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1 11 | 11. From his twentieth to his
2 12 | 12. While still living in the
3 13 | 13. He had now spent twenty-two
4 15 | 15. Facidia is a hamlet belonging
5 16 | 16. A charioteer, also of Gaza,
6 17 | 17. Again, a very powerful
7 19 | 19. There is a story relating
8 22 | 22. It was not only in Palestine
9 23 | 23. It is not enough to speak
10 24 | 24. Time would fail me if I
11 25 | 25. Wishing to set the monks
12 26 | 26. Another year, again, when
13 27 | 27. Once when they were being
14 28 | 28. Lastly he would not even
15 29 | 29. His sixty-third year found
16 3 | 3. At that time he heard of
17 30 | 30. Some may wonder at the
18 3 | should have to bear in p. 304 the desert the crowds of
19 8 | neck with a horse-whip p. 305 cried out “Come! why are
20 14 | corpses of her three p. 306 sons not knowing which she
21 18 | sufferer shouted aloud p. 307 and bent back his neck till
22 21 | away the covering of her p. 308 head, tear her hair, gnash
23 23 | present showed suddenly no p. 309 less tameness than it had
24 27 | predicted this to many p. 310 brethren before it happened.
25 30 | came in three days to p. 311 the town Aphroditon. There
26 33 | his monastery, had prep. 312 sented a petition to the
27 38 | His informant merely p. 313 declared that he had heard
28 42 | spirits shouting in all p. 314 directions from towns and
29 46 | at great peril to his p. 315 life, stole the saint’s
30 34 | 34. Having then left Bruchium,
31 35 | 35. The old man accompanied
32 36 | 36. On approaching Pachynus,
33 34(4029)| Jovian, a.d., 363–4.~
34 37 | 37. Once more, on thinking
35 38 | 38. While this was going on
36 39 | 39. He therefore brought him
37 Int | was written by Jerome in 390 at Bethlehem. Its object
38 40 | 40. At that time there was
39 41 | 41. The whole country marvelled
40 42 | 42. I pass by the rest for
41 43 | 43. Here he stayed two years,
42 44 | 44. In his eightieth year,
43 45 | 45. His body was now all but
44 46 | 46. When the holy man Hesychius
45 47 | 47. In bringing my book to
46 Int | of the human mind in the 4th century. A theory started
47 6 | 6. One night he began to hear
48 9 | 9. From his sixteenth to his
49 34(4029)| Jovian, a.d., 363–4.~
50 37 | the sea, and there on an abandoned piece of ground, every day
51 27 | happened. He particularly abhorred such monks as were led by
52 4 | was his practice never to abide long in the same place.
53 31 | waters of which are partly absorbed by the sand, partly flow
54 11 | year to his eightieth he abstained from bread. The fervour
55 20 | protection for himself. It seemed absurd for the venerable old man
56 43 | garden, and fruit-trees in abundance (of which, however, he never
57 1 | than wrong: we despise the abuse of some who as they once
58 38 | signs and wonders he had not accepted even a crust of bread from
59 18 | glaring eyes portended an access of raging madness. As the
60 33 | city of Gaza on Julian’s accession to the throne, after the
61 36 | worldly possessions and was accounted a beggar by the people of
62 22 | respect to one so highly accredited, and that, if any guilt
63 1 | on reaching the grave of Achilles exclaimed “Happy Youth!
64 20 | public duty, and that he acted not so much from choice
65 3 | with awe the passage in the Acts of the Apostles and dreaded
66 18 | gratitude. The saint thus addressed him—“Have you not read what
67 23 | himself to meet him, and addressing him in Syriac said, “You
68 1 | them that my words may be adequate to his deeds. For the virtue
69 29 | people of Palestine and the adjoining province think me of some
70 17 | tortured by the saint’s adjurations came forth on the seventh
71 20 | much for the injury of his adversary as for protection for himself.
