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The Lausiac History of Palladius
Palladius
出版
Theclassics Us
, 2013-09
主題
Biography & Autobiography / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / Arab & Middle Eastern
Biography & Autobiography / Religious
Religion / Monasticism
ISBN
1230736638
9781230736631
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=gCXhnQEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ...day to exhort him and said to him: "Valens, you are the victim of illusions. Stop it." And when he would not listen to his exhortations, he retired. 4 So the demon, convinced that he was completely persuaded by his deception, went away and disguised himself as the Saviour, and came by night in a vision of a thousand angels bearing lamps and a fiery wheel, in which it seemed that the Saviour appeared, and one came in front of the others and said: "Christ has loved you because of your conduct and the freedom of your life, and He has come to see you. So go "out ot the cell, do nothing else but look at his face from afar, stoop down and worship, and then go to your cell." 5 So he went out and saw them in ranks carrying lamps, and antichrist about a stade away, and he fell down and worshipped. Then the next day again he became so mad that he entered into the church and before the assembled brotherhood said: "I have no need of Communion, for I have seen Christ to-day." Then the fathers bound him and put him in irons for a year and so cured him, destroying his pride by their prayers and indifference and calmer mode of life. As it is said, "Diseases are cured by their opposites." 2 1 Stephen assumes purgatorial pains even for the righteous. 6 But it is necessary to insert in this little book the lives of men like this, for the safety of the readers, in the same way as there was the tree of knowledge of good and evil among the holy trees of paradise; in order that, if ever a righteous act should be achieved by them, they may not be proud of their virtue. For often even virtue becomes the cause of a fall, whenever it is not accomplished with upright intention. For it is written: "I saw a just man...
