The life of the first desert monk, written by the bishop of Alexandria soon after Antony died in 356, and the book that made monasticism a movement. Augustine heard it told in Milan, and it is part of the story of his conversion in the Confessions.
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No other book on this shelf shares a run of seven words with The Life of Antony that is not a formula. On the evidence of the wording, nothing here quotes it and it quotes nothing here. That is not proof of isolation — this measure cannot cross a translation, so it finds nothing between Virgil and Homer either — but there is no quotation to show.
Of the sixty counted across the shelf, the ones this book names most. A name is counted wherever it is written, whoever is speaking. Each one has a page of its own listing every chapter, in every book, that carries it.
Translator: H. Ellershaw, 1892. Source: CCEL.
The text here is H. Ellershaw’s translation for Schaff and Wace’s Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, second series, volume 4, 1892, public domain, from the text at the Christian Classics Ethereal Library. The editor’s prologue and notes are not printed.
Set in three parts at the joins the text makes: his youth (§§1–15), his long address to the monks (§§16–43), and the inner mountain and his death (§§44–94).
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