72 32 | he saw them was strangely affected with compassion and, raising
73 31 | it were still warm would affectionately kiss it. The cell was square,
74 15 | now many monks with him) affirmed that she had spent all her
75 17 | endurance. This man was afflicted with a grievous demon and
76 3 | saint because of various afflictions or the assaults of demons,
77 23 | swine were slain by the agency of demons, since those who
78 43 | replied that he was the agent at the country-house to
79 30 | thousand people of various ages and both sexes came together
80 20(4025)| He was also the god of agricultural fertility. The festival
81 14 | seized by a semi-tertian ague and despaired of by the
82 18 | man and wealthy citizen of Aira, on the coast of the Red
83 22 | between the Saxons and the Alemanni, was of no great extent
84 1 | praised by men of genius. Alexander the Great of Macedon who
85 14 | Hilarion, they were all alike seized by a semi-tertian
86 46 | whole body as perfect as if alive, and so fragrant with sweet
87 22 | answer in the same words and alleged in excuse many occasions
88 21 | enter into one who was in alliance with a comrade of my own,
89 18 | from behind and raised him aloft. There was a shout from
90 | along
91 30 | churches overthrown, Christ’s altars trodden down, the blood
92 | although
93 23 | on the ground, and to the amazement of all present showed suddenly
94 23 | Bactrian camel of enormous size amid the shouts of thirty men
95 Int | was devoted. It contains, amidst much that is legendary,
96 | amongst
97 3 | example and the punishment of Ananias and Sapphira; above all
98 1 | account. It is just what their ancestors the Pharisees did of old!
99 5 | which he had no experience. Angry with himself and beating
100 31 | still while he thrashed the animal’s sides with a stick and
101 30 | to the brethren that the anniversary of the blessed Antony’s
102 26 | inflict injury on you and annoyance on the brother?” The niggardly
103 25 | happened on the day when the annual festival had brought all
104 44 | son-in-law and daughter he had anointed with oil and saved from
105 3 | and deeming it a strange anomaly that he should have to bear
106 22 | and when he gave the same answer in the same words and alleged
107 21 | For what purpose,” he answers, “should I enter into one
108 43 | ran), nobody or scarcely anybody either could or dared to
109 | anywhere
110 5 | and put into practice the Apostle’s precept, 4021 “If any
111 29 | brethren I have all the apparatus of a paltry life about me.”
112 7 | lay down did naked women appear to him, how often sumptuous
113 39 | the pile of wood, and then applied the fire. And so before
114 22(4026)| secretary—Candidatus, a quæstor appointed by the Emperor to read his
115 36 | it. But the aged saint, ardent and confident in the consciousness
116 2 | circus, the blood of the arena, the excesses of the theatre:
117 39(4034)| More properly in Argolis. It was the native town
118 30 | Constantius who favoured the Arian heresy had transported both
119 43 | of our Lord Jesus Christ arise and walk.” The words were
120 43 | strengthened and the man arose and stood firm. Once this
121 | around
122 6 | was opened and the whole array was swallowed up. Then he
123 33 | prefect having heard of his arrival on the previous day, entered
124 18 | but compassion knows no artifices. No one better spends than
125 4 | boasted and said, 4020 “I will ascend into heaven, I will set
126 28 | five miles off because he ascertained that he very jealously guarded
127 Int | object was to further the ascetic life to which he was devoted.
128 26 | brother on hearing of this was ashamed, and with the strenuous
129 22 | absence of a sibilant, or an aspirate, or an idiom of the speech
130 21 | his arts, to return to his assault upon the virgin. Accordingly
131 3 | various afflictions or the assaults of demons, and deeming it
132 25 | as two thousand men were assembled. But, as time went on, all
133 2 | whole pleasure was in the assemblies of the Church.~
134 3 | gravity of his conduct: his assiduity in prayer, his humility
135 41 | fell farther and farther astern. The pirates were astonished
136 41 | astern. The pirates were astonished to find themselves going
137 30 | and humility. Nothing so astonishes me as his power to tread
138 43 | which, however, he never ate), yet it had close by the
139 14 | was owing to the vitiated atmosphere, or whether it was, as afterwards
140 Int | legendary, some statements which attach it to genuine history, and
141 21 | or that he himself had attached credit to what he said.
