The Apophthegmata Patrum is a collection of monastic stories and sayings of the Desert Fathers, Christian ascetical masters who lived from the third century AD onward. It survives in a variety of textual traditions, Greek, Latin, Arabic, Armenian, Coptic, Georgian, Slavonic, and Syriac. For those who study classics, Bible, or patristics, and are seeking…
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