They said, from Jerusalem. 711, names him with the epithet of venerable only, on the 26th of September. The usurer is no wayprofitable to the republic, neither by tilling the ground, by trade,&c. Our imperfection and frailtydeprive us of courage to imitate the fervor of those holy hermits wholived in divine contemplation almost without any thought for theirbodies.
His flock at Antioch, by copying his humility,modesty, and patience, amid the persecution which fell upon them, showedthemselves the worthy disciples of so great a master. {255} He tells him that sin ought to be to him theonly subject of grief; and that he ought to rejoice in sufferings as themeans by which his sins were to be expiated. He showed his love of poverty by his rigorous practice ofit: for he long used wooden, and afterwards glass or p ultiplied or spun out in notes, are extremely pernicious, bydeadening the student's genius and spirit, and
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