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| Chapter I. What Abbot Joseph asked us in the first instance.
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Chapter I.
What Abbot Joseph asked us in the first instance.
The blessed
Joseph,1963
| 1963 Nothing further
appears to be known of this Joseph than what Cassian here states. | whose
instructions and precepts are now to be set forth, and who was one of
the three whom we mentioned in the first Conference,1964
| 1964 viz., the
first of the Second Part of the Conferences, i.e., Conference
XI. | belonged to a most illustrious family,
and was the chief man of his city in Egypt, which was named
Thmuis,1965
| 1965 See on Conference
XIV. c. iv. | and so was
carefully trained in the eloquence of Greece as well as Egypt, so that
he could talk admirably with us or with those who were utterly ignorant
of Egyptian, not as the others did through an interpreter, but in his
own person. And when he found that we were anxious for instruction from
him, he first inquired whether we were own brothers, and when he heard
that we were united in a tie of spiritual and not carnal brotherhood,
and that from the first commencement of our renunciation of the world
we had always been joined together in an unbroken bond as well in our
travels, which we had both undertaken for the sake of spiritual
service, as also in the pursuits of the monastery, he began his
discourse as follows.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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