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Chapter I.
Introduction to the Conference.
What was promised in the
second book of the Institutes1582
| 1582 See the Institutes
Book II. c. ix. | on continual
and unceasing perseverance in prayer, shall be by the Lord’s help
fulfilled by the Conferences of this Elder, whom we will now bring
forward; viz., Abbot Isaac:1583
| 1583 Isaac was, as we
gathered from c. xxxi., a disciple of St. Antony, and is mentioned by
Palladius Dial. de vita Chrysost. There are also a few stories of him
in the Apophegmata Patrum (Migne, Vol. lxv. p. 223); and see the
Dictionary of Christian Biography, Vol. iii. p. 294. | and when these
have been propounded I think that I shall have satisfied the commands
of Pope Castor of blessed memory, and your wishes, O blessed Pope
Leontius and holy brother Helladius, and the length of the book in its
earlier part may be excused, though, in spite of our endeavour not only
to compress what had to be told into a brief discourse, but also to
pass over very many points in silence, it has been extended to a
greater length than we intended. For having commenced with a full
discourse on various regulations which we have thought it well to
curtail for the sake of brevity, at the close the blessed Isaac spoke
these words.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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