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The laughable stories collected by Mâr Gregory John Bar Hebræ

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PROFITABLE SAYINGS OF THE CHRISTIAN RECLUSES. 45<br />

passion of fornication he used to cast himself down<br />

naked before a hyaena's den, and take a desert viper<br />

and press it upon his body that it might bite him<br />

and that he might die. And he never went into<br />

a city or into a village, so that he might not see a<br />

woman'.<br />

CXCI. Once on a time Abba Abraham said to Abba<br />

Sisoes, "Father, thou art grown old, let us now go and<br />

"live among men for a little." And he replied, "Let<br />

"us go where there is no woman^" This he said not<br />

' <strong>The</strong> actual words of Pachomius are:<br />

h\^r^ .t\r,<br />

^is-iirX<br />

.1.1^ i^l&vx.K' rf.l^oo r^.icn A^'roo .rXiaL&rdio .^OLn^.i s/yr^ rdlr^ jjlAz. .t^ ou^i^<br />

i^^ocoiA >rs CtjjuiK'o .r^&vaiiia p^-j^.T<br />

riJT* anai .is&xsol<br />

.TAo .JiiijtA rdsa.-Wk-o >x.i p3 li^i^ oA ^A2kjjL\» .ta<br />

^^Cl .>l_'S3 .^.OcyA __ArLjjitjoi^(

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