FEBRUARY XX. From his infancyhe loved and esteemed only heavenly things, and it was his chief delightto converse with holy monks, or to be retired in his closet, or in thechurch at his devotions. ught so courageously as to have been crowned; andsoldiers, after a defeat, have rallied and conquered. f;who, as I am obliged to own with extreme confusion, am a most basesinner, altogether unworthy to eat the bread of the poor.
From this divine book he learned the perfect spirit of all virtues, especially a desire of suffering with him and for him. He therefore {567} left Egypt, and cameto Constantinople, where he found Sergius, the crafty patriarch, sowingthe same error in conjunction with Theodorus of Pharan. Houses areonly intended to defend us from the weather, and raiment to cover ournakedness. eying him, and believing his word,which cannot deceive us, whereas our senses often lead us into mistakes.
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