142 34 | with the renown so long attaching to his master’s name, heaped
143 34 | after a little while he was attacked by the king’s-evil 4030
144 12 | boy felt no dread of their attacks. They searched up and down
145 30(4028)| Elijah had Elisha as his attendant.~
146 30 | friends, he came to Betilium attended by a countless multitude.
147 8 | is the way with men, his attention was withdrawn from his devotions,
148 20(4025)| instituted by Romulus, was on August 21.~
149 33 | good cause.” Next day the authorities of Gaza with the lictors
150 42 | thirsting in a kind of manner to avenge himself, he lashed them
151 3 | for he remembered with awe the passage in the Acts
152 30 | three days he set out for Babylon and arrived there after
153 20 | going to be done, and the backers of Italicus were in high
154 20 | glimpse of their opponents’ backs as they flit past. The shouts
155 23 | madness, and among them a Bactrian camel of enormous size amid
156 30 | There he met with a deacon Baisanes who kept dromedaries which
157 22 | flowing from the lips of a barbarian who knew only French and
158 25 | crying in the Syriac tongue Barech, that is, Bless. He received
159 1 | way closing my ears to the barking of Scylla’s hounds.~
160 40 | time as if indignant at the barrier, then little by little sank
161 20 | and his chariot, and the barriers of the course. The crowd
162 17 | broke even the bolts and bars of the doors. He had bitten
163 37 | vexed by a demon was in the basilica of the blessed Peter at
164 5 | At the same time he wove baskets of rushes and emulated the
165 40 | and as if preparing for a battle placed him on the shore.
166 38 | cottage on the shore of the bay, and, on inquiring for tidings
167 39 | people he burnt the savage beast to ashes. But now he began
168 23 | men’s sake, seizes even beasts of burden; that he is inflamed
169 17 | highest glory that he could beat the asses in endurance.
170 22 | golden hair and personal beauty revealed his country (it
171 | becomes
172 38 | at his master’s knees and bedewed his feet with tears; at
173 40 | happened elsewhere might befall them and their town be utterly
174 18 | Have you not read what befell Gehazi and Simon, one of
175 5 | fires of lust. This mere beginner in Christ’s school was forced
176 21 | happy I was when I used to beguile the men of Memphis in their
177 | behind
178 38 | clinging all the while to the belief that wherever he was he
179 2 | than all this, he was a believer in the Lord Jesus, and took
180 28 | in the wildest alarm and bellowing loudly broke their fastenings
181 43 | country-house to which the garden belonged in which they were located.
