The laughable stories collected by Mâr Gregory John Bar Hebræ

46 THE LAUGHABLE STORIES OF BAR-HEBR^US.
because he was afraid for himself, but that he might
warn his disciples not to fall.
CXCII. Abba Ammon used to say, "There are some
"men who might live in their cells for a hundred years,
"and yet not know how it is meet for a recluse to
"live
therein'."
CXCIII. Abb4 Agathon said, "The man of anger
"will never be accepted by man, even though one rose
"from the dead."
CXCIV. Once when Abba Moses of Patra was battling
against fornication he went to Abba Isidore [for
advice]. And Isidore took him up upon the roof of
his house, and shewed him the hosts of devils waging
war in the west and the angels who were gaining the
mastery in the east. This he did to him so that Moses
might be encouraged to fight, and he returned to his
celP.
vA»p^ Ax2ioo rtf'ira.TSoX .KCruJo cta\ iiar^ (fol. 24512,
No. 369).
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