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talk evil talk. And if the father of any of them will see her,<br />
he shall make intercession with the mother of the monastery,<br />
and she shall send her with another trustworthy one, so<br />
that she may be together with him. * 2 And if any in the<br />
church shall err and let drop her hand from her i that<br />
holdeth it, they shall requite her with punishment, because<br />
that she hath erred in the midst of her people. And they<br />
shall walk in quietness. None of the virgins shall eat any<br />
day ere the sun do set. And when it is the first day (of<br />
the week), after they have taken of the body<br />
His blood, they shall break the fast. And they<br />
of Christ and<br />
shall never<br />
**<br />
eat their fill upon the Sabbath and the first day /, till<br />
even be come. And he that would preserve his virginity,<br />
let him not fill his belly with bread, neither let him lie ;<br />
for purity cannot* be kept unless by perpetual fasting. And Rf. n8&lt;z<br />
let none of the virgins set aside for himself aught but some<br />
poor food and the prescribed<br />
raiment. And this same order<br />
is for the men and the women, such as desire to be virgins.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re shall none of the virgins drink wine at all, neither<br />
any of the monks that hold fast unto purity.<br />
But if one<br />
continent fall upon sickness, he shall drink a little wine. S4<br />
None of them which love virginity shall eat of aught whence<br />
blood goeth forth, neither fish 84a . No married woman, being<br />
not a nun, shall speak of any worldly matter in the pre<br />
sence of virgins, lest she cause for them doubt. For greater<br />
is the honour of virginity and continence in the kingdom<br />
of God than the honour of them that are in the world; and<br />
i R. him. / M. on the first day and on the Sabbath.<br />
82 Cf. Griitzmacher, Pachomlus 100.<br />
83 On Saturday and Sunday as holidays cf. Leipoldt, Schemite 132, Anm. 2.<br />
8* i Tim. V. 23. Cf. Athanasius (?) De Virgin. (PG. 28, 264 D) Also<br />
Ad Drac. (PG. 25, 534)} Athanasius assumes that monks drink wine only<br />
in exceptional cases; oJdoi (Jt.lv xai STTIO-KOTTOV^ py TFI VOVTKS ohov, ^ovx^ovc, Ss<br />
TTIVOVTU,^. Cf. also Leipoldt, I.e. 117, Anm. 7.<br />
84# On fish-eating among Egyptian nuns, v. Daniel le Scetiote ed. Clugnet<br />
(1901), p. 24. [W.E.C.]
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