182 15 | 15. Facidia is a hamlet belonging to Rhino-Corura, a city
183 16 | neither move his hand nor bend his neck. He was brought
184 25 | their wives and children, bending their heads and crying in
185 29 | two days since mankind was bereaved of him who was so truly
186 14 | our most merciful God, I beseech you by His cross and blood,
187 18 | poor,” he replied, “You can best distribute your own gifts,
188 1 | dwelt in him, that He who bestowed upon the saint his virtues
189 39 | he was to do, whither to betake himself. Once more he prepared
190 Int | written by Jerome in 390 at Bethlehem. Its object was to further
191 30 | numerous friends, he came to Betilium attended by a countless
192 21 | said he. “You preserve her, betrayer of chastity! Why did you
193 | beyond
194 43 | prostrate man he said, “I bid you in the name of our Lord
195 30 | his fasting; when having bidden farewell to numerous friends,
196 40 | waters and the swirling billows mountain-high dashing on
197 2 | 2. The birth place of Hilarion was the
198 30 | under foot honour and glory. Bishops, presbyters, crowds of clergymen
199 4 | him when he set out, and a blanket of the coarsest sort, he
200 6 | wailing of infants, the bleating of flocks, the lowing of
201 25 | tongue Barech, that is, Bless. He received them with courtesy
202 22 | his hand and gave them his blessing, after an hour’s interval
203 15 | village a woman who had been blind for ten years was brought
204 12 | how their eyes had been blinded, and promised to lead a
205 23 | injured many. His eyes were bloodshot, his mouth filled with foam,
206 2 | the saying is, the rose blossomed on the thorn. By them he
207 5 | his bosom (as if with the blow of his hand he could shut
208 4 | could he turn? He who once boasted and said, 4020 “I will ascend
209 41 | Marvellous to relate, the boats at once bounded back, and
210 28 | to tell from the odour of bodies and garments, and the things
211 13 | repute only. The first person bold enough to break into the
212 13 | at his feet. “Forgive my boldness,” she said: “take pity on
213 17 | fetters, but broke even the bolts and bars of the doors. He
214 44 | must be liberated from the bonds of the body. There came
215 5 | frame so wasted, that his bones scarcely held together.~
216 47 | 47. In bringing my book to an end I think I ought
217 13 | in fifteen years she had borne no fruit of wedlock). He
218 5 | himself and beating his bosom (as if with the blow of
219 41 | relate, the boats at once bounded back, and though urged forward
220 40 | caused the sea to burst its bounds, and left ships hanging
221 39(4035)| because they can swallow oxen (boves).~
222 17 | released. When he was free, “Bow your head,” said he, “and
223 21 | engraven on a plate of Cyprian brass. Thereupon the maid began
224 6 | he lay he fought the more bravely, half longing to see those
225 3 | hero who has proved his bravery. I have not entered on the
226 45 | fear death?” Thus saying he breathed his last. He was immediately
227 39 | drawn in by the force of its breathing. He ordered a pyre to be
228 4 | district was notorious for brigandage, it was his practice never
229 35 | if He casts you out, why bring odium upon me a sinner and
230 11 | Lord. He made a sort of broth from meal and bruised herbs,
231 3 | part of his property to his brothers, part to the poor, keeping
232 43 | water streaming from the brow of the hill, a delightful
233 11 | sort of broth from meal and bruised herbs, food and drink together
234 28 | the cattle, send to the brute-beasts and see whether they can
235 43 | the locality called 4041 Bucolia; but he persuaded him that,
236 43(4041)| the mouths of the Nile (Bucolicum).~
237 41 | and besides this they were buffeted by the waves on every side.
238 19 | silence. While quarrying building stones on the shore not
239 9 | and sedge. Afterwards he built himself a small cell which
240 17 | on all sides like a wild bull to the monastery. As soon
241 23 | sake, seizes even beasts of burden; that he is inflamed by
242 5 | will lade you with heavy burdens, I will drive you through
243 39 | before all the people he burnt the savage beast to ashes.
244 44 | time after death, but to bury him immediately in the same
245 31 | touched anything, not a bush or a vegetable.” The old
246 17 | that he carried fifteen bushels of grain for a long time
247 1 | Lord and Saviour in the busy throng, eating and drinking.
248 18 | sell grace, the latter to buy it?” And when Orion said
249 Int | See the Life of Malchus, c. 1.)~
250 25 | took into the desert of Cades to visit one of his disciples.
