Author: St. Macarius the Great
Publisher: Dalcassian Press
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 41
Book Description
The Apophthegmata (a collection of sayings) is a work long attributed to the Egyptian desert father, St. Macarius the Great, although it is almost certainly composed by one of his monastic disciples at Scetis. It contains 41 short saying, composed in remembrance of the old abbot. Most of these saying are imploring his listeners on the necessity of humility and the observance of virtue in daily life. Some autobiographical material is included in this work as well, giving some context into the origin and early life of St. Macarius. This work is derived from the surviving Latin text, which is included, as well as the English translation of this work.
Apophthegmata
Author: St. Macarius the Great
Publisher: Dalcassian Press
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 41
Book Description
The Apophthegmata (a collection of sayings) is a work long attributed to the Egyptian desert father, St. Macarius the Great, although it is almost certainly composed by one of his monastic disciples at Scetis. It contains 41 short saying, composed in remembrance of the old abbot. Most of these saying are imploring his listeners on the necessity of humility and the observance of virtue in daily life. Some autobiographical material is included in this work as well, giving some context into the origin and early life of St. Macarius. This work is derived from the surviving Latin text, which is included, as well as the English translation of this work.
Publisher: Dalcassian Press
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 41
Book Description
The Apophthegmata (a collection of sayings) is a work long attributed to the Egyptian desert father, St. Macarius the Great, although it is almost certainly composed by one of his monastic disciples at Scetis. It contains 41 short saying, composed in remembrance of the old abbot. Most of these saying are imploring his listeners on the necessity of humility and the observance of virtue in daily life. Some autobiographical material is included in this work as well, giving some context into the origin and early life of St. Macarius. This work is derived from the surviving Latin text, which is included, as well as the English translation of this work.
Apophthegmata Curiosa
Author: Richard Kingston
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Category : Proverbs, English
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
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Category : Proverbs, English
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
C. Musonii Rufi ... Reliquiæ et Apophthegmata. Cum annotatione edidit J. Venhuizen Pearlkamp, etc. (P. Niewlandii dissertatio de Musonio Rufo.).
Author: Caius MUSONIUS RUFUS
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
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Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
The Sayings of the Desert Fathers
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Publisher: Liturgical Press
ISBN: 0879079592
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
`Give me a word, Father', visitors to early desert monks asked. The responses of these pioneer ascetics were remembered and in the fourth century written down in Coptic, Syriac, Greek, and later Latin. Their Sayings were collected, in this case in the alphabetical order of the monks and nuns who uttered them, and read by generations of Christians as life-giving words that would help readers along the path to salvation.
Publisher: Liturgical Press
ISBN: 0879079592
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
`Give me a word, Father', visitors to early desert monks asked. The responses of these pioneer ascetics were remembered and in the fourth century written down in Coptic, Syriac, Greek, and later Latin. Their Sayings were collected, in this case in the alphabetical order of the monks and nuns who uttered them, and read by generations of Christians as life-giving words that would help readers along the path to salvation.
British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 550
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Languages : en
Pages : 550
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Modern Philology
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Category : Philology, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 928
Book Description
Vols. 30-54 include 1932-1956 of: Victorian bibliography, prepared by a committee of the Victorian Literature Group of the Modern Language Association of America.
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Category : Philology, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 928
Book Description
Vols. 30-54 include 1932-1956 of: Victorian bibliography, prepared by a committee of the Victorian Literature Group of the Modern Language Association of America.
University of Illinois Studies in Language and Literature
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Category : Child actors
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
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Category : Child actors
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
Oriental Affinities of the Legend of the Hairy Anchorite
Author: Charles Allyn Williams
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Category : Christian legends
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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Category : Christian legends
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
The Child Actors
Author: Harold Newcomb Hillebrand
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Category : Child actors
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
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Category : Child actors
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
The Journal of Religion
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Category : Theology
Languages : en
Pages : 806
Book Description
Includes section "Book reviews."
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Category : Theology
Languages : en
Pages : 806
Book Description
Includes section "Book reviews."