xviii., where we are told that he lived at
Arsinöe, and that he had ten thousand monks subject to his rule; a
number which Sozomen also gives (H.E. VI. xxviii.). It is however,
doubtful whether this Serapion of Arsinöe is the person whose
Conference Cassian here gives. Gazet identifies, Tillemont
distinguishes the two. Jerome, it should be noticed, speaks in Ep.
cviii. (Epitaphium Paulæ) as if there was not only one of this
name famous among the monks of Egypt at that time. |
especially endowed with the grace of discretion, whose Conference I
think it is worth while to set down in writing. For when we entreated
him to discourse of the way to overcome our faults, so that their
origin and cause might be made clearer to us, he thus
began.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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