251 22(4026)| Or secretary—Candidatus, a quæstor appointed by
252 30 | for the journey and were capable of travelling during fasting-time,
253 18 | wretched man, release this captive. Thine it is to conquer
254 3 | entered on the soldier’s career.” He therefore returned
255 27 | for the future, and were careful about expense, or raiment,
256 35 | reach land. Let me not be cast out here and thrown into
257 30 | after three days came to the castle of Theubatus to see Dracontius,
258 35 | remain, remain; but if He casts you out, why bring odium
259 20 | while the other scarce catches a glimpse of their opponents’
260 1 | Hilarion; the former they censured for his solitary life; they
261 Int | the human mind in the 4th century. A theory started in Germany,
262 41(4039)| Now Cerigo.~
263 5 | you with barley, but with chaff. I will weaken you with
264 37 | morsel of bread for any chance visitors. But that came
265 10 | hair-cloth. Nor did he change his shirt unless the one
266 3 | no sooner saw him than he changed his former mode of life
267 40 | were returning to original chaos. When the people of Epidaurus
268 1 | another to relate their characteristic virtues. And so we in taking
269 2 | he was committed to the charge of a Grammarian at Alexandria,
270 16 | 16. A charioteer, also of Gaza, stricken
271 20 | his stable and horses, his charioteers and his chariot, and the
272 31 | lend much pleasantness and charm to the place. Here the old
273 21 | either the young man or the charms till the maiden had undergone
274 21 | preserve her, betrayer of chastity! Why did you not rather
275 4 | and sparks of faith. His cheeks were smooth, his body thin
276 28 | brought a bundle of green chick-pea just as it had been gathered.
277 43 | was not due to levity or childishness, but to the fact that he
278 20 | he acted not so much from choice as from compulsion, that
279 30 | the crowd to return and chose as his companions forty
280 30 | deceiver; I cannot look upon churches overthrown, Christ’s altars
281 29 | spirits, that the whole circuit of the wilderness was full
282 1 | praises in a short but widely circulated letter. Yet it is one thing
283 44 | garden, just as he was, clad in his goat-hair tunic,
284 18 | the hands of his keepers, clasped him from behind and raised
285 10 | going too far to look for cleanliness in goats’ hair-cloth. Nor
286 35 | long after, the boy was cleansed, his father and the rest
287 14 | was, as afterwards became clear, for the glory of God’s
288 30 | Bishops, presbyters, crowds of clergymen and monks, of Christian
289 39 | forth the reptile, bade it climb the pile of wood, and then
290 38 | coast, penetrating deserts, clinging all the while to the belief
291 26 | all comers with stones and clods and slings. In the morning
292 43 | he never ate), yet it had close by the ruins of an ancient
293 32 | since the heavens had been closed and the land had suffered
294 1 | resolved, and go on my way closing my ears to the barking of
295 36 | excepting that volume and the clothes they wore they had nothing,
296 4 | out, and a blanket of the coarsest sort, he found pleasure
297 26 | course lay, to keep off all comers with stones and clods and
298 20 | Romulus, and was instituted in commemoration of the successful seizure
299 34 | Christian emperor 4029 had commenced his reign; he ought therefore,
300 13 | the wilderness and was the common theme in all the cities
301 30 | return and chose as his companions forty monks who had resources
302 21 | howl and confess. “I was compelled, I was carried off against
303 26 | time desirous to cure his complaint, asked the saint to stay
304 43 | his garden, he saw a man completely paralysed lying in front
305 31 | the motive for secrecy was compliance with Antony’s orders and
306 20 | much from choice as from compulsion, that no Christian man could
307 21 | who was in alliance with a comrade of my own, the demon of
308 34 | he might at least find concealment in the sea. Just about that
309 43 | hands and knees. Thither he conducted him. The old man entered
310 36 | the aged saint, ardent and confident in the consciousness of
311 18 | voices and as it were the confused shouts of a multitude. Well,
312 30 | in town and country were congregating about him, and even judges
313 18 | captive. Thine it is to conquer many, no less than one.”
314 36 | ardent and confident in the consciousness of his poverty, rejoiced
315 17 | considerable distance, and considered it as his highest glory
316 12 | they might carry off, or considering that they would be brought
317 19 | Palestine and Egypt naturally consists of soft sand and gravel
318 19 | which gradually becomes consolidated and hardens into rock; and
319 29 | were such crowds of persons constantly bringing those who suffered
320 9 | little hut which he had constructed of reeds and sedge. Afterwards
321 20(4025)| fertility. The festival of the Consualia, supposed to have been instituted
322 20 | the circus in honour of Consus in his character of the
323 Int | which he was devoted. It contains, amidst much that is legendary,
324 12 | they would be brought into contempt if a solitary boy felt no
325 20 | horses for the circus to contend against those of the Duumvir
326 47 | and the Cypriotes, the one contending that they have the body,
327 Int | in Jerome’s intention, a contribution to the church history the
328 1 | the story of the life and conversation of a man so renowned that
329 47 | vigil at his tomb, and to converse with him as if he were present
330 11 | and vegetables slightly cooked without oil. But finding
331 25 | at the same time, weeping copiously, he looked up to heaven
332 37(4032)| Scutarius, one of a corps of guards, whose prominent
333 14 | up and down between the corpses of her three p. 306 sons
334 34 | and turned to a mass of corruption.~
335 38 | he took up his abode in a cottage on the shore of the bay,
336 20 | character of the God of Counsel. 4025 Victory lay with the
337 22 | for by the man’s eyes and countenance he knew the cause of his
338 43 | he was the agent at the country-house to which the garden belonged
339 4 | 4. His courage and tender years would have
340 25 | Bless. He received them with courtesy and humility, and prayed
341 21 | he himself had attached credit to what he said. He declared
342 43 | hardly be accomplished by creeping on hands and knees. Thither
343 6 | moreover various portentous cries which made him in alarm
344 21 | Memphis in their dreams! What crosses, what torture I suffer!
345 18 | they feared lest he might crush his limbs wasted as they
346 38 | had not accepted even a crust of bread from any one in
347 25 | bending their heads and crying in the Syriac tongue Barech,
348 20 | he ordered an earthenware cup out of which he was wont
349 Int | history, and is in any case a curious record of the state of the
350 42 | with all speed. Salamis, Curium, Lapetha, and the other
351 27 | grapes. Said the saint, “Cursed be he who looks for the
352 20 | the idol god Marnas. This custom at least in Roman cities
353 41 | secretly by night in a small cutter, and finding a merchant
354 42 | with a fair wind among the Cyclades he heard the voices of unclean
355 21 | figures engraven on a plate of Cyprian brass. Thereupon the maid
356 47 | people of Palestine and the Cypriotes, the one contending that
357 41 | Between 4038 Malea and 4039 Cythera, the pirates, who had left
358 3 | friends warned him of the danger he was incurring, he despised
359 43 | pathless journey and the dangers of the place. The occupants
360 1 | Macedon who is spoken of by Daniel as the ram, or the panther,
361 17 | his neck round and did not dare to look him in the face,
362 44 | woman whose son-in-law and daughter he had anointed with oil
363 12 | marsh from evening until daybreak without being able to find
364 30 | Aphroditon. There he met with a deacon Baisanes who kept dromedaries
365 3 | prayer, his humility in his dealings with the brethren, his severity
366 38 | from a certain Jew, who dealt in old-clothes, that a Christian
367 28 | Hesychius who was specially dear to Hilarion. One day accordingly
368 47 | perhaps because that spot was dearest to him.~
369 21 | declared that demons are deceitful and well versed in dissimulation,
370 30 | will not make my Lord a deceiver; I cannot look upon churches
371 20 | dragged to execution. This decisive victory and several others
372 20 | themselves with one voice declare Marnas is conquered by Christ.
373 30 | desolation of Palestine were decreed, ten thousand people of
374 1 | by many, therefore he is deemed of no account. It is just
375 3 | assaults of demons, and deeming it a strange anomaly that
376 35 | here and thrown into the deep.” The saint replied: “If
377 29 | asked him why he was so dejected he replied, “I have returned
378 14 | the blessed Antony, was delayed at Gaza by the sickness
379 4 | smooth, his body thin and delicate, unfit to bear the slightest
380 2 | Lord Jesus, and took no delight in the madness of the circus,
381 43 | the brow of the hill, a delightful bit of garden, and fruit-trees
382 21 | her to the monastery and delivered her to the aged saint. No
383 40 | were threatening a second deluge, or all things were returning
384 20 | opponents in their rage demanded that Hilarion as a Christian
385 20 | incite his horses by certain demoniacal incantations, and keep back
386 14 | saint himself wept as he denied her. What need to say more?
387 25 | they did not suffer him to depart before he had drawn the
388 30 | of them to those parts. Departing thence he came in three
389 20 | excitement, for the enemy in derision had published the news of
390 40 | make whether a mountain descends into the sea, or huge mountains
391 38 | traversing the coast, penetrating deserts, clinging all the while
392 31 | that garden bed was his own design. This pool for watering
393 3 | Egypt. He was fired with a desire to see him, and set out
394 23 | intense hatred for men that he desires to destroy not only them
395 26 | and being at the same time desirous to cure his complaint, asked
396 30 | public mourning for the desolation of Palestine were decreed,
397 14 | a semi-tertian ague and despaired of by the physicians. The
398 21 | market-town of Gaza who was desperately in love with one of God’
399 Int | religious romance, seems destitute of foundation. It may possibly
400 23 | for men that he desires to destroy not only them but what belongs
401 40 | and their town be utterly destroyed, they made their way to
402 21 | does not heal souls but destroys them, he came full of the
403 28 | the horrid stench, and detect the foul odour of avarice
404 3 | his rule of abstinence or deviate from the plainness of his
405 8 | attention was withdrawn from his devotions, and he was thinking of
406 23 | and looking as if he would devour Hilarion came up to him,
407 31 | wanted to know why they devoured what they had not sown.
408 39 | province far and wide, and was devouring not only flocks and herds,
409 44 | a few days before. Many devout men therefore came to the
410 34(4030)| Morbo regio. The dictionaries give “jaundice” as the meaning,
411 11 | while obeying this rule of diet, he never broke his fast
412 40 | Apostles to have. For what difference does it make whether a mountain
413 31 | was by a zig-zag path very difficult, were to be seen two cells
414 43 | retired. After long and diligent search he found such a place
415 11 | finding his eyes growing dim and his whole body shrivelled
416 31 | seen two cells of the same dimensions, in which he stayed when
417 41(4037)| Dalmatia, three miles from Diocletian’s great palace (Spalatro).~
418 6 | anxiously looking in every direction. Meanwhile all at once in
419 5 | rushes and emulated the discipline of the Egyptian monks, and
420 33 | will no doubt afterwards discover that I have not suddenly
421 1 | Paulus,4017 will now perhaps disparage Hilarion; the former they
422 1 | of some who as they once disparaged my hero Paulus,4017 will
423 6 | understood that the demons were disporting themselves, and falling
424 47 | day one may see a strange dispute between the people of Palestine
425 21 | deceitful and well versed in dissimulation, and sharply rebuked the
426 28 | vice the individual was distressed.~
427 18 | he replied, “You can best distribute your own gifts, for you
428 23 | substance. Nor ought it to disturb anyone that 4027 by the
429 38 | he was, and what he was doing. Nothing about him surprised
430 28 | first fruits of his ground. “Don’t you notice,” said he, “
431 33 | fell prostrate before the door, and declared they would
432 5 | suffering of fasting might be doubled by the pain of toil. At
433 30 | castle of Theubatus to see Dracontius, bishop and confessor, who
434 12 | if a solitary boy felt no dread of their attacks. They searched
435 3 | Acts of the Apostles and dreaded the example and the punishment
436 21 | men of Memphis in their dreams! What crosses, what torture
437 38 | saints. So he asked about his dress, gait, and speech, and in
438 18 | head, seized his hair and drew him round so as to be foot
439 1 | busy throng, eating and drinking. But I will put my hand
440 5 | with heavy burdens, I will drive you through heat and cold,
441 8 | sprang upon his back and driving his heels into his sides
442 30 | deacon Baisanes who kept dromedaries which were hired, on account
443 37 | who was swollen with the dropsy was cured the same day that
444 32 | the land had suffered from drought, and it was commonly said
445 41 | Pharaoh? Yet they were all drowned by the will of God.” Thus
446 43 | This habit of his was not due to levity or childishness,
447 22 | obliterated by their present dutifulness. The old man at the time
448 20 | contend against those of the Duumvir of Gaza who was a votary
449 3 | severity in rebuke, his eagerness in exhortation. He noted
450 6 | suddenly before his eyes, the earth was opened and the whole
451 20 | were present he ordered an earthenware cup out of which he was
452 40 | At that time there was an earthquake over the whole world, following
453 42 | whose temples after frequent earthquakes are the only evidences at
454 10 | his hair once a year on Easter Day, and until his death
455 26 | departed without having eaten a grape, while the old man
456 1 | Saviour in the busy throng, eating and drinking. But I will
457 40 | left ships hanging on the edge of mountain steeps. It seemed
458 14 | name of Jesus. Marvellous efficacy of the Name! As if from
459 5 | emulated the discipline of the Egyptian monks, and put into practice
460 12 | in the hut, at the age of eighteen, robbers came to him by
461 32 | Christ. Three years had now elapsed since the heavens had been
462 32 | commonly said that even the elements were lamenting the death
463 13 | Hilarion was a certain woman of Eleutheropolis who found that she was despised
464 30(4028)| for him to the people, as Elijah had Elisha as his attendant.~
465 30(4028)| the people, as Elijah had Elisha as his attendant.~
466 14 | Aristæneté the wife of Elpidius who was afterwards pretorian
467 | elsewhere
468 25 | company of monks he reached Elusa, as it happened on the day
469 46 | suppose it to have been embalmed.~
470 37 | betray him.” Immediately he embarked with his attendants in a
471 27 | was over, he stood on an eminence and blessed the vineyard
472 20 | that no Christian man could employ magic, but would rather
473 5 | wove baskets of rushes and emulated the discipline of the Egyptian
474 28 | directions. For the old man was enabled by grace to tell from the
475 2 | character: and in a short time endeared himself to all and became
476 30 | and could scarcely walk) endeavoured to steal away. The news
477 17 | could beat the asses in endurance. This man was afflicted
478 20 | people of Gaza who were enemies of God, and who would exult
479 5 | these practices he became so enfeebled and his frame so wasted,
480 21 | formulæ and revolting figures engraven on a plate of Cyprian brass.
481 11 | living he appeared to be entering like a novice on the service
482 21 | previously allowed his mind to entertain, and buried beneath the
483 27 | Once when they were being entertained by another monk whose name
484 25 | neighbouring monks for the entertainment of the saints. Moreover,
485 1 | were he here would either envy me the theme or prove unequal
486 1 | true that that holy man Epiphanius, bishop of Salamis in Cyprus,
487 23 | out of the man unless an equally vast number of swine had
488 6 | alarm shrink from the sound ere he had the sight. He understood
489 31 | s body to his house and erecting a shrine to his memory.~
490 11 | shrivelled with a scabby eruption and dry mange, he added
491 20 | from a servant of Christ, especially against the people of Gaza
492 1 | have done great deeds is esteemed in proportion to the ability
493 27 | whole vineyard had been estimated at a hundred flagons, within
494 | etc
495 14 | accompanied by her handmaids and eunuchs, and was hardly persuaded
496 11 | return to the course of event.~
497 12 | robbers.” Said they, “At all events, you might be killed.” “
498 17 | such terror of himself into everybody, that he was laden with
499 | everyone
500 25 | poor being passed over is evidenced by the journey which he
501 42 | earthquakes are the only evidences at the present day of its